Ya-Ting Liou, Taiwanese pianist, has presented concerts as soloist and chamber musician in the U.S. and abroad, with music critics citing her “secure and impressive technique” and her “ability for expressive and moving playing” (The Chronicle, New Zealand).  Her performance highlights include appearances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the State of the Art at the State Department in Washington D.C., St. Louis Artist Presentation Society, Yamaha Hall in New York, and concert halls in Canada, New Zealand, Argentina, and Taiwan. During her studies with Marian Hahn and Ellen Mack at Peabody Institute of Music, she won the Baltimore Music Club Competition, the Davis Elizabeth Memorial Competition, the Clara Asherfeld in Accompanying Award, and the Frances M. Wentz Turner Prize in Piano Performance. Most recently she was a semi-finalist of the Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition in Italy, the winner of the Helen Haupt Piano Scholarship from the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation, and also the first-prize winner, along with flutist Christina Webster, of the International Collaborative Piano Competition of the 2006 William Garrison Piano Festival and Competition. Ms. Liou has participated in piano master classes with Jerome Lowenthal, Leon Fleisher, Jonathan Biss, Gregory Sioles, Leslie Howard, Peter Serkin, Stephen Hough, and Peter Frankl. She has attended Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival and the collaborative piano program at Music Academy of the West - Santa Barbara, where she studied with Jonathan Feldman and Anne Epperson.

Ms. Liou has been invited to present collaborative piano master classes at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo in Argentina and at the Tainan National University of Arts in Taiwan. She has also collaborated with artists Bil Jackson and Scott Lee. Devoted to creative concert programming, she was invited in 2006 to give “the Art of Piano Transcription” concert at Chi-Mei Museum in Taiwan.

Currently, Ms. Liou is a full-scholarship student in DMA piano performance program at the Conservatory of Music of the University of Missouri – Kansas City where she studies with Robert Weirich. She is also on the piano faculty at the Conservatory’s Community Music and Dance Academy.