Anny Cheng, a native of Taiwan, came to the United States to pursue her
career in Collaborative Piano. Anny is an active pianist and she has
collaborated numerous concerts with singers, instrumentalists and choirs
in the major cities such as Boston, Houston, San Francisco and Phoenix in
the United States and Taiwan. She was invited as guest artist with Arizona
MusicFest and performed with Santa Fe Opera Baritone Troy Cooke and Soprano
Christina Major. She joined the faculty of the Tanglewood Institute’s
Young Artist Vocal Program as a principal Vocal Coach and Musical Director,
working with such varied artists such as Sharon Daniels, Phyllis Hoffman,
Penelope Bitzas, Metropolitan Opera Bass Simon Estes and the legendary
soprano Phyllis Curtin. She also joined the staff pianist at Viola Workout
in Crested Butte, Colorado with artists Robert Becker and William Fitzpatrick.
Prior moving to California, she was choir pianist and worked with Robert
Horton, the president of Texas Choral Director Association; part time coach
and staff pianist at Cy-Fair College in Houston. Anny completed her Doctoral
degree in Collaborative Piano at Arizona State University, studying with
Eckart Sellheim in May 2008. She enrolled at the Longy School of Music,
Cambridge, where she earned a Graduate Performance Diploma in Collaborative
Piano under the guidance of Brian Moll. She received her Master of Music
in Piano Accompanying and Coaching from Westminster Choir College,
Princeton, NJ, studying with J. J. Penna and Dalton Baldwin.