Pianists Hu and Huang to present faculty recital Feb. 20

Xiao Hu and Du Huang will present a piano duo recital Friday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. in the Noble Recital Hall.
The program is open to the public with no charge for admission.

The first half of the program will feature music for one piano. Hu and Huang will perform works for four-hands by Schubert, Debussy and Brooke Joyce, Luther assistant professor of music. Joyce’s piece, titled “Waves of Stone,” is influenced by ancient Chinese philosophers.

The second half of the program will feature Rachmaninoff’s Suite No.1 for Two Pianos, and music for two pianos and eight-hands by Bedřich Smetana and Sousa. 
Several piano accompanists will join Hu and Huang to conclude the program. Accompanists include Luther music faculty members Miko Kominami, Jessica Paul, Kathy Reed-Maxfield, John Strauss and Marjorie Wharton, and Gustavus Adolphus College piano faculty Esther Wang.

Hu and Huang, professionally known as the Unison Piano Duo, have performed at venues throughout the United States and abroad, including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York City; United Nations in Vienna; Shanghai, Wuhan and Shenzhen, China; and on many concert series and university campuses. 

Hu and Huang were featured on Iowa Public Television and Minnesota Public Radio in 2005.

Hu and Huang are honor graduates of the University of Cincinnati where they studied with Eugene and Elizabeth Pridonoff. They each hold the doctor of musical arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.