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(Tseng) Hao Huang (黄俊豪) is a Hakka Chinese American concert pianist, scholar and the Bessie and Cecil Frankel Endowed Chair in Music at Scripps College.

Huang has performed in over two dozen countries overseas and authored or co-authored nearly four dozen scholarly articles and book chapters in general music, popular music, ethnomusicology, anthropology, American Studies and Humanities.

Education

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.

Career

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 [2] to Europe, Africa and the Middle East, he was a featured performer at the George Enescu Festival and the Barcelona Cultural Olympiad.[3] 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.[4]

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.[5] His scholarly articles have been published in refereed journals in Hungary, Russia, UK, Greece, Japan, the PRC and the USA, of which the most frequently cited are “Why Chinese people play Western classical music: Transcultural roots of music philosophy” in International Journal of Music Education 30(2), 2012;[6] “Yaogun Yinyue: rethinking mainland Chinese rock ‘n’roll” in Popular music 20(1), 2001;[7] book chapter “The Oekuu Shadeh of Ohkay Owingeh” in Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America, U of Nebraska Press 2004;[8] “Billie Holiday and tempo rubato: Understanding rhythmic expressivity”, co-author RV Huang, in Annual Review of Jazz Studies 7, 1994;[9] “Speaking with spirits: The Hmong Ntoo Xeeb new year ceremony”, co-author B Sumrongthong, in Asian folklore studies, 2004.[10]

Huang was interviewed for the 1997 Washington Post article, "Perfecting Practice".[11] In 2002, he was featured on NPR's Morning Edition about "The 'Lost' Opera of James P. Johnson and Langston Hughes".[12] The Wilson Quarterly reviewed his article on "Why Chinese Play Western Classical Music" in Spring 2012.[13] In 2021, Huang was executive producer and narrator of the nationally acclaimed podcast about the 1871 LA Chinatown massacre, "Blood on Gold Mountain," that reached #23 in the USA in the history category of Apple Podcasts. It was covered by National Public Radio, the Washington Post, Spectrum News 1, the digital media outlet NowThis News and others.

Awards and honors

In 2008, Huang served as a Fulbright Scholar in Music and American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University[14] in Budapest, Hungary. He was selected as an American Council on Education Fellow in 2012, sponsored by the ACE Council of Fellows Fund for the Future and chosen to be a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Scholar for the last international NEH seminar "Arts, Architecture and Devotional Interaction in England, 1200-1600", York UK in 2014.[15]

In 2019, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT)[16] 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. In 2021, in partnership with the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, he was co-awarded the UCLA Chancellor’s Arts’ Initiative Award[17] to produce the “Chinatown Elegy” performance/educational event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 1871 LA Chinatown Massacre at El Pueblo de Los Ángeles Historical Monument. It 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 Asian Dreams - American Nightmares. This will explore the rich and sometimes tragic history of Asian American experiences in California.[18] In Spring 2022, Huang was one of three authors selected for a 2022 California Writing Residency at Yefe Nof[19] near Lake Arrowhead, California; later in summer 2022, he was an artist-in-residence at La Macina di San Cresci[20] in Greve in Chianti, Italy.

References

External links

• Hao Huang website
• Professor Hao Huang website

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