Hailed an “exquisitely subtle pianist” by The New York Times, Taiwanese-American pianist Iris Hsu Shiotsuki is a top prizewinner of the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, Baltimore Music Club, Pacific Musical Society, and Ross McKee Competitions. As an active solo and chamber musician, she has performed across the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Finland, Italy, and Spain, at major venues including The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Embassy of Singapore in Washington, D.C., and the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in California.

 

Iris' recital appearances have taken her to the International Holland Music Sessions, Banff Centre, Gijon International Piano Festival, Zephyr International Chamber Music Festival, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute. Her collaborative artistry has given her the opportunity to perform with Nicholas Kitchen (Borromeo String Quartet), Keng-Yuen Tseng, Thomas Mesa, and Julia Yang (Merz Trio).

 

Iris holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University and received her Master of Music degree in piano performance from The Juilliard School. She has been fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with many renowned artist-pedagogues, including her long-time mentor Boris Slutsky, as well as Matti Raekallio, Leon Fleisher, Ann Schein, Li-Shan Hung, Menahem Pressler, and Robert McDonald.

 

As an educator, Iris has previously held positions working with undergraduate and graduate students as Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and as piano minor faculty at Juilliard. She has also been staff pianist for the New England Conservatory of Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Since 2019, she has spent her summers serving as collaborative faculty at the Heifetz International Music Institute in Staunton, Virginia and the Conservatory Audition Workshop in Burlington, Vermont.

 

Now based in Los Angeles, California and in high demand as an educator, she leads an award-winning private teaching studio, while also teaching and coaching as full-time staff pianist at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.