Janice ChenJu Chiang was a former piano faculty at Northern Arizona University from 2007 to 2021 and recently moved to Albuquerque. Dr. Chiang concertized as a soloist and a collaborative pianist extensively in the United States, South Korea, and her native country Taiwan. As a Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education practitioner, she believes kinesthetic-inspired piano teaching and playing can bring greater positive and healthier experience for music students while they pursue their passion. Enhancing the connection between mind and body can stimulate the brain to sparkle powerful inspiration and aspiration.

Dr. Chiang takes special interests in research and interdisciplinary concerts. Her collaboration with the installation artist Shawn Skabelund, "Composition for Forests," won the Flagstaff Art Council's Viola award in 2016. Additionally, she has collaborated with the acclaimed photographer Shane McDermott in 2012 using his intense and colorful photo art in her all-Fauré concert. In 2018, Dr. Chiang conducted a human-subject testing research "A Pilot Study of the Feldenkrais Method’s® Impact on the Piano Playing" funded by Northern Arizona University and presented in the Arizona State Music Teachers Association Conference in 2019.

Dr. Chiang received a BA from Taiwan Soochow University, MM from Taiwan Fu-Jen Catholic University, and DMA from the University of Arizona. Her piano teachers included Dr. Paula Fan, Dr. Shu-Wen Sun, Dr. Michael Dellinger, Bobby Wang, Patricia Kavanagh, Fen Fen Chen,and has been coached by many esteemed artists such as Richard Tedly-Kardos, Leonidas Lipovetsky, Dean Kramer, and Martin Katz.

Dr. Chiang loves to go hiking, cooking, wild mushroom hunting, or do Feldenkrais movement on the floor to relax herself when she is free.

For more information about her, please visit her website:

www.creativekinesensing.com/piano