Hsien-Ann Meng

Hsien-Ann Meng holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Performance from the University of Maryland, both Master of Music in Piano Performance and Music History degrees and a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance degree from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. She has studied and coached with distinguished teachers and artists Walter Hautzig, Marian Hahn, Yehoved Kaplinsky, Samuel Sanders, Anne Koscielny, Bradford Gowen, and Raymond Hanson.

Dr. Meng is active in the Baltimore-Washington area as a duo-pianist with the Octtava Piano Duo and chamber musician, performing frequently as a member of the Friday Morning Music Club in its recital series, as guest artist on the Ward Virts Concert Series at College of Southern Maryland, and as a member of faculty on the Faculty Concert Series at Howard Community College. Her duo performances has taken her to perform internationally in the National Recital Hall and Shih Chien University in Taipei, Taiwan. In November 2015, the Octtava Piano Duo was featured as the duo soloists in a performance of Mozart Concerto for Two Pianos in Eb Major with the Howard County Concert Orchestra in Columbia Maryland. Most recently, Hsien-Ann Meng was the pianist in a performance of Darius Milhaud’s La Création du monde in a faculty ensemble performance at Howard Community College. In October 2016, she was a part of a five-piano ensemble performing the premiere of the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony arranged for five-pianos by the Steinway Artists Jane Tan. Dr. Meng is also a lecturer on topics in music, and she has appeared as pre-concert lecturer for the Columbia Orchestra Concert Series, the Candlelight Concert Series, as guest lecturer for OASIS in Bethesda, Maryland, SASI in Columbia, Maryland, and as a member of a panel of speakers for the Women’s Studies Speaker Series at Howard Community College.

Hsien-Ann Meng has held teaching positions at Washington Conservatory of Music in Washington, D. C. and Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Music Department at Howard Community College. She is Director of  the Howard Community College Concert Series. As the Director of the Howard Community College Concert Series, she’s built a successful Guest Artist Series that has featured stellar classical and jazz artists such as the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo, Fleisher-Jacobson Piano Duo, William Bolcom and Joan Morris, Amit Peled, Kenneth Slowik, and Alex Norris. She’s worked with partner organizations such as Candlelight Concert Series and the Howard County Poetry & Literature Society in bringing esteemed author, Stuart Isacoff, to the college for a lecture event on Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization.

Dr. Meng is an active piano teacher in the Washington D. C. Metropolitan area. She is a member of the National Music Teachers Association and both state and county music teachers association. Her students participate in the Trinity College London Piano Exams, are county and state competition award winners, and many have gone on to become piano teachers, performers/recording artists, and accompanist for dance companies. Dr. Meng is a sought-after adjudicator in local, county, and state piano competitions.

Interested in lessons with Dr, Meng? Click here to contact Dr. Wei-Der Huang, Coordinator of Piano Studies