Taiwanese pianist Hsin-Hao Vincent Yang is a performer, scholar, educator, and multimedia artist who treats each role as a different way into the same music. Whether on the concert stage, in the classroom, or in a virtual-reality gallery, his aim is the same: to bring classical music closer to the people it can reach.

As a performer, Yang has appeared at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Moody Performance Hall in Dallas, Hahn Hall in Santa Barbara, and the National Recital Hall in Taipei. A laureate of NEC’s Marion Rubin Berman Piano Honors Competition in 2025 and 2026, he has twice been featured in the honors winners’ concert at Jordan Hall. First prize at the 2021 Music Academy of the West Solo Piano Competition brought an invitation to give a solo recital at Hahn Hall, where he premiered Tyshawn Sorey’s For James Primosch, written for him. Reviewing the recital, Santa Barbara’s VOICE Magazine noted his “equal attention to singular notes and the silence between them.” After winning first prize at the 2018 Dallas International Piano Competition, he performed Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Dallas Chamber Symphony under Richard McKay.

For Yang, the concert hall is only one of the places where music belongs. He performs regularly in schools and assisted living communities, including frequent appearances at the Newbury of Brookline in Massachusetts, bringing live classical music to audiences who might not otherwise hear it: children encountering a piano recital for the first time, and older listeners for whom a concert hall is no longer easy to reach. He considers this work as central to his artistry as any stage appearance.

A Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at NEC, Yang is equally committed to research and curriculum development. His research spans theoretical and historical analyses, from Scriabin’s Vers la flamme to Schubert’s improvisatory practices. After serving as a teaching assistant in NEC’s piano and music theory departments, he now co-directs the Piano Minor Program in the college division. He also teaches piano and theory at the Community Music Center of Boston and the Attacca School of Music, working with students from five-year-old beginners to adult learners in their sixties, in both English and Mandarin.

Yang’s fluency with technology carries his music into new forms, often in collaboration with his brother, new media artist Tzu-Mu Yang, whose virtual-reality work has been presented at international festivals and exhibitions. Together they created a visual narrative for Liszt’s Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata, cued in real time to follow the pacing of Yang’s live performance. First presented at his 2022 Hahn Hall recital, it was described by VOICE Magazine as “a fantastical, audio-visual journey through Dante’s Divine Comedy.” The brothers also created the virtual-reality experience for Swinging A-Go-Go, an exhibition at the Taichung Art Museum through October 2026, for which Yang composed the music and designed the sound experience.

Yang’s training spans Taiwan and the United States, shaped above all by his principal mentors, Wha-Kyung Byun, Ning An, Grace Chung, and Pei-Chun Liao. After early studies with Pei-Chun Liao, he studied at Tainan National University of the Arts with Grace Chung and earned his Bachelor of Music at California State University, Fullerton, with Ning An. At NEC he has studied with Wha-Kyung Byun throughout his master’s and doctoral work, completing his Master of Music as a Carol T. and Robert P. Henderson Presidential Scholar. He attended the Music Academy of the West as a Patricia and Nicolas Weber Scholar, as well as Piano Texas, the Art of Piano Festival, and Music@Menlo, and has performed in masterclasses for Dang Thai Son, Jeremy Denk, Awadagin Pratt, and Conrad Tao.