2024 Primrose International Viola Competition & American Viola Society Festival Program Book

2024 Primrose International Viola Competition Official Pianists

Vivian Fan Dr. Vivian Fan serves as Director of Accompanying Program at the Colburn Conservatory of Music and has coached chamber music, taught Collaborative Piano at Colburn Academy, Sonata Class at Colburn Conservatory, and Piano Master Class at the Adult Studies Program at the Colburn School. Prior to this position, she was on the piano faculty at the Idyllwild Arts Academy. Dr. Fan has collaborated in recitals with renowned artists such as Andrew Bain, Roland Glassl, Paul Coletti, Roland Leonard, Arnold Steinhardt, Wen-Sinn Yang, etc. Vivian performed at Disney Hall in Los Angeles Philharmonic’s

“Brahms Unbound” concert in 2011. She recorded with violist Paul Coletti on Paul Chihara’s Sonata released by Bridge Records in 2013. Another album “Bloch, Glinka, Bowen: Viola Works” with Coletti’s former students was released in October 2015 on Soundset Records. A third album “Grand Duo” with clarinetist Cristina Mateo Sáez was released in March 2019 on Soundset Records. Dr. Fan has served as an accompanist at the 2013 and 2019 Nielson Clarinet Competition in Denmark, the 2013 ARD Viola Competition in Münich, the 2016 Piatogorvsky Cello Festival, and the 2018 and 2021 Primrose International Viola Competition. In summer 2015, Dr. Fan was invited to coach at the Central Conservatory of Music Middle School in Beijing, to coordinate pianists and perform at the International Horn Symposium held at Colburn, and to perform as a workshop pianist for Jim Walker’s Beyond the Masterclass flute workshop. Vivian has taught a master class at the National Taiwan Normal University. In 2016, she gave a lecture and a master class on accompanying at Music Teachers’ Association of California Convention. As a solo pianist, Dr. Fan has performed with conductors Jorge Master, Jung Ho Pak, Mario Miragliotta, Sharon Lavery, Peter Askim, and Marc Riley. Her solo and chamber performances have been broadcasted on KTLA and KNBC television as well as KUSC, WEMT, and “Performance Today” on APM radio.

Inyoung Huh Lauded as, “a prominent pianist” by the Los Angeles Times, Inyoung Huh made her debut as a soloist with the Korean Youth Symphony Orchestra at age 16, performing Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Huh has performed in recitals at numerous music festivals, including the Perlman Music Program, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Banff Center for the Arts, and Kusatsu Summer Music Festival. She has been a regular solo artist at the Sundays Live in Los Angeles County Museum of Arts since 2001. As an active chamber musician, Huh has collaborated with eminent artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Ronald Leonard, Donald McInnes, Lars Anders Tomter, Ida Levin, and

Philippe Bernold. Huh has held faculty positions at the Seoul National University, University of Southern California, Perlman Music Program, and Chapman University, and has been engaged as a collaborative pianist at the Colburn School. She collaborated in the Primrose International Music Competition in 2014, 2018, and 2022 as an official pianist.

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