Biography

Claire was born in Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

 to Chinese parents. Her parents are both scientists. Claire received a grand piano as a gift for her 6th birthday She noodled around on her own, got some help from her mother, who knew how to read music, and enrolled into Settlement Music School of Philadelphia when she was 7. In the same year, she was featured on FOX news as a child prodigy with "the skills of a professional pianist."

Education

Claire is supported with scholarships from DAAD as well as Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben for the past two years. Having completed four years of study at The Curtis Institute of Music, Claire is continuing her music education in Germany at the Hannover Hochschule für Musik under Professor Arie Vardi from October, 2007.

Career

She won First Prize in the National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami in 2010.
She had previously won First Prize in the 2009 Europäischer Chopin Klavierwettbewerb in Darmstadt and the Orpheum Music Prize in Zurich. She has appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra

Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is a symphony orchestra based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. One of the "Big Five" American orchestras, it was founded in 1900...

, the Radio- Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, the China Philharmonic, the St Petersburg Symphony, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, and the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt. She has also given recitals in Europe ; in Zurich (Tonhalle), Frankfurt (Sendesaal), and Berlin (Konzerthaus) among others, China, Japan, Israel, and the United States (Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....

).