Huang Mengla
Huang Mengla, as one of the most active violinists on the world stage, won the 49th Paganini International Violin Competition at the age of 22, and also received the Renato De Barbieri Memorial Award for the best interpretation of Paganini's Caprices and the Mario Ruminelli Memorial Award in this competition, thus getting named as “Oriental Paganini”.

 

 

Since 2001, as a solo violinist, HUANG Mengla has made his United States debut on concert stages such as Alice Tully Hall and Lincoln Center in New York. He has performed as an honorary guest at the opening concert of National Centre for Performing Arts (China). He became the first Chinese violinist to give a recital at the world famous Prague Spring International Music Festival. He toured with orchestras such as Sinfonieorchester Basel, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico and many more top international orchestras and achieved astounding success throughout China, Japan and Europe.

 

In addition, Mengla has also been invited as a solo violinist with Bamberger Symphoniker, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has collaborated are Neeme Jarvi, Jonathan Nott, Long Yu, Henrik Schaefer, Muhai Tang, Edo de Waart, Nikolaj Znaider, Jia Lü and Yi Zhang.

 

Since 2005, Mengla Huang's solo albums have been exclusively published by Universal Music Deutsche Grammophon. Huang has worked as an associate professor at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He has also served as a guest professor of the Ishikawa Music Academy in Japan for many years and has taken on the duty as a member of jury in both international and domestic major competitions such as the Sendai International Violin Competition.

 

Program
1. Bach: Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, BWV 1041

2. Bach: Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1042 

3. Paganini: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6