Please direct any website-related questions or issues to the SVCC Webmaster. Last Update: 11/2/2024
SVCC Accompanist JASON SIA (continued)
His 2018-2020 solo piano concert engagements will include the
Carnegie Hall Solo Piano Concert in New York City on June 21st,
2018, Thursday at 7:30pm, the Renaissance Society of
Sacramento on October 19th, 2018, the Mu Phi Epsilon
International Professional Music Fraternity Alumni Concert on
February 9th, 2019, the Crocker Art Museum Classical Concert
Series on April 14th, 2019, the “Performance at Pioneer” Concert
Series at Pioneer Congregational United Church of Christ on
November 10th, 2019, the “Music at Noon” Concert Series at
Westminster Presbyterian Church on August 12th, 2020, and
The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.
in 2020. His repertoire spans from the Baroque works of Bach,
Soler, Handel, and Scarlatti, the Classical repertoire of Haydn,
Mozart, and Beethoven, the Romantic literature of Schubert,
Liszt, Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Schumann, and
Rachmaninoff, and on to the 20th century compositions of
Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, Bartok, Copland, Corigliano, Ives,
Ligeti, Bolcom, and Gershwin.
Mr. Sia is the pianist for the Sacramento Valley Concert Choir.
As an avid chamber music artist and a collaborative pianist, he
frequently plays with musicians from the Sacramento
Philharmonic, Auburn Symphony, Folsom Lake Symphony,
CSUS Symphony, and the Camellia Symphony Orchestra.
As a music educator, Mr. Sia has served as an adjudicator for
several piano competitions and his students have been winners
of prestigious national and international piano competitions and
has performed at Carnegie Hall and in Europe. He is a member
of the Royal Conservatory Music Development Program
(RCMDP), the Music Teachers’ Association of California (MTAC),
the California Association of Professional Music Teachers
(CAPMT), the Music Teachers’ National Association (MTNA), the
National Guild of Piano Teachers, and the American College of
Musicians.
Mr. Sia started his piano studies at the age of 6 and received his
formal musical education at the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music, and at the Aspen Music School and Festival in Colorado.
He earned his Bachelor and Master Degrees in Piano
Performance at California State University, Sacramento, under
the tutelage of Dr. Gene Savage and Dr. Lorna Peters,
graduating cum laude. He has performed at Carnegie Hall and
master classes for internationally renowned concert pianists and
celebrated pedagogues such as Louis Lortie, Gilbert Kalish,
Minuro Nojima, Thomas Schumacher, Leon Fleisher, Gabriel
Chodos, John McCarthy, and Olivier Cazal. Abroad, he has
attended summer piano festivals and performed at master
classes and recitals at such places as the Colmar International
Music Festival in France, at the Hong Kong Academy of
Performing Arts, the Korean National University of Arts, and the
University of the Philippine Conservatory of Music.
At California State University in Sacramento, Mr. Sia was
immediately selected to join the International Music Honor
Society of Phi Kappa Lambda, the Academic Honor Society of
Phi Kappa Phi, the Golden Key International Honour Society for
academic excellence, and the Mu Phi Epsilon International
Professional Music Fraternity for his pianist accomplishments.
He was a recipient for the talent-based music scholarship each
semester through his graduation, and also received the
distinguished CSUS Faculty Merit Scholarship Award in 1996 for
his academic achievement. Mr. Sia’s avid enthusiasm for avant-
garde music was recognized by becoming a three-time winner of
the Festival of New American Music (FENAM) Artist Competition.
For more information, please visit www.jasonsia.com
<back>
