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Stephanie Cheng
CLASSICAL SERIES: MR. & MRS. SCHUMANN
PIANO
Taiwanese-American pianist Stephanie Shih-yu
Cheng has performed at major music centers
across the world to critical acclaim, including
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York,
Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago,
Opera City Hall of Tokyo, National Gallery of
Art in Washington D.C., and National Concert
Hall of Taipei. She frequently appears in
recitals with pianist Sara Davis Buechner, has
collaborated with conductor Leon Fleisher,
and has been featured on National Public
Radio, WFMT in Chicago, Chicago Loop Cable
Channel 25, Radio Video Mediterraneo in
Italy, Living & Travel Section of msnbc.com,
and Nippon Television in Japan. Her latest
collaborative CD, titled License to Thrill, was
released on the Summit label.
Dr. Cheng studied under Gilbert Kalish at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook, where she earned her Doctor of Musical Arts. Before
that, she studied under Ann Schein and was a teaching assistant for Early
Carlyss at the Peabody Conservatory. She was awarded the Rose Marie
Milholland Award in Piano at Peabody and has distinguished herself
in several international competitions. She was the recipient of Prix-Ville
de Fontainebleau in France, personally presented to her by Philippe
Entremont.
Much sought-after for master classes and as an adjudicator, Dr. Cheng
has mentored many award-winning students in competition such as the
Young Artists Piano Showcase, the American Fine Arts Festival, and the
Golden Era of Romantic Music International Competition. Her students
have consequently been featured in the winner’s concerts at Weill Recital
Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Dr. Cheng served on the faculties of the City University of New York and the
Manhattan School of Music Precollege before moving to Kuwait in 2012 to
join the newly-established Department of Music at the American University
of Kuwait. In Kuwait, she became the first person there to conduct a Piano
Concerto from the piano, and she quickly gained renown throughout the
Middle East. In 2015, Stephanie returned to the U.S. to join the faculty at
the Lamont School of Music of the University of Denver as a Teaching
Assistant Professor and serves as Chair of the Keyboard Department. She
was invited for membership in the Pi Kappa Lambda national music honor
society and serves on the Board of Directors for The Allied Arts, Inc., a
non-profit grant program that supports young artists.
Stephanie Cheng is a Steinway Artist.
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