Rate My Professor Annie Jeng

Dr. Annie Jeng serves as Associate Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy in the School of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Hailed for her brilliant pianism and acrobatic performances, the Taiwanese-American pianist has performed and taught widely as an educator, soloist, and chamber musician. She approaches music-making and teaching as a tool to discover shared humanity, dismantling traditional expectations of good music through unique programming and interdisciplinary performances. As an advocate for living composers, she has commissioned and premiered dozens of new works and performs with contemporary chamber ensembles including Khemia Ensemble, earspace ensemble, and Sounding Board. Khemia Ensemble released their sophomore album Intersections with PARMA Recordings, featuring new works for the eight-member ensemble. Other projects include the 3-D interactive animation Keys with UNCG Animation Professor Dan Hale and Rachmaninoff from Master Christopher’s Music Desegregation visual album. She has performed at the Brancaleoni International Music Festival in Italy, Gijón International Piano Festival in Spain, Kennedy Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Interlochen Arts Academy, and collaborated with ensembles such as Yarn/Wire, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Roomful of Teeth.

Annie Jeng earned her DMA in Piano Performance and Pedagogy and MM in Piano Performance from the University of Michigan, and her BM in Piano Performance with a minor in Public Health from New York University. Her primary teachers included Logan Skelton, José Ramón Mendez, Miyoko Lotto, Anne-Marie McDermott, and Faye Bonner. Prior to joining UNCG, she held teaching positions at Schoolcraft College Piano Academy, The Faber Institute, and University of South Florida. A Presser scholar and 2018 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship recipient, she founded A Seat at the Piano, a non-profit promoting inclusion in piano repertoire, earning the 2023 MTNA Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award. She contributes regularly to the Teaching Tomorrow Today column in American Music Teachers journal, co-created the Frances Clark Center online course Hidden Gems: Four Centuries of Piano Music by Women Composers, and published Circles and Lines through Just a Theory Press, featuring new pedagogical works by women composers. Annie has presented at Music Teachers National Association conferences at collegiate, state, and national levels, National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy, and College Music Society conferences. She serves as President of Greensboro Music Teachers Association and on the board of North Carolina Music Teachers Association.