FENIA CHANG - Pianist Dr. Fenia Chang, a Steinway Artist, has maintained a busy concert career in both solo and collaborative performances in Asia, Europe and the United States. She has performed extensively at different venues including Avery Fisher Hall, and Alice Tully at Lincoln Center, Carnegie’s Weil Recital Hall, the Museum of Modern Arts in New York, the Terrace Theater at Kennedy Center, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, the Strathmore Hall, Fairfax Auditorium, the Ellipse Arts Center,, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, and the Concert Hall in Beijing and Shanghai, China. Her solo debut recital at Weill Recital Hall in New York was highly praised that the critics called her an “out of this world pianist”. A winner of several major international competitions, Dr. Chang is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the top prizes at the Elizabeth Davis International Piano Competition, Thomas Richner International competition, Concert Artists Internationals, Young Artist International Piano Competition, and the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition of the United States, as well as the Composer’s Prize from Olivier Messiaen International Piano Competition in Paris, France. As a vivid chamber musician, she frequently collaborates with renowned musicians such as Bion Tsang, Michael Shih, Eugene Osadchy, Karen Basrak, Charles Stegman as well as many concert tours with Taipei Chamber Music Players across Taiwan and China. Dr. Chang received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees from the Juilliard School before she turned 22. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland. Dr. Chang has worked with numerous world renowned pianists such as Leon Fleisher, Misha Dichter, John Perry, Russell Sherman, Jerome Lowenthal, Brian Ganz, Ann Schein, John O’Conor in U.S. and Roger Muraro, Dominique Merlet, David Lively in France. Dr. Chang is the founder and artistic director at Asian American Chamber Music Society founded in 2007. She is also a regular adjudicator for many piano competitions, with recent duties at Collin County Young Artist Concerto Competition in Plano, Denison Performing Arts Piano Competition in Denison, Texas; Hunt County Music Competition in Commerce, Lake Hubbard Chamber Music Competitions in Rockwall, Dallas and Plano Music Teachers Association Trophy Contests, Dallas Music Teachers Association Achievement Audition in Dallas, as well as North Texas Young Artist Competition in Richardson, Texas. Fenia has performed several duo piano concerts with Dr. Young-Hyung Cho from UT Arlington in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. And she will be performing at Carson-Newman University in Tennessee as a guest artist as well as Steinway Hall locations in Dallas area. She is also travelling to China and Taiwan for lectures and master classes this season. Dr. Chang is on the piano faculty at Eastfield College, and is currently the collaborative pianist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She has served as the keyboard coordinator and piano faculty Texas A&M University-Commerce when she first arrived in Texas. Prior to that position, she was on the faculty at National Taiwan University of the Arts, Taipei City University in Taipei, Taiwan and Tung-Hai University in Taichung, Taiwan. Her students have won several prestigious awards in national and local competitions. She maintains a private studio, and resides in Plano with her husband Eugene and two lovely children, Warren and Declan. .