Stéphanie Huang, cello

A laureate of the 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition, where she also won two audience prizes (the Canvas-Klara Prize and the Musiq3 Prize), Grand Prize at the 2015 Suggia International Cello Competition in Porto, First Prize at the 2021 Società Umanitaria Musical Competition in Milan, and the title Révélation ADAMI Classique 2021 in France, Stéphanie Huang has pursued her musical career with passion and perfectionism.

She has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse, Munich Radio Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica do Porto, Brussels Philharmonic, Belgian National Orchestra, and the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie, under the direction of Renaud Capuçon, Augustin Dumay, Pierre Dumoussaud, Michael Sanderling, Stéphane Denève, Joana Carneiro and James Feddeck. She regularly performs at national and international festivals (in Evian, Deauville, La Roque d’Anthéron, Biot, Verbier, Gstaad, Brussels, Schiermonnikoog, Helsinki, etc.) with Renaud Capuçon, Sylvia Huang, Paul Zientara, Anna Agafia, Gérard Caussé, Guillaume Bellom and Keigo Mukawa, among others.

Born into a family of musicians in Belgium, Stéphanie Huang began playing the cello at an early age. She won First Prize at the Concours Dexia and made her debut at the age of 12 at the Royal Theatre of La Monnaie in Brussels playing Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme. After graduating in 2017 from the Koninklijk Conservatorium of Brussels under Jeroen Reuling, she continued her studies under Marc Coppey and Emmanuelle Bertrand (chamber music) at the Paris Conservatoire, and under Gary Hoffman as Artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel (from 2020 to 2024), with numerous grants (from the Spes, Meyer, Kriegelstein, Safran and Banque Populaire foundations).

In June 2024 she became principal cellist at the Orchestre de Paris.

She is now an Associate Artist at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel.

Stéphanie plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume cello generously loaned by the Fonds de Dotation Adelus.

Stéphanie benefits from a scholarship granted by the Engie Foundation