Piano Lessons with Liza W.

Liza is an American-born Korean-Chinese classical pianist, keyboardist, organist, and educator based in Manhattan, with over 25 years of experience teaching and performing. She works regularly with professional musicians in New York City and internationally, and has appeared in major concert halls, universities, and festivals across the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Liza has been affiliated with leading musical institutions including Barnard College of Columbia University, New York University, Interlochen Arts Camp, the Killington Music Festival, and the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, where she has served as organist. Her performance background spans classical chamber music, opera, orchestral keyboard, musical theater, and contemporary media.

At the heart of Liza’s work is teaching young musicians. She has trained and taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Preparatory Program, Oberlin College Conservatory’s Piano Lab, School for Strings (Suzuki), and the Diller-Quaile School of Music. Her teaching focuses on building strong fundamentals, confident sight-reading, healthy technique, musical expression, and joyful preparation for recitals, exams, and competitions. Liza works with children from their very first piano lessons through advanced high school levels, as well as teens preparing for conservatory study.

Liza holds performance degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (M.M.) and Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (B.M.), is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, and holds Suzuki certification from the School for Strings in New York City.