Jiawei Hong was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. She studied at the Affiliated High School of Xinghai Conservatory of Music from 2016 to 2022 and graduated under the Professor Yan Qi.
In 2021, she was admitted to the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe in Germany with full marks for her bachelor’s degree, studying with Professor Pirmin Grehl. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, under the guidance of Professor Anna Dina Bjørn-Larsen.
She has participated in numerous professional competitions and music events at home and abroad and achieved outstanding results. She won the 1st Prize at the Macau International Flute Competition in 2019. In 2025, she was selected and took part in the main round of the 11th Kobe International Flute Competition in Japan. In 2026, she won the 1st Prize in the Grand Cup category at the 4th Hong Kong International Flute Competition. She was honoured as one of the Outstanding Young Wind Players of the 2026 “Yiyuan Xieying” National Showcase. She reached the semi-final of the 6th Guangzhou International Flute Competition.
She also attained excellent results in major competitions including the 15th Wind Chamber Music & Woodwind Solo Competition of the Central Conservatory of Music, the Severino Gazzelloni International Flute Competition in Italy, and the Tampere Flute Fest Young Artist Competition in Finland.
She has served as principal flutist of the Guangzhou Junior and Youth Symphony Orchestras. She joined the orchestra’s 10th-anniversary national tour and gave exchange performances in France, Italy, the Czech Republic and Japan. She was invited to act as principal flutist for the ballet Coppélia, performed jointly by the German Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Czech National Ballet.
In addition, she has attended masterclasses given by many internationally renowned flutists, including Jacques Zoon, Renate Greiss-Armin, Wally Hase, Sébastian Jacot, Patrick Gallois, Karl-Heinz Schütz, Jean-Claude Gérard, Maxence Larrieu, Andrea Oliva, Michael Martin Kofler, Barthold Kuijken and Elzbieta Wolenska.