CUI Jiayi is a Yangqin musician, who works and lives in Beijing.
The Yangqin is a traditional Chinese dulcimer. Yet, she does not focuses on traditional, elegant and passive performance. Instead, her solo performances focus on works that lie outside the traditional Yangqin repertoire—by choosing works written for other instruments and by composers: for example, works by Ligeti, Bach and Takemitsu. In this way, CUI Jiayi's performance stretch our understanding the possibilities of the Yangqin and traditional Chinese performance, and the traditional instrumentalist identity.
CUI Jiayi's conception of music is driven by the thought that new music need not go straight to improvisation but more importantly find its place in the modern world. So she is a musician who strives to explore musical performance within today’s world and present the listening experience in a modern perspective by interpretation, criticism and disintegration of the work’s she performs.
In the specific music works, the modern performance technique and style with the nature of dulcimer percussion are shaped across the single instrument language and traditional listening mode.
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As a soloist, she invitations include performances in Beijing and Australia.
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As a traditional performer, she has performed in cooperation with many professional orchestra, such as China Broadcasting National Symphony Orchestra, China Youth National Symphony Orchestra, Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, etc. She has performed in the National Central for the Performing Arts Theater (NCPA), Beijing Concert Hall, Zhongshan music hall, Beijing Olympic Stadium, etc.
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As a member of the Chinese instrument Pop band "女子十二乐坊", she has performed in Nagoya Aichi Art Theatre, Kyoto theatre, Tokyo Concert Hall (Japan), Vancouver orfen Theatre (Canada), etc.
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She has appear numerous times on CCTV (the Chinese National Broadcaster).
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She graduated from Central Conservatory of music in 2018.