Pianist Susan Tang joined the University of North Dakota faculty in 2008 as Assistant Professor in Piano and Collaborative Piano. Prior to coming to UND, she was teaching and performing in New York City where she enjoyed a successful New York solo piano debut at Carnegie-Weill Hall as a Winner of Artist International Management Special Presentation Winners Series. Reviews by the New York Concert Review, described her playing as having, “well-grounded technique…fluid, elegant readings…highly effective interpretations.” She has also been called a pianist, “with technique to spare coupled with a lively intelligence…her tone is clear and conveyed with nimble agility” by David Gordon Duke, music critic for the Vancouver Sun andafter a recital at the 2008 Ravinia summer festival in collaboration with winner of the 2005 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World soprano, Nicole Cabell, a “fluent pianist” by the Chicago Tribune. She is also the co-editor with Marc Ponthus of Elliot Carter’s Centennial Freschrift published in 2008 as part of the Mannes’ Institute and Festival of Contemporary Performance.
Susan Tang has was won many awards and scholarships to study including being a Lois Roger Scholar, receiving a Teaching Assistantship Scholarship from both Eastman and Manhattan School of Music, Hanson Institute of American Music Commissioning Grant, Arts Leadership Certificate, Ethel Lannin Scholarship, George Eastman Grant, Alice Whitney Scholarship, Charles W. Kennett Scholarship, and Cecile Genhart Scholarship Award. She won first prize in the Eastman concerto competition and performed with the Eastman Symphony Orchestra along with receiving the coveted Performer’s Certificate, a special award for excellence in performance. She was a top prizewinner at the Canadian Federation of Music Teacher's Association National Piano Competition in Montreal and received the special jury prize at the Thousand Island International Piano Competition. She has been featured live on New York City’s classical music station WQXR, performing in the “The Gardens of Spain” special hosted by David Dubal and has been invited to perform and study at the Banff International Keyboard Festival, Van Cliburn Piano Institute, PianoSummer at the State University of NY in New Paltz and the Leipzig Summer Academy of Music. She has also performed in Mabou Mine's Dollhouse, a theater company based in New York City as a pianist/actor in many of their shows. Performances as soloist and collaborative pianist have taken her throughout Canada, United States, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Korea and Colombia.
Susan Tang completed her Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music and received her Master and Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance degrees at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She has studied with Nina Svetlanova, Kenneth Cooper and Anthony De Mare and her mentor, the renown and celebrated teacher/performer Nelita True.
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