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Chu-Fang Huang, piano
Saturday - November 18, 2006 - 8 p.m.
•Listen to her NPR interview/performance. |
Chu-Fang Huang began studying the piano when she was seven,
and at the age of twelve, she was accepted on full scholarship as
the youngest student in the Shenyang Music Conservatory's pre-college
division. She made her U.S. recital debut on the Prodigy Series of the
La Jolla Music Society at the age of fifteen soon after moving her
from her native China. A top prizewinner of several regional and
international competitions, she was awarded first prize at the 2005
Cleveland International Piano Competition two months after reaching
the finals of the Twelfth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
In January 2006, Chu-Fang was named a first prizewinner of the 2006
Young Concert Artists International Auditions.
Ms. Huang has performed throughout China, Europe, and the United States,
including recitals at Germany's prestigious Klavier Festival Ruhr, the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Kravis Arts Center in West Palm Beach,
and Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. She has also collaborated with the
Charleston, Cleveland, Corpus Christi, Fort Collins, Fort Worth, Pacific,
and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, as well as with the Australian Chamber Orchestra
and Shenzhen Philharmonic Orchestras.
During the 2005-2006 concert season, Ms. Huang performed engagements in Chicago;
Washington, D.C. (Kennedy Center); Essen, Germany; Holland, and her celebrated
Lincoln Center Debut at Alice Tully Hall (November 2005). She makes her recital debut
in Japan and performs with the Spokane and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras this summer.
Her 2006-2007 concert season features over fifty engagements throughout the United States
and Europe.
Ms. Huang's performances have been broadcast on WQXR (New York) "Young Artists Series,"
on National Public Radio in Washington, D.C., and on the internet by the Australian
Broadcast Corporation. She also appears in the film documentary about the Twelfth Cliburn
Competition, In the Heart of Music, which premiered on PBS stations across the United
States in the fall of 2005. In the near future, she will record a disc for the Naxos
record label as part of the Cleveland Competition prize. A recent graduate of the Curtis
Institute of Music where she studied with Claude Frank. |
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