Three additions to the piano faculty have been announced by The Juilliard School, effective in fall 2014: SERGEI BABAYAN, HUNG-KUAN CHEN, and STEPHEN HOUGH.
Sergei Babayan is a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory and winner of the Cleveland, Hamamatsu, and Scottish international piano competitions. He has performed in numerous venues in the U.S., Japan, and the U.K., and has collaborated with such conductors as Valery Gergiev, David Robertson, Yuri Temirkanov, Neeme Järvi, and Hans Graf. Babayan is currently artist-in-residence at the Cleveland Institute of Music, a post he will retain as he begins his new duties at Juilliard.
Hung-Kuan Chen was raised in Germany, where he received early training at the Hannover Hochschule and with pianist Béla Böszörményi-Nagy. He is a winner of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and Young Concert Artists International Auditions; second-place winner in the Rubinstein Competition; and the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Chen was formerly on the faculty at Boston University, New England Conservatory, and the Shanghai Conservatory, and has been a visiting professor at Yale University since 2010.
Stephen Hough maintains an active international career as a concert pianist and is also a composer and writer. His distinctions include first prize in the Naumburg International Piano Competition (1983); a MacArthur Fellowship (2001); Commander of the Order of the British Empire; and inclusion in a list of “20 Living Polymaths” by The Economist. Hough’s discography of more than 60 CDs includes four Grammy-nominated albums, eight Gramophone Awards, and France’s Diapason d’Or de l’Année. He is the author of a widely read blog for London’s Telegraph. Hough holds a master’s degree from Juilliard.
Posted March 4, 2014
