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Piano and Piano Accompaniment

Head of Keyboard:
Professor Christopher Elton FRAM

Piano Department Administrator:
Dorothy Koh MMus

Telephone 020 7873 7405
Email keyboard@ram.ac.uk

Bing Bing Li (BMus)

(Picture: Photo of Bing Bing Li at the piano)

‘I’d always hoped to study here, right from when I started playing at Beijing’s Central Conservatoire aged eleven. With the extra incentive of a major scholarship, I really couldn’t turn down the place.

I’m now towards the end of my second year here, and Academy life has been keeping me very busy—not only with the internal concerts and examinations, but with outside recital engagements too.

I hope to make a career as a soloist, ideally combined with some teaching, so I’m planning to take the Academy’s LRAM teaching diploma too.’

Recent Academy students include:

Rustem Hayroudinoff
(‘powerful playing that transcends the artificial constraints of the recording studio’)
Gramophone 2007

Freddy Kempf
(‘If it is true that an artist’s finest years come with age, then the mind boggles at the possibilities’)
The Guardian

Yevgeny Sudbin
(‘an extraordinary disc by anyone’s standard’)
BBC Music

Ashley Wass
(‘Wass has a magic touch’)
Gramophone

QianWu
(‘virtuoso brings joy’)
The Independent

Gabriela Montero
(‘I have rarely come across a talent like Gabriela’s. She is a unique artist’)
Martha Argerich