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About the Featured Musicians

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 and Brevard Symphony 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 currently studies with Professors Li Lin and 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.

Universally recognized among today’s top performing artists, Vadim Gluzman breathes new life and passion into the golden era of the 19th and 20th centuries’ violin tradition. Gluzman’s wide repertoire embraces new music, and his performances are heard around the world through livestreams, broadcasts and a striking catalogue of award-winning recordings for the BIS label.

The Israeli violinist appears with world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including Tugan Sokhiev with the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony and Orchestre de Paris; Neeme Järvi with Chicago Symphony and London Philharmonic; Riccardo Chailly with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Santtu-Matias Rouvali with Gothenburg Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestra, as well as with the Cleveland Orchestra under the batons of Hannu Lintu and Michail Jurowski. He appears at Ravinia, Tanglewood, BBC Proms, Grant Park and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival, he has founded in 2011.

Gluzman starts the 2023/24 season with a return to the London Proms with the BBC Symphony and Gustavo Gimeno, followed by performances with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, London Philharmonia Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, as well as Florida Orchestra, Vancouver and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestras. He conducts a masterclass and performs at the Kronberg Festival and continues to lead performances with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Columbus, Ohio, where he serves as a Creative Partner and Principal Guest Artist.

Gluzman has premiered works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Moritz Eggert, Giya Kancheli, Elena Firsova, Pēteris Vasks, Michael Daugherty and Lera Auerbach. In the current season he will introduce new violin concerto by Erkki-Sven Tüür with HR Frankfurt Radio Orchestra and Nicholas Collon.

Accolades for his extensive discography include the Diapason d’Or of the Year, Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice, Classica magazine’s Choc de Classica award, and Disc of the Month by The Strad, BBC Music Magazine and ClassicFM.

Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Peabody Conservatory, where he teaches a selected group of young violinists, Gluzman performs on the legendary 1690 ‘ex-Leopold Auer’ Stradivari, on extended loan through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.