Meet the 2024 Artists

Soovin Kim

Soovin Kim enjoys a broad musical career regularly performing Bach sonatas and Paganini caprices for solo violin, sonatas for violin and piano ranging from Beethoven to Ives, Mozart, and Haydn concertos and symphonies as a conductor, and new world-premiere works almost every season.  When he was 20 years old, Mr. Kim received first prize at the Paganini International Violin Competition.  He immersed himself in the string quartet literature for 20 years as the 1st violinist of the Johannes Quartet.  Among his many commercial recordings are his “thrillingly triumphant” (Classic FM Magazine) disc of Paganini’s demanding 24 Caprices, and a two-disc set of Bach’s complete solo violin works to be released in 2024. Soovin Kim is the founder and artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival (LCCMF) in Burlington, Vermont.  In addition to its explorative programming and extensive work with living composers, LCCMF created the ONE Strings program through which all 3rd through 5th grade students of the Integrated Arts Academy in Burlington study violin.  The University of Vermont recognized Soovin Kim’s work by bestowing an honorary doctorate upon him in 2015. 

Violin

Gloria Chien

Taiwanese-born pianist Gloria Chien has one of the most diverse musical lives as a noted performer, concert presenter, and educator. She made her orchestral debut at the age of sixteen with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard, and she performed again with the BSO with Keith Lockhart. She was subsequently selected by the The Boston Globe as one of its Superior Pianists of the year, “who appears to excel in everything.” In recent seasons, she has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Phillips Collection, the Dresden Chamber Music Festival, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She performs frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2009, she launched String Theory, a chamber music series in Chattanooga, Tennessee that has become one of the region’s premier classical music presenters.  The following year she was appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo, a position she held for the next decade. In 2017, she joined her husband, violinist Soovin Kim, as artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont. The duo became artistic directors at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, OR in 2020. Most recently, she released two albums - her Gloria Chien LIVE from the Music@Menlo LIVE label and Here With You with acclaimed clarinetist Anthony McGill on Cedille Records.

Chien studied extensively at the New England Conservatory of Music with Wha Kyung Byun and Russell Sherman. She is Artist-in-Residence at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, and she is a Steinway Artist.

Piano

David Serkin Ludwig

David Serkin Ludwig’s first memory was singing Beatles songs with his sister; his second was hearing his grandfather perform at Carnegie Hall, foreshadowing a diverse career collaborating with many of today’s leading musicians, filmmakers, and writers. His choral work “The New Colossus,” opened the private prayer service for President Obama’s second inauguration. The next year NPR Music named him in the world’s “Top 100 Composers Under Forty.” He holds positions and residencies with nearly two dozen orchestras and music festivals in the US and abroad.

Ludwig has received commissions and notable performances from many of the most recognized artists and ensembles of our time, including the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, and National Symphony Orchestras, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Dresden Music Festival, as well as Jonathan Biss, Jeremy Denk, Jennifer Koh, Jaime Laredo, David Shifrin, eighth blackbird, the Dover and Borromeo Quartets, Imani Winds, and the PRISM Saxophone Quartet.

He has received numerous honors, recently including the American Academy of Arts and Letters annual award in music, the Pew Center for the Arts Fellowship, and the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is a two-time recipient of the Independence Foundation Fellowship, a Theodore Presser Foundation Career Grant, and awards from New Music USA, the American Composers Forum, American Music Center, Detroit Chamber Winds, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 2021 Ludwig was named a Steinway Artist. He served on the composition faculty of The Curtis Institute of Music for nearly two decades before being appointed Dean and Director of Music at the Juilliard School last year. He lives in New York City with his wife, acclaimed violinist Bella Hristova, and their four beloved cats.

Resident Composer

Lucy Fitz Gibbon

Noted for her “dazzling, virtuoso singing” (Boston Globe), Lucy Fitz Gibbon is a dynamic musician whose repertoire spans the Renaissance to the present. She believes that creating new works and recreating those lost in centuries past makes room for the multiplicity and diversity of voices integral to classical music’s future. As such, Ms. Fitz Gibbon has given modern premieres of rediscovered works from the Baroque through the 20th century, with a recent focus on Yiddish song. She also works closely with today’s composers, premiering works by Katherine Balch, Sebastian Currier, John Harbison, and Aida Shirazi, to name just a few. In realizing the complexities of music beyond written notes, the experience of working with these composers translates to all music: the commitment to honestly communicate not only the score, but also the underlying intentions of its creator.

Ms. Fitz Gibbon has appeared as a soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Tafelmusik, the Naples Philharmonic, the Albany, Richmond, and Tulsa Symphonies, and the American Symphony Orchestra in her Carnegie Hall debut. As a recitalist, she frequently performs with her husband and collaborative partner, pianist Ryan McCullough, in repertoire from works on historical keyboards to world premieres. Her passion for chamber music is evident in her many summers at the Marlboro Music Festival, as well as recent collaborations with the Brentano String Quartet, Merz Trio, and other artists throughout North America. Lucy is honored to be the recipient of a 2024 Fellowship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, whose generous support will enable upcoming commissioning, recording, and performance projects.

