Professor, Nam Yeung

Dr. Nam Yeung is currently a full-time piano professor in the Music Department at the Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan. At the same time, he serves as the special visiting professor at Hansei University, South Korea. Dr. Yeung has been invited numerous times as a guest artist and has presented master classes at universities and festivals, including the Asia International Piano Academy & Festival in South Korea, Cremona International Music Festival in Italy, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Summer Music Program, Si-Chuan Conservatory of Music and Beijing Normal University in China, Taipei National Recital Hall and Wei Wu Ying National Art Culture Center Performance Hall in Taiwan, Goethe Institute in Thailand, Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore, Valencia International Piano Academy in Spain, Louisiana State University, University of Kentucky, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Montecito International Music Festival in the United States, among others. 

Dr. Yeung has performed many recitals as a soloist, concerto soloist, and collaborative pianist throughout many cities in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, China, South Korea, Spain, Italy and the United States. His outstanding performances have been broadcasted on both television and radio, including Hong Kong Radio 4, the National Korean Television Channel, Taiwan’s Public Television Channel, and the Baton Rouge Classic Radio Station. 

In addition to a solo career, Dr. Yeung regularly promotes piano duo works by Taiwanese contemporary composers with his piano-duo partner, Dr. Tina Shao,. Their compact disc “A Harvest Festival of the Taiwanese Indigene” was selected by the Taiwanese Arts Council to present in the World Compact Disc Exhibition in Cannes, France. “From Mozart To Gershwin” was chosen and incorporated in an American movie titled “Waterwheel – The Story of Randy Chang” released by Mimosa Ministry.  

He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Louisiana State University, a Master of Music degree in Piano from the Peabody institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and an Advanced Diploma program from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts as well as LRSM (Licentiate of Royal School of Music). Dr. Yeung is the winner of various competitions and awards including the American MTNA Piano Competition, The Monroe Young Artist Competition, The Jackson Symphony Orchestra Competition, The Hong Kong Kawai International Competition, The Maryland Music Club Piano Competition, and others. 

Dr. Yeung has performed with the Monroe Symphony Orchestra, Changhua Symphony Orchestra and Tainan University of Technology Symphony Orchestra. He has also been appointed the Culture Affair Judicator of Tainan City Government and chairman of Tainan Music Teachers’ Association. The city mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, awarded Dr. Yeung honorable recognition for his musical achievements.