Vivianne Cheng, one of the youngest Steinway Artists in the world, has performed extensively throughout Europe and the U.S. She made her solo debut at the age of ten and has since appeared at prestigious venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, the Royal Concertgebouw, the Wiener Musikverein, Salle Cortot, the Lincoln Center, the Wonderfeel Festival, Festival Ljubljana, and the Verbier Festival.
She completed her education at several leading international institutions, studying at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Naum Grubert, the Mozarteum University with Andreas Groethuysen and Pavel Gililov, and the Curtis Institute of Music with Gary Graffman and Leon Fleisher.
Current highlights in Vivianne Cheng's concert schedule include solo performances in Austria, France, Latvia, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA; Concerts at the Mahler Festival in the Royal Concertgebouw and a live performance on Dutch national radio; concerts in Belarus and Germany as a guest soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Symphony Orchestra; World premiere at the Aspects Festival in Salzburg; in addition, she will be recording a new CD of 48 préludes.
Vivianne has won prizes at numerous international competitions, including the Tureck International Bach Competition, the New York International Piano Competition, the Concurso Internacional de Piano CLaMo, the Bartók-Kabalevsky-Prokofiev International Piano Competition, the Wideman International Piano Competition, the Concours International de Piano de Lagny and the Albert of the Philadelphia Orchestra M. Greenfield Concerto Competition and First Prize winner of the Arts Arena-Curtis Institute of Music. Vivianne has also received support from the Jacques Vonk Fund and been awarded the AHK Talent Grant, the David H. Springman Memorial Fellowship, the Vladimir Horowitz Piano Scholarship and the Frank Huntington Beebe Fund Grant.
Her performances have been broadcast on television and radio networks including PBS, Y Arts 'On Stage at Curtis', The Classical Network (WWFM), Good Morning Television New Zealand, and were also featured in the acclaimed documentaries "On a Personal Note" (2010) and "The Martins Passion" (2004). As a chamber musician, Vivianne has performed with Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian and Efe Baltacigil, and she studied with Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman, Pamela Frank, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Aaron Rosand and Thomas Riebl, among others. In addition, she has premiered many new works for solo piano and mixed ensembles and played works by well-known composers such as William Bolcom, Reinhard Febel and Ned Rorem.
Prior to the Curtis Institute, Vivianne attended the Juilliard School, where she entered the university programme at the age of fifteen. Past principal teachers include Ruth Slenczynska, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Nina Lelchuk, and Arkady Aronov. She has also attended masterclasses with renowned pianists such as Alicia de Larrocha, György Sándor, Claude Frank, Earl Wild, Boris Berman, Dmitri Bashkirov, Kirill Gerstein, Richard Goode, Robert McDonald, Menahem Pressler, Ferenc Rados and Arie Vardi.