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.

 

Hina’s star continues to rise following her successful Kennedy Center debut last year. In 24/25 she appeared in recital both in the US and Europe and as soloists with several orchestras and ensembles. She makes several important debuts this season. In recital she will perform at Merkin Hall in New York City with critically acclaimed pianist Rohan De Silva and at the Ljubljana Festival with pianist Kai-Min Chang. Her orchestral debuts include those with the Symphony of the Americas, Savannah Philharmonic, Greensboro Symphony, Brevard Symphony Orchestra and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra.

 

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, Mittel Europa Orchestra, Northbrook Symphony, and the Boca Symphonia. She has collaborated with artists such as Jennifer Koh in her “Alone Together” series, shared the stage with Maxim Vengerov at Carnegie Hall and Buckingham Palace and performed alongside renowned violinist Andrés Cárdenes as part of the Josef Gingold Chamber Music Festival. She has also performed at the Music in the Mountains Festival under the direction of Guillermo Figueroa. Hina was a recipient of the Salon De Virtuosi Career Grant, and 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 such luminaries as Shlomo Mintz, Vadim Gluzman, and Menahem Pressler.

 

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. She studied with Professor Li Lin and currently studies with Itzhak Perlman at The Juilliard School and Columbia University through their double degree program. In the summers she regularly studies with the renowned faculty of the Perlman Music Program.