Violin Sun boon Jeong
Sunhwa Arts School
Sunhwa Arts High School
Kyungwon University (BM)
Kyungwon University (MM)
Mannes College The New School For Music (PDPL)
A South Korean Violinist Sun Boon Jeong is an associate education director at New York School of Music and Art in Fort Lee, NJ and the operation director of New York Classical Youth Orchestra. She is also the president and founder of Sun violin Studio in Closter, NJ. and a faculty of music program at Cresskill High School.
Ms. Jeong has received her Professional Studies Diploma from Mannes College, the New School for Music under the supervision of Dr. Ann Setzer and received her Bachelors and Masters degrees from Kyungwon University on full scholarship in Korea. She is also a graduate of Sunhwa Arts Middle and High school.
Sun Boon Jeong has received scholarship from the Korean American Scholarship Foundation in 2011, the Petri Award from Mannes College and the Merit Scholarship from Meadowmount School of Music. She has participated in many master classes by Robert Chen, Chin Kim, and Timothy Eddy.
Ms. Jeong had won the Chamber Music Competition in Meadowmount School of music 2010 and 2011 while she had been a chamber music assistant coach at the Meadowmount School of Music and a teaching assistant to Sally Thomas and Ann Setzer. She was a member of the prestigious Gunpo Prime Philharmonic Orchestra, an instructor of the Prime Youth Orchestra in S. Korea and a member of Kyungwon Chamber Orchestra, which performed at the Oregon Bach Festival, broadcasted on KBS 2 FM Radio.
Sun Boon Jeong has performed at numerous music festivals as a soloist and a chamber musician: the Seoul Art Center, SeJong Center, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Mannes Concert Hall, and other major venues. Recently, She was invited as a soloist with the pianist John Gavalchin as part of Closter Library Concert Series. She performed as a member of Piano Trio Be, the Korean Chamber of New York, Kaliope Music Society, and Chamber on Main.
Cello Philo Lee
Julliard Pre- College
Yale University
Julliard School
Philo Lee began playing cello at the age of eight. He first started studying with Brooke Beazely Cyzewski and later entered the Juilliard Precollege Division in 2002, where he has studied with Ann Alton and André Emelianoff. He then later also studied with William Stokking (retired principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra) and in 2008 he was invited into the Certificate of Performance Program at the Yale School of Music studying under Professor Aldo Parisot. He is now pursuing his Bachelor Degree in Music Performance at the Juilliard School studying under Natasha Brofsky. In 2006 he placed first in the Junior “B” Division of ASTA NJ State Solo competition and also received the overall Grand Prize. Also in 2006 he received first place in the Juilliard Pre-College Elgar Cello Concerto Competition. In 2007 Philo received third place in the New Jersey Symphony Young Artists Auditions. He has also appeared on the radio show “From the Top” in 2007. Some of the orchestras Philo has soloed with include the South Jersey Philharmonics, Adelphi Symphony Orchestra, the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, and The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. Philo has also participated in many master classes including those of Peter Wiley, Hans Jorge Jensen, Aldo Parisot and Jian Wang.
Violin JImyung Kim
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (BM)
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (MM)
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (DMA)
Former Violin Faculty at Western Kentucky University
A native of South Korea, violinist Jimyung Kim came to the US when he was fourteen years old to study violin under C.J. Chang and Robert dePasquale in Philadelphia. Ever since then Kim has appeared as a soloist and a chamber musician at various venues in Korea, Japan, and the US collaborating with artists such as Federico Agostini, Sadao Harada, Jean-Louis Hagenauer, and Atar Arad. During his time as the concertmaster of Korea National Police Symphony Orchestra, Kim was often invited to South Korea’s Presidential House (Chungwaedae) to perform solo and chamber music. In 2012, Kim served as faculty at Western Kentucky University’s Department of Music and has been active as a guest clinician throughout the mid-west region. In March of 2015, Kim was featured as the soloist with New York Classical Symphony Orchestra in Lincoln Center, New York, performing Mozart’s Violin Concerto 5. Kim’s future engagements include guest appearance with faculty members of University of Houston and Western Illinois University as well as a guest-artist recital at Murray State University in Kentucky. Kim has received his bachelors, masters and doctorate degree in violin performance from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Kim’s dissertation “Schubert in Context: The Early-Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Violin Virtuosity and Schubert’s Fantasy in C Major for Violin and Piano, D. 934” is currently archived at IU’s Music library under http://hdl.handle.net/2022/18956. Further information on Kim’s career can be found at www.jimyungkim.com.
