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Grace Hui-hsin Wang

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Grace Hui-Hsin Wang, the Artistic Director of the Society of Kunqu Arts, Inc. and the panelist of the Maryland State Arts Council, is an outstanding Kunqu performing artist among the society of Kunqu scholars. She is the founding president of the Society and also a co-founder of the Kunqu Society in New York. Mrs. Wang has studied, promoted, and preserved the art of Kunqu, the first and foremost Chinese performing art, for more than thirty years and has taught Kunqu singing and performing at various universities and institutions in Taiwan and the United States. She has appeared with leading Kunqu artists on stage in Taiwan, China, and the United States. Her musical insights and emotional involvement with the librettos further intensify the beauty of her singing.

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In the United States, Mrs. Wang has performed and demonstrated the Kunqu arts at Columbia University, Wesleyan University, Pace University, Smithsonian Association, National Gallery of Art, Overseas Chinese Culture and Art Festival, Asian "Tapestry" Dance Festival, University of Maryland, Towson University, and Montgomery College. She also served as the choreographer for the Silver Spring Stage in the play "M-Butterfly" and for the North Carolina New Millennium Play Club in the play "An Interrupted Dream".

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Mrs. Wang has received unanimous raving reviews. Her exemplary acting, dancing, and singing enhanced by her natural beauty of voice and appearance awarded her First Prize in the 1994 National Kunqu Contest held in Hangzhou, China. As an honorable guest performer, Mrs. Wang was invited by the Chinese Government to perform in their 1996 National Kunqu production. In September 1999, she received the Globe Chinese Culture and Arts Award, one of the four prestigious Culture and Arts Awards in Taiwan. In 2000, 2002 and 2008, Mrs. Wang received the Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council. Due to her artistic merit, She has been selected as the panelist of two different panels of the Maryland State Arts Council since 2005.

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