Born in Taipei City, Huang Hao-Yin obtained her Degree of Bachelor of Law in Economics from National Chung Hsing University (now National Taipei University) and graduated from the Chinese Music Division of Music Department, Chinese Culture University, majoring in Guzheng and Guqin (Chinese Zithers).

She performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Fujian Symphony Orchestra, Youth Orchestra-CYCNY, Evergreen Symphony Orchestra, National Chinese Orchestra Taiwan, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, Hwa Kang Chinese Orchestra), and Hwa Kang Guzheng Orchestra. She has held 28 recitals, participated in dozens of concerts as the solo or lead performer, and held over 100 lecture concerts in various universities. She held recitals at Shih Chien Hall Taipei in June 1980 and December 1982, eight touring concerts from November to December 1987, five touring recitals at Taipei National Concert Hall (main hall) from April to May 1991, and a recital in the main hall of Taipei National Concert Hall in March 1992. She performed in Japan in October 1995, and participated in an international conference for paper presentation and performed half a concert in Seoul in September 1996. She performed in Paris in March 1998, and participated in an international conference for paper presentation in Seoul in November 1998. She held recitals Taipei National Concert Hall in 2000 and 2001. Furthermore, in September and October 2003, she held a recital at Taipei National Concert Hall (main hall) and four touring recitals, and directed the premier performance of her own compositions at Taipei National Concert Hall in 2000, 2005, and 2011. She directed the performance of Hwa Kang Guzheng Orchestra at Taipei National Concert Hall in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2010. She performed in November 2012 at the concert in commemoration of the 84th Anniversary of National Taiwan University, and performed at Lincoln Center in New York in May 2013. She performed with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in Taipei National Concert Hall in August 2013, and performed in the joint concert of faculty members of the Department of Chinese Music of the Chinese Culture University (CCU) at Hsiao-Feng Hall in November 2014. She held a Guzheng concert with her students at CCU's Hsiao-Feng Hall in April 2015, and a recital in the main hall of Taipei National Concert Hall and five touring concerts from September to October 2015. A concert with her students was held in Bach Hall in March 2016. The "Concert of Selected Works of Huang Hao-yin's Guzheng Works" was held in September 2017 at Taipei National Concert Hall.

Her works are published on five volumes of audio tapes, two LP records, two and a half CDs, and many books and audio materials. She has won various performance awards and also research awards from the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Her compositions include 17 pieces of Guzheng music with 28 Zheng compositions commissioned for creation, premieres, and first recording.

She has taught at the Department of Music of the National Institute of the Arts (now Taipei National University of the Arts), the Department of Chinese Music and Department of Chinese Music of National Taiwan Academy of Arts (now National Taiwan University of Arts), Music Class of Kuang Jen Catholic High School, and the Department of Chinese Music of Taipei Hwa Kang Arts School. She is currently a professor in the Dept. of Chinese Music, Chinese Culture University, certified by the Ministry of Education.

Philosophy of Her Composition

There are various stories concealed in the course of life, and there are complex emotions behind life.

Started to learn Guzheng in 1968, Huang Hao-yin has long cherished the passion for Zheng music. Beginning in 1978, she studied theoretical composition with Prof. Ma Shui-Lung and Prof. Chang Pang-Yen, hoping to be able to record, in the form of music, the feelings and thoughts like what poets have been doing. She won the Chinese Music Instrument Composition Award in 1979, which has immensely enhanced her confidence.

Her compositions include: "Formosa Spring Breezes and Sweet Dews" (1978), which won the second place in the Guzheng category in the Chinese Music Instrument Composition Award the following year.

"Song of Victory" and "The Rainbow Fairies" (1979)

"Wishes" and "Songs of Spring" (1981)

"The Joy of Spring" (1983)

"Seeking for the Dream" and "Flower's Dance" (1986)

She has then been devoted to writing on the theories of traditional and modern Guzheng music. Her works include: “A Study on the Performing Art of Zheng Music”, “A Study of Sixty-eight Ban Zheng Compositions” and “A Selected Anthology of Taiwanese Zheng Music and an Essay on Zheng Compositions by Huang Hao-Yin”.

Her compositions also include: "Reincarnation" and "Three Cats Amusing Themselves by the Zheng" (2009)

"Flying Apsaras Dance" and "The Sensation of Taipei" (2011)

"E de le" (2012)

"Melting from the Poles" (2017)

"The Book of Heaven without Words - Zheng Trio and Storyteller" (2018)

"Taiwan Lantern Festival-Zheng Lead, Accompanied by Musical Saw, Violin, Piano and Percussion" (2019)

"The Sun - Zheng Lead, Accompanied by Piano, Chinese Xun Ocarina, Vertical Bamboo Flute Xiao and Male Chorus" (2021)

She has arranged her own works in dozens of the recitals, because those are the stories of her life in different periods. These works are often performed by Zheng musicians in the performance halls, national concert halls, and recital halls of cultural centers around the country, and many of them won special awards in local and national music competitions.

These compositions are all among her works in two performances in the 21st century: in 2017 and 2021. Efforts are made to integrate visual, auditory and musical imagery so it feels like smooth silk rolling rivers.

"Good music pieces are like stars from heaven to bring blessings to lives on earth." Hope you all enjoy it.