Yu-Ting Cheng

Biography

Hailed for her “extraordinary virtuosity” (CHIMEI Arts Award), as well as for her “sublime playing” and “radiant tone” (Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corigliano), Yu-Ting is an artist of uncommon musical versatility. Dr. Yu-Ting Cheng has earned recognition as a solo artist by winning numerous top prizes in her career, including the 2019 Stony Brook Concerto Competition, the 32nd Chimei Arts Award, the American Prize National Competitions in Instrumental Performance and the Ernst Bacon Award of American Music 2021.

Yu-Ting frequently performs across the US, Europe and Asia. Her recent highlights include Webern Symphony and Boulez Polyphonie X with Lucerne Contemporary Orchestra at Berlin Philharmonie and Lucerne Culture and Congress Centre, World premieres for chamber orchestra with Orchestra of St. Luke's with Maestro Tito Muñoz, The Chinese Now Music Festival Concert at Alice Tully Hall, Schubert Die Verschworenen with Maestro Phillip Nuzzo and Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra at Wien Musikverein, Corigliano Clarinet Concerto with Maestro Michael Morgan and Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra broadcasted by Troy Public Radio, Butterfly Lovers Clarinet Concerto (World premiere) with BCO, off-Broadway opera "Watch Night”, album “Unseen” by composer Michael Torke.

A native of Taipei, Taiwan, Yu-Ting received two master’s degrees from Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University and Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Steven E. Barta and David Krakauer. She also holds a doctoral degree from Stony Brook University under the guidance of Alan R. Kay. Yu-Ting serves as Principal Clarinet of the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra. She is currently the Music Director of the MusicON Festival and Chamber Orchestra.