Soprano

Jennifer Johnson Cano

Mezzo Soprano

Jennifer Johnson Cano has garnered critical acclaim for performances of both new and standard repertoire; lauded by the New York Times for her “rich-toned mezzo-soprano” voice and by Opera News as a “matchless interpreter of contemporary opera.” Her 2023-2024 season highlights include performances as Mistress Quickly in Falstaff at Houston Grand Opera; appearances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Dallas, Chicago, Pittsburgh, San Francisco Symphony, and The National Symphony; the Philadelphia premiere of Marc Neikrug’s A Song by Mahler with the FLUX Quartet and recital appearances in Portland, Oregon and Raleigh, North Carolina. This past summer, she created the role of Michele in the world premiere of Gregory Spears’ The Righteous with Santa Fe Opera.

Highlights of Ms. Cano’s operatic career have included performing the roles of Donna Elvira, Carmen and Offred with the Boston Lyric Opera; The Fox in The Cunning Little Vixen with the Cleveland Orchestra; the Mother, Dragonfly, and the Squirrel in L’Enfant et les sortilèges with the San Francisco Symphony; performances of El Niño with John Adams and the London Symphony Orchestra; Carmen with the New Orleans Opera; and Orphée with the Des Moines Metro Opera and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. She has appeared in more than 100 performances on the stage at The Metropolitan Opera since her debut in the 2009-2010 season.

Robyn Bollinger

Violin

Daring, versatile, and charismatic, violinist Robyn Bollinger is Concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Currently the youngest female Concertmaster in the country, she has also appeared as Guest Concertmaster with the Boston Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony, and the Indianapolis Symphony, and she is a former member of the democratically run chamber orchestra, A Far Cry.

Ms. Bollinger has been recognized for both her innovation and entrepreneurship with a prestigious 2016 Fellowship from the Lenore Annenberg Arts Fellowship Fund for her multimedia performance- and recording project, entitled “CIACCONA: The Bass of Time.” She was previously awarded an Entrepreneurial Musicianship Grant from New England Conservatory for her ground-breaking “Project Paganini,” a performance project featuring all twenty-four Paganini Caprices. She was also awarded an historic 2019 Early-Career Musician Fellowship from Dumbarton Oaks Museum in Washington, D.C., to research and prepare her next multimedia project, entitled “ENCORE: Just One More.”

Having made her Philadelphia Orchestra debut at age twelve, Ms. Bollinger regularly performs as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician across the United States. She has appeared at the music festivals of Marlboro, Lake Champlain, Orcas Island, Highlands-Cashiers, Monadnock, Brevard, and others, and she has performed in recital at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, National Sawdust, Osaka’s Phoenix Hall, Tokyo National Arts Center, and other venues. She performs on the c. 1718 “Bostonian” Stradivarius violin on loan from a private donor arranged by the Reuning Artist Society.

Jennifer Frautschi

Two-time GRAMMY nominee and Avery Fisher career grant recipient violinist Jennifer Frautschi has appeared as soloist with innumerable orchestras including the Cincinnati Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and St Paul Chamber Orchestra.  As chamber musician she has performed with the Boston Chamber Music Society and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and appeared at Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Summerfest, Music@Menlo, Tippet Rise Art Center, Toronto Summer Music, and the Bridgehampton, Charlottesville, Lake Champlain, Moab, Ojai, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Spoleto Music Festivals.  

Her extensive discography includes several discs for Naxos: the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, conducted by the legendary Robert Craft, and two GRAMMY-nominated recordings with the Fred Sherry Quartet, of Schoenberg’s Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, and the Schoenberg Third String Quartet. Her most recent releases are with pianist John Blacklow on Albany Records: the first devoted to the three sonatas of Robert Schumann; the second, American Duos, an exploration of recent additions to the violin and piano repertoire by contemporary American composers Barbara White, Steven Mackey, Elena Ruehr, Dan Coleman, and Stephen Hartke. She also recorded three widely praised CDs for Artek: an orchestral recording of the Prokofiev concerti with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony; the violin music of Ravel and Stravinsky; and 20th-century works for solo violin. Other recordings include a disc of Romantic Horn Trios, with hornist Eric Ruske and pianist Stephen Prutsman, and the Stravinsky Duo Concertant with pianist Jeremy Denk.

Born in Pasadena, California, Ms. Frautschi attended the Colburn School, Harvard, the New England Conservatory, and the Juilliard School.  She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the “ex-Cadiz,” on generous loan from a private American foundation with support from Rare Violins In Consortium.  She currently teaches in the graduate program at Stony Brook University.

