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Judy Huang
As the Grand Prize winner of the 2004 Carmel Music Society Competition, pianist Judy Huang has brought sensitivity, depth, and richness to her music through her versatility, lyricism, and masterful technique. Lyon Bronson, editor of Peninsula Reviews praised that “Ms. Huang demonstrated many facets of her brilliant technique and mature musicianship… a musician who exuded charm and enormous authority in her playing”, also noting that Ms. Huang’s rendition of Liszt’s La Campanella “went beyond the technical demands of the piece and made it into an attractive piece of musical showmanship”. While studying under Vitaly Margulis at UCLA, Ms. Huang’s performance earned her praise from the Los Angeles Times, which wrote that the performance “impressed not just with the large technique, but by the grand range of personalities that came through in the music. Huang is a quicksilver player, who is already one of UCLA’s rising young stars.” Ms. Huang’s personable performances have also garnered her mention in the German Marktoberdorf Newspaper, which noted “Judy Huang shows the highest quality of playing with most expressive tone and charming personality”.

Ms. Huang continued to impress audiences, this time in New York City, as she received a standing ovation for her Carnegie (Weill) Hall debut in January 2006. Her performance earned her the regard of New York critic Harris Goldsmith of the New York Concert Review, who praised Ms. Huang’s rendition of the Bach-Busoni Chorale Prelude, noting its “lustrous singing tone and heartfelt simplicity”. Ms. Huang’s interpretation of Schubert’s Sonata in D Major, D. 850, demonstrated “a mature, musicianly approach” and at the end of the Sing a Song of Six Pence Rondo, “when the main theme comes back ornamented at the end, [and] all too many players are seduced into racing this movement off its feet… Ms. Huang’s measured, sober tempo was just right”, reported the New York Concert Review. Rounding out her lyricism and interpretative maturity, Ms. Huang’s handling of Chopin’s superbly technical etudes was praised in how she “conveyed true grandeur in the expansive “Cello” etude and the tremendously fiery No. 11 Winter Winds and volcanic concluding No. 12”. The New York Concert Review, in summing up Ms. Huang's showmanship, echoed the praises that have garnered Ms. Huang recognition over the years for her subtle and mature style, commending that she displayed "admirable serious substance... decidedly to her credit".

Highlights of recent activities include appearances in the Orange County Performing Arts in Costa Mesa, the Contrapuntal Performance Hall in Brentwood, the Palau de la Musica in Valencia in Spain, the Rivoli Teatro in Porto, Portugal, Hamline University Sundin Hall in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, Mirabell Schloss in Salzburg, Austria, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, Schoenberg Hall at UCLA, Zipper Hall at Colburn School, Los Angeles, Newman Hall at USC, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Ms. Huang has performed in concerts and given extensive recitals around the world, including Taiwan, the United States, and Europe (Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, England, and Poland). As a soloist, Ms. Huang has appeared with the Marina Del Rey-Westchester Symphony, the Peninsula Symphony, the Ventura Symphony, the Rio Hondo Symphony, they Southern Youth Music Festival (SYMF) Orchestra, the Redlands Symphony, the Riverside Symphony, the Concordia Orchestra, the Crossroads Chamber Orchestra, the Palermo Orchestra (Italy), and the UCLA Philharmonia Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Ms. Huang was a member of the Pro Arte Trio, which performed in the Young Artist Peninsula Music Festival and was featured in live performances on KUSC 91.5 FM. The trio was awarded first prizes in both the Chamber Music Society of Monterey Peninsula Competition and the Music Teacher Association of California Chamber Music Competition. Her performances have been broadcasted on KUSC 91.5 FM (Southern California), KMOZART 105.1 FM (Southern California – Sunday Live at LACMA), Minnesota Public Radio, WCLV 104.9 FM (Cleveland Ohio), Bavarian Radio (Germany), Polish TV (Poland), Taiwan TV, Taiwan National Public Radio.

Ms. Huang made her professional debut at age eleven performing the Mozart Piano Concerto in A Major, K.414, with the Fine Arts Orchestra in Taiwan. She also distinguished herself at the age of eleven by being the youngest contestant in the history of the Asia Pacific International competition, where she won a coveted 3rd prize and was lauded as a child prodigy by the juror committee. Following her spectacular debut, Ms. Huang went on to win numerous first prizes, including the Taiwan National Piano Competition, the Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC) statewide Solo and Concerto Competition, the San Jose Beethoven Competition, the Johanna Hodges Piano Competition, the Young Keyboard Artist Association Piano Competition, the UCLA Concerto Competition, in addition to being a prize winner in Stravinsky Awards International Piano Competition and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Bronislaw Kaper Award.

In addition to winning competition prizes, Ms. Huang has received scholarships and fellowships from the UCLA Music Department, the UCLA Affiliate, the California Federal Women’s Club, the MTAC, the Westside Junior Philharmonic Committee, Crossroads School, the Chi-Mei Foundation of Taiwan, the Young Musician Foundation, the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation for community outreach programs, and the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts, where she was invited to perform at the prestigious Liberace Museum in Las Vegas.
In recognition of her talent, Ms. Huang was invited to serve as juror for numerous competitions, including the Palisades Young Artist competition, the Dallas Music Teacher Association piano competition, and the Southwestern Young Musician Festival competition. Sharing her passion for music, Ms. Huang is dedicated to community outreach programs and, with the sponsorship of the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation, has provided concerts to local hospitals, schools, and senior centers.

Ms. Huang received both her BA and MM degrees from UCLA. She has studied with Robert Turner, Ming Qiang Li, Aube Tzerko, and Vitaly Margulis. Currently, she is completing her DMA dissertation at the University of California, Los Angeles and serves faculties at Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana and International Institute for Young Musicians in Irvine.
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