Chee-Hang See is a prize-winning Singaporean pianist, conductor, and composer who has been called "a cool and confident performer" by the Charleston City Paper. After an appearance at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, CharlestonToday.net wrote that "he displayed absolute clarity and through his refined dynamic range brought gorgeous contrasts to each section", and is termed an “expert and sympathetic collaborator” by Fanfare Magazine. He has performed in concert series and festivals such as the Internacional Festival de Colonia (Uruguay), Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra Musicale (SC), South Carolina Chamber Music Festival, Chicago Duo Piano Festival, Hawaii International Cultural Arts Festival, and Piccolo Spoleto Festival (SC). He has soloed with the Montevideo Philharmonic (Uruguay), Charleston Symphony, Toa Payoh West Chinese Orchestra (Singapore), Bela Bartok Orchestra (Italy), among others.
His debut album “Violin Transcriptions”, featuring works by Rachmaninoff and Muczynski, was released in 2014. In 2022, with trumpeter Antonio Marti, the CD “Spanish Journey” with works for trumpet and piano was released on Centaur Records. The CD was broadcast on NPR's Performance Today and was awarded the Silver Medal in the Global Music Awards 2022.
Chee-Hang is music director of the Remington Concert Series in Mt. Pleasant, SC. He has taught at the Charleston Academy of Music, where he founded and conducted its New Music Ensemble. He has served as repetiteur/assistant conductor of Holy City Arts and Lyric Opera, and pianist with Charleston Symphony, Astralis Chamber Ensemble, and Chamber Music Charleston. He performs as the Sandberg-See Duo with his wife, violinist Nina Sandberg, and has won the Boosey and Hawkes Score-Video Contest.
In 2010, Chee-Hang formed the Tan and See Piano Duo with his colleague, Malaysian pianist Amy Tan. They have been described as “emanating a sense of pure fun that is always infectious to audiences” (CharlestonToday.net). They have been finalists of the International Web Concert Hall Competition and performed in festivals and concert series in Europe, Asia and North America. Their solo and orchestral appearances have been broadcast on National Public Radio and have taught at the Chicago Duo Piano Festival. They have attended masterclasses with the Aebersold/Neiweem Duo, DUO Stephanie and Saar, Oleyuria Duo, and Stenzl Duo.
Chee-Hang holds degrees and diplomas from the Cleveland Institute of Music, College of Charleston, Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and Trinity College London. He has studied with Sandra Shapiro, Enrique Graf, and Dr. Wong Joon Hwang, and participated in masterclasses with such world-renowned pianists as Ilana Vered, Michael Lewin, Eric Larsen, Anne Epperson, and Beatrice Long. He has received prizes in the Carl E. Baldassarre Composer/Performer Competition, International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington, D.C. and LaGrange Orchestra Young Artist Competition in G.A., among others. As a composer, his works for small and large ensembles have been premiered in Singapore and in the U.S. Chee-Hang also performs on the erhu - the two-stringed Chinese counterpart of the violin, and holds a Performance Diploma from the National University of Singapore as a student of Zhang Yu Ming. He is represented by Price Attractions.