Internationally acclaimed pianist, Fenia I-Fen Chang, is currently on the piano faculty at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Dr. Chang started her career by winning the first Taipei Kawai International piano competition at age 11, two years after her formal piano lessons, and made her solo debut immediately after on TV and Radio Broadcasting. She holds both her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees in Piano Performance from The Juilliard School, and Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at University of Maryland where she had studied with Abbey Simon, Russell Sherman, Jerome Lowenthal, Thomas Schumacher and Santiago Rodriquez.
Since the mid-1980s, she has maintained a successful concert career and has been a collaborative pianist in chamber music and accompanying in much of Asia, Europe and North America as well as throughout her native Taiwan. Her concert engagements have included recitals at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, the Beijing Concert Hall, Shanghai Music Conservatory in China, Taiwan’s National Concert/Recital Hall, New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Modern Arts Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Arts in NY, the Arts Clubs of Washington, DC, Strathmore Hall in Rockville of MD, Ellipse Arts Center of Virginia, Fairfax County Council of the Arts as well as appearances in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, California.
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