Jia Hwei majored in piano at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, UK, where her tutors were Jeremy Young and Carole Presland. She graduated with her BMus(Hons), and subsequently MMus in 2003. At the RNCM, she won the Bach Recital Prize, Rawsthorne Prize for chamber music, and the Prix Scarbo.

Jia Hwei started learning the organ in 2013 with Dr. Evelyn Lim. She went on to pursue a Master’s degree in organ at the Royal Academy of Music  (London, UK), where she was a student of Susan Landale and Gerard Brooks between 2017-2019. During her time at the Academy, she was the recipient of the Joyce Rhoda Danzelman Award, Gwen & Eric Windo Organ Award, and 2019 Organology Prize. She served as organ and choral scholar at St. Michael’s and All Angels in Croydon (London) between 2017-2018, and was organist at St. Mary’s in Acton 2018-2019 (London).

She is now based in Singapore and plays regularly for the Victoria Concert Hall Organ Series. She continues to work as soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician with local orchestras and ensembles, such as the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Singapore National Youth Orchestra, re:Sound, re:mix, Red Dot Baroque, and the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music. She also runs an active teaching studio from home.