Yaowen Mei is a piano performance student at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music. He studied with Dr. Daniel Linder and Dr. John Milbauer as recipient of the Lotte C. Reyersbach Scholarship. Before attending the University of Arizona, Yaowen studied with Fang Kuang and Hong Xu at the Wuhan Conservatory of Music. He also studied with Yoshikazu Nagai at San Francisco Conservatory of Music.