Belle Shiu

Belle Shiu is a pipa virtuoso with the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, she joined the HKCO in 2016. She completed her Master of Music programme at The HongKong Academy for Performing Arts (HKAPA) in 2016, under the supervision of Zhang Ying. She started learning pipa under Li Ping of the Music Office, and was coached by the famous virtuosi Yang Jing and Ren Hong. She also trained in nanyin pipa under Ong Chay-tin and guzheng under Luo Jing.

Shiu has performed with the renowned Russian violist and conductor Yuri Bashmet, cellist Trey Lee, Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra, violist VladimirMendelssohn, and violinist Gian Paolo Peloso. As a regular guest of Moscow Soloists Chamber Orchestra, she has performed pipa solo in the Sochi Winter Festival (2019 and 2017), the Russian Culture Festival in Beijing and Tianjin (2019), the Yuri Bashmet Music Festival in Russia (2018), the Verbier Festival inSwitzerland (2017), the Prosecco Festival in Italy and the ‘December Nights’ in Russia (both in 2016). One of the highlights in her performing career was in 2015, when she was invited to perform at the historically renowned Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. It made her the first player of Chinese music ever to perform there.

More recently, Shiu was invited to organize a concert and perform as Pipa soloist in Jakarta by Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office; and was invited by the Hong Kong Museum of Art to hold the ‘The Sound of Art’ music concert in 2023. In 2022, Shiu has held the concert ‘Our Music Talents’ Series : DIM . Pipa Recital by Belle Shiu. In 2021, Shiu and the Suona Assistant Principal of HKCO, Wu Chun Hei held the solo concert The Neon City by HKCO.