Bin Huang
(黃濱)Violinist
Bin Huang, one of the most outstanding violinists from China, endeared herself to the musical world when at age fourteen she won the Junior Wieniawski International Violin Competition in Lublin, Poland, sharing First Prize with Maxim Vengerov. She has maintained international prominence, winning both the Paganini International Violin Competition in Genoa, Italy, and the Munich (ARD) International Music Competition in Munich, Germany. Ms. Huang has been universally lauded for her interpretive and technical skills, hailed as “a winner in what matters the most” (The Washington Post) and “a talent that leaves a listener flabbergasted” (The Sun, Baltimore.)
Bin Huang’s live recording of the Beethoven Violin Concerto on Paganini’s own violin, the “Cannon,” is the only existing live recording captured with that legendary instrument. Both the Audio Review in Italy and Diapason in France have highly praised this CD:“The Chinese violinist astounded the listener with both her technical abilities and her musical maturity: perfect intonation, formal clarity, exquisite phrasing…she brought alive the noble character of the concerto…an interpretation of the highest class.” (Diapason Sep. 2000) Bin Huang’s Baroque Violin Favourites on Naxos Label was given the editor’s choice in the American Record Guide (2003).
Bin Huang’s concert career has taken her throughout the world, performing with leading orchestras such as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Korean Broadcasting System Symphony Orchestra, and the China National Symphony Orchestra; and appearing at important concert venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Palais Des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Opera Center in Tokyo, Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, and the People’s Great Hall and National Grand Theater in Beijing. Concert highlights in 2008-2009 season include appearances in the “Ten Most Celebrated Violinists ” concert series in China National Grand Theater; Ten-Year Anniversary Gala Concert of the Shanghai Grand Theater; the premiere of Robert Gauldin Violin Concerto with Peterborough Symphony Orchestra in Canada. In the 2009-2010 season, Bin Huang will give a concert tour in China, Italy, as well as Taiwan, in which she will appear with the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra in the Taiwan National Concert Hall. She is also invited to be a jury member in the world’s most important stringed instrument making competition, the Stradivari Competition in Cremona, Italy.
As an active chamber musician, Bin Huang has played in the Marlboro Music Festival, where she performed with members of the Beaux Arts Trio and the Juilliard and Guarneri String Quartet. She is a member of Fideo Trio which has performed in the United States, Italy, and Canada. Bin Huang has given master classes in Louisiana State University, the universities of Dayton, Nebraska, and Southern Utah, and the Shanghai, Xinghai, Tianjing, Sichuan conservatories in China. Besides winning the Wieniawski, Paganini, and Munich competitions, she is also a laureate in other world’s most prestigious competitions including the Indianapolis, the Queen Elisabeth, and the Tchaikovsky international violin competitions.
Bin Huang began her violin studies at age four in China, and entered the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing at age nine. After graduating from the high school division of the conservatory, she came to the United States to study at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree and Artist Diploma. She also received her Masters Degree at the Eastman School of Music. Her major teachers include Shu-Min Guo, Zhi-Long Wang, Berl Senofsky, Igor Ozim, Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Gennady Kleyman, and Zvi Zeitlin.
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