Biography

PAUL HUANG 黃俊文

Paul Huang is the recipient of the 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. His recent highlights have included the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival, Bravo! Vail Music Festival, and Aspen Music Festival. In 2021 he became the first classical violinist to perform his own

arrangement of “The Star-Spangled Banner” to open an NFL game. An exclusive recording artist with France’s Naïve Records, his debut album, Kaleidoscope, was released last fall and his recording of Toshio Hosokawa’s Violin Concerto, Genesis, with the Residentie Orkest in the Hague will be released on Naxos this winter.

This season Mr. Huang returns to National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan and debuts with the Dallas Symphony, NHK Symphony, BBC Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony with this performance. In January he launched the second “Paul Huang & Friends” International Chamber Music Festival in Taipei, in association with the National Symphony of Taiwan. Other recent recital engagements included Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series and debuts at Wigmore Hall, Seoul Arts Center, and the Louvre.

Winner of the 2011 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Mr. Huang’s other honors include first prize at the 2009 Tibor Varga International Violin Competition Sion-Valais in Switzerland, the 2009 Chi-Mei Cultural Foundation Arts Award for Taiwan’s Most Promising Young Artists, the 2013 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and the 2014 Classical Recording Foundation Young Artist Award. Born in Taiwan, Mr. Huang began violin lessons at the age of seven. He was a recipient of an inaugural Kovner Fellowship at the Juilliard School, where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He plays the 1742 “ex-Wie- niawski” Guarneri del Gesù violin on extended loan through the Stradivari Society of Chicago and is on the faculty of Taipei National University of the Arts.