1957, Gu Shengying, who was only 19 years old, won the gold medal in the piano competition of the 6th Moscow International Youth Festival, which was the first gold medal won by China people in an international music competition since the founding of New China. More than forty judges agreed that her performance was "a miracle". 1958 10 She won the highest prize for women's piano in the Geneva International Music Competition with more than 100 players from 36 countries (the famous pianist Polini and Ronaldinho Turini tied for the highest prize for men's piano), which aroused strong repercussions in the western music industry. Swiss national radio and national television broadcast the award-winning concert live to the whole of Europe. 1964, she won another prize in the internationally influential Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition in Belgium and became an internationally influential female pianist. During the 1950s and 1960s, Gu Shengying, as the music emissary of New China, visited more than ten countries, including the Soviet Union, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland, as well as Hong Kong and Macau, which caused great repercussions. Hungarian critics said: "She injected charm and poetry into Beethoven's music, and showed Bach's seriousness, Schumann's richness and Debussy's clarity and beauty in front of the audience." Bulgarian critics said: "Her performance focuses on poetry and heartfelt feelings ... Chopin's music presents a rare beauty in her hands." There are even international authoritative comments that she is a "born Chopin player and a real piano poet" and an "amazing combination of superb skills and profound ideological content".
Gu Shengying's performance style is distinctive and full of romantic poetry and dignified charm. Her beautiful and clear timbre gives people a pure and beautiful enjoyment, and her light and quick touch is as bright and neat as a jade plate.
As a pianist in China, Gu Shengying devoted himself to the piano music of the motherland and held the "China Piano Solo Concert" in Shanghai on 1963. On the music stage in China and the world, she enthusiastically introduced many piano music works by China composers.
As a real artist, Gu Shengying has a lofty personality and sincere patriotism. Even in the days of being rejected and wronged, she often lives overseas and takes care of her relatives in the motherland. On the way to a foreign country to participate in the competition, she wrote passionately in her diary: "For my motherland and my people, I will work hard until I reach the high podium. Her life is pure and clean, and her broad and loving feelings and dedication to artistic Excellence will always be a model for artists in China.