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“Mr. Qin has a great deal going for him, including a meltingly beautiful tone, flawlessly centered intonation and an ironclad technique”
New York Times

“Li-Wei  is the most gifted young cellist I have heard.  Aside from an extraordinary technical fluency, he has a musical intelligence and sensitivity which is breathtaking both for its maturity and profound vision”
The Strad 

“Li-Wei is an enormously promising cellist…charismatic, generous and committed.”
The Guardian

“His Locatelli in D was simply breathtaking…an encore of Rostropovich’s Hunoresques was utterly awesome”
The Independent

Li-Wei has established a formidable reputation on the international concert scene and is well known for his brilliant virtuosity, refined musicalty and sincerity of interpretation. He has won several prestigious awards sincluding silver medal at the 11th Tchaikovsky International Competition, the 2001 Naumburg Competition and was invited onto the BBC New Generation Artists Scheme during 2001-03.

Li-Wei is working with orchestras of the highest level and recent and forthcoming engagements include: BBC Proms with the Scottish Ensemble, London Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, Bournemouth Symphony, Kremerata Baltika conducted by Guidon Kremer, Singapore Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Hong Kong Sinfionetta, Sydney Symphony Orchestras,  Auckland Philharmonic, China Philharmonic as well as recitals at Wigmore Hall, Graz Festival, Kronberg Festivals and Mecklenburg Festival. 

Li-Wei has enjoyed successful artistic collaborations with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and Marek Janowski, Osaka Philharmonic, Prague Symphony and Antoni Wit, Halle Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony and BBC Philharmonic.  He continues to be a regular guest with the China Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony and Australian Chamber Orchestra working with highly acclaimed conductors such as Yan Pascal Tortelier, Vassily Sinaisky, Marcello Viotti, Alexander Lazarev and the late Lord Menuhin.   

In recital and chamber music Li-Wei is a regular guest at the Wigmore Hall and recently made highly successful debuts at the Lincoln Centre NY and in San Francisco and Washington and broadcasts regularly on BBC Radio 3 and NDR. 
Born in Shanghai in 1976 Li-Wei moved to Australia at the age of 13, before accepting a Scholarship to study with Ralph Kirshbaum at the Royal Northern College of Music in 1995.  He now lives in London and plays a 1720 Giuseppe Guarneri cello on loan from the Australian Council. Li-Wei has recently been appointed Artistic Director of the Jin Mao Concert Hall in Shanghai and is also the Head of Cello Studies at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music.