Since making her stage debut at age 4, Chinese pianist Hsing-ay Hsu (“Sing-I Shoo”) has performed at such notable venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, and abroad in China, Japan, Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Denmark, and France. Upon entering her freshman year at Juilliard, she won the 1996 William Kapell International Piano Competition second prize. Hsu was also winner of the prestigious Juilliard William Petschek Recital Award in 2000, a 2003 McCrane Foundation Artist Grant, a 1999-2001 Paul & Daisy Soros Graduate Fellowship Award, and a 1997 Gilmore Young Artist Award. She was also named a US Presidential Scholar of the Arts by President Clinton at the White House. Her debut CD (Pacific Records) has received critical acclaim, and Albany records just released her solo CD of Ezra Laderman’s piano works.

A versatile concerto soloist performing Bach to Barber, she is described by the Washington Post as full of “power, authority, and self-assurance.” Concerto collaborations include the Houston Symphony Orchestra as first-prize winner of the 2003 Ima Hogg National Competition, the Baltimore Symphony, the Pacific Symphony(CA), Florida West Coast, New Jersey, Waterbury(CT), China National, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Xiamen orchestras. Television and radio feature broadcasts include Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion Live from Tanglewood (with a standing ovation from 10,000+ live audience members and 3.9 million broadcast audience), NPR’s Performance Today with Martin Goldsmith, TCI cablevision’s Grand Piano Recital (CA), CPR’s Colorado Spotlight, China Central National TV, Hong Kong Phoenix TV, and Danish National Radio.

An advocate of new music, she has given numerous world premieres including Ezra Laderman’s Piano Sonata No. and Beshert; Ned Rorem’s Aftermath (2002) for baritone and piano trio; Daniel Kellogg’s scarlet thread at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and his Momentum, which she commissioned for the 1998 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival; as well as Du MingXin’s Piano Concerto No.3 at the Gulangyu International Piano Festival Opening Gala. Chamber music appearances include Weill Hall and Bargemusic in New York, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Gardner Museum in Boston, the Detroit Art Museum, Denmark’s Viborg Hall, Taiwan’s Novel Hall, and a 2007 all-stars gala in Hong Kong for the 10th anniversary of the reunification. Recent projects include collaborations with mezzo-soprano Margaret Lattimore, violinist Judith Ingolfsson, choreographers David Capps and Viki Psihoyos, and a series of lecture-recitals for Olivier Messiaen’s centennial year in 2008.

Born in Beijing, Hsu studied piano with her parents and her uncle Fei-Ping Hsu, and later with Herbert Stessin at Juilliard and Claude Frank at Yale. She was awarded fellowships from the Tanglewood Music Center, Ravinia’s Steans Institute, the Aldeburgh Britten-Pears Programme, and the Aspen Music Festival. She has served as visiting piano faculty at Ohio University and University of Colorado, given residencies at the University of Missouri Kansas City and Xiamen University, and is currently the Artistic Administrator of the Pendulum New Music Series at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where she resides with her husband, composer Daniel Kellogg.

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