Gloria Cheng, piano

Soloist and chamber artist: Los Angeles Philharmonic and its New Music Group, Ojai Festival 1989, 1992 and 1996, and appears annually on Pasadena’s PianoSpheres series

Composers writing for her: John Adams, Pierre Boulez, Don Davis, Joan Huang, David Raksin, Terry Riley, Chinary Ung, Andrew Waggoner and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

On disc: music by Oliver Messiaen on Koch, works of John Adams and Terry Riley on Telarc CD and Piano Dance: A 20th-Century Portrait

Education: Economics degree from Stanford University, graduate degrees in Music from UCLA and USC