Hina Khuong-Huu, Violin; and Lana Suran, Piano

Hina Khuong-Huu, Violin

First-Prize winner of the 2023 Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition, violinist Hina Khuong-Huu has performed around the globe appearing as soloist and collaborator with many of today’s leading ensembles and musicians.

One of the centerpieces of Hina’s 23/24 season is her Kennedy Center debut performing Anna Clyne’s The Prince of Clouds alongside Grammy Award-winner Jennifer Koh. Also in 23/24, Hina is a featured soloist with The Symphonia in Boca Raton, FL under the direction of Alastair Willis, for Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir D’un Lieu Cher, and will dazzle audiences with her interpretation of Ravel’s Tzigane when she appears with the Northbrook Symphony under the leadership of Mina Zikri and Vadim Gluzman. In recital this season, Hina joins forces with the critically acclaimed pianist Rohan De Silva for an intimate program on the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota in Florida.

Named a “VC Artist” by the Violin Channel, Hina has appeared as a soloist with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Geneva, Flanders Symphony Orchestra, The Symphonia, Mittel Europa Orchestra, and the Musica Mundi Orchestra. She has collaborated with artists such as Jennifer Koh in her “Alone Together” series and shared the stage with Maxim Vengerov at Carnegie Hall and Buckingham Palace. She has performed on NPR’s “From the Top” and was a recipient of the Salon De Virtuosi Career Grant. In 2018 she placed 5th in the Junior Division of the Menuhin Competition.

As a chamber music advocate, Hina regularly plays with the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players in New York, and has studied with several leaders in the industry, including the renowned faculty of the Perlman Music Program. Her mentors include such luminaries as Shlomo Mintz, Vadim Gluzman, and Menahem Pressler. Hina studies with Professors Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman at The Juilliard School and Columbia University through their double degree program.

Hina performs on a violin by Antonio Stradivari, Cremona c1722 ‘Lord Wandsworth’, which is on loan from Ryuji Ueno Foundation and Rare Violins In Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative.
 

Lana Suran, piano

Lana Suran is an award-winning Swedish pianist and one of the leading Scandinavian pianists of her generation. Hailed by the Augsburger Allgemeine as ‘simply an outstanding artist’, Lana is armed with the insights that flow from a deep understanding of her nature and the ability to communicate the most powerful and personal emotions. Her expressive pianism rises directly from the heart to reveal the tremendous vitality and range of her inner emotional landscape. The eloquent honesty of her interpretations is supported by a rare sensibility for tonal nuance and shading, a combination that gives surging life to strikingly mature performances of an equally striking range of repertoire.

Lana’s artistic credo has been shaped by her determination to grow naturally as a performer, without undue haste or cutting corners. “Making music, for me,” she notes, “is something that cannot be compromised. I want people to feel something when they hear me play. This demands giving more of everything, physically, emotionally, spiritually.” Fluent in six languages and at home on both sides of the Atlantic, her cosmopolitan outlook is reflected in the breadth of her recital programmes and explorations in the field of chamber music. Herrepertoire list encompasses the great landmarks of the keyboard literature, including Beethoven’s ‘Diabelli’ Variations, Chopin’s Ballades and Schumann’s Humoreske and such 20th -century classics as Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No.2 and Prokofiev’s late piano sonatas.

Lana has collaborated in person with James MacMillan, Frederic Rzewski and Martin Stauning and programmed pieces by, among others, Thomas Adès, Lera Auerbach, György Kurtág and Pēteris Vasks. She is also passionate about chamber music and working with like-minded performers in works from across the chamber repertoire. Above all, however, she is devoted to the fine art of the piano recital. “I think programming is one of the things that makes me me,” she observes.