Chinese pianist Jiarong Li is committed to continual artistic growth while maintaining sincerity in her music-making. Her work spans solo piano, collaborative piano, chamber music, and pedagogy.

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She recently completed her fellowship as Collaborative Piano Fellow and Coordinator at the Yale School of Music. Since 2025, she has served as a Staff Pianist at the Bowdoin International Music Festival. She has previously spent summers as a Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Music Academy of the West and Chamber Music Northwest. She served as Staff Accompanist for the Puerto Piano & Strings International Music Festival in 2023. In addition, she is a collaborative pianist for the 2023 Concours musical international de Montréal, and performed with the winner of the 2023 Concert Artists Guild Audition.

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Jiarong is a finalist in Anton Rubinstein Competition, and has received several awards, including winning the Oxford Philomusica Piano Festival and Summer Academy Competition, the New England Conservatory Honors Competition, where she performed Milton Babbitt’s Lagniappe in Jordan Hall. First Prize in the International Music Competition for Best Schubert Performance, and the Distinction Award at the Hong Kong–Asia Piano Open Competition. She was also a finalist in the New England Conservatory Piano Concerto Competition and the Golden Bell Music Competition in China, and a semi-finalist in the Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts International Concerto Competition.
 

Jiarong also values her chamber music experiences. She participated in the Toronto Summer Music Festival as a Chamber Music Institute Fellow. She has shared stage alongside with renowned artists including Andrew Wan, Joseph Špaček, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Austin Hartman, Joseph Lin and Ani Kavafian.

 

Currently, Jiarong is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Collaborative Piano at Manhattan School of Music, where she studies with John Forconi. She holds a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from New England Conservatory and a Bachelor of Music degree from Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she was admitted with first-place honors. Her former teachers include Heasook Rhee, Pei-Shan Lee, Bruce Brubaker, Xiang Zou, Yang Hu, and Xianyu Ke.

 

In her free time, Jiarong enjoys running, hot yoga, and exploring thrift stores.