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Joyce Yu‑Cheng Chung, pianist, was born in Taiwan.  She gave her first public performance at the age of seven, and by ten, she had won a competition to perform with Hwa Kang Orchestra under conductor Helen Quach.  At eleven, she won the Taiwan National Piano Competition, and represented Taiwan performing in Seoul, Korea in the First Asian Younger Musician's Festival, subsequently in Japan and Guam.

Ms. Chung, now a resident of Staten Island, New York, came to the United States in 1972. She has her bachelor's and master's degrees in music from The Juilliard School, where she was a scholarship student of Adele Marcus.  She was a recipient of the Theresa Kleppel Piano Prize from The Juilliard School and a winner of the Koszciuszko Foundation's Chopin Competition. She has made numerous concert appearances at Juilliard, on radio, television, Staten Island's Concert Association, The Staten Island Chamber Players, Pro Musica, The Faith Concert Series, Harvard University's Fogg Museum's concert series, Yale University, Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Hall.  She was featured as the soloist with the All‑City Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall performing Liszt Piano Concerto No.1, and with the Staten Island Symphony Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1,  Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No.2 and Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos with her younger sister, Nancy Wu Downing.  Joyce Chung  has toured extensively in solo concerts and  in recitals in Taiwan, throughout North America such as Houston, New York, Boston, Chicago, Toronto.  As a winner of The Artists International Auditions, she debuted in a solo recital at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall and subsequently in another solo recital at Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center as the Distinguished Alumna Winner.

Ms. Chung was the chairman of the Young Musicians auditions at Steinway Hall and concert at the Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall of  the Associated Music Teachers League from 1997-2005.  She is the former president of The Associated Music Teachers League, Inc. from 2005-2008 and was on the faculty of The Academy of the Arts, and has been an adjunct assistant professor of the Music Department  at Wagner College since 1987.