April Lin started to learn piano when she was five years old. Introducing music and piano to children is a great passion of April Lin. Her goal is for every child to find the fascination and joy in playing piano. She started her studies under a famous professor Zhu Ya Fen. After graduating from Shen …
Zishan Ding is A young pianist and educator, she is also an active chamber musician and piano instructor. Ding Zishan has taught at the Herberger School of Music at Arizona State University, and the San Francisco Music Academy, as well as founded the DS Piano Academy. She has also been a teacher at the San …
Seonghyang Kim, born in South Korea, accomplished his bachelor’s degree in Music education and Piano Performance in South Korea and master’s degree in Piano performance from Professor Michael Salmirs at State University of New York at Binghamton. Under Dr. Jack Winerock at the University of Kansas, he earned a doctoral degree in piano performance and …
Professor Ching-Ming Cheng will be inducted into the Steinway Teacher Hall of Fame in 2023. As chair of the music department at California State University, San Marcos, Dr. Cheng received the CSUSM Chancellor’s Outstanding Music Teacher Award in 2021. Dr. Cheng currently serves as Faculty Director of the Colorado State University San Marcos Foundation Board …
Karen Follingstad has been Professor of Piano at San Diego State University since 1984. She has also taught at Kent State University, the University of Akron, and was artist faculty at the Kent-Blossom Music Festival from 1992-94, where she coached chamber music and performed with principal members of the Cleveland Orchestra. As a solo recitalist, …
Tao Chang studied piano with Sequeira Costa, hailed as the heir to the last student of Liszt. He was the first Asian to win the Vianna da Motta International Piano Competition, and the first winner of the Johann Nepomuk Hummel International Piano Competition. Chang has performed numerous solo and chamber recitals in the Slovak Republic, …
In September 2009 Sofya Gulyak was awarded the 1st prize and the Princess Mary Gold Medal at the Sixteenth Leeds International Piano Competition – the first woman in the history of the competition to achieve this distinction. Since then she has appeared all over the world to great acclaim. Her recital programmes are frequently reviewed …
Praised for his soundscapes and individualistic interpretations, pianist Klaus Nugraha has performed concerts in the United States, Singapore, France, and Indonesia in major venues such as the Kauffman Center of Performing Arts, Bicknell Family Center of the Arts, and Catholic University of America, the University Cultural Center, and Asian Civilization Museum. Recent engagements include Steinway …
Ms. Yang Cheng, serves as the Artist Director of The IPPA Canada Piano Conference & Festival, Co-Director of the Canada Division of the IPPA Conero International Piano Competition, Chair of the Alberta International Young Artist Piano Association, and Founder of Ordersunshine Music and Art Studio. With a wealth of experience encompassing both performance and pedagogy, …
Dr. Ronald Morgan holds a DMA in Piano Performance and Literature, an MM in Piano Performance, and an MA in Musicology, all from the Eastman School of Music. His main piano teachers were Douglas Humpherys (Eastman) and Patricia Parr (University of Toronto). Past performances include numerous solo and collaborative recitals in Canada and the U.S., …