10th Anniversary PYPA Piano Festival

Program

All Liszt Recital:

Les Jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este

Six Lieder Transcriptions

Three Concert Etudes

Spanish Rhapsody

Ticket: $30

Ching-Yun Hu

Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director

“…that elusive superstar quality that everybody looks for… Musical, energetic and full of flair.”
Jerusalem Post

Hailed by The Philadelphia Inquirer as a “first class talent… superb pianist” and by International Piano (London) for “praises follow her around the world”, Taiwanese-American pianist Ching-Yun Hu is a unique presence on the international concert scene.

Ms. Hu made her concerto debut at the age 13 on a tour in Japan and Taiwan. She made her Aspen Music Festival debut at age 16, playing Prokofiev Concerto No. 3. A year later, she performed Grieg Piano Concerto to a sold-out house at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia with the Philadelphia Orchestra. After her successful Lincoln Center recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2007, she has continued to perform at prestigious concert halls and music festivals across the globe.

Ching-Yun Hu is the winner of the Arthur Rubinstein and Concert Artists Guild Competitions, and since her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, she has continued to perform internationally at major concert venues: Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw, Frankfurt Opera House, Taipei National Concert Hall, Klavier-Ruhr Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, to name just a few.

Her debut album, “Ching-Yun Hu plays Chopin”, (ArchiMusic) won the prestigious Golden Melody Award for “Best Classical Album of the Year”. Her collaboration with the renowned Boston Modern Orchestra Project resulted in a critically acclaimed recording for BMop Sound. “Ching-Yun Hu: Rachmaninoff” (2019), received “five stars” by Pianist Magazine and was called “essential listening for Rachmaninoff admirers”.

A native of Taipei, Ching-Yun Hu studied with Herbert Stessin at The Juilliard School, Sergei Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music and received further guidance from Karl-Heinz Kammerling at the Hochschule für Musik Hannover in Germany. Renowned as a presenter, curator, and educator, she is the founder and artistic director of renowned Philadelphia Young Pianists’ Academy (PYPA). She serves on the piano faculty at Temple University in Philadelphia.

Ching-Yun Hu is a Steinway Artist. www.chingyunhu.com