Keri holds a PhD in Musicology from King’s College London and the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the history of sensibility, Enlightenment studies, 18th-century aesthetics, musical semiotics and topic theory, Joseph Haydn, and keyboard music. Her interests encompass a wide range of topics that seek to cross the boundaries of music, history, philosophy, psychology, theology, and literature. Keri’s research has been published in journals such as Music & Letters, International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, Journal of Musicology, Journal of Musicological Research, The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation, and Journal of Tolkien Research. She has presented at various conferences hosted at the University of Northern Colorado, Soochow University, University of Edinburgh, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Orpheus Institute, and King’s College London. Keri is currently working on a project titled “Enlightened Sensibility: A Musical History” funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. She is the recipient of the 2025/26 Friends of the Meeter Center Research Fellowship and the 2026/27 Bodleian Visiting Fellowship, as an Albi Rosenthal Visiting Fellow in Music.
Keri received her Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern California, where she graduated as a Discovery Scholar under the tutelage of Professor Norman Krieger with a major in Piano Performance and a minor in Music Industry. She also studied with Andrew Ball at Royal College of Music, where she obtained her Master of Piano Performance and was awarded the Evelyn Tarrant Award for the Artist Diploma programme. Keri also studied at Idyllwild Arts Academy with Todor Pelev, concertmaster of San Bernardino Symphony, as a violin performance major, and later with Andrew Park as a piano major. In March 2017, Keri was one of the twenty-five pianists chosen to compete in the Virginia Warring International Piano Competition in Palm Desert, California. In May 2018, Keri was invited to Los Angeles to serve as a judge for the 2018 Friends of William Grant Still Young Artists Competition.
Due to chronic injuries, Keri no longer works on performance. Her previous awards include the third prize of the Sixth International Chopin Piano Competition in Hong Kong Asia and a first prize in the Asian Youth Music Competition in Hong Kong. She was also awarded an honourable mention in the Glendale Piano Competition, first prize of the Antelope Valley Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, fifth prize of the Edith Knox Performance Competition, first prize of the Pyrenees Music Society French Music Competition, grand prix of Pyrenees Music Society Russian Music Competition, an honorable mention of the International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington D.C., an honorable mention of Wildflower International Recording Competition, first prize of the Aloha International Piano Concerto Competition, first prize of the Coeur d’Alene Symphony National Young Artists Competition, fourth prize of the Brevard Music Center Piano Competition, first prize in the piano division in the Hatfield & District Music Festival, and Terzo premio in the Livorno Piano Competition. As a soloist, Keri has performed J.S. Bach’s Double Violin Concerto in D with Salzburg Junge Philharmonie in the Mirabell Palace and Gardens in Salzburg, Austria; Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No.5 with Coeur D’Alene Symphony in the Salvation Army Kroc Center in Spokane, Washington and Hawaii Youth Symphony in the Blaisdell Concert Hall in Honolulu, Hawaii; and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 with Antelope Valley Symphony in Antelope Valley College Performing Arts Theatre in Lancaster, California. Keri also accompanied singer Bobby McFerrin and the St. Paul’s Co-educational Primary School Choir in the Hong Kong Arts Festival at the Hong Kong Cultural Center when she was twelve.
A scholarship recipient of Piano Summer New Paltz, Brevard Music Center, and Southeastern Piano Festival, Keri has worked with pianists including Daniel Lessener, Victor Rosenbaum, Vladimir Feltsman, Alexander Korsantia, Susan Starr, Robert Roux, Robert Hamilton, Paul Ostrovsky, Phillip Kawin, Logan Skelton, Pamela Mia Paul, Vladimir Viardo, Angela Cheng, Carol Leone, John Adams, Lucinda Carver, Charles Dennis Thurmond, Li MingQiang, and Hae-Won Chang.
Keri’s interest in theology lies mostly in typological hermeneutics and the theology of self-forgetfulness. She also likes reading Daoist literature, Mary Wollstonecraft, Denis Diderot, Søren Kierkegaard, Michel Foucault, and Paul Ricœur, with Kierkegaard being the favourite. Keri has completed the Associateship of King’s College program at King’s College London.
Keri’s short writing “Envisioning the Invisible” was selected as one of the three runner-ups out of close to 1000 submissions in the “Visions of a World After Covid-19” contest organized by OpenDemocracy and UCL. Another essay “Visible Rage and the Invisible Race” was named one of the nineteen finalist entries in Bergen International Literary Festival Essay Competition out of 550 submissions.
Other interests include listening to J.S. Bach, Schumann, Scriabin, Ravel, Shostakovich, Samuel Barber, and Arvo Pärt; pianists Sviatoslav Richter, Radu Lupu, Vladimir Sofronitsky, Daniil Trifonov, Denis Matsuev, and Grigory Sokolov; and violinists Hilary Hahn, Maxim Vengerov, and David Oistrakh; and rap and R&B music. Keri also likes photography and reading fantasy literature like J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. She loves both solitude and good conversations (over coffee or beer preferably)