Luo Wei

Luo Wei is recognised as one of the most significant pianists of her generation. Graduated from the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she studied with Gary Graffman and Robert McDonald. At age of seventeen Luo Wei signed with Universal Music Group and was recognised by New York’s classical music radio station WXQR as one of the nineteen artists to watch. Her self-titled debut album Wei Luo, released by the Decca Gold label in 2019, was featured by the Gramophone magazine as one of the most exciting new releases.

Wei became a Steinway global artist in 2023. Recently she was invited to perform in the 2024 New Year’s Concert at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing) and the 2024 reception of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. She held a recital Staring at the East at the World Trade Center in New York during the Spring Festival. Wei Luo is invited to curate and perform the duo concert A Love Letter to Paris with the violinist Mengla Huang, a Paganini Competition winner, in Shanghai, Beijing, Paris and Shenzhen.

She made her orchestra debut at the age of eleven with the Shanghai Philharmonic, performing Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 3 at the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre. Prior to the pandemic, Wei made her debut with the San Diego Symphony, the Orlando Philharmonic, the Albany Symphony, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony and the Denver Philharmonic among others. Has performed solo recitals in major cities and music festivals, including Lucerne (Switzerland), New York City (mostly the Mozart Festival and the International Keyboard Festival), San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Gilmore Piano Festival. Within the past two years Wei gave a 30-concert solo recital tour throughout China’s major cities and venues. She played with the China National Centre for the Performing Arts Orchestra, the China National Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony, the Guangzhou Symphony and the Shenzhen Symphony among others. More than once, the pianist was invited by Lü Jia, Long Yu, Jahja Ling, Michael Stern, David Alan Miller, Mark Russell Smith, Xieyang Chen, Guoyong Zhang, Xincao Li, Muhai Tang, Ji Yu, Yi Huang, Yifan Sun, Musen Lin, Ding Yuan and Junping Qian to name but a few.

Luo Wei is a published poet, and her works were selected into the China National Poetry Selection of 2021. For World Sleep Day 2021 Wei participated in a campaign by Universal Music Group, and recorded Nocturne by the GRAMMY-winning composer Christopher Tin. In April 2022 in New York City she presented an immersive experimental show, combining her poetry, 3D visuals, dance and installations.
Information for October 2024