In April 2001, the eight-year-old earned a first-place audition result and was accepted to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music's Primary School, studying under pianists Jianzhong Wang and Zhijue Chao.
Since then he began studying with the famed pianist Yoheved Kaplinsky, who is the chairperson of Juilliard's piano department and the Artistic Director of its Pre-college Division.
[4] It was then that he attracted the interest of Opus 3 Artists the same talent agency where Yo-Yo Ma, Christopher Plummer, Midori, and Radu Lupu, to name a few, currently employs.
Among the most prestigious engagements was his appearance as guest soloist to a National Live PBS Broadcast at The Juilliard School's 100 Years Centennial Gala alongside composer John Williams, actor Kevin Kline, violinist Itzhak Perlman, soprano Renée Fleming, jazz composer Wynton Marsalis, and pianist Emanuel Ax where he concluded the grand finale playing Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto in 2006 at age 13.
[8] Aside from these orchestral engagements, he has played a major amount of solo recitals in cities including New York, Washington D.C., Beijing, Boston, San Diego, Paris, Baltimore, Kansas City, Key West, Greenwich, Cincinnati, Sarasota, San Jose, St. Louis, Orlando, Nanking, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, and Qingdao.
World-class conductors such as Michel Plasson, director of the Dresden Philharmonic and the China National Symphony Orchestra, En Shao, principal guest conductor of the China National Symphony and the Macau Orchestra, and Leonard Slatkin, began to notice his unique artistic style of performance and his deep emotional sensitivity both as pianist and as a composer.