Hilda Huang has the singular distinction of earning the top prizes at the Leipzig, Würzburg and Tureck International Bach Competitions, whereupon she began her international performing career on the Steinway & Sons Prizewinners’ Concert Network. She is a modern performer of historical music who brings together traditions of performance on piano, harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ. After making her piano recital debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in partnership with the Leipzig Bach Archive and MDR Leipzig, she appeared at the Leipzig Bach Festival, BASF Gesellschaftshaus, and the Montréal Bach Festival. Since 2015, she appears regularly at the Meissen PianoFest; upcoming performances include piano recitals at Musicorum Brussels and the Juilliard School.

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. Today, the breadth of her musical and artistic inquiry continues to expand, encompassing projects in sacred music and installation performance. She has appeared as soloist with the Mitteldeutsches Kammerorchester, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, the Sweelinck Baroque Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and on the stages of Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center. In 2024, she commissioned and premiered a new Missa Brevis for keyboard by the renowned American composer of sacred music, John Harbison.

Hilda Huang resides in Amsterdam, where she was a 2023 U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the Netherlands. She 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. As a winner of the 2021 Astral Auditions, she joined the roster of Astral Artists in 2021-2024, a Philadelphia-based organization that develops the early careers of extraordinary classical musicians. Her teachers include Hung Kuan Chen, Menno van Delft, Matthias Havinga, Richard Goode, David Kuyken, Béatrice Martin, John McCarthy, Kris Verhelst and Peter Sykes.

Hilda Huang serves on the faculty of the Sweelinck Academy at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Particularly interested in musicianship formation, she is regularly consulted by colleagues and students for instruction and has given classes at the Preparatory Division of the San Francisco Conservatory, the Juilliard School Pre-College, the Sweelinck Academy of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and tonebase Piano Community, among others. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry Magna cum Laude with honors from Yale College, pursues a Masters in Early Music at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and pursues the Doctor of Musical Arts degree (ABD) at the Juilliard School, where her dissertation concerns the performance of counterpoint at the keyboard. Hilda Huang is a Steinway Artist and studies on a 1927 Steinway A graciously on loan from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds.