Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Get to know our teachers
Sue Yang
Sue Yang is the founder of FMMA, and is herself a musician, music educator, curriculum developer, and a parent. After 20 years of teaching, she has established a creative and unique bilingual music program that utilizes art, sensory play and eurhythmics to immerse children in the fundamental of music without resorting to the formal rigidity of the traditional music lesson.
Before FMMA was founded, she was the bilingual music teacher and curriculum developer at International school of the Peninsula (Palo Alto), where she taught students ranging from nursery school toddlers fifth grade students. She has also led children’s choir, keyboard, and violin classes at the Redwood city school district after school program, and has been teaching private music lessons at her home based studio and at other music schools around the Bay Area.
Prior to her relocation to the US, she gained her unique teaching style and extensive leadership experience from the Taiwan national branch of the the YAMAHA music education system where she served as the master vocal teacher (coaching teachers from all local branches), music course recording artist, as well as national branch performer and instructor.
Her musical talent was shown from early childhood. She had her first violin performance at the Tokyo Dome at the age of 9. She was also a signed Recording Artist with Rock Records of Taiwan. In 1997, she had the privilege of being chosen as the Featured Performer at Gianni Versace's 1997 line debut gala in Sydney & Brisbane, Australia. She won First Place at The Treasury Casino Voice Competition, an event jointly planned by the Australian Central Government - all while getting her bachelor of music degree in Australia.
She had also been chosen as the featured performer at numerous business world conference for associations such as the Rotary Club, the Lions, and the Wolrd Taiwanese American Chamber of Commerce.
In her spare time, she produces live events and private concerts for corporate clients. She has produced events and concerts for Acer Inc. and Asus Inc. for their respective year-end celebrations.
Tina Yen
PIANO & IMPROV
鋼琴即興演奏家
Yamaha 3 級講師
MASTER IN MUSIC
PIANO | DANCE ACCOMPANIST
於4歲開始習琴，畢業於國立交通大學音樂系碩士。畢業後從事鋼琴教學以及專業舞蹈伴奏至今。曾於雲門舞集2，台北藝術大學，台北市立大學，台北市立中正高中等著名舞團及舞蹈科系擔任芭蕾與現代舞舞蹈伴奏。目前定居於台中，於台中市立文華高中擔任舞蹈伴奏。
Ms. Tina Yen started to learn piano at age of 4. Graduated from NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY with master of music degree in Taiwan. She has been teaching piano privately while being a professional dance accompanist. She was the featured dance accompanist of Cloud Gate 2 (Cloud Gate Dance Theater), BALLET & MODERN DANCE department at TAIPEI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI, TAIPEI MUNICIPAL ZHONG ZHENG SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, and CURRENTLY at TAICHUNG MUNICIPAL WEN HUA SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL.
Dr. I-Wen Wang
“A crowd-pleasing performance” hailed by the New York Concert Review,
Dr. I-Wen Wang made concert appearances in the renowned Shanghai Spring International Chamber Music Festival and Hunan International Music Festival in China, the Rutgers International Pianists Gala and Unknown Diabelli Project in Carnegie Hall.
She received professional training from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and Rutgers University. In addition, she received the renowned Yefim Bronfman Piano Scholarships to study at Ben Gurion University of Negev in Israel (2013).
Her primary teachers including Tai-Cheng Chen, Benjamin Pasternack, Boris Slutsky, Vladimir Valjarević, and Daniel Epstein.
I-Wen won numerous awards, including top prizes at the Svirél International Music Competition in Slovenia (2018), Il V ° Concorso Internazionale di Roma, organizzato dall’Associazione Culturale Melos in Italy (2018), and the North International Music Competition in Sweden (2017); first prize at the International Internet Music Competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2017), the Classical Viennese Festival of Seattle International Piano Competition (2017), Chamber Music Honors Competition at Rutgers (2016 and 2018), and the Round Top Institute Festival Chamber Music Competition (2013). I-Wen served as one the piano faculty members at the extension division of Rutgers University (2016-2019), she was a guest lecturer at University of California - Santa Cruz (2015, 2021) and Shanghai University in China (2018).