Amid the plethora of performers and ensembles today focused on contemporary music, more traditionally minded concert musicians, as well, are trying to find a better balance between old and new. One is Paul Huang, a violinist whose wide-ranging and consistently compelling recital for Washington Performing Arts at the Terrace Theater on Friday night included a world premiere by Conrad Tao.

Every day I feel like I learn something new from this violin," said violinist Paul Huang, who has been playing the instrument since it was loaned to him in 2012 by the Stradivari Society of Chicago. Huang, 27, will play the instrument on Friday in a recital at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater in Washington, D.C. with pianist Orion Weiss and pianist/composer Conrad Tao.

Paul Huang is so busy performing as a guest violinist with orchestras and in chamber ensembles around the world that he spends little time in his New York apartment. But when he does, he enjoys entertaining.

When I read in the pre-concert publicity that Paul Huang has been called the next Joshua Bell, I was surprised, but when he played Prokofiev’s first sonata, with its broad and varied expressive range and its considerable technical demands on the player, I understood why. 

No one will think of guest soloist Paul Huang, who performed with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra at the Tennessee Theatre Thursday night as just another showman with a great violin. Huang did nothing, except play Beethoven’s 1806 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Major, Op. 61 gorgeously. Huang, 27, is much more a statesman of the concert stage than a showoff. He also plays with a sense of poetry few people possess at that age.

Violinist Paul Huang, joined by fine faculty pianist Dmitri Shteinberg, delivered a powerful and sublime performance of César Franck’s 1886 Sonata in A Major. While Shteinberg’s performance was expert but a bit reserved, Huang played with a depth seldom heard in contemporary violinists, let alone one who is 27 years old.

During the Mozart, in his Omaha debut, 27-year-old Taiwanese-American violinist Paul Huang was triumphant. The audience was in awe as Huang explored each melody and cadenza on his instrument.

With a stoic demeanor, Huang quickly proved himself one of today’s finest young violinists; within minutes of taking the stage, he secured himself a spot beside virtuosos Itzhak Perlman and Joshua Bell.

It’s not hard to see why the violinist Paul Huang walked away with an Avery Fisher Career Grant last year. Huang, who played a recital with pianist Jessica Xylina Osborne at the Phillips Collection on Sunday, possesses a big, luscious tone, spot-on intonation and a technique that makes the most punishing string phrases feel as natural as breathing. It’s the perfect sound to lavish on 19th-century violin literature.

The star violinist Midori was originally supposed to play William Walton's Violin Concerto this week with the DSO, but she had to withdraw for medical reasons. She was replaced Thursday by fast-rising young Taiwanese-American violinist Paul Huang, who has already received a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Violinist Paul Huang has graciously stepped in for Midori to appear with the DSO performing the Sibelius Violin Concerto

Pianist Michael Brown, violinists Paul Huang, Kristin Lee and Simone Porter and violist Matthew Lipman have each been awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant, which consists of $25,000 for career needs.

Although he was carded at Roots the Restaurant immediately after his Paramount recital Saturday, 24-year-old violinist Paul Huang had qualities few virtuosi his age have — refinement and elegance, as well as passion and virtuosity.

Mr. Huang is a rising artist... he played with a coppery, wiry bite, and ample vinegar laced his honeyed tone. This gave his sound focus and cut away at the sentimentality, even in the most poignant lyrical passages.

The contours of natural talent, education, and unlimited personal support from his family all blend together for young Taiwanese/American violinist Paul Huang. Beyond that recognizable personality, there is an element of absolute necessity in his playing, making listening to him a gripping experience.

It is a testament to just how persuasive and pedagogically effective Spence has been all these years, pressing the case for new music against aesthetically conservative audiences. The second half of the concert belonged to 24 year-old Taiwanese-American violinist Paul Huang, who dazzled the audience with his commanding tone and confident diction.

The concert's headliner was William Walton's Violin Concerto. Paul Huang, filling in for the originally scheduled soloist Elissa Lee Koljonen, displayed a brilliance that few 23-year-olds can. Huang captured its furiosity while delivering penetrating volume and sparkling technique that would be the envy of violinists twice his age.

The 23-year-old Paul Huang was one of three solosists featured in a gala concert for the 53rd season of Young Concert Artists (YCA). He played the Barber Violin Concerto in a programme with a clarinettist at the beginning and a pianist at the end. It was a joyous testament to what three exceptional talents can achieve before their 25th birthdays. Each seemed ready to take his place on the concert stage as a mature artist.

The Taiwanese-American violinist Paul Huang, a boyish-looking 23, gave a masterly account of Barber’s Violin Concerto. His warm, glowing sound and youthful energy were perfect for the opening movement of this justly popular work, in which a soaring melodic line flows atop the harmonically charged, restless orchestra.