A native of Taiwan, pianist Shiau-uen Ding is a rising presence on the new and electro-acoustic music scenes, and an original and energetic performer of traditional solo and chamber repertoire. She studied piano with Eugene Pridonoff, Elizabeth Pridonoff, and Lina Yeh, computer music with Mara Helmuth and Christopher Bailey, and contemporary improvisation with Alan Bern at National Taiwan Normal University and University of Cincinnati, where she received her doctoral degree. She lives in New York City.

Excerpt from the Bang on a Can Marathon 2009 review on the New York Times
Germany had a striking entry as well, in the pianist Shiau-uen Ding's daredevil account of Moritz Eggert's "Hämmerklavier III: One Man Band," a piece that requires a pianist to beat on almost every surface of the instrument (sometimes while playing the keyboard), as well as stamp, sing and hit bass notes with her left foot.

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