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Richardson Building, 40 Washington Street, Quincy, MA, 02169Pianist Wayman Chin has performed widely throughout the United States, Asia, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, his concerts include performances at Princeton University, the Curtis Institute of Music, Jordan Hall and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Old First Concert Series in San Francisco. In the Far East, Mr. Chin has appeared at Tsuen Wan Town Hall in Hong Kong, and in the Philippines, on the Sala Foundation concert series, at the residence of the US Ambassador in Manila and at Soochow University in Taipei. In Latin America, he has appeared at the National Museum of Music in Havana and at La Misíon Performing Arts Center in Mexico.
Devoted to chamber music playing, Mr. Chin has collaborated with artists such as the Pacifica Quartet, Cassatt String Quartet, violinist Eric Rosenblith, violist Masumi Rostad, cellist Thomas Kraines, sopranos Nancy Armstrong and Maria Jette and baritone Thomas Meglioranza. For twelve seasons, he was a member of the artist faculty at the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival and also performed and taught at the Stamford International Music Festival in England.
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 also served as Dean of the Conservatory for twelve years; in 2020, he was named Dean Emeritus. Last season, to honor his thirty years of service on the faculty, Longy awarded Chin with its Leonard Bernstein Award for the Elevation of Music in Society.
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. His principal teachers and mentors were Anne Koscielny, Donald Currier, Joan Panetti, and Raymond Hanson. Previously, Chin served on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and on the Music Program Faculty at the Banff Centre in Canada.
This program is made possible by the generous sponsorship of the Friends of the Thomas Crane Public Library.
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