Hao Huang (pianist)

Awarded the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship at Harvard College at 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 State University of New York at Stony Brook, earning a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance degree under the guidance of Charles Rosen and Gilbert Kalish.

Huang is the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music at Scripps College.[1] As a four-time United States Information Agency Artistic Ambassador to Europe, Africa and the Middle East, he was a featured performer at the George Enescu Festival and the Barcelona Cultural Olympiad. Huang is 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.[2]

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 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".[3] He recently served as executive producer and narrator of the nationally acclaimed podcast about the 1871 LA Chinatown massacre, "Blood on Gold Mountain," that ranked #28 in the USA in the history category of Apple Podcast ratings for April/May 2021, which was covered by National Public Radio, the Washington Post, Spectrum News 1, the digital media outlet NowThis News and others.

In 2008, Huang served as a Fulbright Scholar in Music and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University[4] in Budapest, Hungary.

In 2019, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT)[5] program awarded funds to support a multimedia performance event about the LA Chinatown Massacre, one of the worst race lynchings that took place on the West Coast. That year, he also received an Envirolab Asia[6] Faculty Research Lab grant to field research in Bali, Shanxi province PRC, and Inner Mongolia as faculty cohort leader. In 2021, in collaboration with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, he was granted the UCLA Chancellor’s Arts’ Initiative Award[7] for the “Chinatown Elegy” performance/educational event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 1871 LA Chinatown Massacre that was attended by US Representative Judy Chu, UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block, LA city councilman Kevin de León and others. In early 2022, under the aegis of Scripps College, Huang was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Grants for Arts Project, Music Division, to support the creation of a three-part transarts performance project titled The LA Chinatown Massacre and Beyond, that will explore the rich and sometimes tragic history of Asian American experiences in California. Performances will occur at Scripps College and the USC Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena.

• Hao Huang website
• Hao Huang, Professor of Music