Joyce Yu‑Cheng Chung, pianist, originally from Taiwan, gave her first performance at the age of seven, and by ten, she had won a competition to perform with Hwa Kang Orchestra under conductor Helen Quach. At eleven, she won the Taiwan National Piano Competition, and subsequently represented Taiwan performing in Seoul, Korea in the First Asian Younger Musician's Festival, as well as in Japan and Guam with the Kuang Jen School. While in Taiwan, she was studying with Professors Zhang Chaixiang and Anna Teng.

Ms. Chung came to the United States in 1972. She was a prize winner in the Rip Hondo Young Artists Competition and the Santa Barbara Young Artists Competition in California before moving to the East Coast to study at the Pre-College of The Juilliard School.

She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music from The Juilliard School, where she was a scholarship student of Adele Marcus. She was the recipient of the Theresa Kleppel Piano Prize from The Juilliard School and a winner of the Koszciuszko Foundation's Chopin Competition. She has made numerous concert appearances on several radio and television shows, Staten Island's Concert Association with the New Haven String Trio (Paul Kantor, Karen Dreyfus, Roger Low), The Staten Island Chamber Players, Pro Musica, The Faith Concert Series, Harvard University's Fogg Museum's concert series, at Juilliard, Yale University, Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Hall. She was featured as the soloist with the All‑City Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall performing Liszt Piano Concerto No.1, and with the Staten Island Symphony Orchestra performing Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1, Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No.2, and Poulenc Concerto for Two Pianos with her younger sister, Nancy Wu Downing. Ms. Chung was the guest soloist in Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F Major in Taipei, Taiwan with the National Taiwan Normal University Orchestra, and more recently with the Staten Island Philharmonic.

Joyce Chung has toured extensively in solo recitals and in concerts in Taiwan, and throughout North America such as Houston, New York, Boston, Chicago, Toronto with critical acclaim. As a winner of The Artists International Auditions, she debuted in a solo recital at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall and subsequently in another at Alice Tully Hall of Lincoln Center as the Distinguished Alumna Winner.

Ms. Chung was the Chairman of the Young Musicians Auditions at Steinway Hall and Concert at the Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall of the Associated Music Teachers League from 1997-2005. She is the former President of The Associated Music Teachers League, Inc. from 2005-2008; was on the faculty of The Academy of the Arts at the College of Staten Island (City University of New York), and has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Music at Wagner College since 1987.