Kai-Li Cheng (鄭凱莉博士)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Kai-Li Cheng
- Chinese: 鄭凱莉博士
- Era: -
- Geography: 台灣
- Core roles: educator
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Praised by World Journal, Minneapolis, for her “mature technique, a full range of her emotions in her playing that leads the orchestra”, Ms. Cheng appears as a recitalist, chamber and orchestra musician and a concerto soloist in the United States, Taiwan, Japan. She has attended summer festivals including Atlantic Music Festival, Banff Summer Art Festival and the Wiener Meisterkurse fur Müsik and was invited to appear on MPR (Minnesota Public Radio) broadcasting the Beethoven “Kreutzer” violin sonata as part of an interview with Rita Dove on her book, Sonata Mulattic.
Education
- National Kaohsiung Normal University — B.M.
- University of Minnesota — M.M. violin performance
- University of Minnesota — D.M.A.
Employment
- Own private studio — teaching
Role in the Community
Two 2017 TAH records document Cheng in the community archive: 1451. Kai-Li Cheng 鄭凱莉 (Who’s Who, published 2017-01-10) and 380. Kai-Li Cheng 鄭凱莉, Cellinist (published 2017-01-10). HOLD: conflict in instrument — the musician380 record titles her a cellist while this page’s press-kit biography describes violin performance (violin sonata repertoire, orchestral playing); not auto-merged. Corpus re-grep 2026-09-20: no memoir mentions of 鄭凱莉 / Kai-Li Cheng beyond these two own-records — nothing further absorbable. Re-grep 2026-09-21 (slice 09201500-32): hit set unchanged (whoswho1451, musician380, works index) — verified saturated; instrument HOLD (cellist title vs violin biography) stands.
Corpus check (deepen-x 09211500-32, 2026-09-22)
SKIP (re-confirmed) — fresh grep of works/ + articles/ returns only her own two TAH records ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1451|TAH #1451]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/musician380|TAH #380]]) plus the works index; no memoir mentions of 鄭凱莉 / Kai-Li Cheng — nothing absorbable; instrument HOLD (cellist title vs violin biography) stands. SKIP (re-confirmed again, deepen-x slice 09221000-15, 2026-09-23): ZH+EN grep hit set unchanged (own two records + works index). SKIP (re-confirmed, deepen-x slice 09230500-31, 2026-09-24): ZH+EN grep hit set unchanged (own two records + works index); instrument HOLD (cellist title vs violin biography) stands. SKIP (re-confirmed, deepen-x slice 09240500-25, 2026-09-25): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/ + articles/ returns the same hit set (own records [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho1451|TAH #1451]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/musician380|TAH #380]] + works index); no memoir mentions — nothing absorbable; instrument HOLD (cellist title vs violin biography) stands.
Family
No filled family fields on the TAH profile.
Sources
Related Pages
SKIP (re-confirmed, deepen-x slice 09270700-17, 2026-10-03): fresh ZH+EN grep of works/ + articles/ returns the same hit set (own records TAH #1451, #380 + works index); no memoir mentions — nothing absorbable; instrument HOLD (cellist title vs violin biography) stands.
SKIP (re-confirmed, deepen-x slice 10051340-19, 2026-10-07): fresh ZH+EN grep across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns the same hit set (own records TAH #1451, #380 + works index); 凱莉 substring hits in taiwanjustice-net news articles (e.g. 凱莉安·康威) are unrelated. No memoir mentions — nothing absorbable; instrument HOLD (cellist title vs violin biography) stands.
SKIP (re-confirmed, deepen-x slice 10070034-3, 2026-10-08): fresh ZH+EN grep across works/articles/sources/events/topics returns the same hit set (own records TAH #1451, #380 + works index); 凱莉 substring hits in taiwanjustice-net news articles are unrelated persons. No memoir mentions — nothing absorbable; instrument HOLD (cellist title vs violin biography) stands.