Jing Ouyang was born in Canton, China. She began to study the
piano at the age of five in 1992, and in 1997 she won the first prize for her
age group in the China Opus piano competition. The following year, she won a
second prize in the 1998 Guangdong Juvenile Zhujiang piano competition.
In 2001, Jing entered the middle school attached to Xinghai Conservatory of
Music and took lessons from professor Tiandong Huang, well-known Ukrainian
musician G V Popova, and the famous pianist LiMin Czan. That year
Jing won the China Huanan and Xinan sub-area of the 65th Steinway Youth
piano competition. She also won the second prize in the 2001 Guangdong Toyama piano
competition, and the third prize in the waltz group of a piano competition in
Hong Kong. In 2003, she gained an award for excellence in the third
International Seiler piano competition in Kitzingen, Germany. Jing has given
several piano recitals in China, which were successful and received
favourable comment. She has participated in master classes with Paul
Badura-Skoda, Dmitri Bashkirov, Pierre Reach and Boris Berman amongst
others.
In September 2005, Jing joined the Purcell School under a scholarship to
study with her current teacher William Fong. In March 2006, she played the
Liszt Concerto No. 1 in E flat major with the Purcell Symphony Orchestra in the
Royal Academy of Music, as the result of winning the senior concerto
competition. She won the open piano concerto class in the Marlow
concerto competition, and in May 2006, Jing won the Ealing Festival
concerto competition.
July 2006