Claire Huangci

Claire Huangci
Born	March 22, 1990 (1990-03-22) (age 21) Rochester, New York
Occupation	Classical Pianist

Claire Huangci (born March 1990) is an American classical pianist.

Biography

Claire was born in Rochester, New York to Chinese parents. Her parents are both scientists. Claire received a grand piano as a gift for her 6th birthday She noodled around on her own, got some help from her mother, who knew how to read music, and enrolled into Settlement Music School of Philadelphia when she was 7. In the same year, she was featured on FOX news as a child prodigy with "the skills of a professional pianist."

Education

Claire is supported with scholarships from DAAD as well as Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben for the past two years. Having completed four years of study at The Curtis Institute of Music, Claire is continuing her music education in Germany at the Hannover Hochschule für Musik under Professor Arie Vardi from October, 2007.

Career

She won First Prize in the National Chopin Piano Competition in Miami in 2010.^[1][2] She had previously won First Prize in the 2009 Europäischer Chopin Klavierwettbewerb in Darmstadt^[3] and the Orpheum Music Prize in Zurich. She has appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Radio- Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, the China Philharmonic, the St Petersburg Symphony, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsche Streicherphilharmonie, and the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt. She has also given recitals in Europe ; in Zurich (Tonhalle), Frankfurt (Sendesaal), and Berlin (Konzerthaus) among others, China, Japan, Israel, and the United States (Carnegie Hall).

References

• Queen Elisabeth Music Competition of Belgium
• Minnesota International Piano-e-Competition
• GateHouse News Service by Ed Symkus
• karstenwittmusikmanagement
• Yamaha Artists

Notes

1. ^ Yahoo News
2. ^ Kultúra.hu
3. ^ Deutsche Welle

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Name	Huangci, Claire
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Date of birth	1990
Place of birth	Rochester, New York
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