BBC Music Magazine Rising Star Stephanie Tang is a Chinese-American pianist establishing an active career in solo and chamber performance in the U.S., Canada, U.K. and Europe. Her early career highlights include her solo debut in Carnegie Hall at age 12 and at sixteen, her orchestral solo debut with the West Covina Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared in major concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Alte Oper, TivoliVredenburg, Shenzhen Concert Hall, Sendai Concert Hall, Place Flagey, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre, Banff Centre, and Koerner Hall.
Stephanie is the winner of the Guildhall Gold Medal, the school’s most prestigious music prize previously won by artists such as Jacqueline du Pre, Tasmin Little & Bryn Terfel. She has also won 1st prize at the Young Pianists’ Beethoven Competition, 2nd prize at the Louisiana International Piano Competition, and the Jury’s Discretionary Prize at the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Bronislaw Kaper Awards. In 2021, she was a semi-finalist in the Montreal International Piano Competition and performed at Place Flagey in Brussels at the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition.
Recent concert highlights include performances at Janine Jansen’s International Chamber Music Festival Utrecht, Grafenegg, Trame Sonore, Chipping Campden, Oxford Chamber Music, Internacional Cervantino festivals, and a concerto debut at the Barbican Centre. This summer, 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.
“Sublime lyricism […] Tang played with pools of enigmatic colour”
— Richard Amey, SussexWorld
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 Menahem Pressler, Leon Fleisher, Dang Thai Son, Günter Pichler, Alfred Brendel, Eberhard Feltz, Steven Isserlis, Thomas Adès, Claudio Martinez-Mehner, and Alina Ibragimova. She is a founding member of the London-based Paddington Trio, one of the most sought-after chamber music ensembles of their generation, holding first prizes in the Storioni Concours, Triomphe de l’Art, Parkhouse Award, and Royal Over-Seas League competitions.
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, David Louie, Peter Serkin, Boris Slutsky, and Ronan O’Hora. She is currently on the faculty of the Royal Northern College of Music in the chamber music department.
Stephanie is passionate about story-telling and making meaningful 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.