Taiwanese percussionist Candy Chiu began studying percussion at the age of eleven and has blossomed into a passionate and versatile chamber musician.   In 2010 Ms. Chiu performed the Carnegie Hall premiere of Mauricio Kagel's theatrical masterpiece Dressur.  Ms. Chiu has also premiered music by Andy Akiho and Reena Esmail.  As a member of Wanmu percussion trio, Ms. Chiu has served as artist in residence at Yellow Barn Music Festival in Southern VT and the Educational Center of the Arts in New Haven, CT.  In the summer of 2010, Ms. Chiu toured Japan and Taiwan as a member of the Peabody Consort with early music virtuoso Mark Cudek and tenor and counter-tenor Peter Lee.  She can be heard on Sounds of the Renaissance record of the Peabody Consort.

Ms. Chiu has a flute and marimba duo, Duel with flutist Dariya Nikolenko. They made their Kennedy Center debut in 2009 and perform regularly on the east coast.  She was also the chosen as a percussion fellow at the Norfolk Music Festival in 2010, where she worked with pianists Andre-Michel Schub and Wei Yi Yang, Kazuhide Isomura of Tokyo String Quartet, and composer Andy Akiho.

Ms. Chiu holds an M.M. in Percussion Performance from Yale University, and B.M. in Music Performance from The Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with Robert van Sice.