As an educator for over 20 years, Denise Santos Huang is a coach and mentor to her studio composed of violinists of various ages, where her students have qualified for Interlochen Arts Academy, Asian Youth Orchestra, Weber State University and have also landed auditions for IASAS, AMIS and professional orchestras in Metro Manila. She is an adjunct faculty member at the Philippine Women’s University, and has served as faculty member at the St. Scholastica’s College of Music from 2010 to 2017, Philippine High School for the Arts, and is the current Strings Division Chair for the National Music Competition for Young Artists.

Denise has played several solo concerts with orchestra as well as chamber music engagements throughout the Philippines, the USA, Asia and Egypt. She has held leadership positions in various local orchestras such as the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra, Manila Symphony Orchestra, and FilharmoniKa and toured Europe with the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra as a young violinist, having performed at top concert halls such as the Berliner Philharmonie, the Concertgebouw, among others. She has collaborated in concert with the country’s top musicians including Carmencita Sipin-Aspiras, Carolyn Cheng, Alejandro Consolacion II, Mary Anne Espina, Marianne Fajardo, Ivar Fojas, Abelardo Galang II, Hiyas Hila, Anjo Inacay, Renato Lucas and Gina Medina-Perez. Aside from playing classical music, she has also played for many pop recordings, TV commercials, musicals and international acts such as Phantom of the Opera, Kinky Boots, Richard Clayderman, Michael Buble and New Opera Singapore’s production of Britten’s Turn of the Screw. A founding member of the Manila Piano Trio, she actively promotes the performance of Filipino chamber music and seeks to provide performance and scholarship opportunities to the youth.

She participated in the Managing the Arts Program at the Asian Institute of Management in 2003 and as an arts organizer enjoys performing for and producing charity concerts, hosting foreign artists in master classes and fundraising events for the benefit of educational causes.

Denise holds a Master of Music degree in Violin Performance at San Francisco State University as a Pone, Morrison, Nagel and Creative Arts scholar under Jassen Todorov and the Alexander String Quartet. She received her Bachelor of Music degree and early music training with Basilio Manalo, Arturo Molina and Socorro Medina-Hara as a PREDIS and Battig scholar from St. Scholastica’s College, Manila, where she graduated as valedictorian of her class. A life-long learner, her current interests include Suzuki early violin pedagogical training and music technology.