Rosalind Y. Chua, pianist and Professor of Music at Providence College came to RI in 1971. In addition to teaching academic courses and piano, she directed the PC chorus from 1977-1979. She was Director of the Providence College Music Program from 1982-1991 and Chair of the Providence College Department of Music from 1991-1996. Miss Chua has been a member of the Commissioner of Education’s Committee on the Arts for Rhode Island, Advisory Board of the Rhode Island Council on the Arts, member of the Advisory Board of the Fleet Center Galleria Music and Arts Series, member of the Advisory Panel Board and On-Site Reviewer for the New England Touring Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, Cambridge, MA, and member of the Alumni Board of Directors of the New England Conservatory of Music.

She is member of the Chopin Club and was President from 1984-1986 and 1991-1992. Additionally she is an active member of the Chaminade Club and served as President from 1998-2002.

Miss Chua was born of Chinese parents in Manila, Philippines, and received her early music education there. She won the National Piano Competition at age fifteen and has concertized on the islands of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao. At age 27 she received the Outstanding Musician Award from the Ambassador of the Republic of China. In the same year she was invited by Mrs. Fernando Lopez, wife of the Vice-President of the Republic of the Philippines , to give a benefit concert.

Miss Chua attended the University of the Philippines Conservatory of Music for two years prior to receiving her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Music from the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied with Lucille Monaghan (a student of Harold Bauer and Nadia Boulanger). She later studied with Bela Nagy at Boston University, Victor Rosenbaum and Theodore Lettvin in Boston, Joseph Prostakoff and Ilona Kabos in New York City.

She has performed as recitalist, in chamber groups, and with orchestras in the Orient, New England, New York, Michigan, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; Bavaria and Great Britain; Jordan Hall, Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston; Ochre Court, Colony House in Newport, RI, Blithewold Mansion and Linden Place in Bristol, RI; Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Cornell and Brown Universities; Barrington, Providence and Smith Colleges; Wheeler School in Providence and Rogers High School, Newport, RI as a guest lecturer and recitalist for The Mentor and Model Series Humanities Seminar for gifted and talented students. Miss Chua has guided numerous young pianists to acceptance into major music schools and universities as well as become winners of local and regional piano competitions. She is a frequent evaluator and adjudicator for Massachusetts and Rhode Island piano competitions.

“Her playing is rich, vigorous and exciting” Block Island Times

“She favored coloristic effects, shaded phrasings, dynamic contrasts, even handed clarity and a pulsating fluency sparked by the work’s rhythmic verve.” Manila  Times

“Her interpretation displayed a nimble emphasis everywhere.”  Providence Journal

“She played with fine sensitivity and lyrical agility.” Newport Daily News.