Winnie Huang is a Chinese-Australian violinist, violist, gestural performance artist and composer currently based between Belgium and France. An active performer of new music, Winnie is co-artistic director and violinist of Paris based new music ensemble soundinitiative and co-founder and member of experimental instrumental duo hoodwink with Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn, and performative duo LOOKOUT with Jessie Marino. As part of the Contemporary Leaders, Winnie is also currently co-curating the Lucerne Festival Forward and coaching at the summer Lucerne Festival Academy.

She continually works with emerging and established composers, including Jessie Marino, Richard Barrett, Kristine Tjøgersen, Charlie Sdraulig, Bernhard Lang, Sivan Cohen Elias, Chris Swithinbank, Clara Iannotta, Michelle Agnes Magalhaes, Joanna Bailie, Alexander Schubert, Carolyn Chen, Mauro Lanza and Peter Ablinger and regularly performs with international ensembles such as Nadar Ensemble (BE), lovemusic (FR), Down the Rabbit Hole (BE), Ensemble Linea (FR), Lucilin Ensemble (LUX), MAM (DE), and Australian ensemble Argonaut. Winnie frequently performs at international festivals such as Ars Musica, Donaueschinger Musiktage Festival, Musikfest Berlin, Manifeste, Eavesdropping London, Lucerne Festival, Lucerne Festival Forward, Klang Festival, Festival Royaumont, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Festival Automne, Ruhrtriennale, BIFEM, Brisbane Festival, Warsaw Autumn among others.

Career highlights have included solo performances at the Berlin Philharmonie (DE), KKL Lucerne (CH) and the Elb Philharmonie (DE), among many international ensemble tours in Europe, USA and Australia.

An engaging educator, Winnie has consistently taught in Australia, France and Belgium. She has frequently guest tutored at many major institutions including Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (DE), The Raffles Institution and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (SNG), Fontys Academy of Performance and Arts (NL) and The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University (IR). She has guest lectured at the Orpheus Institute (BE), Basel Academie (CH), École Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine (FR), Kunstuniversität Graz (AT), Melbourne University and Monash University (AUS) and currently teaches interdisciplinary musical-gestural works at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp (BE).

Winnie’s strong interest in the performance of musical-gestural pieces is explored frequently through her own original compositions and collaborating with other composers, developing highly gestural contemporary works. 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. Currently she is continuing research at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp working with students on artistic research and artistic identity.
She continually works with emerging and established composers, including Jessie Marino, Richard Barrett, Kristine Tjøgersen, Charlie Sdraulig, Bernhard Lang, Sivan Cohen Elias, Chris Swithinbank, Clara Iannotta, Michelle Agnes Magalhaes, Joanna Bailie, Alexander Schubert, Carolyn Chen, Mauro Lanza and Peter Ablinger and regularly performs with international ensembles such as Nadar Ensemble (BE), lovemusic (FR), Down the Rabbit Hole (BE), Ensemble Linea (FR), Lucilin Ensemble (LUX), MAM (DE), and Australian ensemble Argonaut. Winnie frequently performs at international festivals such as Ars Musica, Donaueschinger Musiktage Festival, Musikfest Berlin, Manifeste, Eavesdropping London, Lucerne Festival, Lucerne Festival Forward, Klang Festival, Festival Royaumont, Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Festival Automne, Ruhrtriennale, BIFEM, Brisbane Festival, Warsaw Autumn among others.

Career highlights have included solo performances at the Berlin Philharmonie (DE), KKL Lucerne (CH) and the Elb Philharmonie (DE), among many international ensemble tours in Europe, USA and Australia.

An engaging educator, Winnie has consistently taught in Australia, France and Belgium. She has frequently guest tutored at many major institutions including Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart (DE), The Raffles Institution and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (SNG), Fontys Academy of Performance and Arts (NL) and The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University (IR). She has guest lectured at the Orpheus Institute (BE), Basel Academie (CH), École Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine (FR), Kunstuniversität Graz (AT), Melbourne University and Monash University (AUS) and currently teaches interdisciplinary musical-gestural works at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp (BE).

Winnie’s strong interest in the performance of musical-gestural pieces is explored frequently through her own original compositions and collaborating with other composers, developing highly gestural contemporary works. 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. Currently she is continuing research at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp working with students on artistic research and artistic identity.