Li's first public performance was at the age of ten at Boston's Steinway Hall. At ages six and seven, he won First Prize in the Massachusetts Music Teachers' Association Competition. He attends the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and studies piano at the New England Conservatory with Wha Kyung Byun.

Now sixteen-years-old, he is the 2010 First-Prize-Winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. In October 2011, he made his New York debut and then presented his first Washington, DC recital at the Kennedy Center, sponsored by the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Prize. At the Auditions, Li was awarded a number of special prizes: The Paul A. Fish Memorial Award for Career Development, the Sander Buchman Award, the Ruth Laredo Award, the John Browning Prize, and the Slomovic Prize for a Concerto Engagement.

In June 2011, Li gave a performance at the White House in an evening in honor of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He was awarded a 2011 Gilmore Young Artist Award. This season, he performs at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Vancouver Recital Society, Shriver Hall Concert Series in Baltimore, and the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. He will appear as soloist with several orchestras and in a re-engagement with the Spartanburg Philharmonic. He has performed with the Xiamen Philharmonic in China, the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra in Venezuela, the Boston Symphony, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, and I Solisti di Perugia in Italy. As First Prize winner of the 2010 Cooper Competition at Oberlin Conservatory, he appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra.

Li was chosen to appear at the opening ceremony of Boston's new Institute of Contemporary Art and the inauguration of President Tony Woodcock at the New England Conservatory, where he is a member of the Conservatory's Vivace Trio, which was heard on "From the Top" on NPR and WNET. He has also performed for members of Congress at the Senate Office Building in Washington.