Dr. Tianyu Tina Deng is a scholar-pianist based in New York City. She also curates concerts at the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, where she develops concert series that explore the interdisciplinary connections between music, poetry, and visual arts, particularly twentieth-century avant-garde music. As a prize recipient in music education, piano, and collaborative piano, she is dedicated to bridging the gap between classical piano music and modern sensibilities. Her upcoming project includes her first album, Élementaire, an exploration of Water, Earth, Air, and Fire through works by Debussy, Ravel, Messiaen, Bartók, and Berio.
Tianyu is also an advocate for historical performance and period instruments, with notable engagements including performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (organ) under Helmuth Rilling at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2016), Bohuslav Martinů’s Promenades for Flute, Violin, and Harpsichord at the Hong Kong Arts Festival (2017), and Carlos Seixas’s A Major Harpsichord Concerto with the Guangzhou Gamut Baroque Ensemble (2023).
Tianyu received her Bachelor of Music from the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts under the tutelage of Ms. Eleanor Wong. She holds both her Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied collaborative piano with Dr. Heasock Rhee and piano performance with Dr. Marc Silverman. Her doctoral dissertation, Luciano Berio’s Six Encores for Piano (1965-1969): Analysis, Commentary, and Extension, was advised by Dr. Reiko Fueting.
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