Fiona Khuong-Huu
Born in New York City, 14-year-old Fiona Khuong-Huu studies the violin under Professors Li Lin, Kenneth Renshaw and Stella Chen at the Juilliard Pre-College division. Fiona recently became one of the 2022 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund recipients and was awarded the prestigious career grant award from Salon De Virtuosi. She was invited alongside her sister Hina to perform at Buckingham Palace, where they played Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins with Maestros Maxim Vengerov and Marios Papadopoulos. She also performed for Juilliard’s Pre-College Centennial Gala at Alice Tully Hall and at the Bozar Concert Hall in Brussels with the Flanders Symphony Orchestra with Hina.
Fiona performed on NPR's From The Top on multiple occasions and has made solo performances with the Mitteleuropa orchestra at “Il Piccolo Violino Magico” in San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy, where she won the second prize. She has also performed as a soloist with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Musica Mundi Orchestra, and Juilliard Orchestra. She won the First prize at the 2017 Grumiaux competition, and the third prize and the best virtuoso interpretation at the Louis Spohr Competition in 2019. She has taken lessons and masterclasses with artists such as Menahem Pressler, Ivry Gitlis, Shlomo Mintz, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Gluzman and more. She goes to the Spence School in New York.
Hina Khuong-Huu
A prizewinner of the 2018 Menuhin Competition held in Geneva, Violin Channel “Rising Star” Hina Khuong-Huu has been playing the violin since the age of three. A native of New York, she studies under Professor Li Lin at the Juilliard Pre-College and attends the Spence School in New York. Hina has performed as a soloist with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Geneva, Flanders Symphony Orchestra, Mittel Europa Orchestra, and the Musica Mundi Orchestra.
Some notable performances include her performance of Sarasate’s Navarra at the Juilliard Pre-College Division’s Centennial Gala with her sister Fiona and a performance with Maxim Vengerov at Buckingham Palace for Princess Alexandra. She worked with violinist Jennifer Koh in her “Alone Together” series throughout the spring and summer of 2021. Radio show has performed on the NPR radio show “From the Top” and was recently a recipient of the Salon De Virtuosi Career Grant. During the Summer, she has studied with artists such as Itzhak Perlman at the Perlman Music Program, with Shlomo Mintz at Crans Montana Classics in Switzerland, and with Ivry Gitlis and Menahem Pressler in Belgium.
