At the age of 14, Fan Chiang Yi won top prize in the Carl Filtsch International Piano Competition in Romania, from when he began to showcase his talent on the international stage, joining competitions such as the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, in Warsaw; the Queen Elisabeth Piano Competition, in Belgium; the Long-Thibaud Piano Competition, in Paris; the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, in Israel; and the Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition, in Moscow. Fan Chiang has received some thirty international awards and honours presented by various music associations and governments all over the world.

Fan Chiang Yi received a dual Master’s Degree in performance and education and a PhD during his 16-year residence in Germany. He was admitted to Germany’s most renowned institution, the Hanover University of Music, at the age of 17, where he majored in performance and education; at 23, he was admitted to the Europe’s highest degree ‘Soloklasse’ (PhD) in Hanover, the youngest person to be accepted since the establishment of the academy. At 26, prior to his graduation with a PhD, he received the position of piano professor in Germany’s Hanover University of Music, becoming the youngest teacher there.

Fan Chiang has extensive experiences in performing, staging in the National Concert Hall in Taiwan at the age of 16. Since then, he has been invited to perform in various Asian and Western countries; in addition to regular concert tours in Taiwan and overseas, he often performs with the symphonic bands in Taiwan, including the National Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra, Purely Professional Orchestra, Philharmonia Moments Musicaux, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, Chiuko Traditional Orchestra, String Ensemble of the Taipei National University of the Arts, and the Wind Band of the National Taiwan University of the Arts.

Fan Chiang was invited to be a jury member of the 19th Ibiza International Piano Competition in Spain, and the piano competitions held in the Shanghai International Piano Festival & Institute. He has been the professor of piano at the Taipei National University of the Arts since 2012, advisory professor in the Shanghai International Piano Festival & Institute, an instructor of the MA and PhD piano programmes at the National Music Academy in Trossingen, Germany since 2008, and a piano instructor of the Hanover University of Music, in Germany, since 2007.