Dr. Hao Huang, acclaimed pianist and professor of music at Scripps College, will perform the music of Vienna, featuring works by Haydn and Brahms, in a faculty recital on Sunday, October 31, 2004, at 3:00 p.m. The recital will take place in Balch Auditorium on the Scripps College campus. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact the Scripps College Music Department at (909) 621-8280.
Winner of various prestigious international music awards including the Van Cliburn Piano Award at Interlochen, Dr. Huang has gained acclaim in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. Dr. Huang performed as a featured soloist at the George Enescu International Music Festival and the Barcelona Cultural Olympiad. He has also appeared with the Timisoara “Banatul” Philharmonic, the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and more. A graduate of Harvard University, the Juilliard School and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he is professor of music and artist-in-residence at Scripps College and head of piano faculty at Claremont Graduate University.
Dr. Huang’s performance will include a piece of Brahms’s early piano writing, the epic F minor Sonata. Spanning five movements, with dramatic and wildly virtuosic outer movements, and a hauntingly beautiful slow movement, Brahms’s piece is the last great romantic piano sonata. Brahms’s F Minor Sonata was completed in 1853, when the composer was 20. This Sonata was his last such work in the form, a work that ranks with the Chopin sonatas and the Liszt B Minor Sonata as perhaps the ultimate Romantic statement. It is Brahms’s largest single work for solo piano.
This concert afternoon is sponsored by the Scripps College Music Department, which seeks to offer many opportunities for music study and performance to music majors and other interested students who attend the Claremont Colleges. The program offers a supportive and intimate environment in order to stimulate productive means of personal and artistic fulfillment for the students involved.