Prizewinner at the Cologne International Piano Competition at age 18, Ya-Fei Chuang has appeared at numerous festivals including the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw, the European Music Festival in Stuttgart, the Bach Festival in Leipzig, and in the Schleswig-Holstein, Gilmore, Sarasota, Oregon, and Ravinia festivals, among others. She has appeared as a duo partner with Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin, and with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Chuang’s solo engagements include performances with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Handel & Haydn Society at Boston Symphony Hall, at Ozawa Hall at the Tanglewood Festival, a tour with New York Philomusica, the Piano Festival Ruhr, in duo recitals with cellist Steven Isserlis, and a live CD recording with the Berlin Philharmonie. She has been invited to return to festivals in Sarasota, Oregon, and the European Festival in Stuttgart.

Of her prodigious performing talent, the Harvard Independent said, “The centerpiece and gem of the performance was Ya-Fei Chuang’s interpretation of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Her hands must have been boneless, for they floated over the keys with easy grace, and with power and precision as well. With near faultless execution and an ethereal, lyrical presence, this was everything a Chopin should be. In the Larghetto, she gives every phrase and trill its full time to breathe, without rushing to the dramatic Allegretto Vivace that brings the concerto to its close. The solo passages, when the orchestra falls silent to the piano alone, are outpourings of pure liquid sound, held together by the extravagance of Chopin’s composition and the fluidity of her fingers, as they snatch the notes from the page and give them life in the air.”

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