David Tsang M.M. University of Pennsylvania, B.M. Boston University
David Tsang has had a varied career in music in both piano performance and composition. As a pianist with a special interest in contemporary music, he has performed works by Toru Takemitsu, Chou Wen-Chung, John Harbison, and Samuel Adler, among others. He has performed at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Ethical Society of Philadelphia, and Swarthmore College, and has taught piano privately for well over two decades. Mr. Tsang’s teachers include Boris Berman, Evelyne Crochet, and Edith Stearn.
As a composer, Mr. Tsang has garnered such honors as the ASCAP Awards and the Malloy Miller Prize. He has served as a fellow at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, and the First International Conference on Chinese Music in Boston. His composition teachers include Chou Wen-Chung, George Crumb, and David del Tredici. In addition, Mr. Tsang has extensive experience as a choir director and church pianist. Since 1996, he has been the assistant music director of the Early Music Series at St. Peter’s Church in New York City.