1st Class.
Expert in producing 1st class soloist and recording artists, major international competition top prize winners, concert masters, chamber music group leaders, teachers… A rare opportunity to share Kun’s private lessons with Lord Menuhin, including video/audio collections and his own personal handwritten notes.
Tailor-made.
Offering tailor-made programs to suit each individual’s needs. One-off or intensive lessons to prepare for international competitions, concerts, recordings, auditions, examinations. Providing performing opportunities and general career advice regarding management, marketing, recording companies, competitions & conservatories.
Unpublished.
Specialised teaching of unique repertoires, such as Bach Solo Sonatas and Partitas with Lord Menuhin’s unpublished edition and video recordings of Elgar Violin Concerto and Bartok Solo Sonata, Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn E minor, Bach E major, Bach Double, Mozart No.4 and No.5, Prokofiev No.1 Concerti, Paganini Moto Perpetuo, 24 Caprices…
Share his experience, knowledge and passion.
Maestro Hu Kun (HonRAM)
Besides Kun's exciting performing career, he is also a dedicated professor at the Royal Academy of Music in London, aiming to pass on his unique experience to the younger generation violinists. Aside from his masterclasses at some of the world’s top festivals and competitions, he taught at the Music School of Indiana University in ‘99 and the Yehudi Menuhin School from 1997 to 2001. In recent years, Kun has produced outstanding international competition prize winners, concert/recording artists, many of whom broke British conservatory records.
Kun was awarded Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music by the Duchess of Gloucester in 2002.
Students that have become successful International Artists:
Ning Feng
RAM 1998-2003
1st Prize winner of the Paganini Competition (2006), 1st Prize of Michael Hill (2005) and London Oratory Competitions (2001), Prize winner of the Queen Elizabeth (5th), Hannover (3rd), Thibaud (special prize), Menuhin (2nd), Tchaikovsky (special prize), the only 100% mark graduate of RAM’s 200 years history (2003), Channel Classics Records / Intermusica Artist, Berlin Hochschule Has Eisler Violin Professor
(Photo by Felix Broede)
Chloë Hanslip
Private student 1996-1998
Won an Echo Klassik Award ‘Best Newcomer’ (2002), Artist in Association with Northern Chamber Orchestra, Gramophone Magazine “Choice” July 2013
(Photo by Kaupo Kikkas)
Simone Lamsma
Menuhin School / RAM 1997-2004
2nd Prize winner of the Indianapolis Violin Competition (2006), 1st Prize winner of the Britten (2004), Dutch National (2003) and Qingdao Competition, China (2005), Prize winner of the Thibaud (6th), Menuhin (3rd) Competitions (2002), IMG Artist & Naxos Records Artist
(Photo by Otto Van Toorn)
Stephanie Childress
Private student 2009-2011
Category finalist in BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition (2016) and (2018), 2nd Prize Winner of La Maestra Conducting Competition Paris (2020)
Marius Stravinsky
RAM 2000-2002
Founder & Music Director of the St Petersburg Festival Orchestra
Natalia Lomeiko
RAM 1999-2003
1st Prize winner of the Paganini Competition (2000) (highest award a current British conservatory student has ever achieved), 1st Prize of the Michael Hill Competition (2000), London Royal College of Music Violin Professor
(Photo by Sasha Gusov and Jane Blundell)
Diana Yukawa
Private student 2002-2004
RCA Records Exclusive Artist
Remus Azoitei
RAM 2001-2002
Soloist of prestigious European ensembles including the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Belgique and Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra of London
(Photo by Iulian Draghici)
Alexander Sitkovetsky
RAM 1999-2003
EMI / Angel Exclusive Artist, Royal Academy of Music / Royal Northern College of Music Violin Professor
(Photo by Vincy Ng)
Heather Badke
RAM 2002-2004
Leader of the Badke Quartet
Zhang Jing Zhi
Private student 2010-2012
Grand Prize winner of the Postacchini International Violin Competition in Fermo, Italy (2010)
Simone Lamsma (violin), The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan, Reinbert de Leeuw (conductor)
Ning Feng (violin), Thomas Hoppe (piano), Paganini Non più mesta, Op.12; Caprice No.24; Variations on God Save the King, Op.9; Cantabile; Nel cor più non mi sento; Le Streghe, Op.8; La Campanella (The Bell), Op.7; I Palpiti, Op.13
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlos Miguel Prieto (conductor), Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61 Finzi: Violin Concerto, Released on 16 November 2018
Hu Kun teaching Ning Feng (1999)
Grieg: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3, Released in 2001
Natalia Lomeiko (violin), Olga Sitkovetsky (piano), Yuri Zhislin (violin), Released in 2003
A press release from the Royal Academy of Music after Natalia Lomeiko won the 1st Prize of the Paganini Competition, the highest award a current British conservatory student has ever achieved
Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin), Olga Sitkovetsky (piano), Released in 2001
New European String Chamber Orchestra, Dmitry Sitkovetsky (conductor), Composers: Felix Mendelssohn, Andrzej Panufnik, Toru Takemitsu, Johann Sebastian Bach, Released in 2004
Stephanie Childress on BBC Young Musician of The Year (2016)
Natalia Lomeiko with Hu Kun after winning the First Prize of the Paganini Competition
Simone Lamsma appearing in "The Story of Hu Kun" by Phoenix TV CNE Europe (2003)
Diana Yukawa
Schedule on the day Princess Anne sat in Kun's lesson whilst he taught his Russian star pupil Alexander Sitkovetsky
“The other day for the first time, I heard the Chaconne of Bach played almost as I would imagine it, and it was a young Chinese boy (Ning Feng), a student of Hu Kun at the Royal Academy of Music.”
— Lord Yehudi Menuhin
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