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Dr. Tak Yan Yeung has performed extensively as a soloist and collaborative pianist on three continents. Occasions that he performed at include the Redlands Bowl Summer Music Festival, the Music Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC) Convention, the Semper Music Festival in Italy, and Parsons Music in Hong Kong. He has made concerto appearances as a pianist with the Texas Christian University Symphony Orchestra and the Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra, and as a harpsichordist with the Texas Christian University Collegium Musicum. Tak Yan was a prizewinner of the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, the Music Teachers’ Association of California Piano Concerto and Solo Competitions, the Redlands Bowl Young Artist Competition, and, most recently, the inaugural California International Music & Art Festival in 2020. An avid advocate for contemporary composers, he gave the world premiere of Uriah Rinzel’s Mêlée at Dallas Baptist University in 2018. He recently presented a lecture-recital at the College Music Society 2021 South Central Conference. Future engagements include recording and giving the world premiere of Michael Colina’s Piano Concerto with The Florida Orchestra and performing Grieg's Piano Concerto with the Tarrant County College NW Orchestra.
A recipient of the Steinway Top Teacher Award and Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM) of the Music Teachers National Association, Tak Yan owns Yeung's Piano Time LLC, a piano studio serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, and currently teaches over thirty K-12 and adult piano students of all levels. He has given master classes for the Weatherford Music Teachers Association and Fossil Ridge High School. Tak Yan serves as Treasurer of the Fort Wort Music Teachers Association. Equally devoted to higher education, Tak Yan serves as Co-Coordinator of Piano Studies at Tarrant County College Northwest. Formerly, he taught group piano classes and piano lessons to the undergraduates at Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where he served as an Associate Instructor of Piano. In Fall 2022, he joined the piano faculty at the University of Dallas.
As part of his endeavors to extend his work to music ministry, Tak Yan currently serves as Organist at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Bedford, Texas.
Born and raised Hong Kong, Tak Yan completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at Texas Christian University, a Master of Music in Piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and an Artist Certificate at Azusa Pacific University. His principal teachers have included Dr. Tamás Ungár, Andrey Ponochevny, Dr. Tao Chang, Harold Lee, Nan Wang, and the late Dr. Karen Shaw. He is currently based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in Texas.
A recipient of the Steinway Top Teacher Award and Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM) of the Music Teachers National Association, Tak Yan owns Yeung's Piano Time LLC, a piano studio serving the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, and currently teaches over thirty K-12 and adult piano students of all levels. He has given master classes for the Weatherford Music Teachers Association and Fossil Ridge High School. Tak Yan serves as Treasurer of the Fort Wort Music Teachers Association. Equally devoted to higher education, Tak Yan serves as Co-Coordinator of Piano Studies at Tarrant County College Northwest. Formerly, he taught group piano classes and piano lessons to the undergraduates at Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, where he served as an Associate Instructor of Piano. In Fall 2022, he joined the piano faculty at the University of Dallas.
As part of his endeavors to extend his work to music ministry, Tak Yan currently serves as Organist at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Bedford, Texas.
Born and raised Hong Kong, Tak Yan completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at Texas Christian University, a Master of Music in Piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and an Artist Certificate at Azusa Pacific University. His principal teachers have included Dr. Tamás Ungár, Andrey Ponochevny, Dr. Tao Chang, Harold Lee, Nan Wang, and the late Dr. Karen Shaw. He is currently based in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in Texas.
