Tuan Cuong Hoang

Born in Saigon, Tuan Cuong Hoang began studying violin at the age of five with his father, Cuong Hoang, at the Ho Chi Minh Conservatory. At the age of eleven, he received the first prize at the Hanoi Violin Competition, which was followed by further awards. In 1994 he received a scholarship from the Pflüger Foundation to join the violin class of Wolfgang Marschner in Freiburg. That same year, he won a special award at the International Ludwig Spohr Violin Competition in Freiburg; in 1996 he won the first prize at the International Max Reger Chamber Music Competition in Sondershausen. In 1998 he began studying with Rainer Kussmaul at the Freiburg Academy of Music. One year later, he received an encouragement award at the Leopold Mozart Violin Competition. Tuan Cuong Hoang attended numerous master classes with Wolfgang Marschner, Aaron Rosand, Ruggiero Ricci, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Thomas Brandis and Rainer Kussmaul. He has given recitals in Germany and abroad and appeared as a soloist with the Max Bruch Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of the Oratorio del Gonfalone in Rome and the Saigon Symphony Orchestra. He has been a member of the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra since 2004.