Jade Huang is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Institute whence she earned two Bachelor's degrees in computer science and piano performance under the tutelage of Alexander Shtarkman. She is also a graduate of Stanford University, where she earned a Master's degree in Computer Science and studied with Frederick Weldy.

Awards and honors from the Peabody Institute include the Pauline Favin Memorial Award for considerable contribution to the musical and educational life at Peabody as well as the Azalia H. Thomas Prize for maintaining the highest GPA (4.0/4.0) over music theory courses taken at Peabody.

She was a finalist in the Seventh New York International Piano Competition, became a part of the Young Artist Guild of the Music Teachers' Association of California, was awarded first prize in the 2011 Henry and Carole Zeiter Piano Competition and 2010 Auburn Symphony Young Artist Competition, and was a finalist in the 2010 Young Pianist's Beethoven Competition and the 2010 Seattle International Piano Competition.

In 2009, Jade received first place in the Valencia Young Pianist Competition and was on Show #207 of National Public Radio's program From the Top.

Jade has attended summer music festivals including the Aspen Music Festival and Bowdoin International Music Festival, Adamant Music School, and the Gold Country Piano Institute where she has had the privilege of working with Boris Slutsky, John Perry, Emma Tahmizian, Dmitry Rachmanov, Pawel Skrzypek, and Thomas Hecht.

In addition to her solo ventures, she enjoys chamber music and has been a part of groups from piano duos to piano quartets while at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, San Francisco Music Conservatory preparatory division, and the Peabody Institute. While at the San Francisco Music Conservatory preparatory division, she was a part of the Epos Trio under coaches Doris Fukawa and Machiko Kobialka. Together with the Epos Trio, she placed first in the Senior Ensemble division of the Music Teacher's Association of California VOCE (Vocalists, Orchestral instrumentalists, Chamber music, Ensembles) Competition in 2011. In addition, she served as an accompanist at the Peabody Institute and collaborated with musical theater students from the Baltimore School for the Arts throughout her studies at the Peabody Institute.

Aside from music, Jade was a software engineering intern with Microsoft with the SharePoint Authentication team in the summer of 2016 and a system debug intern with the Mobile Communications Group Customer Technology Solutions Atom Processor Tablet Debug group at Intel in the summers of 2013, 2014, and 2015. While a masters student at Stanford, she has served as a course assistant for Natural Language Processing and foundation CS courses. In 2015 and 2013 respectively, she served as a course assistant for Intro Programming in Java and Intermediate Programming at the Johns Hopkins University.

She is originally from Granite Bay, California, where she studied with Sylvia Hsieh and Tien Hsieh.

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