Violin

Misha Amory

Since winning the 1991 Naumburg Viola Award, Misha Amory has been acclaimed as one of the leading American violists of his generation. He has performed with orchestras in the United States and Europe. He has been presented in recital at New York's Tully Hall, Los Angeles' Ambassador series, Philadelphia's Mozart on the Square festival, Boston's Gardner Museum, Houston's Da Camera series and Washington's Phillips Collection. He has been invited to perform at the Marlboro Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Vancouver Festival, the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center, and the Boston Chamber Music Society, and he released a recording of Hindemith sonatas on the Musical Heritage Society label.

Mr. Amory is a founding member of the Brentano String Quartet, which enjoys a distinguished concert career in the United States and abroad. Winners of the inaugural Cleveland Quartet Award and the 1995 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, the Quartet was also the inaugural group for the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center's new program, Chamber Music Society II. Touring worldwide, the Quartet has appeared in Wigmore Hall, London; the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; the Konzerthaus, Vienna; the Opera House, Sydney; Suntory Hall, Tokyo; and at home in Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, New York, as well as at many other distinguished venues. The Quartet has recorded the music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Charles Wuorinen, Bruce Adolphe, and Steven Mackey. The Quartet was in residence at Princeton University from 1999 to 2014, and since 2014 has been Ensemble-in-Residence at the Yale School of Music.

Mr. Amory holds degrees from Yale University and the Juilliard School. His principal teachers were Heidi Castleman, Caroline Levine, and Samuel Rhodes. Himself a dedicated teacher, Mr. Amory serves on the faculties of the Juilliard School in New York City and the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia.

Viola

Hsin-Yun Huang

Violist Hsin-Yun Huang has forged a career by performing on international concert stages, commissioning and recording new works, and nurturing young musicians. Ms. Huang has appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras in Beijing, Taipei, and Bogota, amongst others. Inspired by authentic folk elements, the focus and highlight of Ms. Huang’s 2022-23 season was the program “Strings of Soul”, in collaboration with composer Lei-Liang and pipa virtuoso Wu Man.

She was the first solo violist to be presented in the National Performance Center of the Arts in Beijing and was featured as a faculty member alongside Yo-Yo Ma in Guangzhou. She has commissioned compositions from Steven Mackey, Shih-Hui Chen, and Poul Ruders. Her 2012 recording for Bridge Records, titled Viola Viola, won accolades from Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. Her most recent release is the complete unaccompanied sonatas and partitas of J.S. Bach, in partnership with her husband, violist Misha Amory.

Ms. Huang regularly appears at festivals, including Marlboro, Spoleto, Ravinia, Santa Fe, and Music@Menlo, among many others. Huang was the gold medalist in the 1988 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, the top-prize winner in the ARD International Competition in Munich and was awarded the highly prestigious Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. A native of Taiwan, she received degrees from the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Curtis Institute of Music, and The Juilliard School. She now serves on the faculties of Juilliard and Curtis.

Viola

Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt

Praised by Strad magazine as having "lyricism that stood out...a silky tone and beautiful, supple lines," violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt has established herself as one of the most sought-after violists of her generation. In addition to appearances as a soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Jacksonville Symphony, and the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra, she has performed in recitals and chamber-music concerts throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, including an acclaimed 2011 debut recital at London’s Wigmore Hall, which was described in Strad as being "fleet and energetic...powerful and focused".

Ms. Pajaro-van de Stadt was the founding violist of the Dover Quartet and played in the group from 2008-2022. During her time in the group, the Dover Quartet was the First Prize-winner and recipient of every special award at the Banff International String Quartet Competition 2013 and winner of the Gold Medal and Grand Prize in the 2010 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Her numerous awards also include First Prize of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and top prizes at the Sphinx Competition and the Tokyo International Viola Competition. While in the Dover Quartet, Ms. Pajaro-van de Stadt was on the faculty at The Curtis Institute of Music and Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and a part of the Quartet in Residence of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the newly formed piano quartet “Espressivo!” along with acclaimed artists Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, and Anna Polonsky.

A violin student of Sergiu Schwartz and Melissa Pierson-Barrett for several years, she began studying viola with Michael Klotz at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in 2005. Ms. Pajaro-van de Stadt graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Roberto Diaz, Michael Tree, Misha Amory, and Joseph de Pasquale. She then received her Master's Degree in String Quartet with the Dover Quartet at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music as a student of James Dunham.

Viola

Edward Arron

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Edward Arron made his New York recital debut in 2000 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since that time, he has appeared in recital, as a soloist with major orchestras, and as a chamber musician, throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

The 2023-24 season marks Mr. Arron’s 11th season as the co-artistic director with his wife, Jeewon Park, of the Performing Artists in Residence series at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Mr. Arron tours and records as a member of the renowned Ehnes String Quartet and he is a regular performer at the Boston and Seattle Chamber Music Societies, the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Bargemusic, Caramoor, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, Seoul Spring Festival in Korea, Music in the Vineyards Festival, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, and the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. Other festival appearances include Salzburg, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, PyeongChang, Bravo! Vail, Bridgehampton, Spoleto USA, Santa Fe, Evian, La Jolla Summerfest, Chamber Music Northwest, Chesapeake Chamber Music, and the Bard Music Festival. Mr. Arron’s performances are frequently broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today. In 2021, Mr. Arron’s recording of Beethoven’s Complete Works for Cello and Piano with pianist Jeewon Park was released on the Aeolian Classics Record Label. The recording received the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artists Award from the Classical Recording Foundation.

