Faculty Wayman Chin

A committed teacher, pianist Wayman Chin has been a member of the faculty at UMass Dartmouth since 1988. He has performed widely throughout the United States and Asia. Within the United States, his concerts have included performances at Princeton University, the Curtis Institute of Music, Jordan Hall in Boston, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts. In the Far East, Mr. Chin has appeared at Tsuen Wan Town Hall in Hong Kong, and in the Philippines, on the Sala Foundation concert series, and at the residence of the US Ambassador in Manila. Arts writer Keith Powers of the Boston Herald has described Mr. Chin's playing as transcendental, ferociously concentrated, intense, focused, and musically astute, with long lines which Chin spun out like glorious gold thread.

Devoted to chamber music playing, Wayman Chin has collaborated with artists such as the Cassatt String Quartet, flutist Aralee Dorough, violinist Asako Urishihara, violist Toby Appel, sopranos Nancy Armstrong and Karyl Ryczek, and members of the New York Woodwind Quintet. For twelve seasons, he appeared regularly as a member of the artist faculty at the Yellow Barn Music School and Festival. Also an advocate of new music, Mr. Chin has premiered a number of works by noted composers, including those of Meyer Kupferman, and Paul Brust; he has also introduced several works of Aaron Jay Kernis to Boston audiences. Of Chin's performance of Kernis' Valentines, David Cleary of 21st Century Music wrote, Wayman Chin traversed the formidable challenges of the piano part with conspicuous success. His highly demonstrative performing style excellently suited the work's forthright nature.

Wayman Chin earned a Bachelor of Music degree with honors from the University of Hartford's Hartt School and a Master of Music degree from Yale University. At Yale, he was awarded the Catherine S. Winchell Memorial Scholarship as an outstanding piano major. His principal teachers were Donald Currier and Anne Koscielny. Mr. Chin is also a member of the faculty at the Longy School of Music, where in addition to his teaching responsibilities, he serves as Chair of the Chamber Music Program.

Since 2003, Mr. Chin has been a member of the artist faculty at the Stamford International Music Fesitival in England.