Peipei SongPeipei Song is a Boston-based collaborative pianist, currently serving as a staff pianist at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee and as part of the collaborative pianist team at the New England Conservatory. In the summer of 2024, she joined the collaborative piano faculty at the prestigious Heifetz International Music Institute, a world-class summer music program in the U.S.
Actively engaged in Boston’s music scene, Peipei has supported numerous young musicians who have won competitions such as the Fidelity Investments Young Artists Competition, the New England Conservatory Preparatory School Concerto Competition, and The Boston Conservatory Soloist Concerto Competition. As a chamber music pianist, Peipei has performed in series such as the Apple Hill Chamber Music Center Series, Bay Chamber Concert Series, The Screen Door - Bay Chamber Summer Festival, and the Palaver Strings Beehive Chamber Music Series. She has collaborated with Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman, mezzo-soprano Kate Aldrich, and the Maxwell String Quartet from Scotland. Additionally, she is regularly invited to give annual Chamber Music Lecture Recitals at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing, China. Before relocating to the United States, Ms. Song served on the piano faculty at the Tianjin Conservatory of Music in China. From 2003 to 2008, she was invited by the Hong Kong Yau Tin Fu Art Center to teach pianists preparing for the Hong Kong International Piano Competition (Asia Division) and the Chinese Piano Competition in Hong Kong. In 2005 and 2006, she was twice honored with the National Excellent Piano Teacher of China award from China Education Television. Peipei holds a DMA in Collaborative Piano from Arizona State University, where she studied under Professor Russell Ryan. During her time at ASU, she received coaching from renowned string quartets, including the Brentano Quartet, St. Lawrence Quartet, and Shanghai Quartet, all of whom were in residence at ASU. Her earlier studies with Dr. William Averill and Richard Syracuse at Ohio University were pivotal in her musical development. |