Badische Zeitung, 6.4.2009
The musical enjoyment is doubled with keyboard artists like Claire Huangci, with the visual aspect adding to the aural. The petite 19-year old American enters the stage resolutely, and resolutely does she sit down at the piano. You can definitely feel the stream of concentration, which overflows from her to the instrument, as the whole world around dissolves until there remains only a young lady full of adolescent charm and drive with a concert grand.
(...) then a work by Beethoven without opus number, 32 Variations over his own Theme in C minor. (...) And Claire's hands skip upwards as though the ivory was boiling. Then come chased staccato triplets, hammering, until the following staggering chord. Waves of mild arpeggios, subtle dapples fall. The waves become gloomier, a bass orgy, a glowering vortex. Abruptly follows the next mood (...)
Finally, a Romantic piece, Symphonic Etudes op. 13 by Robert Schumann, also virtuosic, torn between humour and emotion, pathos and intimicy. (...) The young lady in Lahr received six curtain calls before the audience became tired of applauding.