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CHU-FANG HUANG
Winner,
Hilton Head International Piano Competition
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.



   

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