William Chiang

William Chiang, a resident of Plano, Texas, completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he studied under the tutelage of Evelyne Brancart and André Watts and was an Associate Instructor in Piano. He began studying piano at age 4 with Olga Radosavljevich at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Further studies were with Pamela Paul at the University of North Texas. William has performed with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Plano Symphony Orchestra (Texas), and Lewisville Lake Symphony (Texas). He has received top prizes from the International Chopin Young Artist Competition (Houston), Vernell Gregg Young Artist Competition, Collin County Young Artist Competition, and CAPMT Concerto Competition, as well as awards from the International Keyboard Odyssiad, Knabe International Piano Competition, Blount-Slawson Competition, and Hellam Young Artist Competition, among others. He is a recipient of the Texas Commission on the Arts’s Young Masters in the Arts Scholarship. Summer festival appearances include the Chautauqua Institution, Orford Music Academy, Texas State International Piano Festival, Art of the Piano Festival, and Brevard Summer Festival. William is now pursuing a DMA degree in piano performance with Bernadene Blaha at the University of Southern California, where he is a Teaching Assistant in Keyboard Studies.