Aimee Zeng teaches classical piano in Westwood, CA and online. She has been teaching piano since 2023. Aimee Zeng is an undergraduate student at UCLA, studying both Piano Performance and Linguistics & Computer Science. Aimee began playing the piano at six. A five-times recipient of Santa Cruz Symphony Mueller Scholarship, Aimee has won top prizes in numerous competitions including Cesar Franck Int’l Piano Competition in Belgium, Costa Rica Int’l piano Competition, American Beethoven Society Young Pianists Beethoven Competition, USIMC, KAMSA, Burlingame Music Competition and PianoTexas Concerto Competition, to name a few. She has performed as a soloist with Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Golden State Youth Symphony and Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony. In addition, she has attended many prestigious music festivals such as PianoTexas, Music@Menlo, Tanglewood Institute and Southeastern Piano Festival. She has been a member of the Young Chamber Musicians in Burlingame from 2021-2023 and Santa Cruz County Youth Symphony from 2019-2023, where she received the Musicianship award. She was also a UCLA Gluck Fellow from 2024-2025. Aimee has previously worked with Chia-Lin Yang and Rodolfo Leone during pre-college years and has played in masterclasses of Yoheved Kaplinsky, Robert Shannon, Orli Shaham, Gabriel Kwok, Clara Yang, Hans Boepple. She currently studies piano with Yamaha artist, David Kaplan. Apart from playing piano, she enjoys listening to different genres of music, making food, solving logic puzzles and studying Tudor history.
