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Yu-Hsuan Liao (廖又萱)

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Yu-Hsuan Liao (廖又萱)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Yu-Hsuan Liao
  • Chinese: 廖又萱
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: 台灣 /
  • Core roles: professor, artist, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Yu-Hsuan Liao serves as Associate Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at Shepherd University in West Virginia. A native of Taipei, Taiwan, Yu-Hsuan received her Masters and Doctoral Degrees of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from University of Texas at Austin under Danielle Martin, Dariusz Pawlas, and Gregory Allen. She began her musical studies in Tung-Hai University under Thomas Linde, receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She is a piano soloist, collaborative artist, and music educator. She has expanded her repertoire in instrumental, chamber, vocal and choral music in various styles and periods. Yu-Hsuan worked with “American Repertory Ensemble” and performed piano solo, chamber and accompanying vocal music in the company’s performance series. Her solo performance with A.R.E. (“Valses Poéticos”, Passion at Play) was nominated for best instrumentalist in the Austin Critics Table Award for season of 2008-2009. She gave a piano lecture-recital based on her published book (2009) titled “Manuel de Falla’s Cuatro Piezas Españoles: Combinations and Transformations of the Spanish Folk Modes” and a solo piano performance in composers’ new composition concert a

Education

  • Tung-Hai University — B.F.A. Music
  • University of Texas at Austin — M. M. in Piano Performance
  • University of Texas at Austin — D. M. A. in Piano Performance

Employment

  • Shepherd University — 2011- — Associate Professor of Music

Timeline

  • Native of Taipei, Taiwan
  • B.F.A. in Music, Tung-Hai University (initial studies under Thomas Linde)
  • M.M. and D.M.A. in Piano Performance, University of Texas at Austin (under Danielle Martin, Dariusz Pawlas, Gregory Allen)
  • Worked with the American Repertory Ensemble performing piano solo, chamber, and vocal accompaniment
  • 2008-2009 — solo performance with A.R.E. (“Valses Poeticos”, Passion at Play) nominated for best instrumentalist, Austin Critics Table Award
  • 2009 — published book “Manuel de Falla’s Cuatro Piezas Espanoles: Combinations and Transformations of the Spanish Folk Modes”; gave accompanying piano lecture-recital
  • 2011- — Shepherd University (West Virginia), Associate Professor of Music — Piano, Coordinator of Keyboard Studies

Family

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Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-10)

  • Two TAH encyclopedia entries for her are held in the vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/musician-35|TAH #35 (2014, Pianist)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho-441|TAH #441 (2015)]].
  • Per the TAH record already on this page: B.F.A. in Music, Tung-Hai University (initial studies under Thomas Linde); M.M. and D.M.A. in Piano Performance, University of Texas at Austin (under Danielle Martin, Dariusz Pawlas, Gregory Allen); from 2011 Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at Shepherd University, West Virginia.
  • 2008–2009: solo performance with the American Repertory Ensemble (“Valses Poéticos”, Passion at Play) nominated for best instrumentalist, Austin Critics Table Award; 2009: published book on Manuel de Falla’s Cuatro Piezas Españoles with accompanying lecture-recital.

Sources

Deepen pass 2026-09-14 (vault-only)

  • Her two vault records — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/musician-35||TAH #35, Pianist (2014-10)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whoswho-441||TAH #441 (2015-06)]] — are both within the |TAH story corpus.
  • Education trail 台中東海大學 → Austin (UT Austin) places her studies alongside the |Taiwanese Association of Indiana generation only by coincidence of region; no Indiana tie is recorded in her sources.
  • No new biographical facts found in the vault beyond the timeline already on this page; page deepened via cross-links only.

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