Ling Ling Huang started violin at the age of 4 with her mother, Lilan Z. Huang. She continued studying violin with Fredell Lack until her admission to the Cleveland Institute of Music at the age of 15. There, while studying with Paul Kantor, she won the concerto competition and performed the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the CIM Orchestra. For her Master of Music graduation, she was awarded a special commendation for her comprehensive exams from Susan McClary.

Ms. Huang performed the Britten Violin Concerto with the Shepherd School Symphony as a result of winning the Concerto Competition at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music where she continued her studies with Paul Kantor in the Artist Diploma Program. Ms. Huang is a current substitute violinist in the Oregon Symphony, Opera Columbus, and ProMusica Columbus. In the past, she has played with the New York Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, the Houston Symphony, participating in their 2018 European Tour, the Houston Grand Opera, most recently for Siegfried and Götterdämerung, and has been the substitute concertmaster of the Houston Ballet Orchestra. In New York, she plays with the Experiential Orchestra, with whom she won a Grammy award in 2021, and Music Kitchen, an organization that has partnered with Carnegie Hall to bring commissioned concerts to shelters. She has appeared on The Tonight Show backing Gunna and Metroboomin and can be heard on various recordings, most recently the movie soundtrack for Judas and the Black Messiah. She has spent summers at Artosphere, Sunset Chamberfest LA, and for the last 8 years, the Grand Teton Music Festival. In 2023, she published her first novel, Natural Beauty, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice pick. It is being turned into a television series by Constance Wu and Drew Comins.