Hsing-ay Hsu
Pendulum Series Artistic Administrator and Instructor

Email: Hsing-ay.Hsu@colorado.edu
Website: http://www.hsingayhsu.com
Office Location: Room N180, Imig Music Building
Office Phone: 303-735-1751
Mailing Address: 301 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0301

Since making her stage debut at age 4, pianist Hsing-ay Hsu (“Sing-I Shoo”) has performed at such notable venues as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (a sold-out recital), and abroad in Asia and Europe.

This season opens with a five-city concerto tour of China, as well as the Barber Concerto with Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony Orchestra, and a return to the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra for the Schumann concerto with Leif Bjaland. Hsu’s Brahms D minor Concerto performance with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was reviewed by the Washington Post as full of “power, authority, and self-assurance.” In the 2003-4 season, she made her Houston Symphony Orchestra debut as first-prize winner of the 2003 Ima Hogg National Competition. Past collaborations include the Baltimore, Pacific, China National, Florida West Coast, New Jersey, and other orchestras. She also received a standing ovation at her Tanglewood debut in Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion Live from Tanglewood, which had a live audience of more than 10,000 and was broadcast to 3.9 million listeners on NPR.

Especially interested in new music, she has given numerous world premieres including Ezra Laderman’s Piano Sonata No.3 in 2003, Ned Rorem’s Aftermath (2002) for baritone and piano trio; Daniel Kellogg’s Momentum, which she commissioned for the 1998 Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, and this season, Du MingXin’s Piano Concerto No.3 at the Gulangyu International Piano Festival Opening Gala and Daniel Kellogg’s scarlet thread at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Television and radio broadcasts include NPR’s Performance Today with Martin Goldsmith, TCI cablevision’s “Grand Piano Recital”(CA), and performances on China Central National TV and Danish Radio Station P4. Her solo CD from Pacific Records (China) has received critical acclaim, and she has been featured in Beijing’s Piano Artistry magazine.

Hsu, the 2000 winner of the prestigious Juilliard William Petschek Recital Award, was also recipient of the 2003 McCrane Foundation Artist Grant, the 1999-2001 Paul & Daisy Soros Graduate Fellowship Award, the 1997 Gilmore Young Artist Award. Upon entering her freshman year at Juilliard, she won the 1996 William Kapell International Piano Competition second prize. In 1995, she was named a United States Presidential Scholar of the Arts and received a USA Gold Medallion from President Clinton at the White House. Among her chamber activities, she is co-founder of The Ambrosian Piano Trio. She has served as visiting faculty at Ohio University and Quinnipiac University, recorded for the Lorenz Corporation, and was featured at the 2002 Music Teachers National Association convention.

Born in Beijing, Hsu began piano lessons with her parents, and later studied with Fei-Ping Hsu, Herbert Stessin, and Claude Frank. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Tanglewood Music Center, Ravinia’s Steans Institute, the Aldeburgh Britten-Pears Programme, and the Aspen Music Festival. She resides in Colorado with her husband, composer Daniel Kellogg.