Yaowen Mei is a senior Piano Performance Major at the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music, where he is the recipient of the Lotte C. Reyersbach Scholarship. He is currently a student of John Milbauer, and has also studied with Dan Linder. During his time at UA, he has won first prize in the President’s Concerto Competition (2019), performing with the University symphony orchestra in 2020. He has also won first prize in the fourth annual Michael Moore Memorial Piano competition, and first prize and the Audience Award in the Loist Trester Piano competition (2021). Yaowen studied piano with Fang Kuang and Hong Xu at Wuhan Conservatory of Music, and with Yoshikazu Nagai at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He has won prizes in the Yamaha Music Scholarship Piano Competition at the Wuhan Conservatory (2013 and 2014), the piano group of CCTV Piano and Violin competition (2014), and the Eastman Young Artists Piano Competition (2016).

Yaowen is the recipient of The Richard W. Antemann Memorial Scholarship Fund and The Eleanor B. Daugherty Scholarship Fund.