What is your hometown?

Taiwan

What are you passionate about outside of music?

Baking and cooking

Who were your major teachers?

Mr. Boris Slutsky 

What is a favorite quote that you repeatedly tell students?

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

What question do you wish students would ask sooner rather than later?

Why should we study theory?

What was the defining moment when you decided to pursue music as a career?

Joining the faculty of the C’est Bon Chamber Music Academy since 2012.

What was a turning point in your career?

Last summer attending VIVACE International Music Festival in NC. 

If you weren't a musician or teacher, what do you think you would be doing now?

 I will be an artist, painting. Or own a bakery, baking everyday. 

What is your daily practice routine?

After sending kids to school. I usually practice 1-3 hours in the morning. 

If you could play only three composers for the rest of your life, who would they be?

Bach, Beethoven, Chopin

From a music history perspective, what year and city are most important to you, and why?

1741 Germany. Because that’s the year when Goldberg Variations was first published. 

What do you think makes a concert experience unique?

The connection between the artist and the audience. 

Please list your most important collaborations.

I collaborated with Ching-Wen Hsaio, Konstantinos Valianatos, Sandra Shen and Wei Coglio in a faculty recital at C’est Bon Chamber Music Academy in 2022