Yi-Fang Huang, a native of Taiwan, began playing the piano at age seven, and made her public debut at age ten. She has won prizes in the Taipei City Piano Competition, Taipei Symphony Concerto competition, Kawai Piano Competition, and gave her concerto debut and a national tour as the result of winning the Fu-Shing Piano Concerto Competition. Ms. Huang moved to New York in 1995 to attend the Juilliard School where she received both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in piano performance as a pupil of Martin Canin. She continued her DMA studies with Susan Starr at Rutgers University, where she won the concerto competition and received the Gladwell Award and Edna Mason Award in Keyboard Excellence.
Ms. Huang has performed regularly as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborative pianist throughout United States, Europe and Asia at venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Louvre Museum, Grenoble Museum and National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She has appeared with artists including Elmar Oliveira, Cynthia Phelps, Fred Sherry, Wu Han, Ransom Wilson, Tara Helen O’Connor, Sherry Sylar, and David Bilger. She performed at the OK Mozart festival, International Viola Congress, New York Philharmonic: Insights Series, Interlochen Viola Institute, Great Mountains Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and Music Academy of the West, and has premiered works by contemporary composers Somei Sato, Stuart Smith, and Alessandro Solbiati. In 2008, she will appear as guest lecturer and pianist in the 36th International Viola Congress. Her performances can be heard on Radio France; WWFM 89.1, The Classical Network; and Public Radio Tulsa.
Having also studied the viola for ten years, Ms. Huang developed a deep interest in instrumental performance as a collaborative pianist, most recently through extensive work in the viola department at the Juilliard School. She serves as the appointed pianist for the studios of Heidi Castleman, Paul Neubauer and Eugene Becker, and has worked with top prize winners in the William Primrose Viola Competition, Lionel Tertis Viola Competition, Munich Viola Competition and musicians from the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra. Ms. Huang has been the official pianist of the Juilliard School Entrance Exam and the 2006 Marlboro Music Festival auditions. Most recently, she recorded the Loeffler Two Rhapsodies for Oboe, Viola and Piano with Cynthia Phelps and Sherry Sylar. In the summer of 2006, Ms. Huang joined The Perlman Music Program faculty. She will also join the North American Viola Institute faculty in 2008.
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