Angeline Ma

Philadelphia-based pianist Angeline Ma has been playing since the age of five and currently studies with Dr. James Giles at Northwestern University, where she is a recipient of the Betty van Gorkom Music Scholarship. A 2019 and 2020 YoungArts winner, Angeline has been recognized by competitions including the Steinway Piano Competition, Princeton Festival Piano Competition, Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, CT, Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, and the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Albert M. Greenfield Competition. She is a four-time Chopin Foundation of the United States Scholarship recipient and a two-time recipient of the Vladimir & Haewon Feltsman Piano Foundation scholarship. Most recently, Angeline won 1st Prize in the Young Artist category of the 2023-24 Music Teachers National Association Competition. She was named a 2024 Gilmore Keyboard Festival Fellow and was selected for Piotr Anderszewski’s session. Angeline was the 1st prize winner of the Musicians Club of Women’s 2024 Nerenberg Award.

In February 2023, Angeline performed at the Ritz-Carlton in San Francisco for a “Meet the President” event for Northwestern University’s President Michael Schill. In 2018, she performed with the Ambler Symphony Orchestra as a Menges Scholarship recipient. As a 2018 medalist in the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, Angeline performed at the Polish Embassy in Washington, D.C., as well as the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City. Angeline has been featured on NPR's “From the Top”, WUSF 89.7, and on WWFM's “Kids on Keys” and WRTI 90.1 as the 1st prize winner in the 2019 Steinway Junior Piano Competition. Angeline has attended programs including PianoFest in the Hamptons, Frost Chopin Academy at the University of Miami, Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, and PianoTexas International Academy. She has taken masterclasses with Maria João Pires, Andre Laplante, Douglas Humphreys, Kevin Kenner, Vladimir Feltsman, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, Tamas Ungar, Jerome Lowenthal, Ewa Pobłocka, Victor Rosenbaum, Alexander Korsantia, Piotr Paleczny, and Dang Thai Son. Angeline was featured in Adolescents in Music, a book written by Dr. Elizabeth Cassidy Parker, an Associate Professor of Music Education at Temple University. 

Angeline is from Berwyn, Pennsylvania. She attended Conestoga High School and was a two-time recipient of her school's Leadership and Service Award. She frequently volunteers at local venues and teaches piano to young children at her local community center. In her free time, Angeline enjoys creative writing, films, and reading, as well as harpsichord, which she studies with Dr. Stephen Alltop at Northwestern University. Angeline credits the pianists Grigory Sokolov and Kate Liu, her greatest musical idols, for inspiring her initial love of music.