Hao Huang (pianist)

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Hao Huang
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Background information
BornJersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Websitehaohuangpianist.com

Hao Huang (黄俊豪) is an American concert pianist, author and the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music at Scripps College.

Huang has authored or co-authored over two dozen scholarly articles and book chapters 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 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.

Professional career[]

Currently the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music at Scripps College,[1] 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.[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 30 plus 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 director and narrator of the nationally acclaimed podcast about the 1871 LA Chinatown massacre, "Blood on Gold Mountain," that was recognized by National Public Radio, the Washington Post, the Southern California News group, Spectrum News 1, KPBS-TV, the digital media outlet NowThis News, and others.

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[4] 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 (Vassar, Middlebury, Denison and Scripps Colleges); 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. In 2019, he was awarded an Envirolab Asia Faculty Research Lab grant to 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 for the “Chinatown Elegy” performance/educational event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 1871 LA Chinatown Massacre, and was awarded the Pomona College Annual 10-Minute New Play Festival Prize (Play Fest), Top Five Winning Play: BUBONIC PLAGUE: 'Fear, Loathing and Love in San Francisco' (1900, The Year of the Rat).

Selected publications[]

Higher Education[]

  • Article, "Music in STEAM: Beyond Notes", The STEAM Journal, 2020 [5]
  • Commentary, “Building Bridges: How American Colleges Should Approach China” (co-author Dru Gladney), The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2011 [6]

Piano Pedagogy[]

  • Article, "Making Transcultural Connections through Teaching Piano in China" (co-author Tatiana Thibodeaux), Piano Journal, European Piano Teachers Association, Issue 113, 2017
  • Article, “Teaching Piano in China: Building Transcultural and Transhistorical Bridges through Music Education,” T. Thibodeaux co-author, International Research in Higher Education, Vol 1, No. 2, 2016
  • Article, “Perspectives on Body Posture for Pianists” (co-author Tatiana Thibodeaux), Проблемы Постановки Пианистического Аппарата, Collection: Arts Education: Problems and Perspectives, Художественное Образование: Проблемы и Перспективы Развития.;УМЦ УПИ with Ural State Pedagogical University, Ekaterinburg, Russia, 2014
  • Featured in article, "On Practicing", The Washington Post, March 19, 1996
  • Internet Web Page feature, PEP Distinguished Artist/Educator Interview, October 1995[2]

Ethnomusicology[]

  • Chapter 14, “From Passive ‘Vessels’ of Traditional Culture to Symbolic Cultural Markers: The Geetharines in Mauritius,” by D. V. Ballgobin and Hao Huang, co-authored book chapter in Women in the making of Mauritian History, ed. Vijaya Teelock (University of Mauritius Press), 2021
  • Article, “Nature and the Spirit: Tri Hita Karana, Sacred Artistic Practices, and Musical Ecology in Bali” (co-author Joti Rockwell), Envirolab Asia journal (Claremont Colleges, CA), Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2019 [7]
  • Book chapter, "The Oekuu Shadeh of Ohkay Owingeh" in Voices from Four Directions, Brian Swann, ed. (University of Nebraska Press), 2004
  • Article, “Rattling the Gourd at Ohkay Owingeh: Music Lessons with Peter Garcia Sr. at San Juan Pueblo”, College Music Symposium, Vol. 41, 2001 (College Music Society)
  • Article, "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[]

  • Article, “She Sang as She Spoke: Billie Holiday and Aspects of Speech Intonation and Diction”, (co-author Rachel V. Huang) Jazz Perspectives, UK, vol. 7, issue 2 (Taylor & Francis) DOI: 10.1080/17494060.2014.903055, 2014 [8]
  • Article, "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 [9]
  • Article, "Yaogun Yinyue: rethinking mainland Chinese rock 'n' roll", Popular Music, Vol. 20, Nr. 1 (Cambridge University Press), 2001 [10]
  • Article, "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[]

  • Review of HH article: “From Confucius to Chopin”, The Wilson Quarterly, Washington D.C., Spring 2012 [11]
  • Article, "Why Chinese People Play Western Classical Music: Transcultural Roots of Music Philosophy”, International Journal of Music Education, Vol 30, No. 2 (ISME), 2011 [12]
  • Article in translation, “Music Appreciation Courses: Broadening Perspectives”, Greek Society for Music Education Journal, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1998
  • Article, “Transcultural Aspects of Music: What Did Confucius Say?” (co-author Ramona Sohn Allen, Huang CGU DMA student), American Music, Vol. 49, No. 5 (MTNA) 1998

