Merrill Hall, MU115
Education
- D.M., Doctor of Music, Fortepiano and Harpsichord Performance, Indiana University
- M.M., Master of Music, Piano Performance, Indiana University
Biography
Hsuan Chang Kitano is adjunct lecturer in music in historical performance: fortepiano, harpsichord at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she has been n faculty since 2013.
Her performance and recording engagements on fortepiano, harpsichord, basso continuo, and piano have taken her to prominent venues in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Italy, and the United States. A prizewinning keyboard soloist, she has been the winner of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra/Early Music Institute Concerto Competition (harpsichord) and the Early Music Institute Concerto Competition (fortepiano). Her playing on harpsichord and fortepiano has been praised for its “elegance with admirable clarity” (The Herald-Times).
As an active scholar in the field of eighteenth-century keyboard music, Kitano’s research on “Improvisation in Keyboard Music of the Classical Era” was influenced by Robert Levin while she worked as a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Her historical keyboard performances have been influenced by master classes of Skip Sempé, Pierre Hantai, Christopher Rousset, Trevor Pinnock, and Malcolm Bilson.
Kitano’s current research focuses on intercultural musical improvisation. Based on historical performance practice of Baroque thorough bass and eighteenth-century improvisation on cadenza and Eingänge, she has conducted collaborative projects with traditional music of India, Taiwan, and China. She also works with museums on historical keyboard instrument restoration in addition to a project regarding a different tuning system on her recording of the Bach Goldberg Variations at Zuckermann Harpsichords International.