Rachel
Kim, viola
Equally passionate as an educator and performer, Ms. Rachel Kim
has obtained Master of Music Education from Columbia University
in New York, and Master of Music in Viola Performance from
Manhattan School of Music, studying under New York Philharmonic
violist, Robert Rinehart. Ms. Kim received a Bachelor of Music
Performance and Performer Diploma from Indiana University Jacobs
School of Music. As an active chamber and orchestral musician,
Ms. Kim has worked with members of the Cleveland, American,
Biava, and Tokyo String quartets and performed in festivals
including the Heifetz International Music Festival, the
Innsbrook Institute of Music, and Indiana University Summer
Festivals. Ms. Kim was featured in orchestral and chamber
performances at Weill Hall and Stern Auditorium in Carnegie
Hall.
Ms. Kim currently serves as the Head Director of Orchestras at
Panther Creek High School in Frisco ISD. Prior to starting this
new orchestra program at the newest high school in the district,
Ms. Kim taught as the Associate Director of Orchestras at Reedy
High School for the past 4 years and taught 5 years as the
Orchestra Director at Scarsdale Middle School in Westchester
county, New York.
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Jinah Kwon, piano
Praised by Fanfare magazine as “a pianist with extraordinary pianism
and artistry by any measure or standard,” Dr. Kwon has performed
concerts in recitals and symphonic programs internationally,
including Carnegie Hall in New York, Seoul Art Center in South
Korea, Murchison Performing Arts Center in Texas, and Tambov Grand
Concert Hall in Tambov, Russia.
Dr. Kwon’s solo debut album “Music by Chopin & Liszt” includes short
pieces by the two renowned composers and is sponsored by the Texas
Chopin Society. This solo album was released by Centaur Recording in
Spring in 2021. She has received critical acclaim from classical
music magazines including the
Eumak Jurnal and
Fanfare Magazine, as
well as major newspapers including YTN and KTN. Dr. Kwon looks
forward to her second solo album in 2022 with the Sheva collection
in the UK.
As a lecturer, she served as a music professor at Dallas College,
teaching music to college students. Currently, she works at Tarrant
College as a staff pianist and music director for the Milal
Orchestra. She is also a piano teacher who runs her own studio,
teaching hosts of talented students who have won many national and
international competitions. Many of her students went on to
international and national music schools including Yonsei
University, Sangmyung University, Yewon School, Sun-hwa Art Middle
and High School, Gyewon Art High School, and the University of
Texas Arlington’s master degree program.
As a jury member and guest artist, Dr.Kwon participates in music
auditions for her community. She was invited to audition for a
scholarship at the University of Texas at Arlington and took part in
student scholarship processes. She also advised prominent college
students sponsored by the Arlington Arts League. In addition, she
was invited to a student music contest sponsored by the Corpus
Christi Teachers’ Association to judge outstanding music students in
the Texas area.
Committed to bringing an inspiring concert program and classical
music experience to a broader audience, she founded and now directs
the Milal Orchestra and Milal Chamber ensemble, which provide
musical opportunities to differently-abled individuals in Texas, New
York City, Los Angeles.
Her musical projects are diverse and broad-ranging. Mostly recently:
The 2021 Virtual Texas Flute Festival, 2021 Dallas Library Music
Composition Workshop Concert, 2020-2021 concert season sponsored by
Texas Chopin Society, the
Mu Phi Epsilon Dallas Alumni Chapter concert series 2021-2022, and a
recital at St Matthew’s Lutheran Church in fall 2021.
As a soloist, she won several international competitions, including
First Prize in International Competition of Romantic Music 2020
sponsored by America Protégé, First Prize in the 27th Fryderyk
Chopin International Competition in Texas in the USA in 2019; First
Prize in the 2017 IMKA Music International Competition at Sarajevo,
Bosnia; Special prize at the 2017 International Cochran Piano
Competition.
Dr. Kwon received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano
performance from Seoul National University under Professor Kwi-Hyun
Kim, a scholar, teacher, pianist, and pupil of György Sándor, who
served as the dean of the keyboard department at Seoul National
University.
Kwon started her pianist career when she was an undergraduate
student. She was invited by the Russia Tambov Symphonic Orchestra to
perform the Grieg
Piano Concerto op.16 with renowned musicians. After a
successful debut, she performed a solo recital in BuAm Art hall and
participated in a concert series in E-won Culture Center, South
Korea. Before she graduated from Seoul National University, she
participated in the concert series "Liszt’s 200-birthday Celebration
Concert" sponsored by the Korean Piano Society with famed music
professors in South Korea. She was also invited to perform her solo
recital in BuAm Art Hall. At that time, she met a professor, Gustavo
Romero from University of North Texas and he invited and recruited
her to come to Texas.
