Sing For Our Land

Choreographer, performer, and educator John Heginbotham is the founder and artistic director of Dance Heginbotham, a company recognized for its inventive and engaging dance theater works. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he was a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group from 1998 to 2012, performing internationally and collaborating with artists including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Yo-Yo Ma, and Emanuel Ax.
Heginbotham is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, and his choreography spans dance, theater, opera, television, and musical theater. His work includes choreography for the Tony Award–winning Broadway revival of Oklahoma!, Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, and productions with San Francisco Opera, LA Opera, The Washington Ballet, and Works & Process at the Guggenheim.

An accomplished teacher, Heginbotham has led masterclasses at universities and institutions across the United States and abroad. He currently serves as Director of the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble and continues to create interdisciplinary works that bridge movement, music, and storytelling.

Violist Hsin-Yun Huang has forged a career by performing on international concert stages, commissioning and recording new works, and nurturing young musicians. Ms. Huang has appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras in Berlin, London, Tokyo, Beijing, Taipei, and Bogota, amongst others. Inspired by authentic folk elements, recent highlights include “Strings of Soul”, in collaboration with composer Lei-Liang and pipa virtuoso Wu Man. Additional performances this season include chamber and solo recitals in New York City, Philadelphia, and more. Upcoming projects include “Sing for Our Land” — a commission of choreography by John Heginbotham with dancers from the Juilliard School as well as “Sisila ila ila” — a multidisciplinary musical poem in collaboration with theater director Doug Fitch and composer Shih-Hui Chen.

She was the first solo violist to be presented in the National Performance Center of the Arts in Beijing and was featured as a faculty member alongside Yo-Yo Ma in Guangzhou. She has commissioned compositions from Steven Mackey, Shih-Hui Chen, Poul Ruders, Lei Liang and Eric Nathan. Her 2012 recording for Bridge Records, titled Viola Viola, won accolades from Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. Her recent releases include the album Viva Viola, which features exclusive arrangements for the viola, and another album under Orchid Classics featuring Eric Nathan’s Double Viola Concerto in collaboration with her husband Misha Amory.

Ms. Huang regularly appears at festivals, including Marlboro, Spoleto, Ravinia, Santa Fe, La Jolla and Music@Menlo, among many others. Huang was the gold medalist in the 1988 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, the top-prize winner in the ARD International Competition in Munich, and was awarded the highly prestigious Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. She has served on the panel of the Banff Quartet Competition, the Melbourn Chamber Music Competition, the Hindemith Competition and the International Tokyo Viola Competition. A native of Taiwan, she received degrees from the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Curtis Institute of Music, and The Juilliard School. She now serves on the faculties of Juilliard and Curtis.