Acclaimed by critics in the United States and abroad for performances of stunning virtuosity, refinement and communicative power, pianist Ya-Fei Chuang has performed in venues including the Cologne and Berlin Philharmonien, Schauspielhaus Berlin, Gewandhaus Leipzig, National Philharmonic Hall Warsaw, and in Jordan Hall and Symphony Hall in Boston, as a duo partner with Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin, and as a member of the chamber ensemble Mistral.  Ms. Chuang’s mastery of the most challenging solo repertoire is comple­mented by extensive activities as a chamber musician and duo partner, and by her commitment to contemporary music, including world premieres of works by Stanley Walden and Thomas Oboe Lee.

A prizewinner in the Cologne Inter­na­tional Piano Competition at age 18, Ya-Fei Chuang first performed on television in her native Taiwan at the age of eight and gave her first public recital at age nine. She won first prize at the nationally televised ‘Genius vs. Genius’ Competition at age ten and first prize at the National Competition ( Taiwan) at age eleven. The following year she received unprecedented fellowships and scholarships from several prestigious foundations in Germany and Taiwan that enabled her to pursue pre-college, under­graduate, and masters-level studies at the Freiburg Conservatory (Musik­hochschule) with Rosa Sabater and Robert Levin, completing the six-year course of study in four. In 1993 Ya-Fei Chuang moved to the United States, where she earned a graduate diploma at the New England Conservatory in Boston with Russell Sherman. Ya-Fei Chuang is on the faculty of the Preparatory Division and the School of Continuing Education at the New England Conservatory.