Violist Jiawei Yan maintains an active career as an orchestral, chamber, and freelance musician. In addition to performing regularly as a guest violist at Pacific Symphony, San Diego Symphony Orchestra and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Yan held a section position in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, she has also served as principal violist of the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Lake George Music Festival Chamber Orchestra and PRISMA Academy Orchestra, and guest principal of New Jersey Festival Orchestra. She has also been a member of the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra and the National Repertory Orchestra. She has been invited to play with Orchestra of St. Luke, Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, Bravura Philharmonic, Montclair Orchestra, and Symphony in C. Jiawei has performed under the batons of conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Gerard Schwarz, Fabio Luisi, Manfred Honeck, James Judd, John Nelson, Osmo Vänskä, Jeffery Kahane, and Carl St Clair. Venues of her performances include Alice Tully Hall and David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Bohemian National Hall and Richard B. Fisher Center Sosnoff Theatre, Mariinsky Theatre, Polish National Concert Hall, Konzerthaus in Berlin and Wiener Konzerthaus , Rudolfinum in Prague, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, China National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and Grand Opera House in Shanghai. 

As a soloist and an active chamber music artist, Jiawei gave a solo viola premier at National Sawdust, and viola recitals in Piano on Park, Fordham University Church and Percy Grainger Society series. She also performed with New Juilliard Ensemble, AXIOM and Juilliard ChamberFest. As an outreach initiator, Jiawei managed and performed the solo and chamber music concert series at Fordham University and of Manchester Music Festival in Vermont Winter Series. As a music instructor, Jiawei held adjunct faculty position in New York University, coaching sessions in Mannes School of Music Prep Division, teaching studio at Nord Anglia International School in New York City and was the director of chamber music at JCC Thurnauer School of Music in New Jersey.

Jiawei Yan is currently working on her Doctor of Music degree at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music with Professor Li-Kuo Chang. She earned a master's degree from The Juilliard School as a student of Paul Neubauer, bachelor's degree in philosophy from Bard College as well as in Viola Performance from Bard Conservatory of Music under instructions of Ira Weller and Michael Tree. In addition, Jiawei holds Professional Studies Diploma from Mannes School of Music of The New School and an Artist Diploma from New York University. Jiawei receives President Scholarship of The New School, Bard Conservatory Fellowship, A.H. Kuhn Memorial Scholarship and Lillian Fuchs Scholarship of Juilliard, Elaine and Stephen Stamas Scholarship of New York Philharmonic, etc. throughout her musical education.

In addition to her musical performance and education careers, Jiawei was a dedicated marketing consultant for three years in Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chinese audience outreach program contributing many strategies and translating season brochures. The project brought more than 2000 new audiences from Chinese communities in New York area.