BBC Magazine Rising Star Stephanie Tang is a Chinese-American pianist with an active concert career in solo and chamber performance in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Europe. She has appeared in major international concert halls such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Sendai Concert Hall (Japan), Alte Oper (Frankfurt), Grafenegg Festival (Austria), TivoliVredenburg (Utrecht), Sony Auditorium (Madrid), Place Flagey (Brussels), Wigmore Hall, King’s Place, Barbican Centre (London), Banff Centre, and Koerner Hall (Toronto).

An avid chamber musician, Stephanie has performed alongside and collaborated with Marc Danel, Alisa Weilerstein, Stefan Jackiw, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Nicholas Daniel, Michael Collins, John Adams, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. She has had the privilege of working closely with mentors such as Alfred Brendel, Eberhard Feltz, Steven Isserlis, Thomas Adès, Robert Levin, Claudio Martinez-Mehner, Alina Ibragimova, and Günter Pichler. She is the pianist and founding member of the award-winning Paddington Trio, one of the most exciting ensembles of this generation.

Recent concert highlights include performances at Janine Jansen’s International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, Chipping Campden Festival, Oxford Chamber Music Festival, Internacional Festival Cervantino, Four Seasons Chamber Festival, Listen Hear! Series in Sarasota, Florida, Toronto Summer Music, and a concerto debut at the Barbican Centre. This past season, Stephanie performed the rarely-heard Amy Beach Piano Concerto with the Barnet Symphony Orchestra in London, returned to the Kuhmo and West Cork Chamber Festivals, and appeared at the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival and La Jolla SummerFest.

Raised in the Los Angeles area, Stephanie began her formal musical studies at the Shenzhen Arts School under renowned Chinese pedagogue Zhaoyi Dan. She holds degrees from the Colburn Conservatory of Music (B.M.), Glenn Gould School (A.D.), Yale School of Music (M.M.) and Guildhall School of Music & Drama. Her principal teachers have been John Perry, Peter Serkin, Leon Fleisher, and Ronan O’Hora.

Stephanie is passionate about story-telling and making connections through programming. From the standard classical canon to the contemporary and underrepresented, she wishes to unite audiences and communities in a shared collective experience through music.