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Sheng-Ching Angel Hsu (徐升晴)

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Sheng-Ching Angel Hsu (徐升晴)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Sheng-Ching Angel Hsu
  • Chinese: 徐升晴
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: 台灣台南市
  • Core roles: educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Born in Taiwan, Sheng-Ching Angel Hsu started learning music at the early age of two. She began lessons in music theory and started composition and piano at age three. Her mother soon discovered that she possessed absolute pitch and at age five, Ms. Hsu began her studies on the violin. Within a year, she made her first public appearance at the National Cheng-Kung University as both violinist and pianist. Ms. Hsu achieved success early in her career in numerous competitions including First Prize in the Tainan Municipal Cultural Center Competition, Asia Pacific Cup Music Competition, and the National Tainan Senior High School Competition. In 2000, she won the Tainan Music Association Music Competition on violin and consecutively won the prestigious Tainan National Music Competition as the youngest participant on violin and in composition the following year. Her exceptional talent led her to concert stages throughout Asia and soon attracted the attention of Yamaha and Kawai, for which she became the scholarship recipient from both corporations.

Education

  • Mannes College The New School for Music — 2012 — B.S.Violin Performance
  • The Juilliard School — 2014 — M.S.Violin Performance

Employment

  • Hire Juilliard Program — 2013-present — Group Leader
  • Manhasset School of Music — 2012-present — Violin and piano instructor

Career & Early Recognition

Structured from the TAH Who’s Who biography and tables already mirrored on this page (|TAH Foundation source; institutions without vault pages are named, not linked):

  • Born in 台南市 (Tainan); began music at age 2 — theory and composition/piano from age 3; discovered to have absolute pitch, switched to violin at age 5
  • First public appearance within a year, at National Cheng-Kung University, as both violinist and pianist
  • Competition record: First Prize, Tainan Municipal Cultural Center Competition; Asia Pacific Cup Music Competition; National Tainan Senior High School Competition; 2000 Tainan Music Association Music Competition (violin); Tainan National Music Competition (violin and composition) the following year as the youngest participant
  • Performed on concert stages throughout Asia; became scholarship recipient of both Yamaha and Kawai
  • Education (per TAH tables): B.S. Violin Performance, Mannes College The New School for Music (2012); M.S. Violin Performance, The Juilliard School (2014)
  • Employment (per TAH tables): Hire Juilliard Program — Group Leader, 2013–present; Manhasset School of Music — violin and piano instructor, 2012–present

Vault works citing her: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/237-sheng-ching-angel-hsu-e5-be-90-e5-8d-87-e6-99-b4-violin-201507||TAH #237 (Violin, 2015/07)]] · [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/492-sheng-ching-angel-hsu-e5-be-90-e5-8d-87-e6-99-b4-201507||TAH #492 (2015/07)]]

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/237-sheng-ching-angel-hsu-e5-be-90-e5-8d-87-e6-99-b4-violin-201507||TAH #237 — Sheng-Ching Angel Hsu 徐升晴, Violin (2015/07)]]
  • [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/492-sheng-ching-angel-hsu-e5-be-90-e5-8d-87-e6-99-b4-201507||TAH #492 — Sheng-Ching Angel Hsu 徐升晴 (2015/07)]]

Notes

  • HOLD: identity collision on the shared English name “Angel Hsu” — the corpus records [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/548-shiu-sian-angel-hsu-wang-201508|TAH #548 Shiu-Sian Angel Hsu Wang 許秀香 (2015/08)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/88-dr-shiu-sian-angel-hsu-e8-a8-b1-e7-a7-80-e9-a6-99-e5-8d-9a-e5-a3-ab-first-ph-|TAH #88 Dr. Shiu-Sian Angel Hsu (physician)]] are a different person (許秀香, MD). Do not absorb their facts into this page; no name auto-merge.
  • Deepen pass 2026-09-14 (DEEPEN-X09141300-1) — SKIP-with-reason: corpus grep returns only her own two press records (#237, #492, already linked) plus the different-person collisions above. No memoir/community material beyond the press kit; nothing absorbable.
  • Deepen pass 2026-09-14 (vault-only): the biography and education/employment tables above already mirror the full TAH Who’s Who record; her institutions (Mannes, Juilliard, Manhasset School of Music) and sponsors (Yamaha, Kawai) have no vault pages, so they remain named-not-linked. Both TAH encyclopedia works (#237, #492) are linked; no further vault-sourced facts.
  • Slice 09141059-3 re-verify (vault-only): no further vault-internal facts to absorb; all cross-references resolve to existing vault pages. Status unchanged: saturated, pending-verification.

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