Huan-Ching Chou

HUAN-CHING CHOU, piano
Taiwanese pianist Huan-Ching Chou has attracted international recognition upon winning several piano competition first prizes in recent years, including Philadelphia International Piano Competition, WPTA (World Piano Teachers Association) Finland International Piano Competition and WPTA Singapore International Piano Competition, Music and Stars Awards International Piano Competition, the 20th Hong Kong-Asia Piano Competition, the 6 thGOCAA (Global Outstanding Chinese Artists Association) International Piano Competition, the Singapore International Youth Piano Competition, and the 3rd Macau-Asia Youth Piano Competition. 

Huan-Ching maintains an active performing career with concerts in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, as well as in the United States and Canada. Always a determined musician, during the pandemic he remained engaged as a performer by attending virtual competitions and virtual festivals such as the Philadelphia Young Pianists’ Academy Young Virtuosi Program. 

He has been mentored by such luminaries of the piano world as Gary Graffman, Jerome Lowenthal, Ursula Oppens, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Alexander Korsantia, Frederic Chiu, Christopher Elton, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, Paul Schenly, Jie Yuan, Marina Lomazov, Kathryn Brown, Danwen Wei, and ZhaoYi Dan. His previous teachers include Jing Xu and Su Dan, and he is currently attending Walnut Hill School for the Arts and pursuing piano performance studies with Victor Cayres at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School in Boston, while studying privately with Taiwanese-American concert pianist Ching-Yun Hu. 

For this album, “Floating Dreams”, Huan-Ching chose to combine traditional repertoire by Haydn, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin, Prokofiev, and Kapustin, with two iconic and evocative Chinese folk songs adapted for solo piano by Jianzhong Wang: Colorful Clouds Chasing the Moon – originally composed by Ren Guang in 1935 for instrumental ensemble – and Liu Yang River.