Professor
Piano
Contact Information
Cogswell 216
724-357-2393
Courses
Applied Piano
Class Piano
Piano Ensemble
Piano Pedagogy
Degrees
DMA, The Juilliard School
MM, Indiana University
BM, University of Auckland
Performers Licentiate, Trinity College of London
Biography
A native of New Zealand, Henry Wong Doe received his doctor of musical arts degree in piano from the Juilliard School in New York, as well as a master's degree from Indiana University, Bloomington. Prior to his studies in the United States, Henry received his undergraduate degree from the University of Auckland, as well as a performer's licentiate from the Trinity College of London. Henry is currently professor of Piano and Keyboard Area chair at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, teaching applied piano, class piano, piano ensemble, and piano pedagogy.
Henry has been a prizewinner of several international piano competitions, including the Sydney (2000), Rubinstein (Tel Aviv, Israel 2001), Busoni (Bolzano, Italy 2002), and World (Cincinnati, 2007). He has performed in major concert halls around the world, including Lincoln Center, New York; Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh; Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv; St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and the Sydney Opera House. His two recitals at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in 2008 and 2012 featured solo and interactive works for piano and computer-controlled piano as well as works by New Zealand composer Gareth Farr.
Notable orchestras Henry has performed with include the Pittsburgh Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, Australian Chamber, and Auckland Philharmonia Orchestras. He has collaborated with conductors Christopher Hogwood, Michael Christie, Edvard Tchivzel, Marko Letonja, and Tobias Ringborg.
An accomplished recording artist, Henry Wong Doe has released seven recordings on the Trust, Rattle, Klavier, and HR Recording labels. Four of the seven albums feature new or recently composed New Zealand music. His performances and albums have been featured on New Zealand’s Concert FM radio program, WNYC (New York), WFMT (Chicago), and WQED (Pittsburgh) radio stations. Jed Distler of Classics Today gave his album Landscape Preludes (Rattle RAT-D046) a 9/10 rating for both artistic and sound quality, writing “…the selections are appreciably varied, well-crafted for piano.… [Wong Doe] mastered the notes and assimilated the music to the highest standards.”
Most recently, Henry was awarded an arts grant from Creative New Zealand (Arts Council of New Zealand) for his commissioning and recording project, Perspectives. The project featured six new works for piano by New Zealand composers, with the goal to illustrate each composer’s perspective of the 2020–21 global pandemic. Perspectives (Rattle RAT-D147) was released on Rattle Records in November 2023 and was nominated for the Best Classical Artist category of the 2024 Aotearoa (New Zealand) Music Awards.
An avid collaborator as well as solo musician, Henry works regularly with violinist Eugenia Choi and cellist Michael Kevin Jones and as a member of the IUP faculty ensemble Keystone Chamber Players. Their discography includes Five in the Sun (Klavier K 11193) of woodwind chamber music and two albums on HR Recordings (E161HR and E162HR) of rediscovered works for cello and piano. Upcoming projects include a tour of the United States and Canada in 2025 with Michael Kevin Jones and a forthcoming album of cello works by Rachmaninoff and Prokofieff for HR Recordings.
In addition to the piano, Henry studied French horn during his undergraduate studies in New Zealand and was a member of the New Zealand National Youth Orchestra. When not playing music, he enjoys cooking, snow skiing, and working on his tennis game.