CCM piano student wins prize at 14th International Piano Competition of Orléans

Yaoyue Huang is a pianist whose initiative celebrates new music and lesser performed modern works, explores experimental and creative projects that challenge convention, and aims to break away from the common performance practice. Huang also works with composer peers in premiering their works. She was recently awarded the Prix Alberto Ginastera from the 14th International Piano Competition of Orléans, where she premiered a newly composed work which she commissioned for the André Chevillion-Yvone Bonnaud composition prize. Huang studies at CCM in the studio of pianist Soyeon Kate Lee.

Huang was also first prize winner of National Lima Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, CCM Piano Concerto Competition, Tuesday Musical Scholarship Competition, Birmingham Young Artist Concerto Competition, and MUS College of Music Concerto Competition. She also won top prizes in the Japan International Duo Piano Competition, International Alexander & Buono Piano Competition, and Ohio International Duo Piano Competition.

Huang is a co-artistic director with Scott Sherman of “Music X Habitat X Art," an experimental art and performance group based in Shanghai, Guangzhou and the United States. In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, the group has created “The Ascent of Movement Series,” an online art space for their concept, merging experimental photography and video art in recordings of their performances. She was also the co-artistic director of the 2019 Clara Schumann project in Shenzhen. 

Huang was invited as a guest artist in the Wave Elements Global Music Festival in Portland, Oregon, and Music For All Seasons in Cincinnati. She has recently participated  in the Gilmore Artists Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Tel-Hai International Piano master classes in Israel, the Gijón International Piano Festival in Spain and the Francis@4 Series in Cincinnati. Huang has performed at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Farnsworth Art Museum, Shenzhen Poly Theatre, Shenzhen Grand Theatre, Hong Kong Cultural Center, Xinghai Concert Hall, Haojiang Theatre, Shantou University Southern China, Ongaku-No-Tomo Hall in Tokyo, Nihon University at the Ekoda Campus Tokyo, White Rock Theatre in the UK, and Salle de l’Institut in France. Huang has performed with the Lima Symphony Orchestra, CCM Philharmonia Orchestra and the Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra.