Scottish Reflections
February 13, 2010

Chu-Fang Huang, piano

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.”

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 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; the Mortimer Levitt Piano Chair of YCA; and the Mortimer Levitt Career Development Award for Women Artists.

She has appeared as soloist in the U.S. with the Cleveland Orchestra; the Fort Worth, Charleston, Hilton Head, Mid-Texas, Fort Collins, and Orange County’s Pacific Symphonies; in Canada with the Victoria Symphony; in Australia with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Australian Chamber Orchestra; and in China with the Shen-Zhen and Liao-ning Philharmonics. She has performed at festivals including Honest Brook and the Bard Music Festival in New York.

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.