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pianist Chu-Fang Huang’s extensive orchestral and recital appearances
throughout the U.S. and abroad have elicited enthusiastic responses
from audiences and critics alike, leading The Birmingham News to declare,
“Clarity, poise, lucid phrasing and dead-on technique were in
abundance at the electrically charged recital.” Ms. Huang’s
busy 2007-2008 season includes concerto performances with the Springfield
(MO) Symphony Orchestra, Flagstaff (AZ) Symphony Orchestra, Florida
West Coast Symphony, Fargo-Moorhead (ND) Symphony Orchestra, Boise
Philharmonic, and Bakersfield (CA) Symphony Orchestra. She gives recitals
throughout the U.S., including performances at the Buffalo Chamber
Music Society, The Embassy Series (DC), Mondavi Center for the Performing
Arts (CA), University of Georgia, Western Michigan University, and
at the Houghton Library of Harvard University. Ms. Huang will also
be featured in a recital at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on the Young
Concert Artists Series.
As First Prize winner of the 2005 Cleveland International Piano Competition
and a finalist in the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
in Texas in 2005, Ms. Huang has made concert appearances throughout
the U.S. She will record a CD for the Naxos label as part of her Cleveland
Competition prize. She won the 2006 Young Concert Artists International
Auditions, and was also awarded the Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize, the
Slomovic Orchestra Soloist Prize, the Embassy Series Prize, the Lied
Center of Kansas Prize, the Mortimer Levitt Piano Chair of YCA, and
the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women Artists.
In April 2007, Ms. Huang performed Grieg’s Concerto
in A minor in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater with the
Orchestra of St. Luke’s in YCA’s gala Irene Diamond Concert
and made her Kennedy Center debut in the Young Concert Artists Series.
She has appeared as soloist in the U.S. with the Cleveland Orchestra,
the Fort Worth, Charleston, Hilton Head, Mid-Texas, Fort Collins,
and Orange County’s Pacific Symphonies, in Canada with the Victoria
Symphony, in Australia with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Australian
Chamber Orchestra, and in China with the Shen-Zhen and Liao-ning Philharmonics.
She has performed at festivals including Honest Brook and the Bard
Music Festival in New York.
Ms. Huang made her Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully
Hall in November 2005. She has given recitals at Carnegie’s
Weill Recital Hall in New York, in Chicago, Cleveland, Philadelphia,
Fort Worth, and Palm Beach. In Europe, she has been re-engaged three
times at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and twice at the Klavier Festival
in Germany. She has also performed at the Sydney Opera House in Australia
and the Beijing Zhong-shang Concert Hall and Liao-ning Grand Opera
House in China.
Ms. Huang began studying the piano at the age of seven
and received a full scholarship to the Shenyang Music Conservatory’s
pre-college division at the age of 12. She made her U.S. recital debut
at the age of 15 in the La Jolla Music Society’s Prodigy Series.
She received her Bachelor of Music degree from
the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Claude Frank,
and her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, as a student
of Robert McDonald. She is currently pursuing postgraduate studies
at Juilliard.
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