Chia-Wen Wang Bonbright’s talent and love of music lead her to the Taipei Municipal Teacher’s College where she was accepted with a full scholarship and majored in music with emphasis on piano and voice performance while being trained as a choral conductor during and after her Bachelor degree in Music.  She also won the piano concerto competition while in the college.  In 1997 she accepted a scholarship at the University of Houston, Moores School of Music and was granted two Masters Degrees in the fields of Piano Chamber Music and Accompanying and Performance and Pedagogy under the tutelage of Professors Hester, Brownlee and Shaw.  Mrs. Shaw had also granted her a teaching position while Mrs. Bonbright studied with her at University of Houston.

 

As collaborative pianist, Mrs. Bonbright was invited to perform at the Taipei National Concert Hall in Taipei and other cities around Taiwan.  She was also the designated pianist for several universities for their faculty recitals and concerts. Between the years of 2004 and 2006, she accepted the position of adjunct professor for several schools in Taipei and Yi-Lan where a piano trio she coached won the prize from the National Chamber Music Contest.  She also performed as the pianist for several chamber music ensembles in several cities in Taiwan and the United States. She accepted the position of Music Director for the CAMA Chorus (Chinese American Musicians’ Association) in 2012 that has performed a mixed repertoire of Eastern and Western music at their annual concert in Houston. Prior to that, she was the pianist for the CAMA Chorus.  As well, she was the music director for the musical, “Winter Wonderettes”,  performed three weeks running in 2013 with a sold out house produced by the Houston Family Arts Center (HFAC), a theater company that has been recognized as Houston’s” Best Gem of a Theater Award” by the Houston Press.  

 

Mrs. Bonbright is known as an outstanding, prominent and recognized collaborative concert pianist and piano educator.  She has also been a judge for many piano contests and music competitions in Greater Houston area while holding a chairman position for Houston Federation of Music Clubs. Currently she actively performs and coaches many professional and aspiring young musicians at her piano school as well as a staff accompanist of Lone Star College Cy-Fair Campus.