Speaker Biographies

Jenny Tang

JENNY TANG, pianist, regularly performs in solo and chamber music recitals throughout the US. Her engagements include such venues as Jordan Hall, Sanders Theatre, Symphony Hall, Berklee College of Music, Wellesley College and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

Jenny was born in Hong Kong and began her musical studies at three with her mother, Chow Lai-Hah. At age fourteen she was awarded the Licentiate Diploma from the Royal Schools of Music (UK)in piano performance and the following year was honored as a Fellow of the Trinity College of MusIc in London. Jenny received her Master of Music degree with academic honors and distinction in piano performance from the New England Conservatory of Music under the guidance of Veronica Jochum, studied conducting with Tamara Brooks and Frank Battisti, chamber music with Leonard Shure and Bernard Greenhouse, and jazz improvisation with Charlie Banacos. She was a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate in piano performance with Randall Hodgkinson at the New England Conservatory.

Jenny is a Senior Music Performance Faculty at Wellesley College teaching music theory and piano performance, and is the Co-Director of the Wellesley College Chamber Music Society. She frequently collaborates with the Theatre Department at the college as music director; productions have included The Unsinkable Molly Brown, an original musical The Home Front, and Working. She is also on the faculty at Indian Hili Music In Littleton. (Monday, February 25, 2019: “A Coincidence of Chaos and Order: Works of Ligeti, Barbar and Schumann”)

Norman Krieger

A native of los Angeles, NORMAN KRIEGER is one of the most acclaimed pianists of his generation and Is highly regarded as an artist of depth, sensitivity and virtuosic flair. As the los Angeles Times put it, “Krieger owns a world of technique-take that for granted. He always knows exactly where he is going and what he is doing. He never for Instant miscalculates. He communicates urgently but with strict control. He is alert to every manner of nuance and at every dynamic level his tone flatters the ear,”

Myung-Whun Chung, Donald Runnicles, leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, Jaap van Zweden and Zubin Mehta are just a few of the conductors with whom Krieger has collaborated. Krieger regularly appears with the major orchestras of North America, among them the New York Philharmonic, los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and the National Symphony. He has performed throughout Europe, Asia and South America including tours of Germany, France, Poland, Holland Scandinavia, Korea, China, New Zealand and Israel. He recently performed at the PyeongChang Music festival In Korea. In September 2014, he recorded the Brahms Sonata Op. 1 and the Piano Concerto No.2 with the london Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Philip Ryan Mann, which will be released on Decca. In recital, Krieger has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico and ASia, while chamber music collaborations have included appearances with soprano Sheri Greenawald, violinists Paul Huang, Sarah Chang, Pamela Frank and Mihaela Martin, violist Nobuko Imai, cellists Myung Wha Chung, Jian Wang, Edward Aaron and Frans Helmersen as well as the Tokyo string quartet. His debut at New York City’s prestigious Carnegie Hall and Mostly Mozart Festival earned him an immediate invitation to Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series. Krieger made headlines by being named the Gold Medal Winner of ‘the first Palm Beach Invitational Piano Competition.

He began his studies in los Angeles under the tutelage of Esther Upton. At age 15, he became a full-scholarship student of Adele Marcus at The Juilliard School where he earned both his Bachelor and Master degrees. Subsequently, he studied with Alfred Brendel and Marla Curcio in london and earned an Ailist Diploma from the New England Conservatory, where he worked with Russell Sherman.

A champion of contemporary music, he features the music of John Adams, leonard Bernstein, John Corigliano, Daniel Brewbaker, Donald Crockett, Judith SI. Croix, Lukas Foss, Henri lazarot and Lowell Liebermann among his active repertoire.

Krieger is the founding artistic director of The Prince Albert Music Festival In HawaiI. Since 2008, he has served on the summer faculty at the Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina. From 1997 to 2016 he was a professor at the Thornton School of Music at.the University of Southern California. In August 2016 he was appointed Professor of Piano at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. (Monday, March 25, 2019: “Leonard Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety and Beyond”)