Since receiving her first scholarship at age 11 from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Miaomiao has been aided by numerous scholarships and awards. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Music at the Royal College of Music, and is grateful for the support of the RCM doctoral scholarship, the Elizabeth Massey Scholarship for Music from the Canadian Federation of University Women, the Female Doctoral Grant from the Canadian federal government, and the Ontario Student Opportunity Grant.

For her studies in Ireland with Dr. John O’Conor she received the support of Wingates Foundation and Countess of Munster Musical Trust. Studies at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton were supported by the Leverhulme Trust, and Ambassador of Goodwill scholarship from Rotary International. In Canada, her studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music were funded by the Gordon Kushner Scholarship, Women’s Arts Association, Helen Valenska Memorial Scholarship, Boris Berlin Scholarship, Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Royal Bank of Canada Scholarship, Carmel Royce Alderson Memorial Scholarship, Margaret Millar Browne Memorial Scholarship, Freda Badgley Gunn Scholarship, and the Dorothea Danielle-Jenkins Scholarship.

Miaomiao’s success on the competition scene are reflected in her prizes at the Hong Kong International Piano Competition, Marlow International Concerto Competition, Toronto Symphony Competition, Imperial Oils Young Musicians Competition, and the Bromsgrove Young Musicians Competition. Her notable performances include appearances at Cadogan Hall, St. James Piccadilly, Charter House, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. Lawrence Jewry, Blue Elephant Theatre, and Conway Hall in London; Toronto Centre for the Performing Arts, Ettore Mazzoleni Concert Hall and Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto; Casa Orfeo, Kempff Foundation, Positano Italy; Musickhalle, Hamburg; Germany, Bank of Ireland Series, the RDS and the National Concert Hall of Ireland. She is also heard frequently at the Canadian High Commissioner’s official residence, Grosvenor Square. London. Her television and radio broadcasts include BBC Radio World Services, Channel Four (UK), RTE (Ireland), CBC and Bravo TV (Canada).

Teachers: Kevin Kenner (Royal College of Music), Christopher Elton (Royal Academy of Music), John O’Conor (Royal Irish Academy of Music), John Perry and James Anagnoson (Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto). Masterclasses with Nelita True, Robert MacDonald, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Andre Laplante, Marc Durand.

Miaomiao resides in London and is a Professor of Piano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.