About Me

Hailing from Singapore, Samuel E. Pang is a master's student in piano performance and pedagogy at the highly acclaimed University of Oklahoma (OU) for piano pedagogy excellence. He is under the tutelage of Sara M. Ernst (Director of Piano Pedagogy) and John Patrick Murphy (Piano Area Chair) and serves as both their Graduate Teaching Assistant for Group and Secondary Piano, respectively. His piano studies are with Jeongwon Ham (Frieda Derdeyn Bambas Professor of Piano in Music). Samuel is also generously sponsored by the Trailblazer Foundation for MM studies.Prior to this, Samuel received a Bachelor of Education (Piano Pedagogy) with 1st class honours from The Royal College of Music, London on NAFA Scholarship and Shariff-Vaidhya Arts Scholarship from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. His grounding in piano pedagogy was established by mentor Julie Tan (President of The Singapore Music Teachers’ Association). His piano teachers include Kim Bo Kyung, Rena Phua, and Nellie Seng. Additionally, he received several mentoring sessions with Penelope Roskell, and Loo Bang Hean.His recent research supervised by Rebecca Kan and Miranda Francis focused on aural development in early piano education in Singapore; challenging the pedagogy within one-to-one applied studio teaching. He has also presented at the UCSI Piano Pedagogy Conference 2023.

As a Teacher

As a teacher of music, he is passionate about piano education and everything in between including aural, technique, and contextual studies.He values the holistic development of the musician-pianist across all ages. He believes that empowering students to be self-sufficient learners of music is important hence, he provides and equips them with the necessary skills needed to become thinking pianists!

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As a Pianist

Samuel maintains a robust mastery of standard repertoire while keeping a keen interest in late-19th and early-20th century literature, and piano duo and duet works.He was selected by Ursula Oppens (five Grammy Award nominee and Distinguished Professor at Mannes School of Music and CUNY Graduate Center in New York City) to receive mentorship after his performance at the Nanyang International Music Competition 2019. Similarly, at the Nanyang International Piano Academy Competition 2019, he was deemed one of the top scorers that year and accepted an invitation to perform for You Xi (Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing). He clinched the Gold Award at the Nanyang International Piano Academy Competition 2022 under the Open category.He has performed in other masterclasses by renowned pianists and pedagogues– Lilya Zilberstein (University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna), Claudius Tanski (Mozarteum, Salzburg), Andrjez Pikul (Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow, Poland), Melody Quah (Penn State University, USA), and Louis Schwizgebel (Leeds International Piano Competition).

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Affiliation
Member
The Singapore Music Teachers' Association

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