Yixin Shen

Country – China

Age – 14

Yixin Shen is from Shanghai, China. She began her piano studies at the age of five. Since 2020, Yixin has been pursuing studies in Piano Performance with Professor Kuanwen Wang at the Music Middle School affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (Elementary Department). In 2023, she was recommended as one of the top students to the Middle School Department, exempted from the entrance examination.

Yixin has participated in several major international piano competitions for young artists. In 2025 she took part in the Cooper International Piano Competition, winning Fourth Prize. In 2024, she was selected among 440 applicants to compete in the 19th Ettlingen International Piano Competition. In 2023, she was one of the 16 contestants in the Junior Class of the Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists. She has also won numerous competitions, including the First Prize at 2022 Irvine Conservatory International Music Competition (Piano Category C) and the Gold Prize at 2021 St. Petersburg International Music Competition (Junior Class), among others.

Beyond solo performances, Yixin is also a passionate chamber musician, leading the Modern Trio piano ensemble, which has won top honors in several Chamber Music Competitions, including the First Prize and Best Contemporary Work Interpretation Award at the 13th SHCMMS International Chamber Music Competition in 2025.

Yixin has performed on prestigious stages, including the closing concert of the 2nd Chinese Young Musicians Art Festival with the Shenzhen Bay Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), Shanghai Symphony Hall, Shanghai Concert Hall, and Zhuhai Huafa Grand Theater, and others.