Jinah Kwon received her PhD in music from the University of North
Texas at Denton this summer. In Denton 2017, she performed the
Rachmaninoff
Piano Concerto No.1 with the UNT Concert Symphony Orchestra
as a winner of the concerto competition at Murchison Performing Arts
Center while studying for her
doctoral degree. She was also invited to perform at Carnegie Hall as
a contest winner and received much acclaim.
Her dissertation "Franz Liszt as Transcriber and Editor: a
Historical Overview and Analytical Study of his Three Versions of
Franz Schubert’s
Wanderer Fantasy, D.760" is about a rare edition of
Franz Liszt, and she continues to research and apply the project to
her next solo. She will be recording a CD album based on this
project with Timothy Jackson, her co-professor and a distinguished
research professor of UNT.
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Hyejin
Lee, violin
Violinist Hyejin Lee is dedicated to her career as both an active
performer and a passionate professor. She was born in Daegu, South
Korea where she began her musical studies at age eleven.
Hyejin Lee completed her doctoral degree in violin performance and
minor in music and medicine at the University of North Texas having
been awarded the University Graduate Scholarship, College of Music
Scholarship, Anshel Brusilow Scholarship in Orchestral Studies, and
The Lupe Murchison Foundation Scholarship. Ms. Lee received the
University Graduate Scholarship at the University of Cincinnati
where she completed her master’s degree in violin performance. She
also received the Suzuki Method Violin Teacher Training
Certification in Ohio.
Hyejin is a prize winner in numerous national and international
music competitions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe,
and South Korea, including the East Coast International Competition,
American Protégé International Music Competition, New York
International Competition, London Grand Prize Virtuoso International
Competition, IMKA Music International Competition, Golden Classical
Music Awards International Competition, Korea and Germany
Association Competition, Seoul Shinye New Musician Music
Competition, Korean Music Association Competition, Daegu
Philharmonic Orchestra Competition, Daegu Catholic University Music
Competition, and Daegu Music Association Competition.
She made a debut performance in Weill recital hall at Carnegie hall
in 2018. She also was invited to perform in Stern Auditorium and
Weill recital hall at Carnegie hall in 2019. Ms. Lee has attended
the France Courchevel Music Alp International Festival, Russia
Glinka Novosibirsk State Conservatory International Festival, and
Italy Spoleto Music International festival.
She was a Teaching Artist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Young
Musicians Program and served as the first violinist at Richardson
Symphony Orchestra and Sherman Symphony Orchestra. She also was a
violin & viola instructor at Carrollton ISD and Frisco ISD, and a
faculty at Music Institute of Texas and China Weihai Music
International camp.
Hyejin Lee is currently an Adjunct Professor at Tarrant County
College, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Southwestern
Music Academy, and a member of Texas Community College Teachers
Association, Texas Music Educators Association, and the American
String Teachers Association.
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Hyun
Jeong Lee, violin
Hyun Jeong Helen Lee
has captivated audiences throughout the United States, Canada
and Asia. Leading into her conservatory studies, she attended
the Interlochen Center of Arts in the summer of 2009. While
there, she was concertmaster of the World Youth Symphony
Orchestra for two terms. As a soloist, she has performed with
the Chichibu Festival Orchestra, Royal Oak Symphony Orchestra,
and the Boston Conservatory String Ensemble as winner of the
String Ensemble Concerto Competition. Helen was also a winner of
Boston Conservatory's prestigious String Honors Competition.
Helen has performed in masterclasses for artists including
Phillipe Quint, Jorja Fleezanis and Joseph Silverstein. She is a
graduate of Boston Conservatory, where she studied with Markus
Placci. Helen received an Artist Diploma in the John J. Cali
School of Music Graduate Quartet-in-Residence program as a
student of Weigang Li of the celebrated Shanghai Quartet.
Recently, as part of the Peak Fellowship, she served as a
Teaching Assistant and Assistant Chamber Music Coach at the
Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University.
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Matthew Lewis, cello
Matthew Allen Lewis, Ph.D. studied mathematical physics at Case
Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was a
member of the University Circle Chamber Orchestra (for non-music
majors) and local rock band thieves like us. He received his
Ph.D. in Radiological Sciences in 2002 from UT Southwestern
Medical Center, where today he serves on the faculty of the
Department of Radiology as a image scientist working with
emerging medical imaging modalities such as spectral CT and
ultrasound tomography. In 2018, he enjoyed playing the liuto
cantabile in the mandocello section of the Classical Mandolin
Society of America En Masse Orchestra in Santa Rosa, California.
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Eldred Marshall, piano
Eldred Marshall began studying the piano at age six
and played in public by age seven. His prodigious and inquisitive mind
allowed him to master large swaths of the piano repertoire quickly as
well as consistently win top prizes at the competitions he entered as a
child. By 16, he debuted with orchestra, playing Brahms’s Piano Concerto
No. 2 with the Victor Valley Symphony Orchestra. Before entering into
Yale University, where he graduated with honors with a B.A. in Political
Science, he had already performed all over the United States.
