Lei Meng

Pianist Lei Meng was born in Harbin (China) in 1991 and received her first musical training at the China Conservatory in Beijing, at the Austrian-Chinese Music University there and then at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with Prof Klaus Kaufmann and at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris with Prof Michel Béroff. In 2016, Lei Meng completed her master's degree at the Mozarteum University Salzburg with honours, followed by a postgraduate degree. She also completed a bachelor's degree in instrumental pedagogy. In 2017, she was employed as a piano teacher and accompanist at the Grassau Music School in Bavaria. She has taught at the Mozarteum University Salzburg as a senior lecturer for piano since 2018 and completed her habilitation in 2022. Since 2024 she has been a lecturer at the International Summer Academy of the Mozarteum University Salzburg. She was appointed Professor of Piano and Piano Didactics for the winter semester 2024/25. 

Lei Meng has received numerous national prizes in her home country. She was awarded the ‘Mozart Prize’ at the Mozarteum University Salzburg in 2009. In 2011, she won a prize at the international ‘Bang & Olufsen PianoRAMA’ competition in Aarhus (Denmark) and in 2016 at the ‘Santa Cecilia’ competition in Porto (Portugal). Concerts have taken her to many European countries, the USA, China and Brazil. She regularly receives invitations to major festivals. She has repeatedly performed as a soloist with various orchestras and chamber music ensembles. In 2016, Lei Meng recorded her first CD with works by Scarlatti, Mozart and Dutilleux. Together with professors from the Mozarteum University Salzburg, she recorded the complete piano concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach on DVD. Recently, several CD recordings have been released on the Coviello Classics label.