HEART and SOUL features salon music for soprano, horn and piano. Music includes Schubert, Lachner, Rossini, Obradors and Montsalvatge
Wendy Huang soprano
Tina Su horn
Judy Huang piano
Wendy Huang obtained her Master of Music degree (Diplom-Sängerin), majored in Vocal Performance, and minored in Piano Performance from School of Music and Interpretative Arts in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She performed in many solo recitals, ensemble concerts, operas, light operas, church music and oratorio in Taiwan, Germany, Italy, South Africa and the United States. Mrs. Huang was appointed as a conductor and director of the Overseas Chinese Choir of Hamburg (Germany), sponsored by the Representative Office of Taiwan in Hamburg. Currently, Mrs. Huang is a soprano in the Pacific Chorale. Her students have won competitions, including American Protégé International Vocal Competition 2014 held at Carnegie Hall, New York.
A native of Taiwan, Tina Su is Associate Professor of Horn at the University of Northern Iowa and was formerly the third horn with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan. Tina is an active performer and clinician and travels extensively throughout the US and other countries in Europe and Asia. In addition, Tina has been a featured performer on PBS Special, Iowa Public Radio and Broadcasting Corporation of China (Taiwan). Tina received her Doctoral of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, and her Bachelor of Music degree and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music.
As the Grand Prize winner of the 2004 Carmel Music Society Competition, pianist Judy Huang has brought sensitivity, depth, and richness to her music through her versatility, lyricism, and masterful technique. Lyon Bronson, editor of Peninsula Reviews praised that “Ms. Huang demonstrated many facets of her brilliant technique and mature musicianship… a musician who exuded charm and enormous authority in her playing”, also noting that Ms. Huang’s rendition of Liszt’s La Campanella “went beyond the technical demands of the piece and made it into an attractive piece of musical showmanship”. While studying under Vitaly Margulis at UCLA, Ms. Huang’s performance earned her praise from the Los Angeles Times, which wrote that the performance “impressed not just with the large technique, but by the grand range of personalities that came through in the music. Huang is a quicksilver player, who is already one of UCLA’s rising young stars.” Ms. Huang’s personable performances have also garnered her mention in the German Marktoberdorf Newspaper, which noted “Judy Huang shows the highest quality of playing with most expressive tone and charming personality”.