【Thursday Arts & Culture】Pianist Huang Yuxiang’s Concert with Special Guest Performer Show Lo

Written/Compiled and Reported by MOOK Travel Life Net’s Chen Guanxin

 

Hailing from Taichung, Huang Yuxiang is Taiwan’s first blind pianist to major in piano. In 2011, he crossed over into film acting and won the distinction of Taiwan’s Outstanding Film Worker of the Year at the 2012 Golden Horse Awards, as well as the Best Actor award at the 2013 Milan Film Festival. The film “Touch of the Light” took him around the world, and on March 29 at 19:30, his “Huang Yuxiang’s Color Fantasy Piano Concert” at Taichung Zhongshan Hall will be his only piano concert held back home this year. Everyone is invited to experience how Yuxiang colors the sky with his music.

Born with congenital retinopathy that left him completely blind, Huang Yuxiang has an exceptional musical memory, able to reproduce melodies after hearing them just once. His passion and dedication to music have earned him numerous accolades in the music industry, including double championships in solo and ensemble categories from the “Steinbach Music Art Association,” the solo championship at the “Shtof Piano Competition,” and even the Presidential Education Award. In 2012, he took on his first leading role in a semi-autobiographical film adapted from his own life story.<逆光飞翔>He successfully won the distinction of Taiwan’s Outstanding Film Worker of the Year at the 2012 Golden Horse Awards, as well as the Best Actor award at the 2013 Milan Film Festival.

 

A graduate of National Taichung School for the Visually Impaired and the Music Department of National Taiwan University of Arts, Huang Yuxiang is Taiwan’s first fully blind music bachelor to major in piano. Having worked across classical, pop, and jazz genres, Yuxiang once said, “Sound allows me to feel the colors of the world.” Though his world may always be dark, his music lets others see a brilliant rainbow. Therefore, the program design of “Huang Yuxiang’s Color Fantasy Piano Concert” is themed around colors, divided into four sections: Yellow for Splendor, Blue for Fantasy, Black for Shine, and Red for Passion, spanning classical, jazz, and pop styles. The repertoire includes Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” “The Ultimate Classic Trio” (arrangement), the movie “Touch of the Light,” the “Darkness” suite, as well as original compositions “Golden Dream” and “Cherry Blossom Dream.” It was also revealed that musical friends including Masaki Baba, lead singer of Dad’s Banquet Band, and Golden Melody Award-winning artist Show Lo will join the performance, aiming to enrich the concert further and inviting audiences to experience the colorful world painted by Yuxiang’s piano.

 

 

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