Lauded by the New York Times for his “maturity, refinement, and elegance” in his performance of Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 at the Lincoln Center in 2000, Eric Fung is a pianist, as the New York Concert Review described, with his musical persona akin to Rudolph Serkin. The Hong Kong Economic Review also called him “unique among the contemporary Chinese pianists, for the aesthetic of his music can be traced back to the study and passion for Bach’s works.”

Eric Fung won the Second Prize in the 2002 Thirteenth International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition held in Leipzig. The competition sponsored by the Bach-Archiv Leipzig is widely recognized as the world’s pre-eminent center of Bach Scholarship. His other awards included the Juilliard School Concerto Competition in 2000, second prize in the St. Louis Symphony Concerto Competition (1997) and first prize in the Corpus Christi Young Artists International Competition (1996).

As an active performer, Eric Fung performed in various festivals, such as the European Piano Forum in Berlin, Germany, the Puigcerda International Clasica Musica in Spain, and the Philadelphia Bach Festival. In 2003, he performed two sold-out recitals at the Hong Kong Arts Festival and collaborated with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra at their 30th Anniversary concert series under the baton of Maestro Matthias Bamert in the following year.  In May 2004, he made his piano recital debut at the Carnegie Hall performing Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Beethoven’s Eroica Variations.  The New York Concert Review applauded the Goldberg for “his vibrant vitality...unflappable logic, flexibilities in nuances and requisite lyricism.”

Eric Fung graduated from the Juilliard School with Doctor of Musical Arts in 2005. His doctoral thesis “Neglected Treasure: Johann Sebastian Bach's Overture in the French Manner, BWV 831: A Study in Motive, Harmony, and Voice Leading” is an unprecedented study of the composition; such a study also exemplifies his interest in searching a new sensibility in the performance of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century music through analysis and research. 

His piano teachers include Eva Lue, Oxana Yablonskaya, and Natalya Antonova; he also studies analysis with Carl Schachter, Steven Laitz, and Metthew Brown. Eric Fung is currently teaching as an assistant professor in Lebanon Valley College, Pennsylvania.