Program

Johannes Brahms

Scherzo (1851)

César Franck

Sonata for Violin and Piano (1886)

1. Allegretto ben moderato
2. Allegro

III. Recitativo–Fantasia: Ben moderato — Molto lento

1. Allegretto poco mosso

Intermission

Camille Saint-Saëns

Havanaise, Op. 83 (1887)

Fritz Kreisler

Schön Rosmarin (1910)

Liebesfreud (1910)

La Gitana (1917)

Maurice Ravel

Tzigane (1924)

About Hina Khuong-Huu

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 appears regularly as a guest artist 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 the Ryuji Ueno Foundation and Rare Violins In Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative. She currently studies with Itzhak Perlman at The Juilliard School and Columbia University through their double degree program. In the summers she regularly studied with the renowned faculty of the Perlman Music Program.

About Rohan De Silva

Pianist Rohan De Silva was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Cho-Liang Lin, Joshua Bell, Anne Akiko Meyers, Kurt Nikkanen, Gil Shaham, Kyoko Takazawa, Vadim Repin, and Midori. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, the 92nd St. Y, Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Philadelphia Academy of Music, Ambassador Theater, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, London’s Wigmore Hall, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall, and Milan’s La Scala. He has also appeared at the festivals of Aspen, Interlochen, Manchester, Ravinia, Schleswig-Holstein, Pacific, and Wellington.

Among De Silva’s awards are the best accompanist special prize at the ninth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He performed at the White House in 2007 for President George W. Bush and Queen Elizabeth, and in 2012 with Perlman for President Barak Obama and Shimon Peres. He has also appeared on television on The Tonight Show with Midori; and on radio stations WQXR, WNYC, and WNCN, as well as the Berlin Radio, Japan’s NHK, and CNN’s Showbiz Today, Millenium Grammy’s 2000. De Silva has recorded on the DGG, CBS/Sony Classical, Collins Classics, and BMG labels.

De Silva holds BM and MM degrees from Juilliard where he studied piano with Martin Canin and chamber music with Felix Galimir. He earned an associate degree from the Royal Academy of London in 1992 and was the recipient of the first President’s Fund scholarship from his home country to study at Juilliard. He also studied piano with Hamish Milne while attending the Royal Academy of Music from 1975 to 81. De Silva has been on the faculty at Juilliard since 1991.