Charismatic and popular with audiences in recital and concerto settings,  Huiping Cai is an engaging pianist renowned for her lyricism, musicality, and  formidable technique. After winning First Prize, Best Concerto Award, and  Best Recital Award at the 2017 Philadelphia International Piano Competition,  she also won first prizes at the 2018 Miami Music Festival Piano Concerto  Competition, the 2019 Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford,  Connecticut, the 2022 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, and the  2023 New York Franz Liszt International Piano Competition. 

Huiping made her Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall and Stern  Auditorium Perelman Stage with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in 2023. As a  soloist, Huiping has performed for audiences in countries such as the United  States, Mexico, Russia, Kazakhstan, and her home country, China. She has  also performed piano concertos with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra,  Hong Kong VTC Symphony Orchestra, Jalisco Philharmonic Orchestra,  Kazakhstan National Symphony Orchestra, Miami Music Festival Orchestra,  Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, and Temple  University Symphony Orchestra. In May 2023, she gave a chamber music  concert tour in Shanghai and Hangzhou with the Gallant Quartet, featuring  piano quartets written by Brahms and Schumann. 

Huiping received her M.M. in Piano Performance from the New England  Conservatory where she studied with Dang Thai Son and held a Teaching  Assistantship. She is currently pursuing her D.M.A. in Piano Performance  & Literature under the tutelage of Alan Chow, alongside an M.M. in Piano 

Accompanying & Chamber Music with Andrew Harley at the Eastman School  of Music. She was recently accepted into the 2024 Collaborative Piano Program at the Tanglewood Music Center.