Hsing-Chwen Hsin Taiwan
Steinway Artist Hsing-Chwen Giselle Hsin is a piano professor and Director of the Institute of Music at the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. She has given master classes internationally, such as at Portugal’s Coimbra World Piano Meeting, Germany’s SRIMF, England’s Royal Northern College of Music, and Singapore’s Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore.
As a concerto soloist, she has performed with major orchestras in Taiwan including the National Symphony Orchestra (among the performances is Taiwan’s premier of Scriabin’s Piano Concerto), the Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Philharmonic, and National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, and orchestras of Hong Kong (HK Philharmonic), China (Guangzhou and Hunan), USA, England, and Switzerland; as a recitalist, she regularly performs in the National Concert Hall, Taipei, and has live recorded several recitals on Australia and Hong Kong’s radio stations. Among published CDs, her recording of Mozart, Ravel and Chopin, published by Decca of Taiwan, has resulted in the selection of Editor's Choice in the All Music Magazine.
At an early age, she went from Taiwan to study at England’s renowned Yehudi Menuhin School. At 17, she performed as a duo with Sir Yehudi Menuhin in the D Minor Violin Sonata by Brahms at the Upottery Festival, England. She was a Silver Medalist at the Mozart Bicentenary Piano Competition of Asia, and a winner at New York's Chopin Piano Competition of 1989. In 1994 after returning to Taiwan, she was honored by its President to perform at the Presidential Hall Concert. Prominent artists with whom she has partnered include violinists Cho-Liang Lin, Qian Zhou, Nai-Yuan Hu, James Buswell; violist Hsin-Yun Huang, and cellist Gary Hoffman. In 2005, Prof. Hsin founded a leading chamber group of Taiwan, the ChiaoTa Chamber Ensemble, representing NCTU’s Institute of Music and dedicated to the promotion, including the premiering, of classic and contemporary chamber music repertoire.
While holding a Doctorate in piano performance from Stony Brook University in New York, and the prestigious Chappell Gold Medal from the Royal College of Music, her mentors have included Andras Schiff, Leon Fleisher, Louis Kentner, Vlado Perlemuter, Aube Tzerko, Betty Yang, Simon Nicholls, Kendall Taylor, and Gilbert Kalish.