Pianist Ya-Fei Chuang was trained in her native Taiwan, Germany, and the U.S. and has performed internationally. In 2007, Chuang joined the faculty of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee; she remained there as of the mid-2020s. She began to appear frequently at festivals, and she was featured on a 2010 release titled Edition Klavier-Festival Ruhr, Vol. 23, performing music by Mendelssohn. Chuang has appeared widely with major orchestras, including the City of Birmingham Symphony, and she has performed on the fortepiano with Boston Baroque and the Handel & Haydn Society, among other groups. She has given the world premieres of works by such major composers as John Harbison and Stanley Walden. In 2019, Chuang released the album Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin and returned in 2023, joining husband Robert Levin, Laurence Cummings, and the Academy of Ancient Music on an album of multiple-piano-concerto recordings of Mozart.