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Pianist Amy I-Lin Cheng has won many competitions including the prestigious 2000 Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition. As the winner of the Rising Young Artists Series in Taipei, Ms. Cheng gave her Taipei debut recital in August 1999 in the National Recital Hall and toured Taiwan. In the same year, Ms. Cheng was invited by the Formosa Chamber Music Society to perform a solo recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Reviewing that concert, the New York Concert Review stated, "Her control of the keyboard is complete, technique easy and relaxed, with a wide range of touch, color and dynamics." She gave her New York debut recital at Merkin Concert Hall in 1998 under the auspices of the Guild of Composers in New York. She played the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich with the ‘Musica Viva’ Moscow Chamber Orchestra during their 1996 tour of Taiwan. She was the winner of the 1991 ACAS (American Chinese Art Society) solo piano competition. As the winner of the concerto competition at New England Conservatory, she made her Boston solo debut at the age of 17 performing the Liszt Concerto No. 2 in A Major at Jordan Hall.
An active chamber musician, Ms. Cheng has appeared in concerts at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Jordan Hall, Tsai Performance Center, Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall and was invited to participate in the gala concert to celebrate the centenary of Jordan Hall. As a member of the Guild of Composers Chamber Ensemble Ms. Cheng performed Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schönberg, in a concert tribute to soprano Bethany Beardslee.
She has appeared at music festivals such as the Taos School of Music, the Third Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. As a founding member of the Goffriller Trio, she participated in The Third Jerusalem International Chamber Music Encounters directed by Isaac Stern, and the 1999 La Jolla SummerFest.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Yale School of Music, Ms. Cheng has been performing since the age of six. She came to the United States in 1989 at the age of 15 to study at the New England Conservatory and the Walnut Hill School.
Ms. Cheng studied with Claude Frank both at Curtis and at Yale. She is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts where she is a student of Ms. Wha-Kyung Byun. She was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Piano at Oklahoma State University.