Music history[]

  • Chapter 10, "Xiao Youmei: Chinese musical patriot or comprador Germanophile" for Sino-German Encounters and Entanglements: Transnational Politics and Culture, 1890-1950 (Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies), ed. J. Cho, 2021
  • Chapter 11, “What Beethoven Means in the People’s Republic of China: Hero or Demon” in German-East Asian Encounters and Entanglements: Affinity in Culture and Politics since 1949 (Routledge Studies in Modern History), ed. J. Cho, 2020
  • Chapter 8, “What Beethoven Meant in China, 1900-1949: Music, Ideology and Power,” in Musical Entanglements between Germany and East Asia: Transnational Affinity in the 20th and 21st Centuries (Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies), ed. J. Cho, 2021

Anthropology[]

  • Article, “Afterthoughts: Nature, Culture, and Shamanism in Inner Mongolia, PRC,” EnviroLab Asia journal (Claremont Colleges, CA), Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2019[13]
  • Article, "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[]

  • Article, "Enter the Blues: Jazz Poems by Langston Hughes and Sterling Brown", Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (University of Debrecen, Debrecen), 2011 [14]

Environmental Studies[]

  • Article, “The COVID-19 Pandemic and the Environment in the Asia Pacific” in Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 9(2), 2021
  • Article, “COVID-19 and the Environment: Reflections on the Pandemic in Asia,” EnviroLab Asia journal (Claremont Colleges, CA), Vol. 4: Iss. 1, 2020
  • Article, “Nature and the Spirit: Ritual, Environment and the Subak in Bali”, EnviroLab Asia journal (Claremont Colleges, CA), Vol. 3, Issue 2, 1, 2020

Humanities[]

  • Article, “Jazzlines: Drawing relationships between American poetry, jazz and gospel music”, TOPOS, Bilingual Journal of Space and Humanities (Pannon Eygetem, Veszprem), I /2013 [15]
  • Article, “The Harlem Renaissance and the ‘American Dream’”, Humanities International, vol. 3 (Xiamen University Press), 2012

Recordings[]

  • HAO HUANG SOLO PIANO (Apollo Musagetes Classics CD-6073266), 2018
  • THE GOLD COAST TRIO "live at Mondavi Center" (Agnelli CD-2) 2006
  • THE MEI DUO, American Romantics (VSA CD-2000-1) 2001

Podcasts[]

  • "Blood on Gold Mountain: a story from the 1871 LA Chinatown massacre,[16](Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music) March - July 2021 (nine episodes)

References[]

  1. ^ "Academic Departments, Courses of Study, and Programs". Archived from the original on 2013-07-25. Retrieved 2010-07-30.
  2. ^ a b "The Piano Education Page - Artist/Educator Archive Interview - Dr. Hao Huang".
  3. ^ "The 'Lost' Opera of Jazzman Johnson, Poet Hughes". NPR.org. 3 December 2002.
  4. ^ http://www.fulbright.hu/doc/us0708.doc
  5. ^ Huang, Hao (2020-12-30). "The STEAM Journal". The STEAM Journal. 4 (2).
  6. ^ "The Chronicle of Higher Education". The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2011-08-18.
  7. ^ "EnviroLab Asia journal".
  8. ^ Huang, Hao; Huang, Rachel (2013). "Jazz Perspectives, UK". Jazz Perspectives. 7 (3): 287–302. doi:10.1080/17494060.2014.903055. S2CID 191553981.
  9. ^ Huang, Hao (2003). "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. 26 (2): 183–202. doi:10.1080/0300776032000095512. S2CID 191571899.
  10. ^ Huang, HAO (2001). "Yaogun Yinyue: Rethinking mainland Chinese rock 'n' roll". Popular Music. 20: 1–11. doi:10.1017/S0261143001001271. S2CID 143810588.
  11. ^ "The Wilson Quarterly".
  12. ^ Huang, Hao (2012). "Why Chinese people play Western classical music: Transcultural roots of music philosophy" (PDF). International Journal of Music Education. 30 (2): 161–176. doi:10.1177/0255761411420955. S2CID 145321613.
  13. ^ "EnviroLab Asia journal".
  14. ^ "Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies". Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (Hjeas). 17 (2): 461–466. 2011. JSTOR 43487844.
  15. ^ "TOPOS, Bilingual Journal of Space and Humanities".
  16. ^ "Blood on Gold Mountain, CAPTIVATE.FM".

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