Dr. Baltaian is a dedicated teacher whose students have won various national and international competitions and have been accepted at many prestigious schools, such as Manhattan School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, USC, UCLA, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Santa Barbara, Pomona College, and University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Baltaian has held teaching positions at the Colburn School, Pan Pacific Festival in Australia, UAHuntsville, and CSULA. He currently serves on the faculty of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music and also maintains a private studio in Orange County and Los Angeles, working with award winning students.

Dr. Chiang serves frequently as an adjudicator for Certificate of Merit program and Southwestern Youth Music Festival, as well as other piano festivals in southern California. From 2004 – 2007, she organized the monthly master class for local piano teachers in north Orange County. Besides her solo appearances in southern California, she was the pianist for Bachiana Piano Ensemble from 2004 -2008 and Hillsboro Trio, founded in 2009. The ensemble performs throughout the southern California. She is also actively involved with Music Teacher Association of California. Her role includes Certificate of Merit Chair (2004 - 2005) and President (2010 - 2012).

A dedicated teacher, Dr. Chiang’s students are the prizewinners of local festivals and MTAC events. She maintains an active studio in north Orange county areas.

She has given concerts in Taiwan and in the United States, as well as in Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, England, and Poland. Sharing her passion of chamber music, Dr. Huang is dedicated to community outreach programs and has collaborated with members of Pacific Symphony and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.

As a freelance vocalist and accompanist, she performs for a variety of functions and in many locations mostly around the country and occasionally abroad. She also frequently appears as a singer and pianist with the chamber ensemble, Musica Anima. Furthermore, she has performed as a soprano soloist with the Pacific Symphony and has sung operatic roles with Opera of the Foothills, Antelope Valley Symphony, Bakersfield Symphony, California State University Fullerton’s Opera Theater, International Lyric Academy of Rome, and Blue Danube Musikimpresario of Bulgaria. Other ensemble appearances have been with Long Beach Opera, Euterpe Opera Theater, Opera of the Foothills, and Lyric Opera of Los Angeles.

Mr. Swidzinski has also worked at Ohio State University and Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Since returning to California, he was on staff at the University of California, Irvine and University of Redlands. He has been active as a freelance pianist in Los Angeles.

He holds a double master's degree in piano and orchestral conducting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a bachelor of music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.