Dr. Wei-Yi Sun is a pianist and piano teacher living in central Ohio. She teaches at Kenyon College, Gambier Ohio, as a piano professor, as well as her own private studio. She earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from the Ohio State University in 2020 studying with Professor Steven Glaser, and her Master of Music in piano performance from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2016. As an active performer, Wei-Yi has performed world-wide including solo recitals in Taiwan (National Taichung Theatre), United States, and at many international music festivals including the Amalfi Coast Music Festival in Italy, the Prague International Piano Festival in the Czech Republic, and Musical Academy of Villefavard in France. Many awards she won include the absolute first prize in UK International Music Competition, Gold Medal in Forte International Music Competition (Carnegie Hall, New York), first prizes in both the OhioMTA Graves Piano Competition and Women in Music Audition, Honorable Mention in NTD International Piano Competition, and Semi-Finalist of Petrichor International Music Competition.
You can find Wei-Yi’s 2024 Winter Music Competition piano performance here.
You can find Wei-Yi’s 2024 Baroque Music Competition piano performance here.