Jingyue Ren is a second-year UTRGV Master of Music in Piano Performance student who originally comes from Shouzhou, China. Jingyue Ren won the Golden Classical Music Award Internation Piano Competition and will be the featured soloist in the winners recital in the coming months. UTRGV Photo by David Pike
Graduate Student at UTRGV Jingyue Ren will perform this July at Carnegie Hall in New York. She earned the chance after being named one of the winners of the Golden Classical Music Awards.
Ren is a pianist and has attended UTRGV for the past year, working with the music staff to improve her skills before sending in her tape for evaluation. She earned the opportunity to play at Carnegie Hall, at only 23 years old.
Ren spoke on her opportunity to play at Carnegie Hall and the magnitude of the event
“I think it’s very important,” Ren said “I think every pianist wants a chance to get a chance to play at Carnegie Hall so this is a great chance for me too,” Ren said.
She also spoke on how what music means to her and how she understands it with emotion and how it influences her art.
“Music also has emotion and story. I often put the emotion first and think about how I should show the atmosphere and do the emotions and then to keep practice the skill to help show my emotion,” Ren said.
Professor of Piano at UTRGV Brendan Kinsella instructed Ren for the past year and helped her submit her tape to the Golden Classical Music awards. He remarked on how big an event this was for her and for UTRGV.
“Carnegie Hall is the #1 if not the #1 performance hall in the world. It’s not uncommon for people to perform there, so that really set’s their path in music,” Kinsella said.
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“So this is a huge win for her and it’s also a huge win for UTRGV because it shows that our students are capable of doing things at the level of anywhere else in the country and anywhere else in the world really.”
Dean of the College of Fine Arts at UTRGV Jeffrey Ward spoke on Ren’s achievements and the scale at which she is performing at such a young age while giving credit to her teacher.
“You have your Carnegie Hall premiere, and in the music world that’s a really significant achievement, especially at a young age,” Ward said. “It’s a significant achievement for anyone in their career to perform at Carnegie Hall, but to do so as a graduate student is a great testament to her abilities and skills as a pianist but also to the great work of her teacher”.
Jingyue Ren will perform at Carnegie Hall in July. To see her older performances, click here.
