Claire Huangci

Claire Huangci, the young pianist and 2018 Geza Anda Competition first prize and Mozart prize winner, has succeeded in establishing herself as a highly respected artist, captivating audiences with her “radiant virtuosity, artistic sensitivity, keen interactive sense and subtle auditory dramaturgy” (Salzburger Nachrichten). Her unusually diverse repertoire, in which she also takes up rarely performed works, is illustrative of her remarkable versatility.

Claire Huangci, an American of Chinese descent, has performed in solo recitals and in partnership with international orchestras such as the China Philharmonic Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich, RSO Vienna, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Moscow Radio’s Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra. She has graced the stages of international concert venues including Carnegie Hall, the Wiener Konzerthaus, Konzerthaus Berlin, Gasteig Munich, Gewandhaus Leipzig, la Salle Cortot, Suntory Hall Tokoyo and Franz Liszt Akademie Budapest. She has also made guest appearances at internationally renowned festivals.

In the 2019/20 season, the pianist makes her debut at the Lucerne Piano Festival, Philharmonie de Paris and Festspielhaus Salzburg, returns with recitals to the Elbphilharmonie, the concert halls in Vienna and Berlin and to the Ruhr Piano Festival. She also performs with the orchestras of the Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Bochumer Symphoniker and the Baseler Kammerorchester as well as internationally, travelling from Scandinavia to Spain and Portugal and on to Poland, Russia, Asia, and Latin and North America.

She has been a recording artist on the label Berlin Classics since 2013 and has regularly released solo albums, such as her much acclaimed Chopin Nocturnes and Rachmaninov Préludes CDs. Her latest orchestral album with the Deutsche Radiophilharmonie Saarbrücken under Shiyeon Sung was released in autumn 2019, and a chamber music CD with her Trio Machiavelli will be released in 2020.