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

Nora is an active performer and appears as soloist and as a chamber musician and as the pianist of the Tre Colore Trio.  She has a private studio of piano students, coaches instrumental and vocal performance and is a piano professor at Santa Monica College in Los Angeles.  She also holds lecture-demonstrations on piano technique, performance anxiety prevention and practicing techniques.  Nora’s students have been accepted into prestigious schools such as Indiana University’s conservatory of music.

Nora has studied and coached with world renowned pianists and chamber musicians including pianists Leonard Shure, Claude Franck, Gyorgy Sebok, Evelyne Brancart, Barry Snyder, Leonard Eisner and Jerome Lowenthal. Her chamber music coaches have included the former Cleveland Quartet, Beaux Arts Trio and the Guarnieri 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, keyboardist, vocalist and music transcriber. She has performed piano with vocalists, choirs, violinists, violists, cellists, trumpet players, horn players, flautists, clarinetists and percussionists. Nora has been a life-long student and performer of vocal repertoire and studied voice at pre-college Juilliard and at USC’s Thornton School of Music. She has also worked extensively as a vocal accompanist and coach in the studios of Jan DeGaetani and John Malloy and with the USC’s Thornton School of Music’s SATB Chorus and under choral director Jane Hardester.

In her many years as a student of music, Nora has developed a mentoring style of teaching, which is both highly disciplined and individually modeled to the needs of each student.  The philosophy underlying her teaching is that music can enrich any student’s life and that personal growth and progress can be made at any age and at any skill-level. Ms. Chiang Wrobel is a dedicated teacher and mentor to those students who show sincere interest in their piano study.  She encourages and challenges students to strive towards their best, giving them the knowledge, tools and inspiration needed to discover life-long fulfillment in piano and music, regardless of profession. Ms. Chiang Wrobel has the patience, warmth, exuberance and spirit to inspire those who wish to find fulfillment in piano and music studies. Her teaching is both thoughtful and intelligent and she has the acute ability to examine and offer solutions to core problem areas in each student.  She has taught students ages five to seventy-three, from the beginning to the advanced levels with much success.

Nora is an active member of the Music Teacher’s Association of California and the Music Teacher’s National Association and her students are involved in association activities including recitals, competitions, festivals and the annual Certificate of Merit evaluations.

Ms.Chiang Wrobel is well-respected in the Los Angeles area both as a performer and as a teacher.  Students from southern California have traveled from Rialto, Pasadena, Glendale, Altadena, Anaheim, Palos Verdes, Brentwood, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Culver City, West Los Angeles, East Los Angeles, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Marina Del Rey, Torrance, Long Beach, and Huntington Beach to study with her in Marina Del Rey, California.