Hilda Huang became the youngest person to win first prize at the Leipzig International Bach Competition (piano, 2014), whereupon she began her international performing career on the Steinway & Sons Prizewinners’ Concert Network. After making her piano recital debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in partnership with the Leipzig Bach Archive and MDR Leipzig, she appeared at the Leipzig Bach Festival, BASF Gesellschaftshaus, Festival Musicorum Brussels, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial concerts series, and the Montréal Bach Festival.

In 2026 Hilda Huang was awarded second prize in the MA (Musica Antiqua) Brugge International Competition in harpsichord after a long period of artistic evolution, a rare artist with an international presence on both modern and historical keyboards. Continuing her studies in organ with Matthias Havinga at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, she also begins her appointment as main-subject teacher in piano and harpsichord at the Sweelinck Academy of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in 2026.

Hilda’s association with Bach’s music began at an early age. Her interest in counterpoint on the modern piano led her to the harpsichord, on which her small hands, flair for articulation, and energetic playing style encouraged her to explore of a wide range of playing styles and instruments.

Bringing together traditions of performance on piano, harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ, the breadth of her musical and artistic inquiry continues to expand, encompassing projects in early music, sacred music, instrumental innovation, and installation performance. She has appeared as soloist with Il Gardelino, Mitteldeutsches Kammerorchester, San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque, the Sweelinck Baroque Orchestra, and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. In 2024, she commissioned and premiered a new Missa Brevis for keyboard by the renowned American composer of sacred music, John Harbison. She regularly contributes music for worship at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in New York.

Deeply committed to education, she was named a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts by the U.S. Department of Education upon graduating high school and pursued coursework in education, psychology, and philosophy during her Bachelor and Masters studies at Yale University. During her doctoral studies at the Juilliard School (solo piano) she was named a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to the Netherlands. Her doctoral dissertation on the etymology of suspensions explored the impact of music cognition on performance, and was awarded the Richard R. French Prize for outstanding dissertation research. Particularly interested in musicianship formation, she is regularly consulted by colleagues and students for instruction and has given classes at Southern Methodist University, the Preparatory Division of the San Francisco Conservatory, the Juilliard School Pre-College, the Sweelinck Academy of the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and tonebase Piano Community, among others.

From 2021-2024 she was on the roster of Astral Artists, a Philadelphia-based organization that develops the early careers of extraordinary classical musicians. She has had formative lessons and masterclasses with Carole Cerasi, Hung Kuan Chen, Richard Goode, Robert Levin, Corey Jamason, Béatrice Martin, Christophe Rousset and Kris Verhelst. Her long-time mentors are John McCarthy and David Kuyken.

At home in Amsterdam, Hilda Huang practices on a 1927 Steinway A graciously on loan from the Dutch National Music Instrument Collection and a harpsichord generously on loan from Clavecin Society. Hilda Huang is a Steinway Artist. She is represented internationally by Annie Guo.