Hsin-Yun Huang

Photo: Raymond Huang

Violist Hsin-Yun Huang has forged a career by performing on international concert stages, commissioning and recording new works, and nurturing young musicians. Ms. Huang has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras in Berlin, London, Tokyo, Taipei, Beijing, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Bogota, International Contemporary Ensemble and New York Classical Players amongst many others. She has commissioned compositions from Steven Mackey, Shih-Hui Chen, Lei Liang, Poul Ruders and Eric Nathan. Her recording for Bridge Records, titled Viola Viola, won accolades from Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. Other notable release is the complete unaccompanied sonatas and partitas of J.S. Bach, in partnership with her husband, violist Misha Amory and VivaViola, an album dedicated to her Taiwanese viola community.

Constantly reimagining the stage, Ms. Huang presented FantaC with the Ashkenazy Ballet and Strings of Soul with pipa virtuoso Wu Man. Season 23-24 is dedicated to project, Sisila ila ila, in collaboration with director Doug Fitch and composer Shih-Hui Chen — a fresh theater musical poem with shadow puppets that evokes a sense of longing in life.

Ms. Huang appears regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, as well as partnering with the Brentano String Quartet; together they have premiered viola quintets by James MacMillan and Felipe Lara, and presented the complete Mozart Quintets under the auspices of Carnegie Hall. She appears regularly at Marlboro, Spoleto, Music@Menlo, Ravinia and Santa Fe Festivals. Huang was the gold medalist in the 1988 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, the top-prize winner in the 1993 ARD International Competition in Munich, and was awarded the highly prestigious Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. A native of Taiwan, she received degrees from the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Curtis Institute of Music, and The Juilliard School. She now serves on the viola faculty at Juilliard and Curtis.

Ms. Huang is committed to the dream of VivaViola, a hybrid educational space inspired by the global viola community, whose mission is bridging the disconnect between man and nature, East and West, the individual and society.