Pianist Claire Huangci - Piano Heroines album - CD review, June 14^th, 2026

Works by Fanny Mendelssohn, Amy Beach, Clara Schumann and Florence Price

Premiere album, released on January 30th

Claire Huangci is a talented North American pianist of Chinese origin, living in Germany. The 36-year-old musician won in 2018 the prestigious Geza Anda Competition in Switzerland; she studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and, in 2007, moved to Germany to further her studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover. She has given numerous recitals and concerts, collaborating with the Vienna and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestras, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zürich, the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and many other renowned orchestras. She boasts a rich discography of 17 albums, featuring a diverse repertoire that ranges from Baroque creations to modern music.

The most recent album by this exceptional pianist is titled Piano Heroines and features works by female composers from the Romantic period and the first half of the last century - pieces by Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Amy Beach and Florence Price. The album was released in January, on the Alpha Classics label.