ICMC Festival

Trio Jeng ( China.Taiwan/USA ) Soprano

Soprano Trio Jeng has performed the soprano solos in most major choral repertoire including Bach’s Magnificat, Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Faure’s Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Mass in D minor, Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Mozart’s Requiem, Saint-Saens’ Oratorio de Noël, Vivaldi’s Gloria, to name a few, as well as scores of Cantatas by Bach. In March 2007, Ms. Jeng stepped in on a two-day notice to sing the soprano solo of Haydn’s Paukenmesse with the Lebanon (OH) Symphony and Chorus at its subscribed season concert.

Ms. Jeng advocates and performs vocal chamber music extensively with many chamber ensembles and regularly with Trio Lyrique, a voice/flute/piano ensemble she co-founded in 2005. In January 2008, she premiered Alleluia for voice and clarinet by American composer Rick Sowash. Opera experiences have included Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (chorus, Cincinnati Opera), Sullivan’s The Mikado (chorus, Sorg Opera), Mozart’s Die Enführung aus dem Serail (chorus, Nashville Symphony), Puccini’s Madame Butterfly (Suzuki, scenes, Siena Orchestra), and Wagner’s Tannhäuser (chorus, UCC workshop). Ms. Jeng has appeared in concerts in France, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Taiwan and the United States.

In January 2006, Ms. Jeng co-founded the Clermont Festival Chorale based at the University of Cincinnati Clermont College in Batavia, Ohio. As director and conductor, she conducted this 2-year-old community chorus in four concerts in two seasons. In addition, she led the Chorale in concert collaborations in Mahler’s Symphony #2 with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and Chorus along with the Cincinnati Choral Society at KSO’s 2007-2008 season opening concert. The Chorale performed a regional premiere of Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light, an opera/oratorio inspired by Carl Dreyer’s 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc, with the Lebanon (OH) Symphony and Chorus for its 2006-2007 season finale concert. The Chorale also performed excerpts of Handel’s Messiah in which Ms. Jeng sang the soprano solo with the Clermont (OH) Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006.

Ms. Jeng is on the voice faculty at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department. Summer finds her on the voice faculty at the International Chamber Music Courses and Festival in Positano, Italy. Her students have received awards from festivals and competitions and many have been awarded scholarship to study at prestigious schools of music such as Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Ohio State University, among others.

Ms. Jeng received a B.A. degree with voice major and piano minor from the University of Chinese Culture in Taiwan and a M.M. degree in vocal performance from the Pennsylvania State University. Advanced studies have included conducting, pedagogy, music history and literature, diction and language courses at University of Cincinnati as well as numerous master class and workshop participations in Europe and the United States. Her teachers include Dr. Suzanne Roy at the Pennsylvania State University, Patricia Berlin and Mary Henderson Stucky at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as well as Ernesto Panariello, baritone-in-residence at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy.