Claire Huangci

The American pianist Claire Huangci has successfully transcended a child prodigy's career through a long period of training in Germany, where she made her first recordings and has concertized extensively. Huangci was born March 22, 1990, in Rochester, New York, to parents who were both Chinese immigrant scientists. They gave Claire a grand piano as a sixth birthday gift. Huangci's debut performance at school was a debacle: performing a sonata by Muzio Clementi, she suffered a memory lapse and had to ask her mother to bring her the printed music. Huangci persisted, however, a...