Andrew Hsu
徐鴻,
composer/pianist
https://andrew.hsumusic.com
Andrew
Hsu is a critically acclaimed pianist and award-winning composer.
Writing music characterized as “an amorphous cloud of dissonance,
slow and vibrating” (New York Times) and “deliciously atmospheric,
pulseless” (Oregon ArtsWatch), his compositions have been
performed across the United States, including festivals such as
the Aspen Music Festival and School, Chamber Music Northwest, the
Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Music from Angel Fire and
the Tanglewood Music Center. A 2014 Gilmore Young Artist, his
pianism has been noted for his “incendiary account[s]” (New York
Times) and “[channelling] Horowitz right down to the
brilliant-yet-delicate high-treble sonority” (Philadelphia
Inquirer).
Hsu is a recent recipient of the 2017 Charles Ives Scholarship
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the 2016
Hermitage Prize from Aspen. He was selected as one of seven
participants of the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute in
November 2017. In April 2016, Jeffrey Milarsky and the Juilliard
Orchestra gave the first performance of Hsu’s orchestral tone poem
vale in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center as the recipient of the
2016 Arthur Friedman Prize at The Juilliard School. His
compositions have collectively received numerous honors over the
years, including several ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
and a BMI William Schuman Prize. Upcoming projects include
commissions for clarinetist Yoonah Kim, harpist Héloïse Carlean-Jones
and violinist Angelo Xiang Yu.
In Summer 2015, Hsu was invited to the exclusive New Fromm Players
at Tanglewood, performing many works by living composers. He
performed in the 2015–16 Gilmore Rising Star Series, and has
appeared on the the stages of Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the
Kennedy Center, the Kimmel Center and Seiji Ozawa Hall, among
others. An avid chamber musician, Hsu currently attends Marlboro
Music.
Hsu is a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at The Juilliard School, where
he is a pupil of Matthias Pintscher. He received degrees from the
Curtis Institute of Music and Juilliard, where he held the Rising
Star Annual and Kovner Fellowships and his mentors included
pianists Gary Graffman and Eleanor Sokoloff, and composers Samuel
Adler, Richard Danielpour, David Ludwig and Steven Stucky. He was
a recipient of a Williamson Foundation for Music Grant in 2013 and
2014.
Hsu's brother is Daniel Hsu, critically-acclaimed Asian-American
pianist.
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A really solid pianist from Wuhan, no flash,
no drawbacks, all substantial and musical
-David Moran, The Boston Musical Intelligencer |