Wayman Chin

Pianist Wayman Chin has performed at Princeton University, the Curtis Institute of Music, Jordan Hall and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco and at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York City.  Abroad, he has appeared at Tsuen Wan Town Hall in Hong Kong, at the residence of the US Ambassador in Manila at Soochow University in Taipei, at the National Museum of Music in Havana and La Misíon Performing Arts Center in Mexico. 

A committed teacher, Wayman Chin has been a member of the faculty since 1994 at the Longy School of Music of Bard College, where he was awarded the George Seaman Award for Excellence in the Art of Teaching.  At Longy, he served for twelve years as dean of the Conservatory and was named Dean Emeritus in 2020.  He has given master classes in Taiwan (National Taichung University of Education; Soochow University); Hong Kong (Hong Kong Baptist University); the Philippines (University of Santo Tomas),  Canada (Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto) and at universities and colleges throughout the United States.   

An advocate of new music, Wayman Chin has premiered a number of works by noted composers, including those of Scott Wheeler, Marti Epstein, Meyer Kupferman, Jeremy Van Buskirk, and Paul Brust; he has also introduced several works of Aaron Jay Kernis to Boston audiences. Of Chin’s performance of Kernis’ Valentines, David Cleary of 21st Century Music wrote, “Wayman Chin traversed the formidable challenges of the piano part with conspicuous success. His highly demonstrative performing style excellently suited the work’s forthright nature.”

Mr. Chin earned a Bachelor of Music degree with honors from the University of Hartford’s Hartt School and a Master of Music degree from Yale University.  Previously, Chin served on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and on the Music Program Faculty at the Banff Centre in Canada.