Hsin-Yun Huang 黃心芸, Violinist

Violist Hsin-Yun Huang 黃心芸, recognized as one of the leading violists of her generation, 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 1988, Ms. Huang was the youngest-ever Gold Medalist of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition on the Isle of Man. These and other honors have propelled a career as soloist and chamber musician on stages of major concert halls throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East.

Ms. Huang has collaborated with many distinguished artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, Jaime Laredo, Joshua Bell, Joseph Suk, and Menahem Pressler, to name a few. Recent collaborations include performances with the Guarneri, the Juilliard, the Orion, the Brentano, and the St. Lawrence String Quartets.

She performed Marc-André Dalbavie’s Diadèmes, a viola concerto, with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University in New York City in December 2008; other recent concerto performances have included the City of London Sinfonia, the Amarillo Symphony, and the Naumburg Orchestra in New York City’s Central Park. Other solo performances have included concerto appearances with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra in Munich, the Zagreb Soloists in Paris, the Tokyo Philharmonic in Tokyo, the Berlin Radio Symphony in Berlin, the Russian State Philharmonic, the National Symphony of Taiwan, the Taipei City Symphony, and the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra (Taipei).

Hsin-Yun Huang has performed at prominent music festivals throughout the world. In North America, these include the Spoleto Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, the Marlboro Music Festival, the Aspen Festival, Music@Menlo, the El Paso Chamber Music Festival, the La Jolla Summerfest, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, the Newport Festival, La Musica in Sarasota, and the Mount Desert Festival in Maine. International festivals have included Prussia Cove (England), the St. Nazaire and Festival de Divonne (France), Spring Festival (Prague), the Rome Chamber Music Festival (Italy), the Cartagena International Festival (Colombia), the Stavanger Festival (Sweden), and the Moritzburg Festival (Germany), among many others.

Ms. Huang was a member of the Borromeo String Quartet from 1994-2000. With the Quartet, she performed in such prominent venues as New York City’s Alice Tully Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin’s Philharmonie, and Japan’s Casals Hall. In 1998 the Borromeo String Quartet was awarded the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, chosen by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to be members of Chamber Music Society Two, and featured in a Live from Lincoln Center telecast.

Hsin-Yun Huang came to England from her native Taiwan 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.

Currently residing in New York City, she is a dedicated teacher, serving on the faculties of The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute and has given master classes at Guildhall School in London, the McDuffie Center for the Strings, the Taipei Normal University, and East Carolina University.

一九七一年生於台北。光仁小學音樂班、第一屆師大附中國中部音樂班。十四歲入英 國曼紐因音樂學校，十八歲進入美國寇蒂斯音樂院（取得學士），後入茱利亞音樂院（取 得碩士）。

曾獲1993年慕尼克國際音樂大賽(ARD International Music Competition in Munich)中提琴首獎;日本文化村音樂廳大獎(Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award)。 1988年,她更成為萊諾‧特堤斯國際大賽(Lionel Tertis International Competition)最年輕的金牌得主。 與她合作過的樂團包括巴伐利亞廣播交響樂團、Zagreb獨奏家合奏團(Zagreb Soloists)、東京愛樂管絃樂團、柏林廣播交響樂團、俄羅斯國家愛樂交響樂團、臺北愛樂管絃樂團、臺北市立交響樂團等。

1972年出生於台灣的黃心芸,目前定居紐約。 黃心芸是世界知名的室內音樂節常客,包括萬寶路(Marlboro)音樂節、羅馬室內音樂節(Rome Chamber Music Festival)、英國普魯夏柯夫(Prussia Cove)音樂節等。 1994年至2000年間,黃心芸為伯羅米歐絃樂四重奏(Borromeo String Quartet)一員,並與該團參與了義大利斯波萊托音樂節(Spoleto Festival)、科羅拉多的柏拉弗音樂節(Bravo Festival)、法國迪沃納音樂節(Festival de Divonne)等,也曾在紐約艾莉絲‧杜利廳、倫敦維格摩音樂廳、 柏林愛樂廳等著名場地演出。 黃心芸14歲即前往英國曼紐因音樂院就讀,師事竹野大衛(David Takeno)。 在費城科堤斯音樂院師事麥克‧特利(Michael Tree),獲學士學位,之後在茱麗亞音樂院攻讀碩士,師事山謬‧羅茲(Samuel Rhodes)。 目前她任教於紐約茱麗亞 音樂院(Juilliard School)及曼尼斯音樂院(Mannes College of Music)。