William Chiang is visiting academic specialist in chamber and collaborative music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

An avid concertizer, collaborative pianist, and chamber musician, Chiang has performed internationally in France, Canada, Ireland, Taiwan, and throughout the United States in solo, collaborative, and chamber music settings. Most recently, he received the Grand Prize in the 2024 Christine Marie Ofiesh Honors Chamber Competition at the University of Southern California as a member of the Ivory Trio and toured across Los Angeles and at the 2025 Rencontres Franco-Américaines in France.

Other awards and distinctions include top prizes in the Memphis International Piano Competition, Redlands Bowl Concerto Competition, International Keyboard Odyssiad, Hellam Young Artist Competition, Beardsley Piano Prize, Knabe International Piano Competition, International Chopin Youth Competition (Houston), Vernell Gregg Young Artists Competition, and the Collin County Young Artist Competition.

Born in the Midwest and raised in Texas, Chiang began playing the piano at age four, studying with Olga Radosavljevich in the preparatory program at the Cleveland Institute of Music and continued pre-college studies in Texas with Andrey Ponochevny and Pamela Mia Paul at the University of North Texas. He earned Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees with a Performer Certificate for outstanding accomplishment in recital from the Jacobs School of Music under the guidance of André Watts and Evelyne Brancart.

In 2012, Chiang made his concerto debut with the Plano Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed as a soloist with the Lewisville Lake Symphony, Indiana University orchestras, and the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra and as an orchestral pianist with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and Brevard Concert Orchestra.

In 2014, he was designated a Texas Young Master in the Arts by the state’s Commission on the Arts, recognizing talented young artists advancing the creative environment in Texas, which led to performances across Texas and a grant to attend the Brevard Music Center’s Summer Piano Institute for two years.

A dedicated and passionate educator, Chiang served as associate instructor in piano during his graduate studies at Jacobs, teaching secondary piano lessons and group piano classes for music and non-music majors. Following this, he was appointed studio teaching assistant/assistant lecturer in keyboard studies at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he is completing a Doctor of Musical Arts (ABD) in Piano Performance degree under the tutelage of Bernadene Blaha, with minors in Keyboard Collaborative Arts, Music Teaching & Learning, and Leadership in Higher Education.

In addition to his solo piano activities, Chiang has a keen interest in the field of collaborative piano performance, learning, and development. He has worked as a collaborative pianist at the University of Southern California, attended the 2025 Brevard Music Center as a teaching assistant in collaborative piano, and received a full fellowship to study at the 2024 Aspen Music Festival as an instrumental collaborative pianist.

His collaborative piano and chamber studies were with Alan Louis Smith, Jean Barr, Margo Garrett, Ralph Kirshbaum, Lucinda Carver, and Kevin Fitz-Gerald at the University of Southern California, and with Anne Epperson, Chih-Yi Chen, Charles Prestinari, Daniel Overly, Sung-Mi Im, and Futaba Niekawa at the Jacobs School of Music.

A passionate advocate for increasing accessibility to classical music beyond the concert hall through chamber music and collaborative performance, Chiang has participated in initiatives that bring music to local communities through his work as a resident artist at the Windwood Music Festival in rural Alberta, Canada, and as president of Medicinal Music Makers, a student organization at the University of Southern California that organized musical experiences and concerts for the patients and staff of the USC Norris Cancer Hospital.