Collaborative Teacher of Interdisciplinary Music Studies, The Yehudi Menuhin School Qingdao

Orchestra Teaching Secretary, The Yehudi Menuhin School Qingdao

Master of Arts (Musicology), Shanghai Conservatory of Music

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the Arts, Kangwon National University (Republic of Korea)

Senior Art Therapist

Member of the Committee on Art Psychology, Shanghai Psychological Society

Kong Weiyu began studying the piano at the age of five under Shi Jinglin, receiving a systematic and rigorous musical foundation. He later went on to study the double-keyboard electronic organ (Electone) and various small percussion instruments, developing a multi-dimensional perception of music that spans keyboard performance, timbre arrangement, and bodily rhythm. He subsequently earned a Master's degree and a PhD in the Arts from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Kangwon National University respectively, with research focused on the interdisciplinary intersection of music theory, music education, and music psychology. During his studies, he published more than ten papers in leading academic journals in Chinese, English, and Korean, covering topics such as the methodology of music education, music cognition and emotion, and the theoretical construction and practical pathways of art therapy. Through cross-lingual and cross-cultural teaching and research, he has continued to explore how music-education methods can be translated into practice and brought into the classroom, and has participated on multiple occasions in the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission's "Cloud Classroom" recording projects and in volunteer teaching programmes.

Kong Weiyu has long been dedicated to the promotion and applied use of arts-based group activities and music psychology. He has repeatedly organized and hosted salons on themes of art and music, designing immersive musical activities for diverse audiences and turning theory into tangible, lived experiences.

His teaching philosophy is rooted in "whole-person music education": music is not merely the training of technical skill, but a medium for cultivating perception, expressiveness, and psychological resilience.