Cheryl Lin Fielding, D.M.A.

Pianist Cheryl Lin Fielding has performed in concert halls throughout the world, including Japan, Taiwan, Italy, and prestigious venues in the United States, such as the Lincoln Center, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall and the Seiji Ozawa Hall. She has been honored with the Grace B. Jackson Prize in Excellence by the Tanglewood Music Festival and three times received the distinguished Gwendolyn Koldofsky Scholarship Award in Keyboard Collaborative Arts.

She has received teaching fellowships at the Juilliard School and the USC Thornton Opera, and performed with the Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival, and the Mark Morris Dance Group at the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Dr. Fielding has worked for the Los Angeles Opera, Opera Pacific, and Operafestival di Roma, and is presently the co-founder and Music Director of NachtMusik, an ensemble committed to bringing opera experience to inner-city Los Angeles schools.

Cheryl’s musical studies began at the age of three in Taiwan, first on the piano and later on the violin, and continued through two master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano, under the tutelage of Oxana Yablonskaya and Jonathan Feldman, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Southern California in Keyboard Collaborative Arts under Alan Smith, with voice studies under Elizabeth Hynes. Dr. Fielding is currently an Adjunct Professor and opera coach at Chapman University, and a vocal coach at Opera Pacific.