Hao Huang
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Hao Huang is a concert pianist and professor of 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 and other countries.
. In 1967, he began piano studies with 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 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
.
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, Durango, Colorado, Huang remains an active chamber musician with the Mei Duo and the Gold Coast Trio. 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 and Xiamen University
, People's Republic of China, and others. Huang has appeared in broadcasts on television and radio in concert and lecture format in the USA and abroad. He 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. 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".
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 is active as a chamber musician with the Mei Duo and the Gold Coast Trio. In 2008, Huang was selected to be a Fulbright Scholar in Music and American Studies at Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. Over the summers of 2007, 2008 and 2010, he led Scripps College music faculty delegations by invitation to the Arts College at Xiamen University, PRC. Huang has received multiple Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Awards for Outstanding Research, Creative Work and Performance and also several M.W. Johnson Faculty Awards for Outstanding Teaching at Scripps College. He has been awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities
Teaching Development Fellowship "Bridging Cultures", 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 a Irvine Foundation Faculty Research Grant for ethnomusicological fieldwork on Hmong traditional music in northern Thailand.
Scripps College
Scripps College is a progressive liberal arts women's college in Claremont, California, United States. It is a member of the Claremont Colleges. Scripps ranks 3rd for the nation's best women's college, ahead of Barnard College, Mount Holyoke College, and Bryn Mawr College at 23rd on the list for...
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 and other countries.
Education
Hao Huang was born in Jersey City, New JerseyNew Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
. In 1967, he began piano studies with distinguished concert pianist, pedagogue and composer Seymour Bernstein in New York City, continuing until acceptance to Harvard College
Harvard College
Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...
, Harvard University at age 17. Huang was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship at Harvard College during which time he studied with Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher
Leon Fleisher is an American pianist and conductor.-Early life and studies:Fleisher was born in San Francisco, where he started studying the piano at age four...
. Upon graduation with an AB in music, Huang won by audition the Frank Huntington Beebe grant for European Study. After returning to the States, he studied with Beveridge Webster
Beveridge Webster
Beveridge Webster was an American pianist and educator.Beveridge Webster studied with his father, initially, and in 1921, at age 14, he began five years of study in Europe, first at the American Academy at Fontainebleau, then at the Paris Conservatory with Isidor Philipp and Nadia Boulanger...
at the Juilliard School
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...
, 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
Charles Rosen
Charles Rosen is an American pianist and author on music.-Life and career:In his youth he studied piano with Moriz Rosenthal. Rosenthal, born in 1862, had been a student of Franz Liszt...
and Gilbert Kalish
Gilbert Kalish
Gilbert Kalish is an American pianist.He was born in New York and studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabelle Vengerova. He was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a pioneering new music group that flourished during the 1960s and '70s...
.
Professional career
Professor of Music and artist-in-residence at Scripps College 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 FestivalGeorge Enescu Festival
The George Enescu Festival , held in honor of the celebrated Romanian composer George Enescu, is the biggest classical music festival and classical international competition held in Romania and one of the biggest in Eastern Europe...
and the Barcelona Cultural Olympiad, he was also concerto soloist with the Timisoara "Banatul" Philharmonic, Sinfonietta Hungarica, Brevard Music Center
Brevard Music Center
The Brevard Music Center is a summer institute and festival located in Brevard, North Carolina. It enrolls about four hundred students, age fourteen and older, who participate in orchestra and other large ensembles, an opera program, play chamber music, study composition, and take private lessons....
Orchestra, Music in the Mountains
Music in the Mountains
Music in the Mountains is an annual summer classical music festival located in Durango and Pagosa Springs, Colorado, with additional performances in other regional towns. Performances are held from early July through early August and feature performances by both professional and student artists...
