Kai-Ching Chang

Pianist Kai-Ching Chang. Founder of WhenNotesFly… Chamber Music Group. She won Prix de Musique de Chambre from Fontainebleau School in France and performed in château de Fontainebleau. In Nov. 2008, she performed in the NTDTV Piano Competition Finalists Concert in The Town Hall in New York. She was the winner of concerto competition at Longy School of Music, and performed Shostakovich Piano Concerto No.1 with Longy Chamber Orchestra in May, 2008. In March, 2007, she performed as a guest artist in UMass, Dartmouth. As a collaborative pianist, Miss Chang appeared as a performing associate in International Bowdoin Music Festival in summer in 2007. She has collaborated with Roger Tapping, Sergey Antonov, Jayne West, Robert Honeysucker, Carol McGonell and Meighan Stoops. In 2005, she worked as an assistant accompanist in National Symphony Orchestra (Taipei, Taiwan). She has collaborated with composer Paul Brust, Adam Simon and has premiered contemporary works by Joel Schenk, Amit Gilutz, JwaBum Saho Kim, Billy Dougherty. She is the staff accompanist in New England Conservatory and rehearsal pianist in PALS Children’s Chorus in Brookline. She has participated PALS’s collaboration with BSO and Cantata Singers, their performances appeared at Tanglewood, Symphony Hall, Gardner Museum and Jordan Hall. She is also the faculty of New School of Music in Cambridge since 2007.

B.M. at Soochow University in Taipei. M.M. in piano performance and Artist Dilopma in collaborative piano at the Longy School of Music (2008). Her teachers include Peter Serkin, Wayman Chin and Ingrid Tsung; chamber music studied with Roger Tapping.

Reviews:

“…A terrific pianist, Kai-Ching Chang, about whom I cannot rave enough. …as a collaborative pianist she cannot be beat.” – Boston Musical Intellegencer.

“Chang delivered a poetic Beethoven Sonata op. 109, carefully forming every single note as a dynamically refined storyteller.”- Epoch Times.

Esther Ning Yau

Pianist Esther Ning Yau is a native of Hong Kong and an avid chamber musician. She has appeared in solo and chamber recitals at the Museum of Arts in Puerto Rico, Jordan Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Kosciuszko Foundation , the Taipei National concerto Hall and the Hong Kong Government House. As a founding member of the New Piano Quartet, the Innonet Trio and Duo Anime, Ms Yau has performed in the New England area on the Harvard Epworth Church Concert Series, WCRB Live at Copley, First Night Boston, the Newport Symposium Chamber Music Concert and the Bar Harbor Music Festival. Ms Yau has received fellowships from the International Institute of Vocal Arts in Italy, the Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Yellow Barn Music Festival and the UCLA Song Festival. She holds double Master's Degrees in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano from New England Conservatory of Music where she studied with Patricia Zander and Irma Vallecillo. Ms Yau is currently on the piano faculty at the Longy School of Music and the New School of Music. She is staff accompanist at the Boston Conservatory and the Meadowmount School of Music in New York. In the summer, she is on piano faculty at the International Summer Music Academy and Festival in Regensburg, Germany and Cremona, Italy and Longy in the Berkshires, The Art of the Chamber Music Program. Ms Yau is also a member of the New England Conservatory Alumni Council.