Henry Wong Doe is one of New Zealand's most widely travelled and highly-regarded concert pianists. He has been a featured artist at the Busoni International Piano Festival in Bolzano, Italy, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series in Chicago, USA and the Brussels Piano Festival in Belgium.
Born in Auckland, he received his early training from Susan Smith-Gaddis, followed by Bryan Sayer at the University of Auckland. In the United States, he received a Masters degree from Indiana University Bloomington, studying with Evelyne Brancart and Leonard Hokanson, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School, studying with Joseph Kalichstein. His doctoral dissertation “Musician or Machine: The Player Piano and Composers of the Twentieth Century” examined the influence of the player piano on the works of Stravinsky, Hindemith, Nancarrow and Ligeti.
A passionate educator as well as performer, Henry is an avid performer of contemporary music and he's a passionate supporter of contemporary New Zealand music. He currently serves on the music faculty as Professor of Piano and Keyboard Area Chair at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
