Wang Siyuan

Wang Siyuan was accepted into the Central Conservatory of Music Affiliated Middle School in 2008, where she studied the pipa under the tutelage of Professor Fan Wei. After her graduation, she moved to Singapore to continue her music studies in the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) in 2015, where she studied under Yu Jia, Pipa Principal of the Singapore Chinese Orchestra; and joined the Singapore National Youth Chinese Orchestra in the same year. She joined the Singapore Chinese Orchestra as a pipa player in 2023.

Wang matured as a pipa player in the NAFA, and she participated actively in school performances and exchange programmes. In November 2017, Wang performed Moonlight Over Spring River for the then-Prince Charles when he visited the NAFA, on behalf of the academy’s Chinese music department. In 2019, she won the Rave Concerto Competition; in March the same year, she was selected as the soloist for “Dauntless Spirit”, an annual concert put up by the Singapore National Youth Chinese Orchestra and the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, and performed the Pipa Concerto The Sword and the Scroll. Her performances were very well received and highly acclaimed by the audience.

After graduating from the pipa major at the NAFA in 2020, she chose to stay and pursue a second major, the zhongruan, under the tutelage of Yu Jia. She later enrolled in a master’s course at the NAFA.