Tongtong Lei is a violinist, as a soloist performing her first American debut in Carnegie Hall, she won prizes such as the third prize of 2020 Alexander & Buono International String Competition, the second prize in the 2019 Qingdao Cosmopolitan Exposition International Classical Music Competition, the first prize in the 2018 Golden Classical Music Awards International Competition and second prize in the 2017 American Protégé International Competition of Romantic Music. Her festival engagements include the 2019 National Youth Orchestra-China Festival, The 2018 Salzburg International Summer Academy and The 2017 Bravo！International Music Academy, where she worked with Shanghai String Quartet. Lei started learning to play the violin and receiving her classic education in Central Conservatory of Music in China when she was nine years old. Right now, she is pursuing her bachelor degree at New England Conservatory of Music with Paul Biss in Boston.
Meanwhile, she has been being passionately and actively in the appearances of chamber and orchestral music performances with the renowned artists such as Lang Lang, Siqing Lu, Xincao Li, Joshua Bell, Ludovic Morlot and Garrick Ohlsson as a member of China Youth Philharmonic, China Chamber Music Conference, Boston Civic Symphony and NEC Philharmonic. In these performances opportunities, venues are Carnegie Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus Hall, Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Fondazione Teatro Comunale, Shanghai Oriental Art Center and National Centre for the Performing Arts.
