Pianist Melody Quah will open 2022 Muse Series at the McDonough Museum of Art.

The Muse Series presents recitals featuring groundbreaking new music and dynamic collaborations.

Described as a “poet with titanium fingers” by the Vancouver Sun, Quah has performed extensively on the stages of her native Malaysia as well as across Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. Her music career encompasses a wide range of activities — soloist, recitalist, collaborative pianist, chamber musician, educator, adjudicator, masterclass clinician and music director.

A prizewinner at the Seventh International Paderewski Competition held in Poland, Quah has appeared in recital at Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and as chamber musician at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theatre.

Quah has soloed with the Ku-Ring-Gai Symphony and Central Coast Symphony Orchestras in Australia, the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Poland, and the Richmond Philharmonic, Academy Philharmonic, Vancouver Philharmonic, West Coast Symphony and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras in Canada as well as the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.

She earned the doctor of musical arts degree from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and holds degrees from Yale School of Music, The Juilliard School and Vancouver Academy of Music. Quah currently serves as assistant professor of piano at Penn State University.

Her program will include music by Sarah Kirkland Snider, Adeline Wong, Tazul Tajuddin, Zhou Long and Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.”

The Muse Series performance starts at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the McDonough, 525 Wick Ave., Youngstown. Admission is free. Masks are required in all YSU buildings.

Earlier in the day, Quah will perform at the Butler Institute of American Art, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown, as part of the Music at Noon series. Admission is free.