Endangered Productions is so pleased to have the multi-talented Wei Jiang perform as a herd girl, wedding guest, troll and harem girl in our 2022 major production Peer Gynt.
Wei Jiang studied with Andrew Dalton and Neta Maughan, and holds an A.Mus.A in singing and an L.Mus.A in pianoforte. She was a Sydney Conservatorium Young Artist and head chorister at MLC School, Burwood before studying combined Arts/Medicine at the University of New South Wales.
Wei is a core soprano with Sydney Chamber Choir and the choir of the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Her classical work includes solos in Orff’s Carmina Burana, Mozart’s Spaur Messe, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas and Nyman’s Miserere.
Her diverse freelance work includes solo performances with the Hilltop Hoods, Anúna, Holcombe Waller and Eric Whitacre’s Virtual Choir. She is a founding member of acappella sextet Chapter Six, and has performed lead roles in a number of community theatre productions, including Christine in The Phantom of the Opera, Kim in Miss Saigon, Mimi in La Bohême, Cosette in Les Misérables and Woman 1 in Songs for a New World (WOFTAM Productions).
Wei holds a Master of Clinical Medicine with distinction and recently attained a double fellowship in haematology and haematopathology. She balances her work as a haematologist with translational research into immune reconstitution and T- cell therapies, and is the recipient of the prestigious HSANZ/Leukaemia Foundation PhD scholarship.