Hsien-Ann Meng (孟憲安博士)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Hsien-Ann Meng
- Chinese: 孟憲安博士
- Era: -
- Geography: 台灣
- Core roles: professor, educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Hsien-Ann Meng 孟憲安, an active piano teacher and a member of the MTNA, MSMTA and Friday Morning Music Club, is currently teaching at Howard Community College. Dr. Meng received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music from Peabody Conservatory of Music, and obtained her Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Maryland in College Park. In her pursuit of undergraduate and graduate degrees, Meng studied with distinguished teachers and artists such as Bradford Gowen, Raymond Hanson, Anne Koscielny, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Marian Hahn. Meng has also received chamber coaching from Samuel Sanders and participated in the master class given by Misha Dichter. Hsien-Ann Meng has performed frequently in Washington metropolitan area and has been a member of the Octtava Piano Duo since 2001. In addition, Dr. Meng had appeared as a guest speaker for Columbia Orchestra and Candlelight Concert Series pre-concert talks, and she is a frequently invited speaker for SASI at Howard Community College and OASIS in Bethesda. In Spring 2008, she was the guest speaker for the HCC Women’s Studies/Arts & Humanities Speaker Series.
Education
- Peabody Conservatory of Music
- Peabody Conservatory of Music
- University of Maryland in College Park — Ph.D.
Employment
- Howard Community College — Piano Teacher — Octtava Piano Duo — Member — (2001-) — Community — MTNA — Member — MSMTA — Member — Friday Morning Music Club — Member
Career & Teaching Record
- Bachelor of Music and Master of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music; Doctor of Musical Arts, University of Maryland in College Park.
- Studied with Bradford Gowen, Raymond Hanson, Anne Koscielny, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Marian Hahn; chamber coaching from Samuel Sanders; master class participant under Misha Dichter.
- Piano teacher at Howard Community College; member of the Octtava Piano Duo since 2001; frequent performer in the Washington metropolitan area.
- Guest speaker for Columbia Orchestra and Candlelight Concert Series pre-concert talks; frequent invited speaker for SASI at Howard Community College and OASIS in Bethesda; Spring 2008 guest speaker, HCC Women’s Studies / Arts & Humanities Speaker Series.
- Member of MTNA, MSMTA, and Friday Morning Music Club.
Family
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Connected in the Vault
- Howard Community College, where Dr. Meng teaches piano, recurs as a teaching hub in this corpus: Yi-Hsin Lin is recorded on its Music Institute faculty and I-Ling Chen on its former piano faculty.
- The University of Maryland in College Park (her DMA) is likewise shared with I-Ling Chen (DMA, 2002) and with Yi-Hsin Lin (principal of the University of Maryland Symphony) per their TAH profiles.
- The College Park campus TA community is itself in the vault: see |UMD College Park Taiwanese American Student Association.
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- 新增語料庫脈絡連結：她取得 DMA 的 University of Maryland in College Park 於 TA.org 語料庫另有活動條目，如 |TA：UMD 校園夜市集會條目、|TA：UMD 台灣電影節條目（僅作母校於語料庫之脈絡，非本人事蹟）。
- Peabody Conservatory、Howard Community College、MTNA、MSMTA、Friday Morning Music Club、Octtava Piano Duo 於 vault 目前無對應頁面，故未新增連結；既有連結（yi-hsin-lin、i-ling-chen、UMD TASA）經核對皆存在，未新建頁面、未上網、無虛構事蹟。
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Re-check: existing vault links (yi-hsin-lin, i-ling-chen, UMD TASA, TA.org UMD event records) all resolve. No further absorbable vault facts for this profile; no web, no new pages.
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Corpus grep (ZH 孟憲安 / EN Hsien-Ann Meng) surfaced two TAH encyclopedia records for Dr. Meng not yet linked from this page; both exist in the vault as band-B bibliographic records and are now corpus-linked:
- [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/musician9||TAH #9: Hsien-Ann Meng 孟憲安, Pianist (2014/10)]] — published 2014-10-11, an early profile in TAH’s musician series.
- [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1085||TAH #1085: Hsien-Ann Meng 孟憲安 (2016/06)]] — published 2016-06-18, her Who’s Who encyclopedia entry.
Both hold the Who’s Who profile text already reproduced on this page; no additional narrative beyond the existing Career & Teaching Record section, so no conflicts to HOLD. No web, no new pages, no invented biography.