Katie Yao Morgan & Angeline Bell
Biographie Katie Yao Morgan & Angeline Bell
Katie Yao Morgan
is of British and Chinese descent and began to play the piano when she was four years old. In 2010, she won the ‘ABRSM Sheila Mossman Memorial Prize’ for achieving the highest mark in Grade 8 piano exam and additionally received a ‘Gold Award’ in 2011.
In 2010, she entered the Yehudi Menuhin School, where she studied with Marcel Baudet. In 2011, she won ‘2nd prize in Category B (12–16) section’ of the Pianist of the North Competition, and in 2014, she was awarded ‘Mention of Honour’ in the International Piano Competition in Enschede, Holland. In 2016, she was awarded ‘Diplôme de JEUNE ESPOIR’ in the 10th Adilia Alieva Competition held in Annemasse, France. In 2019, she won ‘1st prize at the Amsterdam Regional Finals’ of the Princess Christina Concours in the Netherlands.
Katie has performed at The Wimbledon Festival and in duos at the Wigmore Hall. In 2013, she performed ‘Mozart’s Concerto KV449’ with the Menuhin School Orchestra, and in September 2014, two performances of ‘Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2’ with the YMS Chamber Ensemble. In spring 2015, she toured the Southwest of England, performing in Bridport and Dartmouth, and later in Scotland, including New Lanark, Edinburgh and Blair Atholl. In 2016, she performed ‘Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor’ with the Dorking Chamber Orchestra, and in 2017, with the Mihail Jora” di Bacau Orchestra Filarmonica in Cantu, Italy. In 2022, she played ‘Ravel’s Left-Hand Concerto’ with the USC Orkest at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, The Netherlands.
She has taken part in summer courses at Tignes, France and Blonay, Switzerland, with teachers including Marcel Baudet, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Edith Fischer and Jorge Pepi-Alos. She has also received masterclasses from Dmitri Alexeev, Ronald Brautigam, Ronan O’Hora, Idil Biret and Dominique Merlet. Katie appeared on the Dutch Classical TV Show ‘Podium Witteman’ as part of the Jonge Helden (Young Talent) in 2020 and 2022.
Katie was a member of ‘Trio Pantoum’ with SongHa Choi (violin) and Maxim Calver (cello). The trio won 1st prize in the Intercollegiate Piano Trio Society Competition held at Birmingham Conservatoire in 2018. In February, the same year they toured The Netherlands, performing in a number of venues, including Akoesticum and the Conservatory in Amsterdam, and also appearing on Dutch radio Spiegelzaal. She is currently a member of ‘Duo Morgan/van Nee’ with Jorian van Nee (piano). They won first prize at the Grachten Conservatorium Concours in 2024 and performed concerts together in the 2024/2015 season, including De Duif and Het Concertgebouw.
Katie completed her Bachelor of Classical Piano in 2022 at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, under the guidance of Frank Peters. She also completed a Master’s in Répétiteurship in 2024. Katie holds a Bachelor Honours Degree in Psychology at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and is currently studying for a Master’s in Crime and Forensic Science at University College London. Since 2018, alongside studying, Katie has greatly enjoyed teaching students of all ages.
Angeline Bell
first came to England in 1987 and later went on to read Music at the University of East Anglia in Norwich but would travel to London for piano lessons with Ruth Harte at the Royal Academy of Music. After completing her Postgraduate Certificate in Education, she taught music in a secondary school before setting up her own business, Bell Piano School.
Having thirty years of teaching experience behind her, she began composing for piano for the first time in 2022. She caught the attention of Editions Musica Ferrum, who have since published four piano books totalling 84 pieces. Her nostalgic childhood memories remained close to her heart, and in the summer of 2023, she began composing autobiographical reflections of her time spent growing up in Malaysia. Several pieces were influenced by East Asian folk tunes of the time, others by the natural habitat of the local region, and a few reflect on treasured family moments.
Wang Xiao
began learning to play the erhu when she was six years old and graduated from the Wuhan Conservatory of Music. In 1999 she joined the Headquarters Arts Troupe of the Henan Provincial People's Armed Police as its erhu soloist. In 2001 she took part in the Luoyang Casio Young Instrumentalists Competition, where she won a Silver Prize, and in the same month a Gold Prize as an erhu soloist in the Henan Provincial "Hundred Fountains Cup" Young Instrumentalists Competition. In the same year she represented the People's Armed Police as erhu soloist in the Henan Provincial Arts Festival, and was well received. Before going abroad she was erhu and banhu soloist with the Luoyang Symphony Orchestra. She has given many performances since arriving in the UK.
