FACULTY

Tzu-Shan Huang

Associate Professor

TEL:3360

Email:tshuang@mail.nsysu.edu.tw

聲樂組

Associate Professor

Vocal performance, Mozart’s concert arias, The vocal music of Benjamin Britten

Doctor of Musical Arts, Peabody Conservatory of Music, The Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Tzu-Shan Huang, DMA, is an acclaimed Taiwanese soprano, educator, and scholar whose performances have taken her throughout Taiwan as well as Japan, the United States (Colorado, Baltimore, and Indianapolis), Malaysia, Singapore, and Frankfurt, Germany. Equally at home on the operatic stage and the concert platform, she has appeared in choral collaborations, solo recitals, vocal chamber music concerts, and premieres of newly composed art songs.

As a producer and recital artist, Ms. Huang has curated numerous themed concert programs that reflect both the Western classical vocal tradition and Taiwanese art song. Her major productions include Taiwanese Art Song Concerts (Singapore, Malaysia, and Germany, 2000–2001), An Evening of Taiwanese Art Songs (2002), An Evening of Dvořák (2003), Art Songs and Classical Guitar (2005; 2018), Chanson • Paris (2008), Illusion (2009; 2012), The God of the Forest (2010; 2014), His and Her: A Duet Concert (2011), Guitar and Voice: Spanish Songs (Tokyo, 2014), Beautiful Isle Formosa (Indianapolis, 2015), An Evening of Chinese Art Songs (2015), Tzu-Shan Huang Vocal Chamber Music Concert (2016), Stories from Every Corner of the World (2019), A Heart in Motion (2021), Mozart Soprano (2022), A Kaleidoscope of Song (2023), The Fragrance of Music (2024), and Swaying with the Wind (2026).

Her operatic repertoire encompasses many of the soprano canon’s most celebrated roles, including Konstanze in Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the title role in Lully’s Armide, Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Pamina and the First Lady in Die Zauberflöte, and Hanna Glawari in Lehár’s The Merry Widow.

Ms. Huang currently serves as Associate Professor of Voice in the Department of Music at National Sun Yat-sen University. Her scholarly interests center on Mozart’s concert arias and the vocal music of Benjamin Britten. She teaches voice performance, lyric diction, vocal literature, art song repertoire, vocal techniques, and vocal pedagogy.

Committed to nurturing the next generation of singers, she regularly directs and produces student performances that integrate artistic training with practical stage experience. Recent productions include Gentle Songs and A World in a Grain of Sand (2023), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021), a fully staged production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (2018), Coffee and Chanson (2017), The Singing Formula (2017), Characters and Stories: Opera Highlights (2016), Taiwanese Songs: A Concert of Gratitude (2016), The Sky of Paris (2016), A Tribute to Pergolesi: Stabat Mater and La Serva Padrona (2015), When Songs Arise, Poetry Lives Again: Newly Arranged Taiwanese Art Songs (2015), A Midsummer Vocal Journey (2014), French Art Songs: Animal Fantasies (2014), Taiwanese Songs: From the Past to the Present (2011, 2013), An Evening of German Art Songs (2013), and the Mozart Soprano Lecture-Recital (2012).

Ms. Huang has also been recognized for her contributions to pedagogical innovation. She is the recipient of the 2025 Ministry of Education Teaching Practice Research Project, Integrating Problem-Based Learning (PBL) into Vocal Pedagogy: A Teaching Practice Study, which explores the application of problem-based learning in collegiate voice instruction.

Her publications include The Vocal Art of Benjamin Britten: Studies of Four Vocal Song Cycles (2017) and Perspectives on Vocal Art: Essays on Singing and Vocal Performance (2021), both reflecting her longstanding engagement with vocal literature, performance practice, and pedagogy.
Through her work as a performer, educator, and researcher, Tzu-Shan Huang continues to promote excellence in vocal artistry while fostering meaningful dialogue between performance, scholarship, and teaching.