Successes In the (New) World: Alumnus Wins Kingsville Competition, Performs With the New World Symphony By Charity Johnson '99
	Related Articles: 7 Win Oberlin Concerto-Competition Spots		Among other things, Professor of Oboe James Caldwell credits his former student Zheng Huang ’99 with teaching him "where the ‘Z’ is on the typewriter." He also describes Huang as "one of the very best students I have ever taught." A concerto competition winner at Oberlin in 1998, Huang has met with considerable success since graduating two years ago. Most recently, he won first prize--the first wind player to do so in ten years--in the grand finals at the Kingsville International Competition for Young Performers, held in April at Texas A&M University's Kingsville campus. Huang received a cash award and a solo concerto performance with the Corpus Christi Symphony to take place during the 2001-2002 concert season. Huang, an oboist with the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida, recently performed Antonio Pasculli’s Variations for Oboe and Orchestra as a featured soloist with the New World--a performance described as "breathtaking" by Miami Herald Music Critic James Roos: "Huang tossed off the most dizzying passages at phenomenal speed, like an Itzhak Perlman of the oboe. He stunned not only the audience, but even the New World Symphony’s new principal guest conductor, Alasdair Neale of the San Francisco Symphony."
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