biography
Pianist Kuang-Hao Huang has performed
throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Asia.
Mr. Huang is most often heard as a collaborator,
performing concerts and radio broadcasts with Chicago's finest
musicians, from instrumentalists of the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra to singers with the Lyric Opera. He has been a regular
guest of the Chicago
Chamber Musicians and has performed with the Vermeer and Chicago
String Quartets. Mr. Huang can be heard in recordings on the Cedille and Naxos labels.
An advocate
of new music,
Mr. Huang gave the world premiere performances of solo works
by Louis
Andriessen and Chen
Yi at Weill Hall as part of Carnegie Hall’s Millennium Piano
Book Project. He has also premiered numerous ensemble works,
including pieces by Jacob
Bancks, Stacy
Garrop, John
Harbison, Daniel
Kellogg, Rami
Levin, James
Matheson and Laura
Schwendinger. Mr. Huang is a member of Fulcrum
Point New Music Project. He has been involved with the Chicago Chamber
Musicians Composer Perspectives
series
since
its inception
in
2001.
Also a dedicated teacher, Mr. Huang serves on the faculties
of the Chicago
College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, Concordia
University-Chicago and the Merit
School of Music. As a member of the International
Music Foundation’s Bootinsky Piano Trio, he has presented educational
outreach programs throughout the Chicago Public Schools.
For a decade, he coordinated the piano program at Northwestern
University’s National
High School Music Institute. He has also served on the
faculty of the Mimir Chamber Music Festival at TCU in Ft. Worth,
Texas.
Mr. Huang has degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Indiana
University and Northwestern University. His principal teachers
include Leonard Hokanson, Joseph Kalichstein, Howard Karp, Rita
Sloan and Sylvia Wang. During his graduate studies, Mr. Huang
was a recipient of the U.S. Department of Education's Jacob K.
Javits
Fellowship.
He was also a member of the New
World Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas's
orchestral academy.
A native of Whitewater, Wisconsin, Mr. Huang currently resides
in Oak Park, Illinois with his wonderful wife and kids.
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