Here is a preview in the Casa Magazine | Santa Barbara on Paul's return to the Camerata Pacifica for the season opening concerts. The complete interview can be seen on YouTube (Paul's first ever Skype interview!) here:
http://youtu.be/3q37w9kgF4g
Camerata Pacifica season opens in Santa Barbara Sept. 18th
Violinist Paul Huang – Honey & Vinegar
Preview by Daniel Kepl
At age four we nearly lost him. The 2015 winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Taiwanese-American violinist Paul Huang, whose gorgeous tone and exciting playing have been likened to the sweetness and snap of honey and vinegar, hated the first violin lesson foisted upon him by his parents, refusing to have anything more to do with the instrument until the ripe old age of seven.
“My parents took me to a violin recital and I was just so shocked and amazed by how this little wooden box, as I called it, can produce such a fantastic and glorious sound on stage without any microphones,” Huang recalled of his youthful epiphany, during a recent SKYPE video interview with CASA. From that moment on, the acclaimed young virtuoso never looked back and on Friday, September 18th at 1pm (short program) and 7:30pm (full program) the New York City-based artist will join his colleagues, violinist Agnes Gottschewski, pianist Warren Jones, cellist Ani Aznavoorian, and violist Richard Yongjae O’Neill at Hahn Hall on the Music Academy of the West campus, for the opening concert in Santa Barbara of the 2015-2016 Camerata Pacifica season...
PHOTO: Violinist Paul Huang
Read more on page 6 in this week's CASA:
http://issuu.com/casamagazine/docs/9.11.15.casa