A graduate of the Juilliard School, Mr. Arron currently serves on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Cello

Peter Stumpf

Peter Stumpf is professor of cello at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Prior to his appointment, he was the principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 9 years following a 12-year tenure as Associate Principal Cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He received a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and an artist’s diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music. 

A dedicated chamber music musician, he is a member of the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, in Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Cologne. He has performed with the chamber music societies of Boston and Philadelphia, and at numerous festivals including Marlboro, Santa Fe, Bridgehampton, Spoleto, and Aspen. He has toured with music from Marlboro, and with pianist Mitsuko Uchida in performances of the complete Mozart Piano Trios. As a member of the Johannes Quartet, he collaborated with the Guarneri String Quartet on a tour including premieres of works by Bolcom and Salonen.

Concerto appearances have included the Boston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and at the Aspen Festival among others. Solo recitals have been at Jordan Hall in Boston, on the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society series, on the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series in Los Angeles and at the Philips and Corcoran Galleries in Washington D.C. His awards include first prize in the Washington International Competition.   

He has served on the cello faculties at the New England Conservatory and the University of Southern California.

Cello

Marcy Rosen

Marcy Rosen has established herself as one of the most important and respected artists of our day. Los Angeles Times music critic Herbert Glass has called her “one of the intimate art’s abiding treasures” and The New Yorker Magazine calls her “a New York legend of the cello”. She has performed in recital and with orchestra throughout Canada, England, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South America, Switzerland, and all fifty of the United States. Sought after for her riveting and informative Master Classes, she has been a guest of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea and the Cartagena International Music Festival in Colombia.

Ms. Rosen has collaborated with the world’s finest musicians, including Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Jonathan Biss, Peter Serkin, and Isaac Stern, among others, and has been a guest artist with the Juilliard, Johannes, Emerson, Daedelus, Orion, Aizuri and Catalyst Quartets. She was a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet. With the Mendelssohn Quartet she was Artist-in-Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts and for nine years served as Blodgett-Artists-in- Residence at Harvard University. Since first attending the Marlboro Festival in 1975, she has taken part in 25 “Musicians from Marlboro” tours and has performed in concerts celebrating the 40 th , 50 th , and 60 th anniversaries of the festival. 

Since 1986 Ms. Rosen has been Artistic Director of Chesapeake Chamber Music in Maryland. That organization houses the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, an International Chamber Music Competition and YouthReach, an educational program that provides free lessons to beginning string players. In 2024 she was appointed Artistic Director of the Evnin Rising Stars program at the Caramoor Center for the Arts. She is also an artist member of Music for Food, a musician led initiative to fight hunger in our local communities.

A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Ms. Rosen is currently professor of cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, also serving as Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Live concert series. Please visit her website at www.marcyrosen.com.

Cello

Emi Ferguson

Flute

A 2023 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Emi Ferguson can be heard live in concerts and festivals with groups including the Handel and Haydn Society, AMOC*, Ruckus, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Manhattan Chamber Players, and as the music director of Camerata Pacifica Baroque. Her recordings Amour Cruel and Fly the Coop: Bach Sonatas and Preludes, celebrate her fascination with reinvigorating music and instruments of the past for the present and have been called “blindingly impressive ... a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” by The New York Times. Emi has spoken and performed at TEDx events and has been featured on the Discovery Channel, Amazon Prime, WQXR, and Vox talking about how music relates to our world today. As part of WQXR’s Artist Propulsion Lab, she created the series “This Composer is SICK!” with Max Fine, exploring the impact of Syphilis on composers Franz Schubert, Bedřich Smetana, and Scott Joplin, is a new host of WQXR’s Young Artists Showcase. Her book, “Iconic Composers”, co-written with Nicholas Csicsko with artwork by David Lee Csicsko, was released in 2023. Born in Japan and raised in London and Boston, she now resides in New York and is thrilled to be back at LCCMF!

