Chu-Fang Huang
(黃楚芳)Biography
Chinese 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 2008-2009 season includes concerto performances with the Illinois, Fort Smith (AR), Wichita Falls (TX), Stockton (CA), Southwest Michigan, Maryland, Colgate University and Longview (TX) symphony orchestras and the Bellevue Philharmonic (WA). She also gives recitals at the Louvre Museum in Paris, and in the U.S. with the Green Lake Festival of Music (WI), Strings in the Mountains Music Festival (CO), Fredericksburg Festival of the Arts (MD), Northeast Kingdom Classical Series (VT), Paramount Theatre (MN), University of Minnesota Morris, Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts (MA), East Carolina University (NC) and Pro Arte Musical in Puerto Rico.
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, Springfield (MO), Flagstaff, Florida West Coast, Fargo-Moorhead, Bakersfield, Charleston, Hilton Head, Mid-Texas, Fort Collins, and Orange County’s Pacific Symphonies and the Boise Philharmonic; in Canada she has soloed with the Victoria Symphony, in Australia with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra, and in China with the Shenzhen and Liaoning Philharmonics. She has performed at festivals including the 2008 Young Concert Artists Festival Week at Nexus Hall in Tokyo, the Honest Brook and Bard Music Festivals in New York, and on tour with Charles Wadsworth and Friends.
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 Boston at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 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 Ruhr 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.
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 has recorded a CD, soon to be released on 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, and the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women Artists, and holds the Mortimer Levitt Piano Chair of YCA.
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 currently resides in New York City and is in the prestigious Artist Diploma Program at Juilliard.
[Pronounced: Chu-Fong Hwong]
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