Angela Cheng

Cheng first started teaching piano at the University of Colorado. She joined the faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1999. In 2010, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta, in her hometown of Edmonton.

In 1994, she joined Piano Six (also composed of pianists Janina Fialkowska, Marc-André Hamelin, Angela Hewitt, André Laplante, and Jon Kimura Parker), which aimed to bring classical music to small communities across Canada. In 2012, she made her Carnegie Hall debut, performing with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. That year, she also performed with Pinchas Zukerman at the Salzburg Festival.

In 1985, Cheng made her recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in New York City. In 1986, she won third prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition. In 1988, she won first prize at the Montreal International Music Competition (becoming the first Canadian to win the competition). She was awarded a Medal of Excellence at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in 1991.

With the foundation's support, Cheng studied at the Juilliard School in New York with Sascha Gorodnitzki, earning a bachelor's degree in music (1982). She went on to earn a master's degree in music from Indiana University Bloomington (1984), where she studied with Menahem Pressler.

Angela Cheng (Chinese: 鄭美蓮; born September 9, 1959) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian classical pianist. She has performed internationally as a recitalist and as a guest soloist with orchestras. Cheng is a professor of piano at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.

Cheng was born in Hong Kong in 1959 and immigrated to Edmonton, Alberta, as a child. She studied piano at Alberta College with Vera Shean and at the University of Alberta with Ernesto Lejano. In 1979, Anne Burrows, a local patron of the arts, established a foundation to fundraise for Cheng's further training.