Hailed an “exquisitely subtle pianist” by The New York Times, Iris Hsu Shiotsuki has garnered top prizes in the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, Baltimore Music Club, Pacific Musical Society, and Ross McKee Competitions. As an active solo and chamber musician, she has performed across the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Finland, Italy, and Spain, at major venues including The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Embassy of Singapore in Washington, D.C., the Banff Centre, and the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts in California.

Ms. Hsu holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University and received her Master of Music degree in piano performance from The Juilliard School. She counts herself fortunate to have had the opportunity to work closely with renowned artist-pedagogues including her long-time mentor Boris Slutsky, as well as Matti Raekallio, Leon Fleisher, Ann Schein, Li-Shan Hung, and Robert McDonald.

Ms. Hsu’s versatility as a performer, educator, and collaborator has led her to serve as Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; piano minor faculty at The Juilliard School; and as staff pianist for the New England Conservatory of Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and Peabody Conservatory. In the summers, she has served as collaborative piano faculty at the Heifetz International Music Institute in Staunton, Virginia since 2019 and the Conservatory Audition Workshop in Burlington, Vermont since 2018.

Now based in Los Angeles, California, Ms. Hsu is currently the full-time staff pianist for the Music Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where she works with choral ensembles and both instrumental and vocal students and faculty, performing a diverse range of musical styles and genres.