Pianist Ai-Ying Chiu has appeared as both soloist and chamber pianist at many important concert halls in Europe, North America and Asia. In pursuit of her Master’s degree and Graduate Performance Diploma, She entered The Boston Conservatory with a full-tuition scholarship in 2005, and began studies with Michael Lewin. During her time at The Boston Conservatory, she won the highly competitive H. Wilfred Churchill Piano Scholarship Competition and an opportunity to work with the Conservatory orchestra on Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini by Rachmaninoff. In 2008, Ms. Chiu received an Honorable Mention Award at The Boston Conservatory's Mozart Concerto Competition, earning another opportunity to play the concerto with The Boston Conservatory Orchestra and conductor Bruce Hangen.

Ms. Chiu has been a finalist and award recipient at many International Competitions such as Russian Music Piano Competition, Seattle Piano Competition, Chinese International Piano Competition, Steinway Piano Competition, Arlington Young Artist Competition, etc. She has been invited to perform in numerous important concert halls in Russia, France, Germany, Italy, U.S.A., Canada and Taiwan. This includes performances of a Mozart Piano Concerto K.488 at Basilica San Francesco in Assisi, with Enrico Marconi and the Sinphonia Perusina, and solo performances at the Rachmaninoff Concert Hall in Tambov, Russia, The Town Hall in NYC, Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall at Benaroya in Seattle among others, receiving highly favorable reviews from the audience.

As a pianist, Ms. Chiu actively works with other musicians and artists. She is also the founding member of Kaohsiung Chamber Music Ensemble and Voyage Piano Trio which has been one of the Ensembles - in Residence of the Newbridge on Charles concert series. She is a piano faculty at New School of Music in Cambridge.