Grace Chung

“Chung’s shaping of melody through dynamics, color, and rhythmic freedom...was always sensitive and sometimes even sublime.”
— Boston Globe (Richard Dyer)

Grace Chung is a Taiwanese pianist whose playing has been praised for its sensitivity, tonal imagination, and poetic shaping of musical line. A First Prize winner of the International Chinese Chopin Piano Competition, Chung began her musical studies in the United States after winning Taiwan’s National Piano Competition and made her solo debut with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of sixteen. She graduated from Walnut Hill School for the Arts and the Curtis Institute of Music, earned both her Master of Music in Piano Performance and Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, and completed her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Rutgers University. During her studies in the United States, she worked closely with Wha Kyung Byun, Seymour Lipkin, Jerome Lowenthal, and Susan Starr.

Chung has appeared internationally at major venues including Jordan Hall in Boston, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, and has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Italy, Japan, China, and Malaysia. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. Her performances are distinguished by a refined sense of color, a natural rhythmic flexibility, and a deep responsiveness to musical structure.

In addition to her solo career, Chung is deeply engaged in international music festival teaching and artistic exchange. In recent years she has been invited to teach, perform, and coach chamber music at the InterHarmony International Music Festival, Todi International Music Academy, and MusicFest Perugia in Italy; the Valencia International Performing Arts Summer Festival in Spain; the Ameri-China International Piano Festival in New York; and the International Maestro Piano Festival in Taiwan. In 2025, she served on the jury of the Santa Cecilia International Piano Competition in Porto, Portugal.

Chung is currently Professor of Piano at Tainan National University of the Arts and also teaches at the Affiliated High School of National Taiwan Normal University. She is deeply committed to music education and the cultivation of young musicians, and her students are active on concert stages both in Taiwan and abroad.