Yucong Ma

Classical pianist Yucong Ma started learning piano at the age of five. She gets her bachelor's degree from Macao Polytechnic University. As an undergraduate, she studied piano successively with Associate professor Loung Kim Yang and Dr. Igor Amaral. Currently master of music degree in progress from Bowling Green State University. Now study piano with Dr. Solungga Liu.

Yucong has a very rich performance experience. In addition to participating in various concerts held by the undergraduate, such as student concert, teacher-student concert, graduation concert, flash mob concert, etc. In addition to the school concerto, she also has participated in many concerts hold by Fundacao Rui Cunha from 2017 to 2019(regular basis which are held in the public interests), such as the Macao Youth Piano Recital, etc. Performed accompaniment for Tenors and Baritone in aria like Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön, La Lia Letizia Infondere, Hai già vinta la causa...Vedró mentr’io sospiro and the art songs of Schubert and Hugo Wolf from 2017-2019. The 2019 Macao new piano talent concert at the Macau Cultural Center. Now, she is the pianist for the BG Philharmonic Orchestra in the fall of 2022.

Yucong has been constantly striving to optimize herself. She won the 2018 - 2nd Prize, 3rd Lotus Cup Macao Youth Piano Competition; 2019 - 3rd Prize, 6th Macao Asia-Pacific Piano Competition. She received the Bank of China Scholarship in 2019 and Cultural Bureau of Macau SAR Government Scholarship in 2020. She attended Piano Plus Festival in summer 2022 and learn piano with three teachers, Prof. Vassiliadis, Prof. Zamparas and Prof. Hu. Yucong once published an article titled 《A Surreal "Absurd Adaptation" - An Accidentally Born Network Opera Covid Fan Tutte》in 2021, which is China's only classic opera art monthly magazine.

Besides the piano, Yucong is also very fond of percussion and has studied Chinese folk dance for ten years.