Hi! My name is Amy Yang. I started playing piano at age 4, though I actually did not think I would pursue piano as a vocation. I knew I can play - I went through the levels of piano certification conducted at Carnegie Hall, and arranged to have private recital at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall by the time I was 17. I loved music. I played flute in band, spent my after school hours hanging out outside the halls of New York Philharmonic, and traveled to Germany to see the birth place of Beethoven. However, like so many academically focused students, music eventually fell wayside to mathematics and sciences. By the time I became an adult, my time was spent on studying chemistry at Cornell University, and then onto completing medical school with a specialization in psychiatry plus a postdoctoral fellowship in genetics and psychiatry.

So why am I here now? I realized, after a decade and half of running a medical practice, that something was missing. I was missing something for myself. My piano playing, which has carried me through childhood, through adjusting life in a different culture and language in a different continent, has become a footnote. But life has its own messages. As it happens, I met a piano teacher in my neighborhood (the wonderful Chris Morrow at Topher Allen Music), and he encouraged me to restart piano. After some hesitation as my schedule is already overly hectic, I took the plunge. My first lesson as an adult changed my view of what piano lessons can do.

So now, here I am, back to where I started a long time ago, at the piano keyboard.

What is your story? What brings you here? What can we create together?