Festival Orchestra, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra
New Haven Symphony Orchestra
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra based in New Haven, Connecticut. The New Haven Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert in 1895 and is the fourth oldest orchestra in the United States.- History :...
and others. Founder and first artistic director of the Animas Music Festival, Durango, Colorado, Huang remains an active chamber musician with the Mei Duo and the Gold Coast Trio. Prior to joining the music faculty at Scripps College, Huang taught on the faculties of the Petrie School of Music at Converse College
Converse College
Converse College is a liberal arts women's college in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA. It was established by a group of Spartanburg citizens and named after Dexter Edgar Converse.-History:...
and the Hochschule für Musik "Franz Liszt", Weimar, Germany. He has been guest artist faculty at University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
, San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University is a public university located in San Francisco, California. As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges...
, the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, the Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Veszprém Castle, Hungary and Xiamen University
Xiamen University
Xiamen University , colloquially known as Xia Da , located in Xiamen, Fujian province, is the first university in China founded by overseas Chinese. Before 1949, it was originally known as the University of Amoy. The school motto is "Pursue Excellence, Strive for Perfection "...
, People's Republic of China, and others. Huang has appeared in broadcasts on television and radio in concert and lecture format in the USA and abroad. He 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. 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
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest publishing house, and the second largest university press in the world...
), 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
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
). 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
University of Nebraska Press
The University of Nebraska Press, founded in 1941, is a publisher of scholarly and popular-press books. It is the second-largest state university press in the United States and, including private institutions, ranks among the 10 largest university presses in the United States...
). In recognition of his interdisciplinary scholarly work in jazz and literature, he was interviewed on NPR's Morning Edition
Morning Edition
Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio . It airs weekday mornings and runs for two hours, and many stations repeat one or both hours. The show feeds live from 05:00 to 09:00 ET, with feeds and updates as required until noon...
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 ArtsInterlochen Center for the Arts
Interlochen Center for the Arts is a privately owned, 1,200 acre arts education institution in Interlochen, Michigan, roughly 15 miles southwest of Traverse City...
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 Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
, National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
, 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 is active as a chamber musician with the Mei Duo and the Gold Coast Trio. In 2008, Huang was selected to be a Fulbright Scholar in Music and American Studies at Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary. Over the summers of 2007, 2008 and 2010, he led Scripps College music faculty delegations by invitation to the Arts College at Xiamen University, PRC. Huang has received multiple Mary W. Johnson Faculty Achievement Awards for Outstanding Research, Creative Work and Performance and also several M.W. Johnson Faculty Awards for Outstanding Teaching at Scripps College. He has been awarded the National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
Teaching Development Fellowship "Bridging Cultures", an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation of New York City and Princeton, New Jersey in the United States, is a private foundation with five core areas of interest, endowed with wealth accumulated by the late Andrew W. Mellon of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the product of the 1969...
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
James Irvine Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit organization established to benefit the people of California. It seeks to promote social equity and enrich the cultural and civic life of America’s most populous state through its grants in three areas: the arts, youth and education, and...
Diversity in the Curriculum Development Grant and a Irvine Foundation Faculty Research Grant for ethnomusicological fieldwork on Hmong traditional music in northern Thailand.
