Hilda Huang began her international performing career upon receiving first prize at the Leipzig International Bach Competition. She is a modern performer of historical music who brings together traditions of performance on piano, harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ. Hilda Huang has singular distinction of earning the top prizes at the Leipzig, Würzburg and Tureck International Bach Competitions. After making her recital debut on the Steinway & Sons Prizewinners’ Concert Network at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in partnership with the Leipzig Bach Archive and MDR Leipzig, she has performed at the Leipzig Bach Festival, BASF Gesellschaftshaus, and the Montréal Bach Festival.

As a young artist, Hilda’s association with Bach’s music was shared in the documentary film Bach and Friends. Her interest in Bach’s music on the modern piano led her to the harpsichord, on which her small hands, flair for articulation, and energetic playing style encouraged her to explore of a wide range of early music. Hilda’s orchestral debuts saw her on both modern and historical instruments, making her debut recording with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for TELARC (2008) and appearing as soloist with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque. She has since appeared with the Mitteldeutsches Kammerorchester, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Her work has been featured on the WQXR (NY) Young Artists Showcase and recitals broadcast in full in Germany and the United States. She has appeared on the stages of Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center.

Hilda Huang contributes music as service to Project: Music Heals Us, a non-profit that presents virtual concerts to hospital patients across the United States, and to worship at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity and Trinity Wall Street in New York City. She is a versatile collaborative artist, playing continuo keyboard and chamber music on modern piano and fortepiano at Chamber Music Northwest, the Steans Institute at the Ravinia Festival, the Smithsonian Institute, the Kennedy Center Conservatory Project, and the Académie Baroque of Les Folies Françoises.

Hilda Huang receives musical guidance from Menno Van Delft, David Kuyken and Matthias Havinga at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to The Netherlands. She has previously studied with Melvin Chen, Hung Kuan Chen, Béatrice Martin, John McCarthy, and Peter Sykes. Hilda Huang is a recipient of the Gold Award from the U.S. National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts’ YoungArts Week and a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts. She was recently named a finalist for the Berlin Prize for Young Artists and shortlisted for the Glenn Gould Bach Fellowship. Hilda Huang is an Astral Artist and a Steinway Artist.