Victor B. Hsu
Music & Medicine
About Me
Hi, I’m Victor Hsu. I’m a senior at the Bergen County Academies in New Jersey and a violinist at Juilliard Pre-College, where I study with Professor Masao Kawasaki. Music has been part of my life for as long as I can remember, from chamber music with friends to performances at venues like Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall.
Beyond performance, I work towards using music to support community well-being. I lead arts and public-health initiatives that bring creative programming to hospitals, nursing homes, shelters, and student communities around the world. I’m especially interested in the intersection of music and medicine. My goal is to help make care more accessible to every community using the power of music.
Awards
National YoungArts Award in Classical Music (Violin)
Chamber Music Society 41st Annual Young Musicians Concert Finalist
Scholastic National Silver Medalist, Top 0.8% of 310,000 Entries for Excellence in Original Poetry
Stanford International Logic Olympiad, 2x Gold Award for Top 5% Individual Score
USA Biolympiad Semifinalist, Top 125 of 10,599 Open Exam Registrants
International Medicine and Disease Olympiad Silver Medalist
Research
Hsieh, H.-H., Kuo, M.-Z., Chen, I.-A., Lin, C.-J., Hsu, V., HuangFu, W.-C., & Wu, T.-Y. (2025). Epigenetic Modifications as Novel Therapeutic Strategies of Cancer Chemoprevention by Phytochemicals.
Pharmaceutical Research, 42(1), 69-78.
Hsu, V. (2024). Neuropathology and Current Pharmacotherapies of Alzheimer’s Disease: Analyzing Racial Disparities in Therapeutic Access through Sociological Perspectives.
Journal of Research High School, Vol. 2025(7), 517–525. ISSN 2688-3651.