Fan-Chen Huang, Classical Guitar

Saturday, October 18th

Classical guitarist Fan-Chen Huang was born in Taiwan in 1983 and began playing the guitar at the age of four. She gave her first public performance at age six and her first solo recital at age eight. She won the teenage division of the International Guitar Competition “Abel Carlevaro” when she was nine. At age 11, she was awarded the gold medal in the adult division of the Concurso “Homenaje a R. Sainz de la Maza” as well as the “Taiwan Area Music Competition,” the highest honor in the entire Taiwanese music field.

When she was 16, Huang won the bronze medal, while competing with many adults, at the 42nd Tokyo International Guitar Competition. The next year, she was a finalist in that competition. In 2001 and 2003, she was a semifinalist in the Guitar Foundation of America International Solo Competition. In 2003, she was also a semifinalist in the Stotsenberg International Guitar Competition. She was a finalist in the Guitar Foundation of America competition in both 2002 and 2004. In 2006, she was one of the top fifteen competitors selected to compete in the first Parkening International Guitar Competition.

Huang has given hundreds of public performances since the first time she took the stage in 1989. At present, she is studying with Dr. Scott Tennant of the internationally famous LA Guitar Quartet at the University of Southern California.