DPA Artist Profile: Peijong Hsieh

ARTISTIC LEGACY: Divine Performing Arts Production Manager and Pianist Peijong Hsieh has dedicated her life to the arts, music, and preserving traditional Chinese culture. (Dai Bing/The Epoch Times)

Peijong Hsieh has been surrounded by music, dance, arts, and culture her entire life. Although a long road, it’s led her to her current job as a piano accompanist with Divine Performing Arts.

Hsieh, a resident of Seacaucus, New Jersey is the daughter of a famous Taiwanese ballerina, and studied dance, piano, and viola from a young age.

Hsieh has dedicated herself to performing with the Divine Performing Arts, a company that seeks to revive the true, five-millennia-old artistic tradition of China that thrived before decades of suppression by the Chinese communist state.

“The content is to revive the truly traditional Chinese culture,” says Hsieh about the shows. “As artists we want to pass [this culture] on to future generations.”

One of her favorite instruments in the show is the two-stringed erhu (chinese violin), largely because of the impact it has on the audience.

“Erhu has that kind of melancholy sound, it’s very Chinese—you can feel it,” says Hsieh. “It’s kind of melancholy, it’s kind of aching.”

In fact, to her the entire show is one special act after another, “Each act of our production has meaning, and that meaning can touch people’s hearts.”

The diminutive powerhouse has not only lived a life surrounded by music, arts, and culture. She boasts Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in piano performance respectively at Boston University and the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. She also studied at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford.

Roots of Culture

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