Ruoyu Huang received his Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music and his Master of Music from The Juilliard School. He has been a student of Seymour Lipkin, Robert McDonald, and Yoheved Kaplinsky. He is currently working toward his Artist Diploma with Sergei Babayan at Juilliard. He won first prize at Juilliard’s Munz Piano Competition in 2013, the Chopin special prize at the 2011 Cleveland International Piano Competition, and several other noteworthy awards. Mr Huang has performed with the Chinese National Symphony Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and the Xiamen Symphony Orchestra. In 2010 Mr Huang premiered his own First Piano Concerto at the Curtis Institute of Music. He received a special invitation from the Chinese National Performance Management to perform four concerts in the Chinese Grand National Theater (Beijing) and was invited by the cultural and education section of the British Consulate to perform at the 2005 China Education Exposition in Beijing.

 

 

Beethoven Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 ‘Moonlight’
Chopin Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23
Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op.36

 

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Prokofiev Piano Sonata No.8 in B flat major, Op.84