Pianist Wuna Meng (D.M.A.) is Associate Professor of Piano at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music, where she also serves as Head of the Piano Performance Major at the Affiliated School. She has been invited to perform at Carnegie Hall on multiple occasions and has been praised for “combining exquisite lyricism with dramatic power.” Recognized at numerous international piano competitions, she has also appeared on major broadcast platforms including China Central Television (CCTV).
Approaching programming with a curatorial lens, Meng champions contemporary and cross-cultural repertoire. She has released a solo album focusing on piano works within a multicultural context; as a member of the Tianji Liuqin Chamber Ensemble, she toured the United States, promoting the international circulation of contemporary Chinese works. She launched the “New Works Showcase Concerts,” presenting the China premieres of several significant contemporary piano works.
In recent years, Meng has integrated art and technology in depth: her world-premiere collaboration with AI, Taiyi Shengshui , received the Hubei Golden Bianzhong Award; she also joined the nationwide tour of the National Arts Fund–supported symphonic epic Manas , opening new sonic and theatrical spaces between technological aesthetics and the modern retelling of an epic tradition.
Beyond the stage, Meng’s writing and talks explore cultural pluralism in music and performance analysis. Together with her father, she co-translated Steven Laitz’s authoritative textbook The Complete Musician (Associate Dean and Chair of Theory, The Juilliard School); the Chinese edition has been widely received in academia and pedagogy.
Education: D.M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; studies at the Eastman School of Music and the Central Conservatory of Music, studied with Timothy Ehlen, Douglas Humpherys, and Wu Ying.