12 Facts About Ching-Yun Hu

Ching-Yun Hu is a Taiwanese born classical pianist, winner of the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition, Founder and Artistic Director Yun-Hsiang International Music Festival in Taipei and Winner of the 2012 Golden Melody Award for Best Classical Album.

Ching-Yun Hu's made her concerto debut at the age of 13 with the Poland Capella Cracoviensis Chamber Orchestra.

Ching-Yun Hu's would go on to earn her Bachelor's and master's degrees from the Juilliard School, studying with Herbert Stessin and Oxana Yablonskaya.

Ching-Yun Hu's later studied with Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and with Karl-Heinz Kammerling at the Hochschule fur Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, Germany.

In 1996, Ching-Yun Hu moved United States to attend The Juilliard School's Pre-College Division.

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Ching-Yun Hu's attended the Aspen Music Festival in the following year and won the Aspen Concerto Competition, performing the Prokofiev Concerto No 3 with the Aspen Concert Orchestra.

Ching-Yun Hu's debuted in Europe in 1999 at the Chopin International Music Festival in Duszniki-Zdroj, Poland and gave a recital at the Kleine Zaal of Concertgebouw in Amsterdam in 2000.

Ching-Yun Hu's made her recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center in 2007, and subsequently returned in 2009.

In 2008, Ching-Yun Hu won the top prize of the 12th Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, playing with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in the Semi-Final and Final.

Ching-Yun Hu's was a soloist with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan.

Ching-Yun Hu released her debut album "Ching-Yun Hu plays Chopin" under Taiwanese label ArchiMusic in April, 2011.

Enthusiastic in promoting Taiwanese musicians, music and helping young artists from her country, in 2011, Ching-Yun Hu founded the Yun-Hsiang Foundation and Yun-Hsiang International Music Festival in 2011.