XIAOHUI YANG, Piano

Chinese pianist Xiaohui Yang, a winner of the 2017 Naumberg International Piano Competition has been hailed by the press as a "tastefully polished musician" (Haaretz, Israel).  She has been featured in performances throughout four continents, including in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Ozawa Hall, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and the Seoul Arts Center.  A dedicated chamber musician, Ms. Yang has taken part in renowned North American festivals such as Marlboro, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Banff, and Taos, and has performed with luminaries such as Peter Wiley, Charles Neidich, and Roberto Diaz.  Ms. Yang has been invited to perform on tours with Ravinia's Steans Music Institute and Curtis on Tour at concert halls in the United States, Korea, and Greece.  She is also a founding member of the Steans Piano Trio, alongside Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra violinist Eunice Kim and Boston Symphony Orchestra Assistant Principal cellist Oliver Aldort.  Ms. Yang is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Ignant Solzhenitsyn and was a recipient of the Festorazzi Prize for the best graduating piano student.  She earned her master's at Juilliard School as a student of Robert McDonald, and currently is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the Peabody Conservatory, under the tutelage of Boris Slutsky.  Before moving to the United States, Ms. Yang studied at the Attached Music School of Shenyang Conservatory of Music with Danwen Wei, Xianwei Cheng, and Rosemary Platt.