Jenny Tang

Senior Music Performance Faculty in Piano

Co-Director of the Chamber Music Society

Licentiate Diploma, Royal Schools of Music, UK, at age 14; Fellow of Trinity College of Music (London); M.M. in piano performance, New England Conservatory of Music; Artist Diploma in Piano Performance, Chamber Music, Longy School of Music; D.M.A. candidate in piano performance, New England Conservatory of Music; piano, chamber music studies with Randall Hodgkinson, conducting with Tamara Brooks, Frank L. Battisti.

Jenny Tang, pianist, regularly performs in solo and chamber music recitals. Her engagements include such venues as Jordan Hall, Sanders Theatre, Symphony Hall, Meadow Hall and Concert Hall at Groton Hill Music, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, Berklee College of Music and Wellesley College. Jenny’s recent engagements include a lecture - solo recital titled “A Coincidence of Chaos and Order: Works of Schumann, Ligeti and Barber” for the New England Piano Teacher’s Association, and two performances as a featured piano soloist with the Vista Philharmonic Chamber Players of Groton Hill Music. She frequently collaborates with the Wellesley College Theatre Department as music director and conductor as well, and in December 2022 conducted and performed six performances of the musical Cabaret. Jenny is the Co-Director of the Chamber Music Society at Wellesley College, teaching piano, chamber music and music theory. She is also on the piano faculty at Groton Hill Music.

Education

  • B.M. in Piano Performance, New England Conservatory of Music
  • M.M. in Piano Performance, New England Conservatory of Music
  • Artist Diploma in Piano Performance and Chamber Music, Longy School of Music
  • D.M.A. in Piano Performance (Pending), New England Conservatory of Music

Current and upcoming courses

Beginning with a comprehensive review of musical terminology and basic materials, MUS 122 explores the fundamentals of tonal harmony, voice-leading, phrasing, and form. Topics include harmonic functions and phrase structure, cadence formation, voice-leading and figured bass, and tonal analysis. Regular ear-training practice complements written exercises. One musicianship lab per week.