Musicians

張詩賢 Samuel S. Cheung

Samuel S. Cheung has performed as an accompanist in recitals at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Recital Hall, the Carnegie Recital Hall, Avery Fisher Hall (Lincoln Center), Rice University (Houston), The Chan Centre (University of British Columbia), and the Benaroya Hall (Seattle). He has coached with master accompanist Thomas Grubb, vocalists Uta Graf, Helen Vanni, Cynthia Hoffmann, Ellen Rapp, violinist Erick Friedman, violists Lillian Fuchs and Francis Tursi, and cellist Bernard Greenhouse.  He was invited to perform at the Southern Vermont Chamber Music Festival by the late pianist Eugene List and the late violinist Carroll Glenn, and also appeared in the inaugural concert of the Wilmington Grand Opera House in Delaware.  He has also made concert appearances at the International Festival of Youth Orchestras in Aberdeen, Scotland, and subsequently performed in concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London, England, under Leopold Stokowski.  He has appeared in recitals with Metropolitan Opera artist, mezzo-soprano Yun Deng, at Saint Paul’s Chapel in Manhattan (George Washington’s parish) and at Saint John’s Cathedral in Denver, Colorado during the 2000 General Convention of the Episcopal Church, USA.  He has appeared in concert at Ravenna’s Basilica di San Vitale, Venice’s Basilica di San Marco, Rome’s Sant’Ignazio di Loyola and Chiesa del Sacro Nome il Gesu, as well as Basilica di San Pietro at the Vatican.  

Mr. Cheung received his first graduate degree from Manhattan School of Music in Piano Accompanying as a student of Donal Nold and Joseph Sieger.  He obtained his second Master’s degree in Education Administration from Baruch College, City University of New York.  He has done extensive graduate research on English Renaissance music and English Medieval history at Cambridge University, England under the tutelage of Dr. Rosemary Horrox, an authority on the plagues during the medieval period in England

Mr. Cheung’s composition, Missa Nostra Salvatore, received its world premiere at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City in 1996.  Previously he served on the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music and is the Senior Warden of the Episcopal Church of Our Savior in Manhattan.

In November 1999 Mr. Cheung was honored by York College of the City University of New York with the Kappa Delta Pi Chapter Award of Recognition.  In 2003 he was the recipient of a New York City Council Citation presented by City Council-members Vincent Gentile, Sara Gonzalez and John Liu.