Ting-Ting Yang

Ting-Ting Yang is a collaborative pianist and multi-genre composer whose musical journey began at a young age in Taiwan. Yang crafts her career both as a collaborative pianist and composer. Often being forgotten as a composer, Yang collaborated with a vast majority of orchestral musicians in Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand and the United States. After being invited on multiple occasions globally to be a recital pianist, Yang decided to pursue a master’s degree in collaborative piano at Rice University’s the Shepherd School of Music to study with Ms. Virginia Weckstrom. Her recent collaborative performances include participation in a commercial recording of chamber opera, Kassandra, by Anthony Brandt (2021) as a pianist; participation in a professional ensemble, Musiqa’s 20th anniversary concert (2022) as a collaborative pianist and beyond. She was appointed piano accompanist at the Preparatory Program at the Shepherd School of Music (2021-2022) and Teaching Assistant in collaborative piano program at Brevard Music Festival (2022).

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As a composer, Yang started learning composition in Taiwan under Professor Ching-Yu Hsiau. She was a graduate with highest distinction from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, YST (Singapore). Yang studied composition under Professor Chee Kong Ho under a full scholarship. During her undergraduate years, her awarding winning orchestral composition, Portal (2019), won the North Carolina NewMusic Initiative (USA) and was fortunate to receive a world premiere by the East Carolina University Orchestra (USA) and an Asian premiere by the YST Conservatory Orchestra (Singapore). Her recent composition output includes commissioned pieces by Asian Cultural Symphony Orchestra (Singapore), premiered pieces include Approaching for Chamber Ensemble (2022) and Stand at the Corner for Orchestra (2021). Her commissioned pieces include an online project during COVID-19 Pandemic with Jon Dante (Principal Trumpet of Singapore Symphony Orchestra). Both performers recorded it while over 2,000 miles apart. The collaboration includes Yang’s arrangement on Laputa: Castle of the Sky for trumpet and piano (2021) and Original Composition, Drift Along for trumpet and piano (2022). She also initiated an online collaboration with pipa player, Li-Teng Huang and violist, Lauren Ross and followed up an online world premiere of her piece, Floating Rhyme for pipa and viola (2021). In 2021, Yang was part of an initiative to introduce electroacoustic music to Rice University students, which led her to co-found H-Tone Electroacoustic Ensemble. Yang is currently an associate instructor at the Jacobs School of Music while pursuing a doctoral degree in collaborative piano under Professor Anne Epperson and Kevin Murphy.