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Cheryl Xiao

Cheryl is an excellent professional piano teacher and pianist, with a strong academic background and super rich teaching experience.

Cheryl has all the makings of a great piano teacher. She has:

Strong professional background

---Super professional knowledge and skills

Cheryl started learning piano at very young age  and won lots of competitions, from local to international, such as second prize of Sichuan province's (China) Art show competition when she was in high school and America protégé international piano competition as a pro and etc.

As 1st place of professional achievement in Sichuan province, she was admitted into Sichuan Normal University. Due to her outstanding professional ability and quality, Cheryl was directly submitted to the graduate school of the school for further study, got her master degree of piano pedagogy and performance.

---Strong academic research ability

Cheryl participated in the compilation of "Chinese Music Classics Speed ​​Reading" and "Foreign Classics Speed ​​Reading" series of books during her studies.

During her study and work, Cheryl also published a large number of academic papers and was cited many times.

---Very rich stage performance experience

Cheryl was invited to play at Carnegie Hall.

Cheryl was invited to perform at the award ceremony of the 5th film festival of Silicon Valley.

Cheryl was invited to be the piano accompanist and artistic director at SVAY chorus and A Sharp chorus in bay area.

Cheryl has been invited to serve as the singer's accompanist many times during her studies and work.

Cheryl has participated in countless large or small concerts in her career.

Super rich teaching experience

​---Cheryl has more than 23 years teaching experience.

---Cheryl has taught many professional piano students at the university, as a faculty member of Art School of South West University of Technology and Science in China.

---Cheryl has taught countless non-professional students, from 4 years old to adults.

---Many of Cheryl's students have won different piano competitions around the world, received Certificates of "distinction" or "merit" in the ABRSM exams or been admitted to professional music schools.

---Cheryl's outstanding teaching achievements have been recognized by many international music institutions or associations.

The reason why Cheryl can achieve the above teaching results is she has a strong ability to find problems, solve problems and prevent problems for students, so that students can do well at the beginning, without detours.

Strong affinity with students

---Cheryl has excellent communication skills and develops excellent rapport with students.

​---Cheryl received high recognition and praise from students and parents, please go to "piano lesson" page to review.

---Cheryl is good at discovering and affirming the progress of students, but at the same time, she will also point out the shortcomings and put forward constructive suggestions for improvement, so that students can rationally view their own performance.

---For better teaching quality, Cheryl has also been constantly improving herself, and will also dabble in many other fields, such as psychology, history and philosophy, etc.