Romie de Guise-Langlois

Praised as “extraordinary” and “a formidable clarinetist” by The New York Times, Romie de Guise-Langlois has appeared as soloist and chamber musician on major concert stages throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. She has performed as soloist with the Houston Symphony, the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Connect, and at Festival Mozaic, Sarasota Music Festival, and Banff Center for the Arts. Ms. de Guise-Langlois is a winner of the Astral Artists’ National Auditions and a recipient of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation award. She was also awarded First Prize in the Ima Hogg Competition, the Woolsey Hall Competition at Yale University, the McGill University Classical Concerto Competition and the Canadian Music Competition. An avid chamber musician, she has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has appeared at numerous chamber music series, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, 92nd Street Y, the Kennedy Center, and Chamber Music Northwest. She has performed as principal clarinetist for the Orpheus and Saint-Paul Chamber Orchestras, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New Haven and Stamford Symphony Orchestras, NOVUS NY and The Knights Chamber Orchestra. A native of Montreal, Ms. de Guise-Langlois earned degrees from McGill University and the Yale School of Music, where she studied under David Shifrin. She is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and an alumnus of Ensemble Connect and The Bowers Program. Associate Professor of Clarinet at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she previously served on the faculty of Montclair State University.

Clarinet

Bixby Kennedy

Admired for his “marvelous ringing tone” (Joseph Dalton, Albany Times Union) Bixby Kennedy is one of the most versatile clarinetists of his generation. He has performed concerti with orchestras including the Minnesota Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and New Haven Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Bixby has performed throughout the US and Europe in venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The Kennedy Center, Marlboro Music Festival, and is the clarinetist for the “explosive” New York City based chamber ensemble Frisson. He has appeared as a guest artist with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and The Knights. As an orchestral musician, Bixby has performed with the MET Opera and NY Philharmonic in addition to regular engagements with the Albany and New Haven Symphony Orchestras. On period instruments, Bixby has performed classical repertoire on original and replica instruments throughout the US with Grand Harmonie Orchestra. He is a former member of Ensemble Connect and works as a teaching artist throughout the US. As an arranger, his works have been performed by Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Schumann, Frisson, Ensemble Connect, and Symphony in C. He loves traveling, trying new foods, laughing, hiking, and playing tennis.

Clarinet

Nancy Allen

Harp

Hailed “a major artist” following her 1974 NY debut, Nancy Allen has a solo career spanning 50 years. Principal harpist of The New York Philharmonic since 1999, Ms. Allen was the 1st prize winner of Israel’s 5th International Harp Competition. 

She was sponsored by a National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Award, Affiliate Artists and the Pro Musicis Foundation. As an Angel/ EMI recording artist, her recording “The Music of Ravel and Debussy” earned a Grammy nomination.

A student in the last class of the legendary Marcel Grandjany, Ms. Allen also studied with Pearl Chertok, Lily Laskine, and with the renowned harpist Susann McDonald. 

Highlights of her career include performances for “Music at the Supreme Court” hosted by Justice Sandra Day O’Conner and for the 1986 opening of the Aspen Silverqueen Gondola at the top of Ajax Mountain along with singer John Denver.

She has enjoyed close collaborations with soprano Kathleen Battle, guitarist Manuel Barrueco, flutists Carol Wincenc and Ransom Wilson, and with the Tokyo and American String Quartets.

Ms. Allen is head of the harp department of The Juilliard School since 1986. Her students hold major orchestral positions and prizes internationally. A veteran of summer music festivals, she has been a faculty/artist with the Aspen Music Festival since 1976.

Ji Hye Jung

Percussion

Percussionist Ji Hye Jung has been praised as "spectacular" by the Los Angeles Times and "extraordinary" by the Ventura County Star, with the Times further describing her as "a centered player who can give the impression of being very still yet at all places at once."

Ms. Jung began concertizing in her native South Korea at the age of 9, going on to perform more than 100 concerts including solo appearances with every major orchestra in Korea. Soon after coming to the United States in 2004 she garnered first prizes at the 2006 Linz International Marimba Competition and the 2007 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition.

With percussion repertoire still in its formative stages, Ms. Jung feels strongly about collaborating with composers to further the creation of a new voice for the art form. To this end she has commissioned and premiered works by Kevin Puts, Emma O’Halloran, Annika Scolofsky, Bora Yoon, Molly Herron, Christopher Theofanidis, Alejandro Viñao, Lukas Ligeti, Paul Lansky, Jason Treuting, and John Serry. 

For more than ten years Jung has served as principal percussionist for Camerata Pacifica, with whom she has debuted works by Bright Sheng, David Bruce, Lera Auerbach and Huang Ruo. Recent solo engagements include appearances at the Westport Festival of Chamber Music in Ireland, Portugal’s Tomarimbando Festival, New Music Indaba in South Africa, The Intimacy of Creativity in Hong Kong, the Grand Teton Music Festival, Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Italy, the Grachtenfestival in Holland and the Ligeti Symposium in Helsinki, Finland. 

Since 2015 Ms. Jung has served as Associate Professor of Percussion at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where she lives with her husband Lee and their daughter Eugenia. 

Ji Su Jung

Percussion

The first solo percussionist to ever receive the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, Ji Su Jung has a distinctive musical voice that is instantly recognizable for its depth and lyricism. Born in South Korea, Ms. Jung began studying marimba at age three. Since launching her career as a soloist, she has performed concertos with such leading orchestras and conductors as the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra with Marin Alsop, the Sarasota Orchestra with Giancarlo Guerrero, the Houston Symphony with Daniel Hege, the Aspen Festival Orchestra with Michael Stern, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra and Colorado Symphony with Peter Oundjian, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic with JoAnn Falletta, the Grand Rapids Symphony with Marcelo Lehninger, and the Boise Philharmonic with Eric Garcia.

