Prizewinner at the Cologne International Piano Competition at age of 18, Ya-Fei Chuang has appeared at festivals including the European Music Festival (Stuttgart), the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Brahms-Tage, the Bach Festival in Leipzig (Germany), The Shannon Festival (Ireland), Oulu (Finland), Ravinia, and the Oregon Bach Festival (USA). She has appeared with the Spectrum Concerts in Berlin, at the Fromm Foundation concerts at Harvard, at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge (USA), and performed in venues such as the Cologne and Berlin Philharmonien, Schauspielhaus Berlin, Gewandhaus Leipzig, and as a duo partner with Kim Kashkashian, and Robert Levin. Ya-Fei Chuang has appeared with the members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic and Boston Symphony Orchestra. Her upcoming solo engagements include concerts with the Handel & Haydn Society in Boston, at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the European Music Festival in Stuttgart, the Piano Festival Ruhr, The Beethoven Festival in Warsaw, in Vienna, Salzburg, Prague, and Ireland, and appearances with Christoph Eschenbach. Ya-Fei Chuang first performed on television in her native Taiwan at the age of eight and gave her first public solo recital at age nine. She moved to Germany at age thirteen to pursue studies at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, where she obtained a graduate degree with honors, followed by a final performance degree from the Musikhochschule Cologne. She subsequently received a Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory, studying with Russell Sherman.