Frank Huang

Frank Xin Huang (born September 5, 1978) is a Chinese-born American violinist and teacher. Since the beginning of the 2015–2016 season, he has been the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Previous to his position in New York, Huang was the concertmaster of the Houston Symphony from 2010 to 2015. He has won several international music competitions, most notably the 2003 Naumburg Competition. Huang has concertized widely as a soloist, and his debut recording has been critically acclaimed. In 2009 he was appointed the first violinist of the Ying Quartet and a professor of violin and chamber music at the Eastman School of Music.

Frank Huang was born in Beijing and moved to the United States when he was two, living with his grandparents until age seven, when his parents joined him in the U.S. As a child in the Houston area, he began violin lessons with his mother then commenced study with Fredell Lack in Houston. He first soloed with orchestra at nine. At 10 he received eight curtain calls for his solo performance of Wieniawski's Scherzo Tarantelle with the Houston Youth Symphony Philharmonia Orchestra. At 11 Huang was a soloist with the Houston Symphony in a nationally broadcast performance. At 16 he enrolled in the pre-college program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Donald Weilerstein; he continued studies with Weilerstein in college and earned his Bachelor of Music degree from CIM in 2002. Subsequently, he attended the Juilliard School in New York City, studying violin briefly with Robert Mann.

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