Shuyi Hsieh is a solo pianist from Taiwan, she holds a masters of music from the Manhattan School of Music. Shuyi has been playing piano since she was 6 years old, and started composing and improvising in 2005. December 2006, her first album "a sad bird" was released, including 5 songs which were improvised over certain motive, set up for different scenes, and completed in one take without any editing.