Join us for a master class in piano with renowned piano duo, Angela Cheng & Alvin Chow!
Thursday, June 26, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Kitt Recital Hall

What is a masterclass?
In a piano masterclass a renowned expert performer and a student join each other in front of an audience. The student performs a selected solo piece from memory, and the professional performer listens. Then the master musician gives feedback and advice to the student while the audience observes and learns vicariously. The expert musician may have the student repeat various sections of the music as they work on tone , color, mood, movement or other high level performance skills until that section has gotten even better than it was before. If you play piano, or played in the past, observing a masterclass can be a low key way to revisit that experience and might even encourage you to sit down at the piano again! For current students, involvement in masterclasses is seen as one of the most effective experiences for leveling up into more serious musicianship!
Free and open to the public!

Who are Angela Cheng and Alvin Chow?
Alvin Chow and Angela Cheng are a married piano duo who serve as faculty at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and have appeared throughout North America and Asia separately and together as orchestral soloists and recitalists.
Alvin Chow is a native of Miami, Florida, and graduated summa cum laude and Co-Valedictorian (with his twin brother) at the University of Maryland, where he was a student of Nelita True. Chow received the Victor Herbert Prize in Piano upon graduation from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Sascha Gorodnitzki, and held the Joseph Battista Memorial Scholarship at Indiana University as a student of Menahem Pressler. Chow has won top prizes in numerous competitions such as the National Symphony Young Soloists Competition, Civic Orchestra of Chicago Young Soloists Competition, William Kapell International Piano Competition, and the New York Piano Teachers Congress International Piano Competition. He received Oberlin’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2016.
Canadian pianist Angela Cheng is consistently praised for her brilliant technique, tonal beauty and superb musicianship. She has appeared as soloist with more than 100 orchestras, including the Israel Philharmonic, Boston Pops, Buffalo Philharmonic, and the symphonies of Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, St. Louis, Houston, San Diego, and more. Cheng, who is a native of Hong Kong, studied extensively with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University and with Sascha Gorodnitzki at the Juilliard School. She was the recipient of the 2011-12 Excellence in Teaching Award at Oberlin.

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