It is good to have a goal to prepare for and to get an idea of what other people are doing. We just can't take competitions too seriously. Winning one doesn't make a career, let alone a life. I'd like to return to the theme of love and care for music, which is evanescent yet transcendent, binding musicians of the present with the greats of the past, students to teachers, ourselves to each other. Musical performance ends with the last vibration, yet we as musicians carry the promise of music within ourselves.
Music goes beyond words, beyond thoughts, beyond feelings, even beyond our individual selves.
We have to champion the necessity of that kind of aesthetic experience, which affects the quality of life. He has studied with Seymour Bernstein, Leon Fleisher, Claude Frank, Beveridge Webster and Gilbert Kalish. Winner of the Overmann Foundation, Masterworks of Music and Art Foundation competitions, and the David Bruce Smith Competition for USIA Artistic Ambassadors, he was also awarded the Frank Huntington Beebe Grant for European Study. Huang has appeared as concerto soloist with numerous orchestras both here and abroad, and will be performing Beethoven's Emperor Concerto this fall in California and Colorado. He has frequently broadcast on public radio and television as a performer and guest commentator on American music.