Xiang Huang

PRIZES AND AWARDS
• 2009: GenRe Stipend-Competition, Germany, 1st Prize and Audience Prize
• 2009: Burg Namedy Chamber Music Festival (Germany), 1st Prize and Audience Prize
• 2008: Piano competition of the Roesrath Festival (Germany), 1st Prize and Audience Prize

Already as a child, Xiang Huang won several first prizes in various competitions in his home town of Auhui, China. From 1996 to 2006, he studied with the renowned Chinese Pianist Leyi Wu as well as with Prof. Shizhen Yao at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Xiang Huang has played solo recitals in China, Germany and Poland, and has appeared as soloist with the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Julich Orchestra and the Torun Symphony Orchestra.

QUARTER FINALS
CLAUDE DEBUSSY * Étude « Pour les octaves » (Book I, No. 5)
ALEXANDRE SCRIABINE * Étude in D-flat major, opus 8, no 10
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH * Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in E-flat minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 853
FRANZ SCHUBERT * Impromptu in B-flat major, opus 142, no 3
BÉLA BARTÓK * Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, opus 20
DAVID L. McINTYRE * A Wild Innocence

SEMI-FINALS
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN * Sonate no 30 in E major, opus 109
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN * Fantaisie in F minor, opus 49
DOMENICO SCARLATTI * Sonate in E major, K162 (L.21)
MILY BALAKIREV * Islamey

FINALS
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN * Concerto no 4 in G major, opus 58