The critically-acclaimed pianist has performed internationally: Spain,
Italy, the Republic of San Marino, Belgium, Germany, Romania, Bulgaria,
the Ukraine and the People’s Republic of China. He has performed the
entire cycle of 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven in public, from memory, as
a concentrated series, twice. In the 2015-2016 Season, he toured
extensively through Texas with two all-Bach piano recital programs, one
of which included the Goldberg Variations. In 2016, he was named a
semi-finalist in the Ninth J. S. Bach International Piano Competition in
Würzburg, Germany. Orchestrally, conductors with whom he has collaborated
orchestrally include K. C. Manji, Carlo Ponti, Beau Benson, Greg
Grabowski, Michelle Merrill, Jonathan Moore and Jessica Morel. He
will be the piano soloist with the Arlington Symphony / Garland
Symphony / Las Colinas Symphony in May, 2022.
As an orchestral conductor, Marshall has led several international
ensembles: the Ukrainian State Academic Orchestra (Kiev, Ukraine), the
Kharkov Youth Symphony (Kharkov, Ukraine), the Pleven Philharmonic
Orchestra (Pleven, Bulgaria), the Vidin Philharmonic Orchestra (Vidin,
Bulgaria), the Filharmonica Oltenia di Craiova (Craiova, Romania), and
the Constanta “Black Sea” Philharmonic Orchestra (Constanta, Romania). In
the United States, he has worked as the conductor for the Riverside (CA)
Opera Institute’s Children’s Opera Division, and has served as assistant
conductor of the Meadows Symphony Orchestra at Southern Methodist
University (SMU) and the Opera dell’Arte Ensemble (NYC). Further, he has
collaborated with the University of North Texas (UNT) Symphony Orchestra.
Marshall earned his D.M.A. in Piano Performance degree at UNT in 2018. He
also holds three M.M. degrees from SMU: piano (2011), organ (2012) and
orchestral conducting (2013). He recently received his doctorate.
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Colleen
Mathew, piano
Colleen Kilpatrick Mathew earned a Master of Music in
Collaborative Piano from the University of North Texas in 2019
and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Ave Maria University in
2016. While a student at UNT, she was the accompanist for
University Singers and Women’s Chorus, and served as staff
accompanist
and coach at AMU from 2016-2017. A lover of opera, Ms. Mathew
was rehearsal pianist for The Magic Flute and keyboardist for
L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Miami Summer Music Festival in
2019. She has performed in masterclasses with Margo Garrett,
Susan Youens, Margaret Singer, and Roy Howat, among others, and
is a staff pianist at Southern Methodist University in
Dallas.Ms. Mathew loves to shareher passion for the piano with
students of all ages, and has been teaching privately since
2009. Also a
trained organist and soprano, she has held several church
positions in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and her native Southwest
Florida.
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Mount Vernon Music
Mount Vernon Music is a charitable organization that provides
outstanding performances of live music to communities in northeast
Texas - traditional chamber music, jazz and other styles as well as
educational and family concerts.
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Mark
Miller, violin
Mark Miller is Concertmasterof the East Texas Symphony
Orchestra, violinist Mark Miller also performs with the Fort
Worth Symphony Orchestra and other area ensembles. He is a
founder and president of Mount Vernon Music Association, a
membership-based nonprofit devoted to bringing outstanding
performances of classical, cultural and jazz chamber music to
underserved audiences in rural Northeast Texas. He also
co-directs the chamber series “The Color of Sound” at Texas A&M
University – Commerce, where for eleven years he taught and
performed as an Artist-in-Residence with his wife, violist Ute
Miller, and the ensemble Duo Renard. Following studies at SUNY
Purchase, Indiana University - Bloomington and Boston
University, he studied with Jürgen Kussmaul in Germany, where he
was assistant concertmaster in the Robert Schumann
Kammerorchester of Düsseldorf and a member of the Orchester der
Beethovenhalle Bonn.
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Ute
Miller, viola
Ute Miller is the principal violist of the East Texas Symphony,
performs frequently with the Dallas and Fort Worth Symphony
Orchestras and has appeared as a soloist with the East Texas
Symphony Orchestra. A founder and the Treasurer of Mount Vernon
Music Association, Ute performs with her husband Mark in the
violin-viola ensemble Duo Renard, which was brought to Texas
with a National Endowment for the Arts Rural Residencies chamber
music grant. She also produces the Color of Sound series at
Texas A&M Commerce, where she was Artist-in-Residence. Ute’s
musical studies include the prestigious Konzertexamen diploma
from the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, and a year at
Boston University as a student of Raphael Hillyer. In addition
to playing with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, she served for
seven years as assistant principal violist of the Gürzenich
Orchester/Cologne Philharmonic, and for eight years as principal
violist of the Dallas Opera Orchestra.
