“Houston violinist Frank Huang is playing a complicated game of musical chairs,” writes Colin Eatock in Friday/s (11/6) Houston Chronicle. “For the past five years, the 37-year-old orchestral musician has been the concertmaster of the Houston Symphony.… Now, when he’s not in Houston, he can be found sitting in the same chair in the New York Philharmonic. Last spring, the philharmonic announced Huang would be its concertmaster, and he formally stepped into his new job in New York in September.… The Houston Symphony still needs Huang, and he can’t leave his position until the orchestra finds a replacement for him. That’s why he holds two jobs, until the end of this concert season.… Q: Now that you’re in your final season with the Houston Symphony, what are some of your favorite memories of playing in the orchestra? A: Many of the great orchestral pieces that I’ve played, I performed for the first time in Houston. I didn’t have a lot of orchestral experience before I came to Houston; mostly I’d been playing chamber music. So just about any great symphonic work you could name, I learned in Houston. Those are my best memories.”
Posted November 11, 2015
