
Chu-Fang
began her piano studies in her native China at the age of seven.
She was the youngest student to receive a full scholarship
to the Pre-College Division of the Shenyang Music Conservatory.
That same year, she won first prize in the Chinese Prodigy
Piano Competition. In 1997, Miss Huang received the Grand Prize
in the Southeastern Asia Piano Competition in Hong Kong and
the Young Musician Award for special achievement in interpreting
Chinese modern music.
Only two months after moving to the United States in 1998,
Miss Huang made her U.S. debut in the Prodigy Series at the
La Jolla Chamber Society, where a live recording of her performance
was released under ALPINE label. Soon after, Miss Huang became
the grand prize winner of the California International Young
Artists Competition. As part of the award, she was invited
to participate in the International Music Festival in Germany
for a concert tour and a CD recording under the CAMUS label.
Chu-Fang Huang also won numerous top prizes including the
Kingsville International Piano Competition, the Corpus Christi
International Piano Competition, the Isabel Scionti Piano
Solo, the Grace Welsch Piano Prize, the Fort Collins Symphony
Competition, the Missouri Southern International Piano Competition,
and the Hilton Head Competition, which will bring Miss Huang
to her Carnegie Recital debut this November.
As a solo performer, Miss Huang has concertized in most
of the major cities in China. She has appeared as soloist
with the Pacific Symphony, the Hong Kong Youth Symphony,
the Shenyang Symphony Orchestra, the Eastern Symphony Orchestra,
the Fort Worth Symphony, and the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra.
Her solo appearances in the U.S. include recitals in Los
Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Cleveland, Chicago, New York,
Philadelphia. In Europe, Miss Huang has played recitals in
the Klavier Festival Ruhr in Germany, Holland Music Sessions
in the Netherlands, where both Head Councils of Culture from
Chinese and American Embassies attended.
Highlights in Miss Huang's upcoming engagements include
a European tour in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Paris, Prague,
and the prestigious Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, a recital
tour in Chicago including concerts in the Steinway Society,
Harold Washington Library, and the Beverly Arts Center, recitals
at the Kravis Arts Center in Florida, the Young Pianists
Series in Tennessee, the Field Recital Hall in Philadelphia,
the Lawyer's concert group in New Jersey, and at the San
Diego Arts Center in California. Concerto appearances this
season will be with the Victoria Symphony, the Corpus Christi
Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra Society, the Hilton
Head Symphony, and the Illinois Philharmonic. Miss Huang
will also be interviewed and broadcast on the National Public
Radio in Washington prior to her Carnegie Hall Debut this
fall.
Miss Chu-Fang Huang was the recipient of "2001-2002
Most Outstanding Student" at the Curtis Institute of
Music where she is currently completing her Bachelor of Music
degree as a pupil of Claude Frank.