Born in China, collaborative pianist Yupeng He is praised for her sensitive, delicate, responsive, and supportive performance. Described by Pan Journal as “a formidable duo partner that adapts well to each style and mood and maintains an impressive level of technical assurance and musicianship”. Yupeng has given chamber recitals in China and the UK, and works with many singers and instrumentalists. She is a member of YU Duo with violinist Eriol Guo Yu and Tulipa Piano Quartet. 

As a song accompanist, Yupeng has won the Accompanist Prize in the prestigious Richard Lewis Prize 2023, the Joan Chissell / Rex Stephens Schumann Lieder Prize 2023,  and she was one of the Young Artists for the 2022 Leeds Lieder Festival. Yupeng has made her debut at the Wigmore Hall on January 2023, when she performed Strauss Op.10 together with baritone Charles Cunliffe.

Yupeng has been selected as an official accompanist for several music festival such as the North London Festival of Music, Speech & Drama 2023. She has experience in répétiteur work especially for new opera projects – she took part in Tete a Tete: The Opera Festival 2022 and on ‘New Genus’ by Sun Keting, ‘Cummings & Goerings’ by Zhenyan Li, ‘Behind Gods Back’ by Joseph Howard.  

Yupeng He has performed in several venues including Howard Assembley Room of Opera North in Leeds,  Magdalen College of the University of Oxford, Cockpit Theatre London, French Institute, Italian Cultural Centre in London, the National Centre for the Performing Arts of China, Kodály Pedagogical Institute in Kecskemét. Together with her partners, she has participated in several competitions including the Kathleen Ferrier Award, Somerset Song Prize,the Joan Chissell / Rex Stephens Schumann Lieder Prize,the Harold Craxton Prize.  

Yupeng graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with a Master of Arts (distinction) and an Advanced Diploma in Piano Accompaniment following the study with James Baillieu and Michael Dussek. She has also participated in masterclasses with Hartmut Höll，Helmut Deutsch, Joan Rodgers CBE, Lucy Crowe, Susan Bullock, Amanda Roocroft, Denis Bouriakov and Alisa Weilerstein.