Ruirui Ye plays the traditional arching board zither (zheng). She is a zheng musician and teacher at the Berlin University of the Arts. She has performed extensively in China and Germany and came to Germany in 2017. She earned the academic degree of Master of Arts in Systematic Musicology with a thesis on Zheng at the University of Hamburg. Since 2020, she has been conducting research as a doctoral candidate at the Berlin University of the Arts. In addition, she founded the seminar "Music in China" at the UdK as a lecturer.
