Kaiwei Zhi is a pianist based in New York City. Over the course of his career, he has performed concerti, recitals, and chamber music all over the world.

Kaiwei had his concerto debut at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Kyiv playing Liszt’s La Campanella, while he was studying in R.Glier Kyiv institute of Music, with Uliana Yablobskaya since 2004. He then performed Liszt’s first piano concerto with the State Orchestra of Ukraine. From 2008 to 2012 Kaiwei performed recitals in China, introducing Chinese audiences to Slavic music and won third price of the 22nd young musician international competition ‘Citta’di Barletta’. After Kaiwei received bachelor and master degree in Piano performance, 2012 Kaiwei quit performing, spent a couple months in Paris meeting a new group of musicians and studied with Oliver Gardon, and rediscovered his faith and desire for music. In 2014, Kaiwei returned to piano and performed the piano concerto “Yellow River”with ChongQing Philharmonic under the baton of ShangHai Philharmonic’s conductor Xieyang Chen in the Grand Theater of ChongQing. 2015 Kaiwei went to New York and got into Manhattan school of Music , studied with deceased maestro Phillip Kawin and got Professional Study certificate, graduated in 2017 then again studied with American concert pianist Spencer Myer, then received Graduate Performance Diploma in Piano Performance.In 2019, Kaiwei was the opening performer at a contemporary music recital in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, also the closing performer at a contemporary music recital in Markin Hall New York. In 2020, Kaiwei had his first piano solo recital in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. During the Covid, Kaiwei decided to explore another direction of the musical world: French music. After performing Debussy’s Fantasie for piano and orchestra with Dr. Leon Burke and University City Symphony in Missouri, USA. Kaiwei went back to Kyiv during the Ukraine Russia war, and performed Ravel’s first piano concerto in G with the Honored Academic Symphony Orchestra of Ukrainian Radio, together with maestro Volodymyr Sheiko.