Piano Pedagogy
- "Technical Exercises for Pianists", (co-author Shang Ying Tsai, CGU DMA student), Piano Journal (London, European Piano Teachers Association), 2010
- "Posture at the Piano: Body Awareness for Pianists", tr. Greek Society for Music Education Journal, Vol. 20, 2010
- Featured in article, "On Practicing", The Washington Post, March 19, 1996
- "Different Types: Four Main Learning Styles Among Students", Music Teacher (London), January Vol. 75, 1996
- "Adapting Lessons to Fit the Student", Clavier, Vol. 34, No. 9, 1995
- Internet Web Articles, Piano Education Page --
- THE TEACHING STUDIO: On Teaching Piano Technique, 1999
- TECHNIQUE MATTERS: Problems with Posture, 1999
- Internet Web Page feature, PEP Distinguished Artist/Educator Interview, October 1995
Ethnomusicology
- Book chapter, "The Oekuu Shadeh of Ohkay Owingeh" in Voices from Four Directions, Brian Swann, ed. (University of Nebraska Press), 2004
- "Rattling the Gourd at Ohkay Owingeh: Music Lessons with Peter Garcia Sr. at San Juan Pueblo", College Music Symposium, Vol. 41, 2001
- "The 1992 Turtle Dance (Oekuu Shadeh) of San Juan Pueblo: Lessons with the Composer, Peter Garcia", American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 21, No. 4 (UCLA American Indian Studies Center), 1998
Popular Music
- "Voices from Chinese Rock, Past and Present Tense: Social Commentary and Construction of Identity in Yaogun Yinyue from Tiananmen to the Present," Popular Music and Society, vol. 26, nr. 2 (Routledge Press), 2003
- "Yaogun Yinyue: rethinking mainland Chinese rock 'n' roll", Popular Music, Vol. 20, Nr. 1 (Cambridge University Press), 2001
- "Towards an Understanding of Rhythmic Expressivity: Billie Holiday's Rubato", co-author Dr. Rachel Vetter Huang, Annual Review of Jazz Studies, Vol. 7 (Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University), 1994–95
General Music Studies
- "Transcultural Aspects of Music: What Did Confucius Say?" American Music Teacher, Vol. 49, No. 5 (MTNA), 2000
- "Music Appreciation Courses: a Multicultural Approach", tr. Greek Society for Music Education Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1998
- Entries (C. Arrau, V. Ashkenazy, S. Barber, E. Carter, Billie Holiday, V. Horowitz, "Bud" Powell, Arthur Rubinstein, Artur Schnabel), in Encyclopedia of Music in the Twentieth Century, M.E. Sharpe, London, 1998
- "New Strategies for Introduction to Music Courses: Cross-cultural and Cross-tradition Comparison and Examination", co-authored Dr. Rachel Vetter Huang, Art & Academe: A Journal in the Humanities and Sciences in the Education of Artists (School of the Visual Arts NYC), Vol. 9, No. 1, Fall 1997
- Article, "Music Appreciation Courses: Broadening Perspectives", Music Educators Journal, Vol. 84, No. 2 (MENC), 1997
- Article, "A Parable of the Grasshoppers: Lessons of Classical Greece", American Music Teacher (MTNA), Vol. 45, No. 1, 1995
Anthropology
- "Speaking with Spirits: The 'Ntoo Xeeb' Hmong New Year Ceremony", Asian Folklore Studies, vol. 63, nr. 1 (Nanzan University Press, Nagoya, Japan), 2004
American Studies
- "Enter the Blues: Jazz Poems by Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown", Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (University of Pannonia, Veszprém), 2011
Humanities
- "American Jazz Poetry and Music: From Langston Hughes's Urban Blues to Michael S. Harper's Praise Songs", Inaugural Spring issue of Humanities International, vol. 1 (Xiamen University Press), 2010
Recordings
- THE GOLD COAST TRIO "live at Mondavi Center" (Agnelli CD-2) 2006
- THE MEI DUO "live", American Romantics (VSA CD-2000-1) 2001
Composition
- Song cycle for countertenor and piano, Change of State, based on poems by David Lloyd, as culminating program of Songlines, A Wednesday Evening Series of Poetry and Music, part of the Alexa Fullerton Hampton Speaker Series at Scripps College., 2003
External links
- Official website http://pages.scrippscollege.edu/~hahuang/
- Dr. Hao Huang, Professor of Music http://www.scrippscollege.edu/academics/faculty/hao-huang.php
- Seymour Bernstein http://www.seymourbernstein.com/
- Frank Huntington Beebe Grant for European Study http://www.beebefund.org/
- Scripps College website http://www.scrippscollege.edu/
- Classical Music Festival, Eisenstadt, Austria http://cmf.ou.edu/
- China Institute in America http://www.chinainstitute.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=490&parentID=471
- Eötvös Lorand University http://www.elte.hu/en/