Dr. Ping-Shan Liao

Studio Piano

email: pingshanliao@yahoo.com
telephone: (780) 378-8434
office: Alumni Hall A310

As an acclaimed pianist who once won numerous competitions in Taiwan, Dr. Ping-Shan Liao has fascinated the audiences throughout the world with her passion in music. Her performing career has set her footsteps in countries including United States, Taiwan, China, Russia, and Canada, presenting repertoire in solo, chamber and concerto concerts. In 2001, Dr. Liao received the honor of giving a solo recital at the Taiwan National Concert Hall as invited by the "Young Artists Series" project which recognizes the outstanding global achievements of Taiwanese musicians.

Aside from the regularly held solo recitals and concert tours, Dr. Liao is also a frequent concerto performer. She has worked with various ensembles and orchestras such as the International Chamber Ensemble De Rome, Concordia Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Festival City Wind and Prairie Jubilation Wind Ensemble with great successes. Outside her passion in performing, Dr. Liao has been actively serving as a piano adjudicator and clinician. Not only has she been invited to perform adjudication duty for many music festivals in Canada, but also has the National Musical Arts Association of Republic of China elected her to be an Adjudicator in Piano since year 2000.

Dr. Liao received her Doctor of Music Arts degree in Piano Performance and Literature from Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. She served as a full time music faculty at the Prairie Bible College in Three Hills, Alberta from 2000-2005 and joined the music faculty of Concordia University College of Alberta since September 2005.