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Pianist Pei-Yao Wang has established herself as a prominent soloist and chamber musician. She made her official orchestral debut with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra at age 8 and has since performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. As a chamber musician, Ms. Wang has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Orion, Chicago, Mendelssohn and Miro quartets; and has performed with other distinguished artists such as Claude Frank, Hilary Hahn, David Shifrin, and Mitsuko Uchida. She is also regularly invited to perform at festivals including Marlboro, Caramoor, Norfolk, La Jolla, Ravinia, and Bridgehampton in New York. She has been a member of Chamber Music Society Two at Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artists program.
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Ms. Wang was the youngest pianist ever to receive the overall First Prize in the Taiwan National Piano Competition, at the age of eight. Four years later, she was invited to study at The Curtis Institute of Music, where she worked with Seymour Lipkin and Gary Graffman. She then studied with Claude Frank at Yale University, where she received a Master of Music degree. She currently resides in New York City, where for several years she was under the tutelage of celebrated pianist Richard Goode. |
