Welcome to the piano studio of Nora Chiang Wrobel , a musician with many distinctions to recommend her as a passionate teacher and mentor.

Nora Chiang Wrobel began her music studies at the age of four and received a five-year scholarship to study piano at the pre-college division of the Juilliard School at the age of thirteen. In addition to the Juilliard School award, Nora has been the recipient of scholarships from the Eastman School of Music , the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music , Banff Music Festival, The Music Academy of the West and Roundtop Music Festival. She holds a piano performance Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music degree from the USC’s Thornton School of Music. She completed graduate work at New England Conservatory and the University of New Mexico and attended Banff Music Festival, Roundtop Music Festival and The Music Academy of the West. Her studies have yielded her a lifelong membership in Pi Kappa Lambda; a distinguished national music honors society of music curriculum graduates who have achieved the highest standard of academic excellence.

Nora has studied and coached with some of the world’s most renowned pianists and chamber musicians including pianists Leonard Shure, Claude Franck, Gyorgy Sebok, Evelyn Brancart, Barry Snyder, Leonard Eisner and Jerome Lowenthal. Her chamber music coaches have included the former Cleveland Quartet, Beaux Arts Trio and the Guarneri Quartet.

Nora’s love of musical diversity also led her to travel with a rock band briefly with whom she worked as a song-writer, performance coach, pianist, vocalist, and music transcriber. She has performed piano with vocalists, choirs, violinists, violists, cellists, trumpet players, horn players, flautists, clarinetists and percussionists. Among her many areas of study, Nora has been a life-long student and performer of vocal repertoire. She has sung solo and in choirs since the age of seven and studied voice at the pre-college division of the Juilliard School with Lorraine Nubar and at the University of Southern California with Victoria Muto. She has also worked extensively as a vocal accompanist and coach in the studios of Jan DeGaetani and John Malloy and with the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music’s SATB Chorus and under choral director Jane Hardester.