“Ji Su Jung’s performance of the Kevin Puts Marimba Concerto was dazzling—filled with breathtaking virtuosity but also beautifully shaped with extraordinary color and nuance,” remarked conductor JoAnn Falletta about Ms. Jung’s performance with the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. Ms. Jung has recorded the Marimba Concerto of Puts, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, with the Baltimore Symphony, released on Naxos in 2023. In the 24-25 Season, Ms. Jung will be touring with the recital program titled "Boundless Horizon", music of Female Composers, and the orchestra tour within the United States. 

Recognized internationally as a pedagogue, Ms. Jung serves on the faculties of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. She has taught master classes at New York University’s Steinhardt School, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, Michigan State University, Frost School of Music, and Beijing Central Conservatory in China, among many other schools.

Sandeep Das

Tabla

Sandeep Das is one of the leading Indian Tabla virtuosos in the world today. A disciple of the legendary Pt, Kishan Maharaj ji of the Banaras Gharana, he debuted at the age of 17 with renowned Sitar maestro Pt. Ravi Shankar ji and went on to lead a prolific international career that now spans more than three decades. He has collaborated with top musicians and ensembles from across the globe such as Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, with whom he has performed for the past 21 years, as well as Paquito D’Rivera, Bobby McFarin, and iconic orchestras like the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and Chicago Symphony, among others. 

A Grammy winning-musician and Guggenheim Fellow, Das’ groundbreaking new music projects sit at the crucible of ancient tradition and modern innovation, enchanting audiences worldwide with “flawless playing” (Songlines Magazine, U.K.) and a “roadmap for irresistible aural adventures” (Downbeat Magazine, USA). His original compositions have been performed in over 50 countries at venues like China’s Forbidden City Concert Hall, Australia’s Sydney Opera House, and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California. Transcending Borders One Note at a Time, his most recent project, was launched in 2020 to widespread international acclaim, and seeks to harness the power of music to create positive social change. Das is the founder of Harmony and Universality through Music (HUM), a nonprofit organization in India that has promoted global understanding through music performance and provided learning opportunities and scholarships for visually-impaired children with artistic potential since 2009.

Jeewon Park

Praised for her “deeply reflective playing”(Indianapolis Star) and “infectious exuberance” (New York Times), Korean-born pianist Jeewon Park has garnered the attention of audiences for her dazzling technique and poetic lyricism. Since making her debut at the age of 12, performing Chopin’s First Concerto with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, pianist Jeewon Park has performed as a recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician in prestigious venues worldwide, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, 92nd Street Y, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Seoul Arts Center. She is a frequent performer at Bargemusic and Caramoor International Music Festival where she was named a Rising Star in 2007. A passionate chamber musician, she has appeared at prominent festivals throughout the world, including Seattle Chamber Music Society, Lake Champlain, Spoleto USA, Bridgehampton, Lake Champlain, Manchester, Seoul Spring, Great Mountains (Korea), Tucson, Appalachian Summer, Central Vermont, Taos, Eastern Music Festival, Emilia-Romagna (Italy), Music Alp in Courchevel (France), and Kusatsu Summer Music (Japan). The 2022-2023 season marks her 10th season as the co-artistic director, along with her husband, Edward Arron, of the Performing Artists in Residence series at the Clark Art Institute. In 2021, Ms. Park’s recording of Beethoven’s Complete Works for Cello and Piano with cellist Edward Arron was released on the Aeolian Classics Record Label. Subsequently, they received the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artists Award from the Classical Recording Foundation. She came to the US in 2002 after winning all major competitions in Korea. Park is a graduate of Yonsei University, The Juilliard School, Yale University and SUNY Stony Brook where she earned her DMA.

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Ieva Jokubaviciute

Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute's powerfully and intricately crafted performances have led critics to describe her as possessing "razor-sharp intelligence and wit" (the Washington Post) and as "an artist of commanding technique, refined temperament and persuasive insight" (the New York Times).  In 2006, she was honored as a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. 

In 2021, Sono Luminus released Ms. Jokubaviciute’s latest recording Northscapes, which features works by twenty-first century composers from the Nordic and Baltic countries of Europe.  Gramophone magazine described it as “a fascinating, well-balanced programme, played with engrossingly undemonstrative virtuosity… Jokubaviciute navigates the contrasting demands of each work with hugely impressive skill.”

Jokubaviciute’s recital programs and recording projects bring her to stages in major cities in the US and in Europe.  She made her orchestral debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival and has since performed concerti with orchestras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay; Washington, DC; and Fargo, ND. 

