HINA KHUONG-HUU, VIOLIN and Kai-Min Chang, piano | 7:30 PM, FRI, FEB 21, 2025

Hina Khuong-Huu, Violin

First-Prize winner of the 2023 Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition, violinist Hina Khuong-Huu has performed around the globe appearing as soloist and collaborator with many of today's leading ensembles and musicians.

One of the centerpieces of Hina’s 23/24 season is her Kennedy Center debut performing Anna Clyne’s The Prince of Clouds alongside Grammy Award-winner Jennifer Koh. Also in 23/24, Hina is a featured soloist with The Symphonia in Boca Raton, FL under the direction of Alastair Willis, for Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir D’un Lieu Cher, and will dazzle audiences with her interpretation of Ravel’s Tzigane when she appears with the Northbrook Symphony under the leadership of Mina Zikri and Vadim Gluzman. In recital this season, Hina joins forces with the critically acclaimed pianist Rohan De Silva for an intimate program on the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota in Florida.

Named a "VC Artist" by the Violin Channel, Hina has appeared as a soloist with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Geneva, Flanders Symphony Orchestra, The Symphonia, Mittel Europa Orchestra, and the Musica Mundi Orchestra. She has collaborated with artists such as Jennifer Koh in her “Alone Together” series and shared the stage with Maxim Vengerov at Carnegie Hall and Buckingham Palace. She has performed on NPR's “From the Top” and was a recipient of the Salon De Virtuosi Career Grant. In 2018 she placed 5th in the Junior Division of the Menuhin Competition.

As a chamber music advocate, Hina regularly plays with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players in New York, and has studied with several leaders in the industry, including the renowned faculty of the Perlman Music Program. Her mentors include such luminaries as Shlomo Mintz, Vadim Gluzman, and Menahem Pressler. Hina studies with Professors Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman at The Juilliard School and Columbia University through their double degree program.

Hina performs on a violin by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona c1722 ‘Lord Wandsworth’, which is on loan from Ryuji Ueno Foundation and Rare Violins In Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative.
 

Kai-Min Chang, piano

Born in 2001 in Taiwan, Kai-Min Chang recently won first prize in the first Ljubljana Festival International Piano Competition and convinced the juries by his successful performance of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in 2023. He just returned to Slovenia to perform Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 with the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra at the opening concert of the 7th Ljubljana Winter Festival in 2024. 

Chang is currently a student of Dang Thai Son at the New England Conservatory. He was a quarterfinalist of The 18th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2021. In 2018, he won second prize in the Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition in Oberlin and the jury’s special prize in the 4th Asia-Pacific International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. He has performed with many orchestras, including The Cleveland Orchestra, RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, and the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra, etc. 

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