Cello JoonWhan Kim
Yewon School
Seoul Art High School
Korea National University of Art
Hochschule für Music Koeln, Cologne, Germany (BM)
Hochschule für Music Koeln, Cologne, Germany (MM)
Hochschule für Music Koeln, Cologne, Germany (Konzert Examen)
Yale School of Music (AD)
Rutgers University (DMA / Present)
Former member of Ensemble 'Eclat'
Cellist Joon Whan Kim is a Prize winner of the International Young Tchaikovsky Competition in 1995. He is also a Prize winner of the Johanson International Competition in 2000, and a Prize winner at the Stiftung Helga und Paul Hohnen Competition in 2009. As the First Prize winner of the Joong-Ang Competition in Korea in 2001, he has been exempt from the mandatory military service in Korea. He also won the Grand Prize at the Korean Baroque Chamber Ensemble National Competition and gave a concert at Victoria Hall in Singapore in 2000 Gala Concert.He has performed Schubert’s ‘Trout’ with Itzhak Perlman as a chamber member of the Mozart Festival at the Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, played with the Eurasian Orchestra at the Seoul Arts Center, and with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at the Sejong Center in his native Korea.He was supported by the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation for which he performed many recitals and orchestral concerts at the Seoul Arts Center. In 2000, he was chosen to give a solo recital at Kumho Art Hall in Seoul in commemoration of the 8th Anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations of the Republic of Korea and the People’s Republic of China. He was also given the honor by President Levin of Yale University in 2013 to perform at the ‘Commencement Concert’ celebrating the graduation of the University.Born in Seoul, Korea in 1983, JoonWhan Kim began his studies in 1994 with Hyung-Won Chang at the Korea National University of Arts, Korea, where he also received tutelage from Myung-Hwa Chung. In 2000, he was admitted to the Hochschule fur Music Koeln in Cologne, Germany where he studied with Frans Helmerson. After graduating from Hochschule in Cologne, he became a member of the Contemporary Music Ensemble ‘Eclat’ and played with them for two years. After that, he enrolled in the Yale School of Music where he studied with Professor Aldo Parisot.He currently continues his study for a DMA degree with Jonathan Spitz at Mason Gross School of Arts.
Violin Junghee Lee
Yonsei University (BM)
Juilliard School (MM)
Rutgers University (DMA / Present)
Violinist Junghee Lee has experienced tremendous success as an active soloist, orchestral and chamber musician. Born in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Lee received the Bachelor of Music from Yonsei University and the Master of Music from The Juilliard School.
The First Place Winner of the International Competition of Romantic Music in New York, Ms. Lee has received awards and honors from the Sungjung Competition, Strad Competition, The Journal of Music Competition, Korean- American Association Music Competition and the Rutgers Chamber Music Competition. She is a top prize winner in the Korea Philharmonic Orchestra Competition and has performed with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra.
Last season, Ms. Lee made her Austrian debut with the Vienna International Orchestra. Performing numerously as a member of the Juilliard Orchestra and the New Juilliard Ensemble at Lincoln Center, Ms. Lee has performed at the Fringe Festival, Seoul Spring Festival and with the SIA Ensemble at Carnegie Hall. For the 2014-2015 season, she has been selected as one of five apprentices for the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa led by Pinchas Zukerman.
Ms. Lee has studied with Philippe Quint, Hyo Kang, Dong-Suk Kang, Ko-Woon Yang, Sung-Won Yun, and Kyoung-Min Kim. Additional studies have been with Cho-Liang Lin and Masao Kawasaki at the Aspen Music Festival, Zakhar Bron at Lisbon Music Festival and Ruggiero Ricci at Salzburg Music Festival. Ms. Lee is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts Candidate at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she studied with Yoon Kwon.
Violin Yujin Oh
Korean National University (BA)
Korean National University (AD)
Manhattan School of Music (MM)
Rutgers University (DMA / Present)
Violinist Yujin Oh has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, as well as in Korea, Ukraine, and Bulgaria. In year 2006, Ms.Oh had her solo recital as a part of ‘Kumho Young Artist Concert Series’ as a winner of Kumho Young Artists Audition.
Recently, she was invited from “Korean Virtuoso Series” in Ukraine, the hometown of David Oistrakh, performing Tchaikovsky concerto, Op.35 with Ukraine Philharmonic Orchestra as a soloist. In 2014 and 2015, she appeared in Bulgaria performing with Biden State Orchestra, and recording with Sophia Philharmonic Orchestra as a soloist. In Korea, she was appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles including Korean Soloist Ensemble, Korean Symphony Orchestra, and Vladivostok Radio Orchestra.
Also, she has participated many Master Classes and Music Festivals such as, Casalmaggiore International Festival in Italy, San Francisco International Summer Music Festival in USA, Seoul International Violin Festival in Korea, Ishikawa Music Academy in Japan under well-known Professors and Musician including Zakhar Bron and Dmitri Berlinsky.
It was 16 when she was admitted to Korea National University of Arts (KNUA) as a special art prodigy student. Under mentoring of Violinist Nam Yun Kim and Sang Woo Park, she completed her B.A. and A.D. degree from KNUA’s Graduate School of the Most Excellent Performer's Class in 2009.
