Hao Huang

Hao Huang
Citizenship	United States
Education	AB in Music MM in piano DMA in piano performance
Alma mater	Harvard University the Juilliard School Stony Brook University

Hao Huang (黄俊豪) is a concert pianist and the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Chair in Music at Scripps College, who is also the author of numerous 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.

Beginning at age six with piano lessons from his mother Yi-Yin Huang and later Nellie Douglas, Hao Huang joined the studio of distinguished concert pianist, pedagogue, and composer Seymour Bernstein in New York City at age 10. Awarded the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship at Harvard College, Harvard University, he 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.

Currently the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music at Scripps College, Hao Huang has performed in 28 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".

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