Grace Liu is a Taiwanese-American pianist and educator who performs as both a soloist and collaborative pianist throughout the United States and Taiwan. Praised for her “finesse and sensitivity” by the Orange County Register, she is the recipient of the Pauline Favin Memorial Award in Piano and the Clara Ascherfeld Accompanying Award from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Liu serves on the faculties of Loyola University Maryland, Peabody Preparatory, and Levine Music, and maintains a private piano studio. Her students have received top awards in regional and national piano competitions, and she is regularly invited to adjudicate piano competitions and festivals.

She holds Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Institute and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of California, Irvine. 

Praised by Marin Alsop as an “amazing young pianist,” Chengcheng Yao is rapidly emerging as one of the most creative and expressive artists of her generation. She has appeared as soloist with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, the Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra, the Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Hebei Symphony Orchestra. Her engagements have taken her to leading venues including New York City’s Alice Tully Hall, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts, and the University of Toronto. A dedicated chamber musician and educator, Yao teaches at the Washington Conservatory of Music and coaches chamber music at Johns Hopkins University. She holds degrees from the China Conservatory of Music, The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, and the Peabody Institute.

Yejin Lee is an active soloist and chamber musician based in the United States. She has been invited to perform in many prestigious venues, including her solo debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York, the Cultural Art Center in Jaen, Spain, the Tyler Recital Hall in Florida, and the Seoul Arts Center in Seoul, Korea. Her performances have also been featured and broadcast live on WCLV 104.9 FM from the Cleveland Play House. She has appeared as a soloist with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Chamber Orchestra and the Accord Symphony Orchestra.

Yejin has claimed awards at prestigious competitions, including the Dallas International Piano Competition, Kingsville International Piano Competition, and Wideman International Piano Competition. She has also performed at leading music festivals and masterclasses at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, the Banff Music Festival, the Gijon Music Festival in Spain, and PianoTexas International Academy & Festival. She has shared musical inspiration with some of the great pedagogues and pianists of this century, including Richard Goode, Dmitry Bashkirov, Stephen Hough, John O’Conor, John Perry, and Karl-Heinz Kämmerling.

Yejin graduated with honors from the Oberlin Conservatory, earning degrees in both piano performance and vocal accompanying under Haewon Song and Philip Highfill. She later completed her master’s and doctorate degrees under Boris Slutsky at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. Shecontinues to receive invaluable mentorship from Lambert Orkis, further cultivating her artistry.

She currently serves as a piano faculty member at the Washington Conservatory of Music and as a professorial lecturer at George Washington University. As a staff pianist at Shenandoah University, she actively collaborates with students in both solo and ensemble performances. In addition to her academic roles, Yejin maintains a private teaching studio and is dedicated to music education as a member of MTNA and NVMTA.

As the founder and artistic director of Matinee-M, a house concert series in McLean, VA, she is also committed to bringing classical music into the community through intimate and engaging performances.

Min Young Park has garnered international recognition for her artistry. She won First Prize at both the

Chopin National Competition in Korea and the Asia Chopin International Competition in Japan. Following

her First Prize at the Harrison L. Winter Concerto Competition, she made her Baltimore debut with the

Peabody Symphony Orchestra under Leon Fleisher. In Korea, she has performed with the Prime

Philharmonic and the SNU Symphony Orchestra. Her performances have taken her to leading venues

worldwide, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Kumho Art Hall and the Seoul Arts Center in

Korea, Salle Marius Ecole in France, and the Royal Irish Academy of Music.

As an avid chamber musician, Min Young joined the Piatigorsky Foundation National Tour as guest pianist

with Foundation artist Qing Li, Principal Second of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and a violin

professor at the Peabody Conservatory. She has also been invited to festivals such as Music@Menlo,

Taos, Bowdoin (as a Kaplan Fellow), and Aigues-Vives en Musiques in France, collaborating with artists

including Gilbert Kalish, Wu Han, David Finckel, Robert McDonald, Judith Ingolfsson, and the Brentano,

Borromeo, Miro, and Ying String Quartets.

Min Young graduated summa cum laude from Seoul National University under Ick-Choo Moon. She

earned her master’s degree at The Juilliard School under Choong-Mo Kang and her doctorate at the

Peabody Conservatory, studying with Yong Hi Moon. As a devoted educator, she has served on the

faculty of summer festivals including Piano at Peabody and as Director of the Young Artist Program at the

Leon Fleisher Academy. She is currently a faculty member in the Keyboard Studies Department at the

Peabody Conservatory, and at Peabody Preparatory she serves as a piano faculty member and lecturer

for musicianship group classes.

Hailed by Daily Press, " Poetic, fluid keyboard mastery..", Ching-Yi Lin’s career has expanded rapidly with invitations to concert venues such as the Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center, Van Cliburn Concert Hall in Texas, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Originally from Taiwan, a dedicated educator, Lin has presented masterclasses and recitals at the Christopher Newport University, College of Southern Maryland, Ocean County College, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Virginia Tech. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Peabody Institute under the tutelage of Alexander Shtarkman. As the artistic director of Sunday at 2, Concerts at Chevy Chase, he has shared stages with musicians from Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, and Philadelphia Orchestra. He joined the faculty at Levine in 2022 and Montgomery College in 2025