Pianist Janet Kao has given numerous concerts in the United States, Australia, Austria, Spain, and Taiwan.  She made her solo debut in the National Concert Hall of Taiwan in 1997 and her concerto debut with the Taipei Chamber Orchestra in 1998.  Her many awards include first prize in the Puigcerda International Piano Solo Competition in Spain, top prizes in the Baltimore Music Club Competition and the Yamaha Piano Competition in Taiwan.  Ms. Kao was also awarded the Gwendolyn and Adolph Koldofsky Memorial Scholarship at USC for three consecutive years.

As an experienced collaborator, Janet Kao has made many appearances in the Los Angeles area with instrumentalists and vocalists.  She has been invited to several summer festivals including the Music Academy of the West, the Bowdoin Music Festival, and the Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival.  She has served as a staff accompanist at the Aspen Music Festival, and as staff coach at Opera in the Ozarks and American Institute of Musical Arts in Graz, Austria.  Currently she serves as adjunct faculty at Fullerton College, and the assistant opera coach for the CSULB Opera and the USC Opera.

Ms. Kao is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California.  She received her previous education from The Peabody Conservatory, and The Juilliard School.  She has studied with Robert McDonald, Jonathan Feldman, Brian Zeger, and Alan Smith.