Ms. Song earned her MM and DMA from Juilliard. She also holds undergraduate degrees from Stanford University in Music (BA) and Microbiology and Immunology (BS). Her principal teachers were Jerome Lowenthal, Jean-François Antonioli, and Alexei Golovine.

She is currently on the piano and chamber music faculties of the New School for Music at Mannes College (since 1999). In addition, she serves as the current artistic director for Classics Abroad’s summer Paris Piano Program at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris. She previously taught at Oberlin Conservatory and Hunter College.

Her discography on the Pro Piano label includes a recording of Debussy's etudes, awarded a Diapason d’Or in France and named as a "desert island selection" by Gramophone magazine; works by Liszt and Busoni; and premieres of works by the Argentine composer Ezequiel Viñao. Her recording of piano music by Jiang Wenye was selected by celebrated film director Hou Hsiao-Hsien for his movie Café Lumière, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.

During her performance career, she has garnered numerous awards including: Pro Piano Artist of the Year; Pro Musicis International Award; Grand Prize at Palm Beach Invitational Piano Competition; $25,000 Christel Award from American Pianists Association; Sudler Prize for outstanding achievement in the arts from Stanford University; and Petschek Award, Juilliard’s highest honor awarded to a pianist. Ms. Song has appeared in concert in New York at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Avery Fisher Hall in Mostly Mozart Festival; in Paris at Théâtre de l’Athénée and Salle Cortot; in Washington, D.C., at National Gallery and Kennedy Center; and in Taipei at Taipei National Concert Hall. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.