Brownville Concert Series will present Ying Li, pianist, in its first concert of the 2023 season. She will be in concert on Sunday, April 16, at 2:00 p.m. Jane Rohman is sponsoring the show. All in attendance are invited to a reception afterward at the historic Muir House. Area piano students are invited to a free Master Class after the reception at the Concert Hall and can attend the concert for free by registering with the box office.

Twenty-four-year-old Chinese pianist Ying Li is the first prize winner of the 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, as well as recipient of The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival Prize and the Tri-I Noon Recitals Prize. She has received top awards in numerous national and international competitions.

Ying has performed with many leading orchestras such as The Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Brevard Music Festival Orchestra, L’Accademia Orchestra del La Scala, and with conductors such as Lina Gonzalez-Granados, Xian Zhang, Eric Jacobsen, and Jonathon Heyward.

Ying will make her New York City recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and her Washington, D.C., debut at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater with additional recitals at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Evergreen Museum & Library in Baltimore, Sunday Musicale in New Jersey, Southeastern Piano Festival, and the Honest Brook Music Festival.

Upcoming and recent recitals also include Sala Verdi in Milan, Hammerklavier International Piano Festival in Barcelona, Musica Insieme Bologna, Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, Fazioli Pianoforti in Sacile, and the C. Bechstein Series at the Konzerthaus in Berlin. Ying was also featured on WQXR’s “Eine kleine birthday-musik,” a free, all-Mozart live streamed concert from The Greene Space in New York City, to celebrate Mozart’s 266th birthday.

Ying began piano lessons at age five in China, and was a student at the elementary school division of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. She moved to Philadelphia in 2012, at age 14, to study at the Curtis Institute of Music with Jonathan Biss and Seymour Lipkin. After receiving the Bachelor of Music degree at Curtis Institute in 2019, she received her Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School in New York with Robert McDonald, and continues her studies with McDonald at the Juilliard School’s Artist Diploma Program.

Season passes to all nine shows are only $180. Tickets are $25 for adults and $16 for students. Tickets can be purchased online at www.brownvilleconcertseries.com, on Facebook, or call 402-825-3331. The Nebraska Arts Council (www.nebraskaartscouncil.org), a state agency, supports this program through a matching grant funded by the Nebraska Legislature, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.