Chinese pianist CHU-FANG HUANG burst onto the concert scene in 2005 as a finalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and First Prize winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition, which brought her rave reviews for performances as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, in recital at Alice Tully Hall, and for her Naxos CD of music by Scarlatti.  Shortly thereafter, Ms. Huang was a Winner of the 2006 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was awarded the Mortimer Levitt Piano Chair of YCA.  Ms. Huang’s concerto debut in New York in 2007 was at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in the Grieg Piano Concerto.  That year she also gave a highly acclaimed recital at the Kennedy Center in the Young Concert Artists Series.

Ms. Huang’s artistry has been heard around the world: in Canada with the Victoria Symphony, in Australia with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra, in China with the Shenzhen and Liaoning Philharmonic Orchestras, in Japan at the Young Concert Artists Festival in Tokyo, at the famed Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and at the Ruhr Piano Festival in Germany.  She has performed at the Bard and Honest Brook Music festivals in New York, in the Young Concert Artists Series at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in New York, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, in Chicago, Philadelphia, Fort Worth, and Palm Beach, and has toured in chamber music concerts with Charles Wadsworth and Friends.

This season, Ms. Huang has been re-engaged to appear as soloist with the Detroit Symphony at the Meadow Brook Music Festival, performing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, conducted by Andrew Grams.  Other concerto appearances include the Owensboro, Syracuse, South Bend, Stockton, and Pasadena symphonies.  She performs recitals at Iowa State University, the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts and appears in the Pro Arte Musical series in Puerto Rico.

Ms. Huang debuted with the Detroit Symphony last summer at the Meadow Brook Music Festival, in addition to performances with the Des Moines, Waterbury, Lafayette, Fairfax, Rockford, and Anchorage symphonies, and the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle.  Her recitals included the prestigious Morgan Library and Museum in New York, the Mustafa Kemal Center in Istanbul, and the Louvre Museum in Paris. 

Ms. Huang began piano lessons at the age of seven and studied on full scholarship at the Shenyang Music Conservatory’s pre-college program 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.  Ms. Huang earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Claude Frank, and her Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, as a student of Robert McDonald.  She currently resides in New York City.
 

*[pronounced Chu-Fong Hwong]

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