A much sought-after chamber musician and collaborator, notably with violinist Midori, Ms. Jokubaviciute's chamber music endeavors have brought her to major stages throughout North America and extensive touring in Europe, Japan, India, and South America.  She also regularly appears at international music festivals and has established herself as a mentoring artist at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and Kneisel Hall in Maine.  She was a founding member of the Naumburg International Chamber Music Competition Winner Trio Cavatina.

A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Mannes College of Music, Ms. Jokubaviciute is currently Associate Professor of Piano at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

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Jin Kim

Keynote Speaker

Born and raised in Korea, Jin Kim came to the U.S. in 1972 in a pursuit of advanced degrees in communication at Syracuse University first and later at the University of Iowa. Apparently his “incarcerated life in academe” was not destined to end soon as his 38-year teaching career in higher education brought his family to two additional college campuses: The University of Illinois (1978-1985) and the State University of New York at Plattsburgh (1985-2016). 

His teaching and research endeavors were mostly focused on intercultural communication, media theory, communication law, and media criticism. One particular area of research that he expended much of his scholarly interest is psychological warfare during the Korean War period.

Despite the fact that his enthusiasm with and gratification from his chosen academic career never diminished from their highest peaks, he has remained perpetually indebted to his family’s willingness to make do with what the American institutions of higher education provide for the majority of their dedicated employees. After a most blissful life of 32 years in the North Country, Jin is spending his post- retirement life with his soulmate of 52 years, Soon Young, in Buford, Ga. Their favorite pastime centers mostly on trail walking, book club meeting, singing, photography, and Facetime-ing with their precious grandchildren; Nolan, Ryney, and Romie.

Hannah Chaewon-Kim

Young Artists Quartet, violin

Born in Seoul, South Korea, violinist Hannah Chaewon Kim is currently pursuing a Graduate Diploma at the New England Conservatory as a student of Soovin Kim and Donald Weilerstein. Kim was selected as one of the Honors Ensembles at NEC in the 2021-2022 season as a member of the Tavola Quartet and performed a recital at the Jordan Hall of NEC. She also had many other chamber music appearances at the Jordan Hall, being part of concerts such as the Chamber Music Gala and Borromeo Quartet’s Beethoven Seminar. Kim also performed as a soloist in major venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Seoul Arts Center. She had orchestra appearances as a concertmaster and principal of the NEC Philharmonia and took part in the NEC Chamber Orchestra in the 2019-2020 season. Kim received first prize in the Manhattan International Music Competition, East Coast International Competition, SAC International Music Competition, and Young Artist Competition. Kim has recently collaborated with Nicholas Kitchen, Yeesun Kim, Nicholas Cords, Kirstin Docter, Rosemary Elliott, Samuel Suggs, Max Levinson, and Kyungsun Lee. She has previously performed with orchestras such as the Seoul Soloist Cello Ensemble, Prime Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Orchestra, and the Mostli Philharmonic Orchestra. Kim was invited as a Young Artist Quartet to the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in 2021-2022 and participated in the Perlman Music Program, Taos School of Music, Heifetz Institute of Music, Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn, Avila Music Festival, and Sejong International Music Festival. She performed in masterclasses led by Marcy Rosen, Miriam Fried, Paul Watkins, Misha Amory, Mark Steinberg, Vadim Gluzman, Glenn Dicterow, Shlomo Mintz, Zakhar Bron, and Frank Huang. Kim received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the New England Conservatory under the aegis of the Presidential Distinction Award Scholarship and Dean’s Scholarship.

Jusun Kim

Young Artists Quartet, violin

Violinist Jusun Kim is currently pursuing a Master's degree at the New England Conservatory of Music with Soovin Kim. She debuted with Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra in 2016 and released her debut album in 2017. She won first prize at the Singapore Violin Festival competition, special prize at the Tibor Varga Competition for Young Violinists, 1st prize at the Euro Asia Competition in Spain, 3rd prize at the Arthur Grumiaux Violin Competition, and Grand prize at the Music Journal Competition. She performed as a soloist with the Kremerata Baltica Chamber Orchestra, the Hemu Orchestra, the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cheongju Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts Orchestra. She had her debut Recital at Kumho Art Hall in 2017 and her European debut concert at the Korean Cultural Center Belgium & European Union in Brussels in 2022. 

Samuel Rosenthal

Young Artists Quartet, viola

Violist Samuel Rosenthal delights in sharing music with artists and audiences of all ages and is acclaimed for his generous musical spirit and “intimate, personal approach” (Journal of the American Viola Society). He began his musical studies in Cleveland and his viola studies with Jeffrey Irvine as a member of the Young Artist Program at CIM. His passion for chamber music was ignited by formative work with the Cavani String Quartet and Cleveland Quartet violinist Peter Salaff. Since the summer of 2016, Sam has attended the renowned Perlman Music Program, and recent summer festivals have also included the Marlboro Music Festival, Chamberfest Cleveland, Musique de Chambre en Normandie, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, and Music from Angel Fire.  A prize winner at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition (Razumovsky String Quartet) and the Johansen International Competition, Sam received the silver medal at the 2021 Primrose International Viola Competition. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he had the honor of studying with Heidi Castleman, Misha Amory, and Hsin-Yun Huang, and he is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. Sam is currently a member of the Artist Diploma Program at Juilliard, working with distinguished artist faculty Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory. 

