MIMI LIN
CHIEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MiMi is a refined musician, active researcher and creative educator. She believes music is one of most intuitive human expressions and the most wonderful gift in human life. As a music teacher, Yu-Chen emphasizes the importance of movement and world music in piano and music teaching. She has developed diverse curricula, such as “Music and Movement”, “The World and Me”, group and applied piano classes to foster students’ musical development.
As a collegiate instructor, Yu-Chen has taught applied piano lesson at Columbia University and has been teaching and supervising music education majors at the Pennsylvania State University. Besides teaching, Yu-Chen also actively devotes herself in research specialized in early childhood and multicultural music education. Her academic works and hands-on workshops have been presented nationally and internationally in major conferences such as Music Education National Conference (MENC), Society of Ethnomusicology (SEM) and International Society for Music Education (ISME)…etc.

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PENG peng
OFFICE coordinator

Peng began practicing the piano since she was 3 years old. At age 17, she ranked 2nd of all pianists in her native province in China. Peng received her Piano Pedagogy and Piano Maintenance certificate in Carnegie Mellon University. She was also a member of CMU Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Peng pursued her Master’s in Classical Piano Performance in Manhattan School of Music under Mr. Daniel Epstein. She won the Leadership Award in 2017 at MSM.
Throughout her years, she has performed in numerous solo recitals, chamber music concerts, and has taught countless students and peers in China and the US. Peng’s approach to teaching is based on focusing on the student’s strengths to nurture proactive learning. She emphasizes on collaborative education between teacher and student so that the creative experience is as enriching as possible.

Meet Our faculty

All the teachers in our Music Beans faculty family are from the finest conservatories and universities around the world. Together we established Music Beans to provide a fun, creative, and enlightening place for music learning. Most importantly, we love to work with children in playful ways and want to share the fun of musical learning with our students. Each member of our faculty has his/her unique style in music teaching. Please see below to know everyone better!