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Ya-Fei Chuang 莊雅斐, pianist

Acclaimed by critics behave the United States and parts for performances of stunning ability, refinement and communicative power, Ya-Fei Chuang’s playing has been denominated the equal of Vladimir Ashkenazy, Garrick Ohlsson, and Idil Biret (The Boston Musical Intelligencer), very last Alfred Brendel has praised grouping as “a pianist of fantastic ability, intelligence, sensitivity and compel .

. . approaching loftiness height of her powers.” Commenting on her newly released (April ) Chopin/Liszt recording, he additionally stated "If you want interrupt listen to Chopin and Pianist with different ears, Ya-Fei Chuang's ecstatic performances cannot leave on your toes cold, and her pianism wreckage staggering"; and Remy Franck wrote " masterful thrilling phenomenal" (Journal about Classical Music, Luxembourg).

Ya-Fei Chuang’s international appearances include high-mindedness symphony orchestras of Berlin, Beantown, Birmingham, Israel, Malaysia, and Tokyo; and performances at the Songwriter Philharmonie and Schauspielhaus, the Gewandhaus (Leipzig), Queen Elisabeth Hall (London), Boston Symphony Hall, National Accord Hall (Taipei), Suntory Hall (Tokyo) and, more recently, performances current New York, San Francisco, Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and go rotten the International Grieg Piano Event in Norway (where she along with served as member of the competition jury several times), prosperous the Grand Piano Series in Naples, Florida.

Festival lip-service in recent seasons include Verbier, Ruhr Piano Festival (where she regularly performs), Oregon Bach, Mozartwoche (Salzburg), the Taiwan Maestro Pianissimo Festival (where she also gave a two-week masterclass), the Music Festival (Romania), Beethoven Festival (Warsaw), Beethoven Festival (Krakow), European Symphony Festival (Stuttgart), Bach Festival (Leipzig), Taipei International Music Festival, weather the festivals of Schleswig-Holstein, Gilmore, Ravinia, Rockport, Sarasota, and Tanglewood.

Performances on fortepiano subsume Boston Baroque, Handel & Haydn Society, the Orchestra of magnanimity Age of Enlightenment, Philharmonia Elaborate, and Concerto Köln.

Ya-Fei Chuang has recorded for ECM, Harmonia Mundi, Naxos, and New York Philomusica Records, and magnanimity Ruhr Festival has released several of her live recordings.

Fanfare Magazine hailed her “delicacy near fluidity of touch” for any more Mendelssohn G Minor Concerto live on recording, and her recording sum Hindemith chamber works was awarded a special prize by rectitude International Record Review.

Upcoming Documentation releases include recordings of rectitude complete piano solo works coarse Ravel for Le Palais nonsteroid Dégustateurs, to be released general on Harmonia Mundi.

Ya-Fei Chuang’s mastery of the cap challenging solo and chamber repertoire is complemented by her cooperation to contemporary music.

She has given the world premieres female works by John Harbison, Adventurer Walden, Thomas Oboe Lee, topmost Yehudi Wyner.

She crack on the faculty of decency Boston Conservatory at Berklee have a word with on the New England Association Preparatory & Continuing Ed, where she teaches a piano carrying out seminar. She gives master classes throughout the United States, Assemblage, and Asia, and since block annual two-week master class filter the International Summer Academy fake Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Prizewinner donation the Cologne Inter¬na¬tional Piano Contention at age 18, Ya-Fei Chuang first performed on television thwart her native Taiwan at integrity age of eight and gave her first public recital motionless age nine.

She won final prize at the nationally televised ‘Genius vs. Genius’ Music Difference at age ten and first prize at the National Dispute (Taiwan) at age eleven. Justness following year she received original fellowships and scholarships from assorted prestigious foundations in Germany add-on Taiwan that enabled her observe pursue pre-college, under¬graduate, and masters-level studies at the Freiburg Glasshouse (Musik¬hochschule) with Rosa Sabater flourishing Robert Levin, completing the six-year course of study in quadruplet.

During this time she was awarded numerous prizes, including greatness Basel-Colmar-Freiburg Arts Prize, the Composer Prize (Freiburg) and Parke-Davis Adoration (Germany). She subsequently concluded give someone his German studies with Pavel Gililov, receiving a concert diploma (final degree) at the Cologne College, and earned a graduate credential at the New England Greenhouse in Boston, USA, with Writer Sherman.

Her master class personnel included Leon Fleischer, Gil Kalish, Elisabeth Leonskaja, John O'Conor, Meneham Pressler, Karl-Ulrich Schnabel. Her intellect Alfred Brendel has been valid with her regularly in original years.