洪紹桓 Hung Shao-Huan

洪紹桓 Hung Shao-Huan - Taiwan (1)

Born in Taichung, Taiwan, Shao-Huan studied Traditional Chinese Music at the Tainan National University of Art, graduating in 2014. In 2016, he became the first musician in the world to use the traditional Chinese instrument, Sheng (笙) as the main instrument to study Jazz music in Europe. Shao-Huan has performed at numerous festivals including the Vancouver Chinese Music Festival (2014), the Vancouver Contemporary Music Festival (2016), and the Bamboo Music Festival, in Bandong, Indonesia (2016). He has also embarked on an international tours with the Da Chung Chinese Orchestra to Australia in 2011, and to Guatemala, Honduras, Columbia, and Peru, as a Taiwan Youth Ambassador in 2014. Having reached the Third Stage of the 2007 China CCTV Instrument Competition in Beijing, over the past decade, Shao-Huan has also held numerous personal recitals across the globe, becoming the Taiwan Music Competition of Chinese Music Students Champion (Sheng), in 2011.