Winnie Huang

Associate Research Professor in Music Performance

Australian violinist, gestural artist, composer, and artistic researcher, Winnie Huang is an active performer of contemporary music and serves as the co-artistic director and violinist of the Paris-based contemporary music ensemble soundinitiative. As one of the "Lucerne Contemporary Leaders" she is also co-curator of the annual Lucerne Forward Festival and a violin instructor at the Lucerne Festival Academy. Additionally, she is a board member of Eavesdropping London.

Winnie Huang collaborates extensively with both emerging and established composers, including Liza Lim, Jessie Marino, Richard Barrett, Kristine Tjøgersen, Charlie Sdraulig, Bernhard Lang, Timothy Cape, Sivan Cohen Elias, Michael Beil, Clara Iannotta, Chris Swithinbank, Michelle Agnes Magalhaes, Pierre Jodlowski, Joanna Bailie, Alexander Schubert, Carolyn Chen, Mauro Lanza, and Peter Ablinger. She frequently works with renowned international ensembles such as Nadar Ensemble (Belgium), lovemusic (France), Down the Rabbit Hole (Belgium), Ensemble Linea (France), Lucilin Ensemble (Luxembourg), and the Australian ensemble Argonaut. Her performances have been featured at major international festivals, including Ars Musica, Donaueschinger Musiktage, MaerzMusik, Musikfest Berlin, Manifeste, Eavesdropping London, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Lucerne Festival, Lucerne Festival Forward, Klang Festival, Festival Royaumont, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music, Festival d'Automne Paris, Ruhrtriennale, BIFEM Australia, Brisbane Festival, Warsaw Autumn, and many others.

Career highlights have included solo performances at the Berlin Philharmonie (DE), KKL Lucerne (CH) and the Elb Philharmonie (DE), among many international solo and ensemble tours in Europe, USA and Australia. Winnie is “artiste étoile” for the Lucerne Festival Summer 2025.

Winnie’s strong interest in the performance of musical-gestural works is explored through her own original compositions and collaborating with other composers, developing highly gestural contemporary works. Winnie was recently a Schloss Solitude (DE) fellow in the field of “Aural & Physical” developing her compositions for the physical body. Academically, Winnie’s doctoral artistic research was on interdisciplinary musical-gestural performance and collaborative processes, and she is expanding her artistic research further along those fields.

As an engaging educator, Winnie has taught in Australia, France, and Belgium and has frequently been a guest lecturer at leading institutions, including the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp (Belgium), Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (Germany), NextGeneration Donaueschinger Musiktage Festival Program (Germany), Raffles Institution and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Singapore), Fontys Academy of Performance and Arts (Netherlands), Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University (Israel), and VOICEBOX by Britten Pears Arts Foundation (UK). She has also been invited to teach at the Musik-Akademie Basel (Switzerland), Haute école de musique de Genève (Switzerland), École Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine (France), Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz (Austria), Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (Austria), University of Melbourne, and Monash University (Australia). Winnie has presented her research at numerous international conferences, including AEC EPARM and the Orpheus Institute (Belgium), and serves on the editorial advisory board of the international journal FORUM+.

Previously, Winnie Huang held the position of Junior Professor of Artistic Research at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln in Germany.

Performance and Artistic Residencies:

• Artiste Étoile at the Lucerne Festival, CH. Summer 2025.
• Schloss Solitude (DE) Fellow in the field of Aural & Physical, DE. Summer 2024
• The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and Flemish Cultural Fund Digital Artist in Residence, USA/BE. Summer 2023

Writings:

• The Pragmatic Musical-Gestural Performer by Winnie Huang. In Experience Music Experiment, William Brooks (ed.) Orpheus Institute Series, September 2021. ISBN 9789462702790
• SONIC SILHOUETTES MUSICAL MOVEMENT by Winnie Huang. Research Catalogue https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/605865/605866 Published April 2022
• A fragility, which connects: music as a social encounter by Charlie Sdraulig, Marco Fusi, Winnie Huang, Gwen Rouger, CeReNeM Journal Issue Eight, Edited by Jakob Bragg, Centre for Research in New Music, University of Huddersfield https://cerenempostgraduates.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/cerenemjournal-issue8.pdf December 2023

Projects:

• Creating the Artistic Identity September 2022 – September 2023
• SONIC SILHOUETTES MUSICAL MOVEMENT September 2018 – September 2022

More information at  https://www.winniehuang.net/