Born and raised in Hong Kong, pianist Jamie Shum obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), under the guidance of Amy Sze. She went on to pursue her Master of Music degree in Piano Performance and Literature at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she studied with Norman Krieger and Luba Edlina-Dubinsky. She has attended the Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina and Orfeo Music Festival in Vipiteno and has performed in Mainland China, Europe and the United States.

Shum was a winner of the Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition at the Brevard Music Festival in 2017. She has appeared as soloist with many orchestras, such as the Brevard Music Centre Orchestra, Indiana University Students Orchestra, HKBU Symphony Orchestra and the Collegium Musicum Hong Kong. She has also collaborated with distinguished conductors including Ken Lam and Johnny Poon.

Throughout her music studies, Shum was the répétiteur of the world-class soprano Nicole Cabell and the orchestral pianist of the HKBU Symphony Orchestra. She was an active accompanist and chamber musician at the Indiana University. She has stayed active in performing and teaching, and has received numerous outstanding teaching awards since 2019. She was selected as one of the performers of the “Our Music Talents” series organized by the LCSD in 2020 and has also recorded interviews for the RTHK.