Lim Angela Tchoi,

Lim Angela Tchoi holds the Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from Arizona State University, where she studied performance with Robert Hamilton and was mentored in pedagogy by Janice Meyer Thompson. Dr. Tchoi served as a Faculty Associate for the ASU Piano Preparatory/Conservatory Program and received Special Talent Awards from the School of Music while completing her coursework with a cumulative GPA of 4.0. After winning a prize at the Jacob Flier International Piano Competition, she received a generous scholarship from the Vladimir & Haewon Feltsman Piano Foundation to pursue further studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany. Dr. Tchoi earned the Master of Music in Piano Performance under the tutelage of Stewart Gordon at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where she also received the Bachelor of Music cum laude with guidance from Dennis Thurmond. Furthermore, she engaged in additional coaching from Philip Kawin, Robert Roux, Susan Starr, Paul Ostrovsky, Alexander Korsantia, and Vladimir Feltsman. Her expertise is in the compositions of Swiss musician Frank Martin (1890-1974), which led to extensive research in the Netherlands and Switzerland. She is fluent in English and Korean, and has studied French, Italian, and German⏤receiving a grant to attend the Institut für deutsche Sprache und Kultur at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Prior to joining the faculty at Scripps College, she was the Assistant Professor of Applied Piano and Director of Keyboard Studies at Henderson State University and an Instructor of Music & Collaborative Pianist at the University of Central Arkansas and Austin Peay State University. She is happy to be back in southern California for the fall 2025 semester!