HSIN-YUN HUANG
Viola
Hsin-Yun Huang came to international prominence in 1993, when she was winner of the top prize of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award in Tokyo. In 1988, she was the youngest-ever Gold Medalist of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition on the Isle of Man. She has collaborated with many distinguished artists including Yo-Yo Ma, Jaime Laredo, Joshua Bell, Joseph Suk, and Menahem Pressler. Recent collaborations include performances with the Guarneri, the Juilliard, the Orion, the Brentano and the St. Lawrence String Quartets. She was a member of the Borromeo String Quartet, which won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. The Borromeo String Quartet was also awarded the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award in 1998, chosen by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to be members of Chamber Music Society Two and featured in a nationwide Live from Lincoln Center television telecast. She was born in Taiwan and went to England at the age of fourteen to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School with David Takeno. She continued her studies at the Curtis Institute with Michael Tree, and at the Juilliard School with Samuel Rhodes. A current resident of New York City, she serves on the faculties of the Juilliard School and the Mannes College of Music, and has given master classes at the Guildhall School in London, the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, the McDuffie Center for Strings, Taipei Normal University, and East Carolina University. She recently founded the Variation String Trio with violinist Jennifer Koh and cellist Wilhelmina Smith.
(As of June 2010)
(As of June 2010)