When she was in Manhattan School of Music pursuing her M.M Degree as a scholarship recipient, she was a promising pupil of Grigory Kalinovsky and was selected for “Dean’s List”. Currently, she is expecting to receive her DMA degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts in Rutgers University as a full recipient in January under the mentorship of Todd Phillips.
Cello Sara Kwon
Seoul Arts High School
Juilliard Pre-College
Juilliard School (BM)
Manhattan School of Music / Classical Cello (MM)
Manhattan School of Music / Orchestral Performance (MM)
Kye-young Kwon was born in Seoul, South Korea. She studied at Seoul Arts high school. After her freshman year of high school, she moved to New York and started to study at the Juilliard pre-college. Later, she obtained her Bachelor degree in music at The Juilliard School and two mater degrees in classical cello and orchestral performance at the Manhattan School of Music.
Ms. Kwon has performed extensively throughout Korea, the United States, Europe, and Japan as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral cellist. She has performed with Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Music Academy of the West Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, and New Juilliard Ensemble Orchestra. Her recent performances include a solo appearance at Intermezzo concert of Spoleto Festival USA, South Carolina and a solo appearance at FOCUS! Festival celebrating Elliot Carter’s 100 years.
Ms. Kwon was a member of New Juilliard Ensemble for a number of years beginning in 2007. In June 2009, she toured Japan as a principle cellist of New Juilliard Ensemble, including a performance at Suntory Hall in Tokyo. In July 2010, she also performed in Juilliard Concert: Music for Ensembles at MoMA in New York.
As an orchestra player, Ms. Kwon has appeared as a principal cellist including Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, and Manhattan School Orchestra under the batons with Sir Simon Rattle, Alan Gilbert, Fabio Luisi, Leonard Slatkin, and David Robertson.
Cello Jiyeon Hwang
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Violin Armee Hong
Ewha Womans University (BM)
Indiana University Bloomington (MM)
Indiana University Bloomington (DMA / Present)
Armee Hong began studying the violin since she was 14 years old. Armee obtained her bachelor's degree in Violin Performance from Ewha Womans University in 2006 and later went to Indiana University in Bloomington for her master's degree where she is currently pursuing her doctoral degree under the guidance of Professor Mark Kaplan. Since 2007, Armee has also been studying baroque violin along with modern violin with Professor Stanley Ritchie who is regarded as one of the world's leading exponents of baroque and classical violin. She attended numerous music festivals and master classes throughout Europe and Asia and appeared as a soloist in many concerts. Armee gave her baroque debut recital in Seoul, Korea in July, 2012 and Solo Recital at Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center.
Violin Dahm Huh
Yonsei University (BM)
Mannes the New School for Music (MM)
Boston University (PSD)
Stony Brook University (DMA)
Korean violist Dahm Huh has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, as well as Korea, Mainland China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Austria, and Spain. She has received prizes and awards from numerous institutions, including New York
International Artists Competition, Alexander & Buono International String Competition, American International Strings Competition, Posco Asia Awards, Coca Cola Co Awards, Peter M. Gross Awards, Duxbury Music Festival Solo Competition, Chamber Music Competition, Boston University’s Bach Competition, Eum Youn Music Competition, and Korea Opera Group Competition.
Huh recently made her Lincoln Center debut with the New York Classical Symphony Orchestra as a soloist. She has also performed with many orchestras, including the Czech Republic Sofia State Symphony, the Duxbury Festival Orchestra in Massachusetts, and the La Fuse Players in
Korea. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2008, and continues to perform both solo and chamber music in many of the major concert halls. Most recently she performed a viola duo with the internationally recognized violist, Avri Levitan at Zaragoza Auditorium in Spain in April
2016. Huh has collaborated with members of the Emerson Quartet, and has worked with prominent artists including Sheila Browne, Jeffrey Irvine, Lynne Ramsey, Karen Ritscher, and Carol Rodland. She has served as the principal violist of the Union City Orchestra, Boston University Chamber Orchestra, Asian Youth Orchestra, and Yonsei University Orchestra.
Huh has a strong passion for charity work and has used her musical talents to benefit children and seniors. As the Music Director at EnoB and a volunteer at Opportunity Music Project in New York, she organizes and performs in many benefit concerts for hospitals, churches, and Senior Centers. She has previously volunteered to give concerts in the Philippines, and continues to perform in South Korea and the United States. Dr. Huh is currently on faculty at New York School of Music and Arts, and has served as a jury member for the New York International
Music Concours, and the K-Radio International Music Competition.
Dahm Huh studied with Doyeon Kim at Yonsei University in South Korea, where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree. She received a Masters of Music degree from Mannes the New School for Music under Daniel Panner, and Professional Studies Diploma from Boston University under Michelle LaCourse. She recently graduated from Stony Brook University’s Doctoral program under the tutelage of Nicholas Cords and Lawrence Dutton. Huh is a violist of “Starry Duo”, and has released an album in South Korea entitled “Hymns and Passcaglia” in January 2015.