Here is an intriguing album featuring harmonica virtuoso Cham-Ber Huang in duets with Danish accordionist Mogens Ellegaard. Huang, who emigrated from Shanghai in 1950, is quite a sensitive player and manages to make harmonica arrangements of classical pieces sound completely natural -- no easy trick. Ellegaard was likewise an excellent musician, and in later years went on to record a great deal of experimental music, by the likes of Per Norgaard and Arne Nordheim. I've given you Huang and Ellegaard's fine performance of Bela Bartok's Roumanian Folk Dances, composed in 1915.Cham-Ber Huang received his first formal musical training on the violin in the prep school of the Shanghai Music Conservatory in his early teens. It was a rather late start for study of the instrument and after a few years of hard work, he realized that chances were remote that he would become another Paganini of the violin. He decided to continue by himself the study on the humble harmonica, which he had begun at the age of six. Experiencing practically no competition, Cham-Ber Huang eventually achieved renown as an outstanding harmonica concert artist.
In the late 1940's, Dr. John Leighton Stuart, the former Ambassador to China, heard the young harmonica player in a full-fledged concert. He said to Cham-Ber, "Young man, I would like to hear you one day performing in Carnegie Hall." Cham-Ber came to New York in June of 1950 and, with the blessing of Ambassador Stuart, began his musical career in the new world.
Since 1979, Huang has returned to China to appear as guest soloist with the Central Beijing Philharmonic, the Shanghai Symphony, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Central Ballet Society. Huang offered an equal courtesy to Taiwan when he performed as soloist with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. Huang has also performed as guest soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras in the U.S.
Cham-Ber Huang: A Breath Taking
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