Praised for her brilliant technique, tonal beauty, and superb musicianship, Canadian pianist Angela Cheng is one of her country’s national treasures. In addition to regular appearances with every major orchestra in Canada, she has performed with the American symphonies of Buffalo, Colorado, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Louisiana, Rhode Island, San Diego, Saint Louis, and Utah, as well as internationally with London, Israel, and Brazil’s Minas Gerais.
Highlights of the 2025/2026 season include appearances with the Akron Symphony, the Victoria Symphony, the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, the Regina Symphony, and the Richmond Symphony, as well as Vancouver’s ArtSpring and Vetta Chamber Music, the Edmonton Recital Society, and many others.
Angela Cheng has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, 92nd Street Y, and Wigmore Hall. She has also appeared at the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Mariinsky Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, and the Sydney Opera House. Festival appearances include Verbier, Edinburgh, Miyazaki, Stars of the White Nights in St. Petersburg, and the George Enescu Festival in Romania.
Ms. Cheng regularly appears in recitals throughout the United States and Canada. North American festival performances include Banff, Chautauqua, Colorado, Great Lakes Chamber Music, Vancouver, Toronto, and Quebec’s Festival International de Lanaudière. An active chamber musician, she was a member of the Zukerman Trio and Chamber Players for nearly a decade, performing with the ensembles and as Pinchas Zukerman’s collaborative pianist in many national and international tours. She continues to perform with her husband, pianist Alvin Chow, and with numerous ensembles and chamber societies, including the Takács, Colorado, and Vogler quartets.
Ms. Cheng teaches masterclasses at North American and Asian institutions, including Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music, Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, Taiwan’s Taichung University, Indiana University, the University of Michigan, Music Institute of Chicago, and the University of Texas, to name a few. She has served on the jury of many competitions, including the Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition, Dallas International Piano Competition, Esther Honens International Piano Competition, Montreal International Piano Competition, and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, among others.
Angela Cheng was the first Canadian to win the prestigious Montreal International Piano Competition. Other awards include third prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition, the Canada Council’s coveted Career Development Grant, and the Medal of Excellence for outstanding interpretations of Mozart from the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
A native of Hong Kong, Ms. Cheng studied extensively with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University as well as Sascha Gorodnitzki at The Juilliard School. She is currently on the artist faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she was honored with the 2011-12 Excellence in Teaching Award.
“Cheng unspooled songlike melodies with melting lyricism, flew through rhapsodic flourishes with sparkling clarity, and unleashed fiery sounds when needed. In playful passages, she relished off-beat accents and ‘wrong’ notes. She also paid close attention to the orchestra, which skillfully complemented her style [Rachmaninoff, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini].” – THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
