Music Academy 2022 Duo Competition winner Yu-Ting Peng is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Keyboard Collaborative Arts with Kevin Fitz-Gerald at the USC Thornton School of Music. She completed her master’s degree in piano performance as a teaching assistant at the California State University, Northridge, where she received the Outstanding Student award, Jakob Gimpel scholarship, and first prize of the concerto competition at CSUN, allowing her to perform with the orchestra. Throughout her musical career, she has trained under well-known professors including John Perry, Dmitry Rachmanov, Alan Smith, and Bernadene Blaha. She has studied in masterclass with Yuan Sheng, Meng-Chieh Lui, Daniel Shapiro, and more. Peng attends summer festivals regularly including Music Academy, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Montecito International Music Festival, and the John Perry Academy of Music. She is currently working as a collaborative pianist at Thornton School of Music.