Hao Huang

Hao Huang (formal name Tseng-Hao H. Huang) is a concert pianist and Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music at Scripps College as well as being a polymath published scholar in general music, popular music, ethnomusicology, anthropology, American Studies and Humanities. He frequently performs and lectures in the U.S.A., China, Italy, Hungary, Austria, as well as other countries.

Education

Hao Huang was born in 1957 in Jersey City, New Jersey. At age six, he began piano studies with his mother, Yi-Yin Tung Huang. Four years later, he was accepted into the studio of distinguished concert pianist, pedagogue and composer Seymour Bernstein in New York City, continuing until acceptance to Harvard College, Harvard University at age 17. Huang was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship at Harvard College during which time he studied with Leon Fleisher. Upon graduation with an AB cum laude in music, Huang won by audition the Frank Huntington Beebe grant for European Study. After returning to the States, he studied with Beveridge Webster at the Juilliard School, graduating with an M.M. in piano. Huang finished his academic studies as a Graduate Council Fellow at the Stony Brook University, with a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano under Charles Rosen and Gilbert Kalish.

Professional career

Currently the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music at Scripps College[1] and four-time United States Information Agency Artistic Ambassador, Hao Huang has performed in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. A guest performer at the George Enescu Festival and the Barcelona Cultural Olympiad, he was also concerto soloist with the Timisoara "Banatul" Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Hungarica, Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and others. Founder and first artistic director of the Animas Music Festival,[2] Durango, Colorado, Huang remains an active chamber musician with the Mei Duo and the Gold Coast Trio.[3] Prior to joining the music faculty at Scripps College, Huang taught on the faculties of the Petrie School of Music at Converse College and the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar, Germany. He has been guest artist faculty at University of California, Davis, San Francisco State University, the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, the Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Veszprém Castle, Hungary, Xiamen University, People's Republic of China and others. He has appeared in numerous broadcasts on television and radio in concerts and interviews in the USA and abroad and was featured in an Artist/Educator interview on The Piano Education Page.[4]

Huang's article, "The Parable of the Grasshoppers",[5] was honored as American Music Teacher's 1995 Article of the Year by the Music Teachers National Association. Additional articles on piano pedagogy, Native American music, Chinese rock 'n' roll, Hmong shamanic practices and jazz music and poetry have been published in the College Music Symposium, Clavier Magazine, Music Teacher (London), Piano Journal (London, European Piano Teachers Association), American Indian Culture and Research Journal (UCLA), Popular Music (Cambridge University Press), Popular Music and Society (NIU, Routledge Press), Art and Academe (School of the Visual Arts, NYC), Asian Folklore Studies (Nanzan University, Japan), Humanities International (Xiamen University, PRC) and the Annual Review of Jazz Studies (Rutgers University). Huang was a contributing member of the international editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Music in the Twentieth Century, published by M.E. Sharpe (London) and has written a book chapter, "The Oekku-Shadeh of Ohkay Owingeh" in Voices from Four Directions (University of Nebraska Press). In recognition of his interdisciplinary scholarly work in jazz and literature, he was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition about "The 'Lost' Opera of James P. Johnson and Langston Hughes".[6]

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 also performed 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. Founder and original executive director of the Animas Music Festival in Durango, Colorado, Huang also initiated the Belle Terre Chamber Players Summer Music Series at SUNY at StonyBrook. In 2008, Huang served as a Fulbright Scholar in Music and American Studies at Eötvös Lorand University[7] in Budapest, Hungary. Over the summers of 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2015, he led Scripps College music faculty delegations by invitation to the Arts College at Xiamen University, PRC. As faculty director of the 2009 Scripps Presidential exchange visit to the People's Republic of China, he acted as administrative liaison with Minzu University, Beijing University, Xiamen University and Fudan University.

A four-time Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Award Winner for Outstanding Research, Creative Work and Performance, Huang has also been conferred an equal number of M.W. Johnson Faculty Awards for Outstanding Teaching at Scripps College. Other honors include the 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Teaching Development Fellowship "Bridging Cultures",[8] an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Local Initiatives Grant for the Claremont Colleges Faculty College of Music, a Mellon Foundation Inter-Institutional Travel Grant to Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia, a Mellon Foundation "Odyssey" grant, a James Irvine Foundation Diversity in the Curriculum Development Grant and an Irvine Foundation Faculty Research Grant for ethnomusicological fieldwork on Hmong traditional music in northern Thailand. Dr. Huang was a nationally chosen participant in the 2010–2011 Senior Leadership Academy (SLA) of the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the American Academic Leadership Institute (AALI). He was later selected by the American Council on Education to be a 2012-13 ACE Fellow, joining the nation's premier higher education leadership development program in preparing senior leaders to serve American colleges and universities.[9] Huang is currently serving as the Scripps College Humanities Institute Director for the topic, "Dangerous Conversations: Violence (Race, Gender and Class) in the USA."[10] He is also on the national roster of Fulbright Specialists selected by CIES for 2012-2017. [11]

Publications

Higher Education

Piano Pedagogy

Ethnomusicology

Popular Music

General Music Studies

Anthropology

American Studies

Humanities

Recordings

Composition

References

  1. ↑ "Academic Departments, Courses of Study, and Programs".
  2. ↑ http://www.fortlewis.edu/news/news/College-to-host-12th-annual-Animas-Music-Festival-in-May-June,982.aspx
  3. ↑ "Untitled Document".
  4. 1 2 "The Piano Education Page - Artist/Educator Archive Interview - Dr. Hao Huang".
  5. ↑ http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:3w8S1E3j-P0J:www.mtna.org/LinkClick.aspx%3Ffileticket%3DS%252BtCY%252BVOvRs%253D%26tabid%3D303%26mid%3D814+parable+of+grasshoppers+huang&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESj9HX8WNkMXpI608ouak6WraddnLWp_stT4DxyS9EhgURc0JY3GAI5_fXWSTcQH5qIdDybChA7SX_ncO15K8wWrlvHZgfpQojt1qHfU1_mkwNJe_9LGR5vQsy09IX_zUmsxy97Z&sig=AHIEtbTmaycB0OR13blh_J_NCzLr62Bw-w
  6. ↑ "The 'Lost' Opera of Jazzman Johnson, Poet Hughes". NPR.org. 3 December 2002.
  7. ↑ http://www.fulbright.hu/doc/us0708.doc
  8. ↑ http://media.scrippscollege.edu/press-releases/faculty/scripps-college-professor-hao-huang-receives-prestigious-neh-grant
  9. ↑ http://www.acenet.edu/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Press_Releases2&CONTENTID=44710&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm
  10. ↑ http://www.scrippscollege.edu/hi
  11. ↑ http://www.cies.org/program/fulbright-specialist-program
  12. ↑ "The Piano Education Page - On Teaching Piano Technique".
  13. ↑ "The Piano Education Page - Technique Matters - Problems with Posture".

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