Helen Huang

Taiwanese-American pianist. Born November 26, 1987 Ibaraki, Japan. Born in Japan of Taiwanese parents, she moved to the U.S. with her family in 1985 and began piano lessons two years later. Within a year, she had won her first competition and several other victories soon followed. In 1995, at the age of seven, she became one of the youngest recipients of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. At the age of 21, Helen Huang can already look back on an impressive list of engagements with such orchestras as the Cleveland Orchestra, the National Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the London Philharmonic.