Ni, Hai-Ye (1972-Present)

She is a cellist born in Shanghai, China who first studied with her mother followed by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She went on to take further studies in London, England, at the San Francisco Conservatory and the Juilliard School.

After she was the youngest ever winner of the Naumburg International Cello Competition and made her debut at age 19 at the Alice Tully Hall in New York in 1991. In 1995 she won the Sony ES Career Award and at Moscow’s International Tchaikovsky Competition won the award for Best Performance of Tchaikovsky. In 1996 she was the first prize winner of the International Paulo Cello Competition and in 1998 she made her debut on a solo CD that was Classic FM London named CD of the Week.

In 1999 she became the Associate Principal Cello of the New York Philharmonic and in 2001 was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was appointed Principal Cello at The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2006.

Her solo debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra was performing Cello Concerto No.1 by Saint-Saens in 2010 and other orchestras she has performed with as a soloist include the Chicago Symphony, the China Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Kalamazoo Symphony, Orchestra National de Paris, Shanghai Symphony, Singapore Symphony and Vienna Chamber Orchestra among others. She has also performed recitals at various venues in London and the United States.

Recordings she has performed include her own Cello Recital: Hai-Ye Ni, as a featured artist on Spirit of Chimes: Chamber Music of Zhou Long with Helen Huang and Cho-Liang Lin along with When It’s Christmas Time by The Depue Brothers Band, Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 “Pathetique”/Dumka and Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No.5/Seven romances On Poem s Of Alexander Blok by The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Instruments of the Orchestra by Jeremy Siepmann and Music of Hope and The Great Encores by various artists.

In the field of musical education she has been a faculty member of the Philadelphia International Music Festival and given master classes at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, the Curtis Institute of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, the Mannes College of Music and the Shanghai Conservatory. In 2013 she was a jury member for the International Paulo Cello Competition held in Finland.

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Ni, Hai-Ye (1972-Present)

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