华裔知名中提琴家黄心芸为国际中备受推崇的中生代中提琴演奏家。曾获1993慕尼黑ARD国际音乐大赛中提琴首奖；日本文化村音乐厅大奖。1988年，她更成为莱诺特堤斯国际大赛最年轻的金牌得主。拥有如此傲人的成绩，使其演出邀约不断，曾于慕尼黑与巴伐利亚广播交响乐团协奏演出，并由电视台转播。其他合作过的乐团包括萨格勒布独奏家合奏团、东京爱乐乐团、柏林广播交响乐团、俄罗斯国家爱乐乐团、台北爱乐乐团、台北市立交响乐团、长荣管弦乐团等。

黄心芸目前定居纽约，是位活跃的独奏家，在欧美等地举办多场独奏会、室内乐，更多次受邀于介寿馆音乐会演出。黄心芸同时也是世界知名的室内音乐节常客，包括万宝路音乐节、罗马室内音乐节、英国普鲁夏柯夫音乐节、艾帕索国际室内音乐节室、温哥华室内音乐节等。1997年秋，她参与了小提琴家林昭亮召集的“1997国际巨星音乐节”，与多位重量级演奏家同台演奏，包括马友友、杰米拉·雷多、麦克·特利、盖瑞·霍夫曼等。

1994年至2000年间，黄心芸为伯罗米欧弦乐四重奏一员，并与该团参与了意大利斯波莱托音乐节、科罗拉多的柏拉弗音乐节、法国迪沃纳音乐节、荷兰奥兰多音乐节、波特兰的西北室内音乐节等，也曾在纽约艾莉丝杜利厅、伦敦维格摩音乐厅、柏林爱乐厅、日本卡萨尔斯厅、阿姆斯特丹皇家大会堂等著名场地演出。黄心芸2013-2015年也曾任韩国世宗国际音乐节艺术总监。与小提琴家Jenny Koh和大提琴家Wilhelmina Smith组了Variation弦乐三重奏，经常获邀演出。黄心芸于2012年录制《中提琴 中提琴》，其中包括由Elliott Carter和George Benjamin等作品，此专辑曾获留声机和BBC音乐杂志特别荣誉。

黄心芸曾就读台北光仁小学及师大附中音乐班，师事陈廷辉、薛孝明、陈秋盛；14岁即前往英国梅纽因音乐学院就读，师事竹野戴维。在费城柯蒂斯音乐学院师事麦克特利，并取得学士学位，之后再前往茱莉亚学院攻读硕士，师事山谬·罗兹。曾多年任教于纽约曼尼斯音乐院，目前她任教于柯蒂斯音乐学院及茱莉亚学院，致力于中提琴教育推广，并于2017年成立VivaViola黄心芸国际中提琴音乐节，汇集亚洲优秀中提琴家及学员，藉由短期、密集、精致的课程，带来具有启发性的学习工作坊。

Hsin-Yun Huang has forged a career as one of the leading violists of her generation, performing on international concert stages, commissioning and recording new works, and nurturing young musicians. Ms. Huang has appeared as soloist with prominent ensembles worldwide including the Berlin Radio Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic, Bogotá Philharmonic, NCPA Orchestra in Beijing, Zagreb Soloists, International Contemporary Ensemble, London Sinfonia, and Brazil Youth Orchestra. She appears regularly at festivals including Marlboro, Santa Fe, Rome, Spoleto USA, Moritzburg, Music@Menlo, and the Seoul Spring Festival. She tours extensively with the Brentano String Quartet, most notably including performances of the complete Mozart string quintets at Carnegie Hall. A passionate proponent of music education, she began a hybrid educational space called VivaViola! with the mission to expand the viola repertoire while preserving musical values and history through dialogues with esteemed musicians of today.

In the 2023-24 season, Ms. Huang performs at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where she is a regular guest, including opening night; Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; Moss Art Center, featuring the world premiere of James MacMillan’s Viola Quintet with the Brentano String Quartet (Blacksburg, VA); Brown University, featuring the world premiere of Eric Nathan's Double Concerto No. 2 for Two Violas, with co-soloist Misha Amory and the New York Classical Players (Providence, RI); Asia Society, featuring the workshop premiere of sisila ila ila: saying goodbye, a musical about the environment, featuring shadow puppetry and whale songs; and Amsterdam Biennale at Muziekgebouw, with Brentano String Quartet. She also tours with John Malkovich, Aleksey Igudesman, Hyung-ki Joo, and other great musicians with a program entitled “The Music Critic.”

Last season, Ms. Huang co-commissioned Lei Liang, a Grawemeyer Award winner, to curate “Strings of Soul,” a program for viola and pipa, featuring virtuoso Wu Man. The program is inspired by authentic folk elements from around the world. The previous year included multidisciplinary collaborations with choreography by Ashkenazy Ballet, based on Ms. Huang’s solo viola project FantaC.

Past highlights also include concerto performances conducted by David Robertson, Osmo Vänskä, Xian Zhang, and Max Valdés in Beijing, Taipei, and Bogotá, and appearances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Ms. Huang has performed the complete Paul Hindemith viola concertos with the Taipei City Symphony and was the first solo violist to be featured at the National Center for the Performaning Arts in Beijing. She has also performed at New York’s 92nd Street Y and the Seoul Spring Festival.

In recent years Ms. Huang embarked on a series of major commissioning projects for solo viola and chamber ensemble. To date, the project includes compositions by Shih-Hui Chen (Shu Shon Key, which Ms. Chen also arranged for orchestra) and Steven Mackey (Groundswell), which premiered at the Aspen Festival. Ms. Huang’s 2012 albumViola Viola, on Bridge Records, includes the two pieces, along with music by Elliott Carter, Poul Ruders, and George Benjamin. The album won accolades fromGramophoneandBBC MusicMagazine. Her most recent releases areFantaC(2020), a collection of solo viola pieces all based on the C string, andViola Lens(2019), which features the complete unaccompanied sonatas and partitas of J.S. Bach, in partnership with violist Misha Amory.

Ms. Huang received degrees from The Juilliard School and The Curtis Institute of Music. She has given master classes at the Guildhall School in London, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, the San Francisco Conservatory, Yong Sie Tow Conservatory in Singapore, and the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University. She served on the jury of the 2011 Banff International String Quartet Competition, the 2022 Tokyo International Viola Competition and the 2023 Melbourne Chamber Music Competition.

Ms. Huang first came to international attention as the gold medalist and the youngest competitor in the 1988 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition; in 1993 she was the top-prize winner in the ARD International Competition in Munich, and was awarded the highly prestigious Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. She was a member of the Borromeo String Quartet from 1994 to 2000.

Ms. Huang is currently on the viola faculty at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music; she is grateful for her teachers — David Takeno, Peter Norris, Michael Tree, and Samuel Rhodes. She is married to Misha Amory, violist of the Brentano String Quartet. They live in New York City and have two children, Lucas and Leah. She plays on a 1735 Testore Viola.