Sunday, February 12, 2023
Establishing herself as one of today’s promising emerging artists, pianist Hanbo Ma has made appearances in solo recitals, as well as being featured with orchestras throughout Asia, Europe and North America. Her career began with her performance of Islamey by Balakirev at Severence Hall in Cleveland, Ohio at the age of 17, after which she received recognitions by winning the San Jose International Piano Competition, the St. Andrews International Piano Competition, the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, the Young Muse International Competition, as well as others, and was selected as the only recipient of the Cobos Piano Prize given by Eastman School of Music in 2015.
Dr. Ma has given numbers of concert tours such as an All-Liszt recital tour in North America and Europe sponsored by the Embassy of Hungary in Washington D.C and the Hungarian Cultural center. She has given a series of lecture recitals, solo recitals and master classes. The most recent one is a tour of French and Russian music at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, East Tennessee State University, Biola University and Wuhan Conservatory.
An active pianist, Dr. Ma not only performs solo recitals, but also enjoys performing with chamber groups and contemporary composers. In 2013, she was invited to be one of the twelve scholars at Heartland Chamber Music Festival, where her chamber performance was live-streamed on Kansas Public Radio. In 2017, Dr. Ma collaborated with string quintet from University of Southern California to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 while conducting from the piano. Dr. Ma has premiered numbers of works, including a world premier of Ben Kwok’s Sounds From the Lung Fields, Dr. Chih-long Hu’s Formosa Caprices and Elizabeth Baker’s Four Plane, which is a piece the composer dedicated to Dr. Ma.In 2021, Dr. Ma is in preparation of recording and premiering composer Michael Colina’s Piano Concerto with The Florida Orchestra.
Dr. Ma holds a Master of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Eastman School of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music. Her primary teachers including Chih-long Hu, Rebecca Penneys and Daniel Pollack. During her time at USC, She also studied Composition and Orchestral Conducting with National medal of art recipient Morten Lauridsen and Maestro Larry Livingston. Dr. Ma is on piano faculty of the Concordia University Irvine Chamber Music Festival and Appalachian Music Festival. Dr. Ma is a Steinway Educational Partner.
Learn more at her website, https://www.hanboma.com/.
