Born and raised in Beijing, China, Rixiang Huang is a multiple award-winning pianist, has been praised by audiences and critics for his superb artistry and passionate charismatic performance style on three continents. He began his musical studies on the piano at the age of seven. He made his solo debut at age 12. As an avid performer, Mr. Huang’s highlights include solo performances in various venues throughout Asia, Europe and the United States, including Carnegie Hall, The Hampton Avram Theater, Japan Hamamatsu ACT Concert Hall, Indonesia Aula Sinfonia Jakarta, German Brunswick Concert Hall, Spain Torrelodones Teatro Bulevar, China National Center for the Performing Arts, and the Beijing Concert Hall. Additionally, Mr. Huang has appeared as guest soloist with China National Symphony Orchestra, Indonesia National Symphony Orchestra, and Eastern Music Festival Orchestra.
Mr. Huang's performances have earned highaccolades of audiences and critics alike. The Voice of North Carolina wrote of his performance "... Rixiang Huang played it with evident feeling and understanding...there was plenty of passion in the realization.” "Rixiang Huang, who gave a bang-up performance...He was brilliant and rose to every challenge of this difficult piece." (Prokofiev Third Piano Concerto)
Mr. Huang has been a featured artist at International Piano Festival at Torrelodones, Spain, the KAWAI International Piano master class, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Art of the Piano in Cincinnati University and Pianofest in the Hamptons as one of twelve pianists in the world. He has also participated in master classes with Jerome Lowenthal, John Perry, Andrea Bonatta, Jean Efflam Bavouzet, Stephen Hough, Vladimir Feltsman, Boris Slutsky, Matti Raekallio and etc. As an avid chamber performer, he was selected to participate in the Advanced Piano Trio Program, directed by cellist Sharon Robinson of the acclaimed Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio.
As a worldwide prizewinner in numerous competitions, Mr. Huang was recently awarded the gold medal of the 2016 New York International Artists Piano Competition. He has also been awarded first prize in Asian Classical Music Competition in Japan, silver medal in the Fifth ASEAN International Concerto Competition (AAF); second prize in the United States Virtuoso International Piano Competition, third prize in the 56th Grotrian-Steinweg International Piano Competition for Young Pianists, and winner in the 2015 Eastern Music Festival’s Young Artist Piano Competition and Piano Concerto Competition.
Mr. Huang is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music at Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of world-renowned pianists Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Paul Schenly. In 2016, Judson Smart Living retirement community appointed Mr. Huang an Artist-in-Residence at Judson Manor in Cleveland, OH
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