London-based Chinese conductor Yajie Ye is recognised for her collaborative approach to music-making across contemporary and choral-orchestral repertoire. Her work spans the concert hall, recording studio, and rehearsal room, bringing together performers composers, and producers in creative partnership. In 2026, she was appointed Music Director of CoMA Sussex and Resident Conductor of Bled Contemporary Music Week. She is also founder and Music Director of Pavilion Ensemble. Recent engagements include Guest Conducting Programme Director and Fellow at the South China Contemporary Creative Music Institute (SCCCMI) and Music Director and Orchestrator of the musical Miracle at London’s Cockpit Theatre.
Awarded conducting scholarships by Divertimento Ensemble (Milan) and Mostly Modern Festival (New York) in 2024. She is also on the Royal Opera House Jette Parker Artist Conductor Observership Scheme 2026. She has won the Second Prize in the Conducting Category of the Gabriel Fauré Music World Competition 2024. Yajie has also been selected for the Young Conductor’s Scheme Workshop, working with the Crouch End Festival Chorus. In 2023, her talents were recognised with a conducting fellowship at the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Italy. As an assistant musical director, she worked alongside Melissa Foster (Northwestern University) at the Chicago International Youth Musical Theatre Camp in 2019, the same year she won the First Prize Choral Director Award at the 9th Chorus Competition of South China Normal University.
Furthermore, her conducting experience spans collaborations in workshops with the Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, Fames' Institue, Hard Ra Ensemble, Opera de Baugé , AltreVoci Ensemble, Bordighera Symphony Orchestra, NEW Sinfonia, AltreVoci Ensemble, Royal Northern College of Music Chamber Orchestra, Derbyshire City & County Youth Wind Band, and the Royal Welsh College of Music Chamber Choir, showcasing her adeptness in orchestral and choral domains.
As a composer, her music has been performed by the London Oriana Choir Scholars, the Mavron Quartet, and her Clarinet and Piano Duo Doubt premiered at the 13th European Clarinet Association Congress in Salerno, Italy. Yajie has been recognised for both her vocal and piano talents on international stages. She was awarded the Second-Class award in the Operatic Aria – Youth Class A category at the 2019 Hong Kong International Vocal Open Competition and received the Second Prize in the Vocal Music Competition at the American California International Youth Arts Festival. In addition to her vocal accomplishments, Yajie also earned the Second Prize in the Group A Tchaikovsky category of the “Liszt Award” Hong Kong International Piano Open Competition, showcasing her exceptional musicianship across disciplines.
An experienced choral singer from an early age, Yajie has been awarded a Choral Scholarship by the London Oriana Choir and the Lanfine Choral Exhibitioner Scholarship at the University of Glasgow. She has performed with ensembles including the BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Edinburgh International Festival Chorus, Royal Scottish National Orchestra Chorus, Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir, and National Youth Choir of Scotland.
Yajie Ye is undertaking a PhD in Conducting at King’s College London, under the supervision of Dr Amy Blier-Carruthers and Professor Katherine Butler Schofield. She previously completed an MPhil in Conducting at the University of Glasgow, where she studied with Professor John Butt and Professor David McGuinness. She is a former conducting student of Adrian Partington (BBC National Orchestra of Wales) and has undertaken advanced conducting training through masterclasses, including with Uroš Lajovic, JoAnn Falletta, and and Colin Metters. Her early engagement with composition and vocal performance during her undergraduate studies at Cardiff University laid the foundation for her work as a conductor.
As a researcher, she has presented her practice-based research at the International Conductors Guild Conference 2025 (London), the RMA Annual Conference 2025, Innovation In Music 2025, EPARM Conference (Thailand), the RMA/BFE Research Students' Conference (Cambridge), the Twelfth Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900 (Birmingham), Sphere of Singing (Glasgow), and UNC-KCL Music Conference (North Carolina, U.S.). She previously served as an editor of eSharp, an international peer-reviewed journal for postgraduate research. Alongside her doctoral studies, she has worked as a Research Assistant and Impact Assistant on projects led by Professor Christina Scharff and Professor Emma Dillon at King’s College London, including The Silence That Is Not a Rest: Juggling Performing and Parenting (2024) and the UKRI-funded Musical Lives: Towards an Historical Anthropology of French Song, 1100–1300 (2026).
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