9:00 a.m. Pre-Meeting
AIM Performance Volunteers and Judges’ Meeting
10:00 a.m. CAMTA BuSINESS MEETING
11:00 a.m. Professional Development Program
Tina Chong, Associate Professor of Music, San Diego State University
“Inclusive Keyboard Design”
In piano product design, the female body is severely underserved. The key size of the piano was standardized to fit large (male) hands, and as a result, the experience of being a woman pianist centers around avoiding injury. My presentation aims to address this inequity through a look at inclusive keyboard design and a fundamental shift in interpreting the written score.
BIOGRAPHY
Hailed as “… a deity of elegance” by the New Brunswick Beacon, Dr. Tina Chong is an international award-winning pianist and teaching artist. A native of Banff, Canada, Tina has been described as, “…mature and yet fresh, imbued with tradition and yet inhabited by individuality, the marks of an artist” (The Herald Times).
She currently serves as Associate Professor of Music at San Diego State University. Tina’s recital career has brought her to such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and Sala Chopin in Mexico City. She has been featured in La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest, the Portland International Summer Festival, and the WFMT Series of Chicago. Under the management of Jeunesses Musicales of Canada, Tina has gone on extensive concert tours throughout Canada. She is the prizewinner of several international competitions, including the Montreal International Musical Competition and the Jacques Klein Piano Competition in Brazil.
An artist of great versatility, Tina performs regularly in a wide range of genres such as classical, pop, Broadway, and film music with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. Her chamber music collaborations have included performances with Rachel Barton Pine, Inon Barnaton, Anthony McGill, Stefan Jackiw, and Tyler Duncan. She is an active clinician throughout North America, giving frequent guest lectures, masterclasses, and adjudications. This breadth of creative activity continues to inspire Tina’s engagement and cross-pollination with a wide community of musicians and audiences.
Tina earned her Doctor of Music degree at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music with a major in piano performance and minors in music education and historical performance practice. Her mentors were Arnaldo Cohen and Elisabeth Wright. Tina is also a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she studied with Angela Cheng. Tina is a Yamaha artist.