I amSouth African, Chinese and Australian. I was born in Johannesburg to Chinese parents. I started playing the piano when I was four years old, before moving to Sydney, Australia at the age of seven. I am a native bilingual speaker in English and Mandarin, and fluent in Wenzhounese. I moved to the USA in 2018 to pursue my graduate studies. I completed my DMA in Jazz Performance (cognate in Piano Performance and Literature) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May, 2023.
I lead my own jazz trio, and I collaborate with visual artists, video projection mappers, sound designers, dancers, choreographers, scientists and poets. I also improvise telematically with the international Ethernet Orchestra and Female Laptop Orchestra. My first CD release was with Kuroshio in 2020, under Asian Improv Records. |