Melissa Huang obtained her B.M. and M.M. with U.S.C.’s departmental award. She has performed as principal viola with the Taipei Philharmonic orchestra, toured Asia, U.S. and Europe. She has won the Leni Fe Bland competition, Concerto competition of USC, the International Peninsula Music Competition, and was four times 1st prize winner of the National String Competition of Taiwan. Miss Huang has been featured as a soloist with the USC Symphony Orchestra, Formosa, Kuan-Ren, Yue-Lin, and Yue-Shing-Zhi-Shi Symphony Orchestras, and El Camino Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 1998, she performed with New York String Seminar at Carnegie Hall. In 2003, she was as a soloist on Penisula TV’s “Inside Arts Show” Program. She serves as viola section coach for El Camino Youth Symphony and also plays as principal viola for Fremont Symphony Orchestra since 2001.