Nagyeom Jang

Young Artists Quartet, cello

Cellist Nagyeom Jang is acclaimed for her "warm and burnished sound and excellent rhythmic sense" (Cleveland Classical). Nagyeom earned recognition as a top prize winner at the Karl Davidoff International Cello Competition and International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians.

At the age of 9, Nagyeom made her orchestral debut with the Salzburg Chamber Orchestra in Austria. She has since appeared as a soloist with orchestras such as the Seoul National Symphony Orchestra, Bravura Philharmonic, and Baden-Baden Philharmonic. In 2016, Nagyeom made her recital debut at Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, sponsored by the Kumho Prodigy Concert Series.

As a fervent chamber musician, Nagyeom has had the privilege of working with Itzhak Perlman, Laurie Smukler, esteemed members of the Juilliard, Brentano, Borromeo, Cavani, and Ébène string quartets, and pianist Robert McDonald.

She is a Juilliard Honors Chamber Music Program member with her piano trio, the Amara Trio, which recently won the gold prize at the 2024 Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition. The trio made their Alice Tully Hall and Paul Hall debut in the 2023-2024 season and was featured on WQXR as part of the Earth Month celebration with Juilliard.

Currently serving as the principal cellist at the Juilliard School Orchestra, Nagyeom has performed under the baton of distinguished conductors David Robertson, Simone Young, and John Adams. Nagyeom recently earned her Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School under the guidance of Joel Krosnick and Clara Minhye Kim. She will return to Juilliard in the fall to pursue her master’s degree.

Jonah Cohen

Young Composer

Jonah Cohen (b. 2004) is a composer, conductor, pianist, and cellist from Farmington Hills, MI, currently based in New York City. His compositions tend to revolve around his fascination with space, time, motion, and stagnation and how they are relevant in the here and now. He strives to write music that is accessible yet unafraid to explore sonic realms that may be uncomfortable. Jonah has received recognition from ASCAP, Tribeca New Music, National YoungArts Foundation, Foundation for Modern Music, Interlochen Center for the Arts, National Young Composers Challenge, Chicago College of Performing Arts, Music Teachers National Association, and many others for his work. He has been lucky enough to attend numerous composition programs and festivals, including Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, Boston University Tanglewood Institute, Atlantic Music Festival, Interlochen Arts Camp, and Curtis Young Artists Summer Program. Jonah recently graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy, where he majored in composition and studied with Dr. Cynthia Van Maanen. At the Academy, Jonah was honored to receive the Neil Rabaut Memorial Composition Scholarship as well as the Young Artist Award. Jonah is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Composition degree at The Juilliard School, studying with Dr. David Ludwig. Dedicated to supporting future generations of young composers, Jonah serves as the founder and Program Director of The NowBeat Project, a nonprofit organization that has provided free opportunities for over 50 participants from 17 US states and 5 countries.

Delfin Demiray

Young Composer

Based in Philadelphia, Delfin Demiray is an aspiring composition student. Born and raised in Ankara, Turkey, she started her music education with piano at the age of 7. She began her composition studies at the age of 17 with Yiğit Aydın. She also spent her time studying drama as a half-time student. Her photography and film critic newsletter were recognized locally, and her photography was exhibited at Bilkent University in Turkey. She participates in conceptual and interdisciplinary art exhibitions and has displayed works of conceptual art in her newly blooming career. Delfin is pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree at The Curtis Institute of Music, where she has been studying with Nick DiBerardino, Steven Mackey, Amy Beth Kirsten, Jonathan Bailey Holland, and Richard Danielpour since the Fall of 2023.

Yuri Lee

Young Composer

Yuri Lee (b. 2004) is a Korean-Japanese composer and violinist based in NY with the dream of making people happy with music. With unique themes and extramusical ideas, her music tells a story and stimulates the listener's imagination. Her compositions have been recognized and performed by various organizations and musicians, including the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, The Little Orchestra Society, the Nu Deco Ensemble, the International Contemporary Ensemble, Mivos String Quartet, NYO-USA, Duo Cortona, Pedro Giraudo, Trifilio Tango Trio, and Composers Now 2019 Opening Event at National Opera Center.

After studying composition with Manuel Sosa and Daniel Felsenfeld and violin with Lucie Gelinas at the Juilliard School Preparatory Division for seven years, as well as receiving Reena Esmail’s mentorship at Luna Composition Lab, she is studying at Princeton University as an intended music major to explore the raw, vast elements of life that will offer new perspectives and stories for her compositions. She is enjoying playing in the Princeton University Orchestra and singing in the Princeton Chamber Choir.