Dr. Yihuei S. Chang received her DMA degree in piano pedagogy/ music education from the University of Texas at Austin. Her previous education included a master degree in piano performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor degree in piano performance from the National Taiwan Normal University. She is a full-time associate professor at the Music Department of the Tainan University of Technology in Taiwan. Co-founding the flute and piano ensemble “IT Duet”, Dr. Chang has performed regularly with flutist I-Mei Chang. She was also the examiner for the 2020 International Piano Performance Examinations Committee.
As an author, Dr. Chang has published the following professional writing: “Application of Gestalt Psychology on Bartok’ s Piano Works” (Tainan, 2008) ,“Fantasy and decadence: Exoticismin Debussy’s Piano Works” (Kaoshiung, 2012) and “Application of Gestalt Psychology on Piano Teaching” (Symposium publication, 2016).
Dr. Chang has focused her academic energy into the following three fields: the application of music methods (Orff, Kodaly, Dalcroze and Suzuki), instructional design aiming for high efficiency, and application of educational psychology in music learning. Dr. Chang has trained a considerable amount of college piano majors to be equipped with concepts and abilities in using music methods and instructional design through the courses “Introduction to Music Education” and “Piano Pedagogy” she taught.
Two presentations of Chang’s music teaching can be found on the YOUTUBE channel: 「Nine Dalcroze activities to experience music concepts」(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0lWhNtqTS8&t=540s) and “How to lead an Orff ensemble“(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXY1sMAK8U&t=66s)。