Happy New Year and Personal Updates

Dear friends,

Happy new year! I wish you all have a very pleasant holiday season and bright year ahead. After the hardest confinement and social isolation, now is the time, or at least it seems to me, to celebrate and to hope for the new beginnings as we have resumed most of our daily activities.

Some of you may wonder why I have paused on this site and there are no updates on my performance calendar for more than a year whereas the extended long winter for performance arts has gradually faded away. No worries, I’m safe and sound, or even better than that—I gave a birth to a son last year! Out of consideration for the baby’s development and my family life, I decided to be a full-time mom in this time period and resigned my position at Fresno State. To my surprise, this choice, to be a full-time mom, that I made fully by myself calls into question my commitment to feminism and my value by people around me. I personally think this society underestimates the role of a stay-at-home parent. I also believe that, a true feminist will support anyone, regardless of the gender, who wants to take up the role of taking care of the home and taking care of his or her own children as a full-time job.

At the same time, I think the fact that I am a pianist will never change and I will keep up my professional skills in the next few years. You will see me slowly update my YouTube channel with homemade videos. These will be pieces that I adored but never had a chance to learn in my younger years. I hope they will bring you the same joy or other affections as the pieces brought me. Cheers!

Best,

Shing-Ming