Pianist Tia Tyng Chang, 17, is a senior at Gunn High School in Palo Alto, CA.  She currently studies with John McCarthy and previously with Chiao-Han Liao.  Tia has won numerous awards, including first place of the International Great Composers Competition, Silicon Valley Second School Competition, Junior Bach Festival, and the Adler Award as a winner of the Burlingame Music Club Competition.  She was also invited to perform in Concerts at the Presidio- Allegro, Inferno. An avid chamber musician, she studies chamber music with Jonathan Koh at the California Music Preparatory Academy and is a current member of the award winning Zeitlos Trio.  Her piano trio has garnered accolades including first prize of the Best Music of Germany and Austria Competition, third prize of the US Open Music Competition, third prize of the International Grande Music Competition, and third prize of the VOCE Competition.  Tia attended the 2017 International Summer Sessions in Paris, France, the 2016 Walnut Hill International Music Festival in Natick, Massachusetts, and the 2014 Morningside Music Bridge Music Festival in Calgary, Canada.  When not playing the piano, Tia is a social entrepreneur and plays for her school’s varsity golf team.