Winnie Huang is an Australian violinist, violist, gestural performance artist and composer currently based in Europe. An active performer of new music, Winnie is co-artistic director and violinist of Paris based new music ensemble soundinitiative. As one of the Lucerne Contemporary Leaders, Winnie is also currently co-curating the annual Lucerne Forward Festival and violin coach at the summer Lucerne Festival Academy. She also serves on the Board of Trustees for Eavesdropping London, and on the Advisory Editorial Board of the international journal FORUM+.

Winnie continually works with emerging and established composers, including Liza Lim, Jessie Marino, James Saunders, Richard Barrett, Kristine Tjøgersen, Charlie Sdraulig, Bernhard Lang, 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 and regularly collaborates with international ensembles such as Nadar Ensemble (BE), lovemusic (FR), Down the Rabbit Hole (BE), Ensemble Linea (FR), Lucilin Ensemble (LUX), and Australian ensemble Argonaut. Winnie frequently performs at international festivals such as Donaueschinger Musiktage Festival, MaerzMusik and Musikfest Berlin, Manifeste, Rainy Days, Eavesdropping London, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Lucerne Festival, Lucerne Festival Forward, Klang Festival, November Music, Ars Musica, Festival Royaumont, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Festival Automne, Ruhrtriennale, BIFEM, Brisbane Festival, Warsaw Autumn among 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 is currently 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.

An engaging educator, Winnie has consistently taught in Australia, France and Belgium. She has frequently guest tutored at many major institutions including the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp (BE), Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (DE), NextGeneration Donaueschinger Musiktage Festival Program (DE), The Raffles Institution and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (SNG), Fontys Academy of Performance and Arts (NL), The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University (IR) and at the inaugural Britten Pears Arts Foundation's VOICEBOX (UK). She has guest lectured at the Basel Academie (CH), Haute école de musique de Genève (CH), École Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine (FR), Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität (AT), Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (AT), the University of Melbourne and Monash University (AUS) and presented at multiple international conferences including AEC EPARM and at the Orpheus Institute (BE).

After a few years as Junior Professor of Artistic Research at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, Germany, Winnie soon takes on a new position as Associate Professor for Research in Music Performance at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, Ticino, Switzerland. 

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