Huiyu-Penny Pan was born in Taiwan. She started her musical education at the age of four. By the age of nine, Ms. Pan was selected to participate in a special musical education program sponsored by the Taiwanese government where she double-majored in piano and violin. It was also during this time, she started her organ lessons. She immigrated to the United State to attend high School and was the assistant director for the school choir.
Ms. Pan was admitted to the University of Southern California with a major in Piano Performance. She received a Bachelor of Music degree and Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from USC.
Ms. Pan has been teaching piano for over ten years and is also active in several professional musicians associations (MTAC, MTNA, and CMS), solo and chamber performing groups, and in church music. Currently Ms. Pan serves as an adjunct faculty member teaching class piano, applied piano, piano pedagogy, and chamber music at California State University, Los Angeles; instructor of class piano, music fundamentals, and music appreciation at East Los Angeles City College and West Los Angeles City College; Organist at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and as a collaborative pianist at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, at Claremont Graduate University, and at the Claremont School of Theology.
Ms. Pan currently also working on her Doctoral of Music Arts degree at the Claremont Graduate University majoring in Historical Performance Practice focusing in fortepiano and Brazilian/Cuban piano repertoire.
