Wanchi, violin with Jeremiah Padilla, piano

Wanchi Huang is an active performer in chamber music, solo recitals, and as a soloist with regional orchestras throughout North America and Asia, at venues including Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Curtis on Tour, and numerous music festivals, such as at the Aspen Music Festival, Banff Centre for the Arts, Bay View Music Festival, Carolina Chamber Music, Black Hills Chamber Music in South Dakoda, Garth Newel Music Center, and others. Wanchi joined Heifetz Institute faculty since the Summer of 2023 and has been a strings adjudicator for various international and national competitions. As an educator, she presented numerous times at ASTA National Conferences and has given many violin masterclasses internationally, as well as adjudicating at the Hong Kong Music Schools Festival. Many of her students are now successful arts administrators, educators, and performers.

She holds B.M. from The Curtis Institute of Music, MM. The Juilliard School, and DMA from Indiana University (Bloomington). She plays a modern American violin made in 2003 by Feng Jiang of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jeremiah Padilla is an instructor at JMU, Eastern Mennonite University, and EMU's Preparatory Music Program. As a soloist, he has performed piano concertos with the James Madison Symphony Orchestra, the University of Memphis Orchestra, the Memphis Repertory Orchestra (MRO), and the Awit Pilipinas Youth Orchestra. Jeremiah is an avid collaborative pianist who enjoys sharing the stage with professors and colleagues at EMU and JMU. In 2019, he won the Outstanding Collaborative Lieder Pianist Award at AIMS in Graz, Austria. Since then, he has been invited back to AIMS as a repetitor. Jeremiah holds a DMA from JMU, an MM, and a BM from the University of Memphis. His teachers include Gabriel Dobner, Victor Asuncion, and Cathal Breslin.