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Evan
Mitchell, piano
Pianist Evan Mitchell's recent highlights include debuts on the
prestigious Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts series (Chicago),
at Merkin Concert Hall (NYC), and at several major venues in
Shanghai. He has played concerti with the symphony orchestras of
Dallas and Fort Worth, among others, and collaborated in recital
with such major figures as double bassist Gary Karr and
clarinetist Corrado Giuffredi. In the 2016-17
season Evan soloing with the Sherman Symphony Orchestra (Brahms
- Concerto No. 2), performing on Cliburn at the Modern concerts
in both fall and spring, returning to Mount Vernon Music, and
much more. Evan’s new recording with bassist Szymon Marciniak is
earning rave reviews; most recently, Bass World called their
performances “intoxicating,” deeming this “a seminal recording.”
Evan is also featured on the 2012 release “Piano de Pampa y
Jungla: A Collection of Latin American Piano Music.” Since June
2014 Evan has been a TCA Texas Touring Roster Artist, and over
the past four years he has given more than 150 performances for
Cliburn in the Classroom. Evan is recently completed his
doctorate at Texas Christian University. Visit his site:
www.evanmitchell.net.
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Naoko Nakamura, harp
Naoko Nakamura, is the Adjunct Assistant Professor of Harp at
the Meadows School of Music, Southern Methodist University and
the Principal Harpist of the Dallas Winds. Since 1998, she has
maintained an active performing and teaching schedule in the
Dallas- Fort Worth area. In April of 2014, she performed the
world premiere of Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Wind Ensemble by
Damian Montano with the Dallas Winds. She is an active chamber
musician, having appeared at the “Cliburn at the Modern” series,
the Fine Arts Chamber Players in Dallas, the Chamber Music
Society of Fort Worth, and the Chamber Music in the Galleries at
the Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art. As a
soloist, she has invited to perform in Japan, Hondura, Peru, and
Costa Rica. At the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, she earned a
Bachelor of Music degree in both Harp and Piano under the
tutelages of the renowned harp pedagogue, Alice Chalifoux. She
received a Master of Music degree in Harp Performance from the
Shepherd School of Music at Rice University under the direction
of Paula Page.
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Shan Su,
viola
Shan Su has played viola for 12 years and is a student of Dr.
Susan Dubois. She has previously studied with Eva Lieberman, Sha
Zhu, and Dr. Keith Redpath. Principal violist of the 2012 Texas
All-State Symphony Orchestra and the 2011 and 2012 Honor
Orchestra of America, Shan was a member of Carnegie Hall's 2014
and 2015 National Youth Orchestra of the USA (NYO-USA) under
Maestros David Robertson and Charles Dutoit with soloists Gil
Shaham and Yundi Li. Following acceptance into NYO-USA 2015,
Shan was featured in the Dallas Morning News article "Richardson
Violist selected for National Youth Orchestra" and in the
Chinese magazine Music Lovers. Shan was the winner of the 2015
National Federation of Music Clubs' Wendell Irish Viola Award,
and was awarded second place in NFMC's 2016 Collegiate
Auditions. A speaker in the 2016 TEDxUTD conference, Shan shared
a talk – When Music Meets Medicine. In 2018, she performed with
the World Doctors Orchestra in Dubai. Shan is a third-year
student at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
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Mu Phi Epsilon 
Sohyun Ahn, piano
Lakshmi Ananthakrishnan,
violin
John
Batchelder, viola
Adam
Booher, piano
Boulanger
Quintet: Sing-Yi Feng, violin; Lakshmi Ananthakrishnan, violin;
Shan Su, viola; Matthew Lewis, cello; Noah DeGarmo, piano
Chris
Brunt, organ/piano
Dr.
Amy Canchola has been studying voice for as long as she can
remember. She loves singing across many genres and in many
languages. It wasn’t until she met her husband, Gil, that singing in
Spanish took on a new meaning. Now, her passion for music needed to
be interwoven with the Mexican culture she was immersed in. Dr.
Canchola intended to leave her children with the legacy of their
mother’s music connected to the rich
history of their father’s heritage. Dr. Canchola focused her
doctoral studies on Maria Grever, the first commercially successful
Mexican-American female composer. Now, she strives to promote the
performance and education of Latin-American and Mexican music. She
owns Canchola Studio of Voice and teaches at Highland Park High
School and Collin College. www.cancholastudio.com 
Hye
Ruyun Cha, violin
Hyun mi Cho, cello
Noah de Garmo, piano
Catalin Dima, piano
Sing-Yi Feng, violin
Jane Fore, Flute
Noe
Garcia, guitar
Sebastian Kozub, cello
Mikyung Kim Kwon, violin
Texas
Flute Society
Jonathan Tsay, piano