Bin Huang & Li-Shan Hung

With technical brilliance and probing interpretation, the duo of Bin Huang, violin, and our own faculty artist, Li-shan Hung, piano, return for another evening of astounding music.

Ms. Bin Huang 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 in 1994, and the Munich (ARD) International Music Competition in 1999. 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). She holds degrees from the Peabody Conservatory of Music (BMA and Artist Diploma) and the Eastman School of Music (MMA and DMA) where her principal teachers were Berl Senofsky and Zvi Zeitlin. Her other major teachers include Shumin Guo, Zhilong Wang, Igor Ozim, Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, and Gennady Kleyman.

Bin Huang’s concert career has taken her throughout the world, performing with leading international orchestras such as the French National Symphony Orchestra, as well as US orchestras and important concert venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Palais Des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Opera City in Tokyo, Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, and the People’s Great Hall and National Grand Theater in Beijing. In 2008-2009 Season Bin Huang gave the world premiere of Robert Gauldin Violin Concerto, which is dedicated to her, with Peterborough Symphony Orchestra in Canada. She was also invited by the China National Grand Theater to perform in the “Ten Most Celebrated Violinists” series. Bin Huang gave a concert tour in Taiwan, China, Italy, and the USA during the 2009-2010 Season.

Dr. Li-shan Hung is a winner of the Artists International Audition, and made her New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in February of 2003, to great acclaim, leading to a return in the 2004-05 season. She has been soloist with many orchestras in the U.S., Germany, Austria, France Italy, Canada, and China, as well as collaborated with distinguished conductors and  artists such as Peter Jaffe, and violinist Bin Huang, winner of the 1994 International Paganini Violin Competition. Dr. Hung was the featured pianist at the Rome Festival in Italy in 2002, and Maud Powell Festival in Illinois in 2003-2007. Since 2008, she has been on the piano faculty at the Master Works Festival, sponsored by the Christian Performing Art Fellowship.  In addition, her performances have been broadcast on television and radio, including WBAL, WBJC, and WFYI.

During summers, Li-shan has attended and performed in musical festivals at Salzburg, Moscow, Orford of Canada, and Aspen, where she had opportunities to study with distinguished artists, such as Jörg Demus, Imre Rohmann, Grant Johannesen, Sergei Dorensky, and Evgeny Malinin. Her great interest in chamber music also led her to study with the Alban Berg String Quartet in Germany. Dr. Hung is Piano Area Co-ordinator for the Biola Conservatory of Music. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with the renowned pianist Ann Schein, who was a pupil of the legendary master, Arthur Rubinstein.