Hao Huang


Hao Huang is an American concert pianist, author and the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music at Scripps College.
Huang authored or co-authored over two dozen scholarly articles in general music, popular music, ethnomusicology, anthropology, American Studies and Humanities. He has performed and lectured in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Education

Awarded the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship at Harvard College, Harvard University, Huang was referred to study with Leon Fleisher. Graduating with an AB cum laude in music, Huang was selected by audition for the national Frank Huntington Beebe Award for European Study. Upon returning to the States, he studied with Beveridge Webster at the Juilliard School on a piano scholarship, earning an M.M. in piano. Huang finished his academic studies as a Graduate Council Fellow at the Stony Brook University, earning a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance degree under the guidance of Charles Rosen and Gilbert Kalish.

Professional career

Currently the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music at Scripps College, Hao Huang has performed in over 30 countries across the globe. As a four-time United States Information Agency Artistic Ambassador, he was a featured performer at the George Enescu Festival and the Barcelona Cultural Olympiad. Huang continues to be active internationally as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician with the Mei Duo and the Gold Coast Trio. He has appeared in broadcasts on television and radio in concert and interviews in the USA and abroad and was featured in an Artist/Educator interview on The Piano Education Page.
Huang's article, "The Parable of the Grasshoppers"was honored as American Music Teacher's 1995 Article of the Year by the Music Teachers National Association. His 30+ scholarly articles have been published in refereed journals in Hungary, Russia, UK, Greece, Japan, the PRC and the USA. Huang was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition about "The 'Lost' Opera of James P. Johnson and Langston Hughes".

Awards and honors

Winner of the USIA David Bruce Smith National Competition, the Overman Foundation Competition first prize, the Van Cliburn Piano Award at Interlochen Center for the Arts and other awards, Huang was chosen to be featured as the China Institute in America's New York Solo Debut Artist at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York and Colorado Councils of the Arts and the California Meet the Composer Series. In 2008, Huang served as a Fulbright Scholar in Music and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. He was selected to be on the 2012-2017 Fulbright Specialist roster, a program that serves over 140 countries worldwide.
Other honors include selection as an NEH Scholar for the last international National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, "Arts, Architecture and Devotional Interaction in England, 1200-1600", York UK; a National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching Development Fellowship "Bridging Cultures"; a Mellon Foundation Inter-Institutional Travel Grant to Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, PRC ; and a James Irvine Foundation Diversity in the Curriculum Development Grant. Dr. Huang was an American Council on Education Fellow, recipient of the ACE Council of Fellows Fund for the Future grant and the Fidelity Investments Leadership Development institutional grant.

Selected publications

Higher Education