Ya Liang Chang, D.M.A./NCTM, is an active pedagogue, adjudicator, and concert pianist. Dr. Chang has received invitations from and presented pedagogical sessions and lecture-recitals at both national and international conferences that include various Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) State Conferences, University Pedagogy Symposiums, Music Teachers' Association of California (MTAC) Branches Programs, and Convention, as well as International Society for Music Education 31st World Conference.
As an avid pedagogue, Dr. Chang teaches pedagogy seminars regularly for teachers’ organizations that include a three-year piano pedagogy program for the MTAC Santa Clara Branch starting in 2019. She has contributed pedagogy ideas and presented for California State University East Bay Pedagogy Symposium since 2017.
Enjoying the privilege of teaching students at all levels, Dr. Chang has received distinguished teaching awards such as the Northern Kentucky University Faculty Special Recognition and RCM Founding Teacher Award, and the Teacher of the Award Winners. Her students have won numerous prizes including the Pelican International Music Competition, US Open Music Competition, the RCM Certificate Program State and Center Certificates of Excellence, the MTNA/CaliforniaAssociation Professional Music Teachers (CAPMT) State Honors Competition, the Bay Area Piano Competition, the OhioMTA State Competition, and the Kentucky Greaves Governor’s School for the Arts Scholarship.
Dr. Chang is frequently invited to adjudicate at various competitions that included the OMTA/Graves collegiate piano competition, Miami University Music Department concerto competition, Tr-Stae Piano Concerto competition, and OMTA/SW Buckeye pre-college piano competition, as well as MTNA, affiliated States Collegiate and pre-college competitions, piano auditions, and students evaluations.
As a concert pianist, Dr. Chang has a passion for playing chamber music and is equally at home in solo recitals. She has performed in a variety of ensemble settings that included piano duo, duet, trio, quartet, and quintet with string, woodwind, and singers. The Chang-Park piano duo (with Dr. Min-sun Park) has performed and recorded duet music that included French duet music of Ravel, Saint-Saen, and Poulenc and duet teaching repertoires composed after 1980.
Dr. Chang specializes in 20th-century piano repertoires, particularly with Bela Bartok’s compositions. She was the winner and recipient of the IBLA International Piano Competition in Italy and the Bayreuth Summer Festival in Germany. Her solo concert appearances included International Bartók-Prokofiev-Kabalevsky Competition and Festival in Italy, Steinway & Sons Premier Piano Artist Concert Series, and OMTA/SW District Fall Conference Concert.
Dr. Chang currently serves as the President of the MTAC Santa Clara Branch and teaches piano pedagogy seminars for the branch and music teacher organizations. She has a private studio that fosters students in competitions and curriculum exams as well as piano pedagogy classes for piano teachers. She has taught on the piano faculty at Cal State University East Bay and Northern Kentucky University School of the Arts Music Program where she specialized in applied piano, class piano, keyboard literature, and piano pedagogy. Additionally, Dr, Chang served as a chamber music chairperson and piano faculty at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department
Dr. Chang is frequently invited to adjudicate at various competitions that included the OMTA/Graves collegiate piano competition, Miami University Music Department concerto competition, Tr-Stae Piano Concerto competition, and OMTA/SW Buckeye pre-college piano competition, as well as MTNA, affiliated States Collegiate and pre-college competitions, piano auditions, and students evaluations.
As a concert pianist, Dr. Chang has a passion for playing chamber music and is equally at home in solo recitals. She has performed in a variety of ensemble settings that included piano duo, duet, trio, quartet, and quintet with string, woodwind, and singers. The Chang-Park piano duo (with Dr. Min-sun Park) has performed and recorded duet music that included French duet music of Ravel, Saint-Saen, and Poulenc and duet teaching repertoires composed after 1980.
Dr. Chang specializes in 20th-century piano repertoires, particularly with Bela Bartok’s compositions. She was the winner and recipient of the IBLA International Piano Competition in Italy and the Bayreuth Summer Festival in Germany. Her solo concert appearances included International Bartók-Prokofiev-Kabalevsky Competition and Festival in Italy, Steinway & Sons Premier Piano Artist Concert Series, and OMTA/SW District Fall Conference Concert.
Dr. Chang currently serves as the President of the MTAC Santa Clara Branch and teaches piano pedagogy seminars for the branch and music teacher organizations. She has a private studio that fosters students in competitions and curriculum exams as well as piano pedagogy classes for piano teachers. She has taught on the piano faculty at Cal State University East Bay and Northern Kentucky University School of the Arts Music Program where she specialized in applied piano, class piano, keyboard literature, and piano pedagogy. Additionally, Dr, Chang served as a chamber music chairperson and piano faculty at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department
Dr. Chang holds a D.M.A. degree in Piano Performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and an M.M. degree in Piano Performance from the Boston Conservatory. She has received conservatory training and studied piano from master teachers of both German and Russian schools. Her teachers include Elizabeth and Eugene Pridonoff, whose teacher was Rudolf Serkin; and Sergei Polusmiak, whose teacher was Regina Horowitz.
