About Me

I’m a pianist, composer, and music scholar. Broadly speaking, my interests include performance practice of notated music, archival music media, and global modernisms. I focus in particular on piano music since 1900 in North America, Africa, and Asia.

The repertoire I study and perform often demands unconventional approaches to interpretation. This includes plenty of new music by living composers; I especially enjoy collaborating with friends. My work with notation also comprises transcription and critical edition to facilitate performances and analysis anew. Some of my editorial work has appeared in publication, and indeed brought forth new performances.

Most of my compositions are for solo piano, and introspective in character. Many of them think through the music of others; some of them quote motifs as like characters in a narrative, to be developed and recontextualized; I often juxtapose music from disparate sources to highlight unexpected connections. I have also written several pieces based on my transcriptions of others’ performances, establishing points of contact between different embodiments of the same music.

Recent and upcoming projects include:

• a biography of Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, based on my doctoral dissertation

• transcriptions of piano music by Diamanda Galás

• an album of piano music by Eve Beglarian

• the premiere of a new piano work by Alison Yun-fei Jiang

• performances at Park Avenue Armory and Monday Evening Concerts

My pastimes include learning new languages, foraging, and exploring my surroundings. I’m happily married, and a parent to three cats.

A “professional” bio is available here, as is a CV.

My surname, “Feng” (冯 féng), correctly pronounced, rhymes with “sung”, not “sang”.