Kuo-pei Cheng-Lin

Kuo-Pei Cheng-Lin
MM,Cleveland Institute of Music
Adjunct Professor

Areas of Expertise:
Class piano
Collaborative pianist

Email: kchenglin@fau.edu
Office Phone:561.297.3820
Office: AH 119

Mrs. Kuo-Pei Cheng-Lin was born in Taiwan, where she started playing the piano at the age of sixand entered classical music school in the seventh grade.She holds a BMin Piano Performance from the National Institute of Arts in Taiwanand two Master’s degrees in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano from The Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM),where she studied with Anne Epperson, Sandra Shapiro, Thomas Hecht and Olga Radosavljevichand performed in master classes given by Jerome Lowenthal, Warren Jones, Jean Barr.She received a full scholarship from the Santa Barbara Summer Music Festival andafter graduation from CIM, was appointed staff accompanist at CIM.

In 1995, she moved to Cincinnati where she served as principal pianist for the Middletown Symphony Orchestraand as the music director and pianist for the Cincinnati Chinese Church at Mason.Moving to Greenville, SC in 2004, Mrs. Cheng-Lin was an adjunct professor at North Greenville Universityand served as principal pianist for the Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestraand pianist for the Greenville Chinese Christian Church.She has taught piano for more than 30 years and her students havebeen winners in many auditions and competitions.

In SC, she was also a speaker and panelist for GMTA meetings andBob Jones University piano symposium.Through the years, she has continued to perform recitals as a soloist and with musicians from the Cincinnati Symphony,Greenville Symphony, as well as faculty members ofNorth Greenville University, Indiana University, Clemson University,and Furman University, among others. She performed Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Foothills Philharmonicat the Peace Center in Greenville, SC.

Mrs. Cheng-Lin joined 太阳城娱乐 as an adjunct professor in 2019.