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Keng-Yuen Tseng (曾耿元)

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Keng-Yuen Tseng (曾耿元)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Keng-Yuen Tseng
  • Chinese: 曾耿元
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: 台灣
  • Core roles: professor, artist, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

A native of Taiwan, Keng-Yuen Tseng began studying the violin at the age of five and made his performing debut at the age of seven. Upon his arrival in the United States in 1980, Mr. Tseng was awarded a full scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music, where he studied with Erick Friedman.

Role in the Community

  • Documented twice in the TAH Foundation encyclopedia’s 2015/06 Taiwanese-American classical-musician batch: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/224-keng-yuen-tseng-e6-9b-be-e8-80-bf-e5-85-83-201506|TAH #224 “Keng-Yuen Tseng 曾耿元, Violinist”]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/464-keng-yuen-tseng-e6-9b-be-e8-80-bf-e5-85-83-201506|TAH #464]].
  • That batch records him alongside the community’s other young classical musicians of the period — tenor/conductor Jin Song Chen 陳金松, violinists Yu-Chia Hsiao 蕭宇家 and Chi-Yin Chen 陳姿吟, pianist Stephanie Wan-Hsiu Lan 藍婉修 — situating him in the Taiwanese-American musical network the encyclopedia set out to document.
  • Within that network he served as a bridge to mainstream American institutions: chair of the strings department at the Johns Hopkins Peabody Conservatory (約翰霍普金斯大學琵琶地音樂學院 弦樂系主任), a position also cited on fellow musician pages such as Anny Yun-An 陳韻安, whose Peabody Conservatory 伴奏助教 post overlaps his tenure there.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-21, re-verified 2026-09-22, 2026-09-23 (deepen-x slice 09221300-13) and 2026-09-24 (slice 09230800-19): hits limited to his own two encyclopedia records (#224, #464) and the works index; no memoir mentions of Tseng himself; no new facts absorbed.

Employment

  • 約翰霍普金斯大學琵琶地音樂學院 — 弦樂系主任

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240800-27): hit set identical (own records #224, #464 + works index only); no memoir mentions; verified-saturated.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09251400-11): hit set identical (#224, #464 + works index only); no memoir mentions; verified-saturated.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-06 (deepen-x slice 10051340-16): fresh ZH+EN+variant grep (曾耿元 / Keng-Yuen Tseng / 曾耿) across works/articles/sources/events/topics — hit set identical (own records #224, #464 + works index only); no memoir mentions. Verified-saturated, SKIP.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-08 (deepen-x slice 10070018-6): fresh ZH+EN grep (曾耿元 / Keng-Yuen Tseng) across works/articles/sources/events/topics — hit set identical (own records #224, #464 + sources index only); no memoir mentions. Verified-saturated, SKIP content-deepen.
  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-09 (deepen-x slice 10080735-2): fresh ZH+EN+surname grep (曾耿元 / Keng-Yuen Tseng / Keng Yuen Tseng / 曾耿) across works/articles/sources/events/topics — hit set identical (own records #224, #464 + works/sources index only); both records are bibliographic-only (band B, full text in vault); no memoir mentions. Verified-saturated, SKIP content-deepen.

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