Performers
Fall 2025
TBA, September 28
TBA, November 9
TBA, November 16
Spring 2026
TBA, February 8
TBA, March 8
TBA, March 15
TBA, March 29
Noe Garcia, Guitar
October 5, 2025
Noe Garcia’s concert engagements have taken him to Spain to perform as part of the Camino Artes concert series. In Summer of 2017,18,19 Noe traveled to China for the third time and performed a series of concerts in Qinhuangdao, Jinan, Dalian, Suzhou and Beijing with his guitar trio, Trio Resonance. Noe is a top prize winner of international competitions and has performed in master classes for world-renowned artists such as Manuel Barrueco, Pepe Romero, LAGQ and Beijing Duo.
Noe is passionate about music education and is currently working on doctoral studies at the University of North Texas where he was awarded a teaching fellowship. He loves and is dedicated to performing music from his home country and Latin America. He believes that, in this diverse and growing global society, music is a healing medium and can connect us to one another.
Alexei Romanenko, Cello
October 12, 2025
Russian-born cellist Alexei Romanenko is widely recognized for his elegant artistry, masterful technique, and commanding stage presence. Praised by critics like T.J. Medrek of the Boston Herald for his transcendent performances, Romanenko began his cello studies at age six and quickly rose to prominence, winning top honors in prestigious Russian competitions and becoming a Laureate of the “New Names” program. He later studied under Valentin Feygin at the Moscow Conservatory and moved to the United States in 1998 to pursue an Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory, where he was mentored by Bernard Greenhouse and Laurence Lesser. His early U.S. successes included First Prize at the 8th International Music Competition in Vienna and the 2nd Web Concert Hall International Auditions.
Throughout his international career, Romanenko has performed in some of the world’s premier venues including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. He has appeared on notable radio broadcasts such as “Voice of America” and WGBH Boston, and performed with acclaimed cellist Matt Haimovitz in the Jacksonville Symphony’s “Cellobration.” An accomplished arranger, he is known for his solo cello adaptation of Bach’s Chaconne. His recent and upcoming engagements span the United States and Canada, with appearances in major cities like New York, Chicago, and Vancouver. Alongside his solo and chamber performances, Romanenko serves as the principal cellist of the Jacksonville Symphony, continuing to captivate audiences with his versatile musicianship.
Jailin Yao, piano
October 19, 2025
Bio coming soon!
Seonghun Jeong, piano
October 26, 2025
Born in South Korea, Seonghun Jeong started playing the piano at the age of 14, but since then he has won many competitions, which include but are not limited to the First Prize in the 10th Korea international Ensemble Competition, the First Prize in the 21st Music Chunchoo Edition Competition, the First Prize in the 24th Korea Nanpa Competition, the First Prize in 2014 The Music Education News Competition, the First Prize in the Korean Listz Association Competition, the First Prize in the 10th Korea Universal Competition, the First Prize in the 25th Music Journal National Competition, the First Prize in the Haneum Music Competition, and the First Prize in the 2011 Incheon Education Superintendent Competition.
Seonghun has a strong expertise in quickly identifying a student’s strengths and weaknesses, and providing quick and actionable solutions, regardless of the student’s level. His students describe his lessons as “Passionate”, “Very Fun”, and “Extremely Inspiring”.
Seonghun graduated summa cum laude from Yonsei University in Seoul with a Bachelor of Music degree. He is currently pursuing the Performer's Diploma degree at Southern Methodist University (SMU). Moreover, SMU offered him a full scholarship which is usually offered to only one student in the Department of Music in one year.
Seonghun currently serves as a piano faculty member at Prime Music Institute.
Jay gardner, voice
November 2, 2025
Jay Gardner is a versatile performer at home in opera, musical theater and cabaret. He has performed with the Dallas Opera, St. Petersburg (FL) Opera, Lyric Stage, Circle Theater, The Dallas Theater Center and Sammons Cabaret to name a few. He was a soloist in the Carnegie Hall Premier of Sing For The Cure and has appeared at the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado and the Cherry Creek Music Festival in Fredericksburg, Texas. In 2014 Jay had the honor of attending the prestigious Eugene O’Neill Theater Center as a Cabaret Fellow where he studied with international cabaret Artist Barb Junger and Tony and Emmy Award winner John McDaniel. He has also attended the St. Louis Cabaret Conference where he worked with Faith Prince, Marilyn Maye and Ann Hampton Callaway among others. Jay co-authors The Music Men, a monthly column reviewing original cast albums and solo recordings by noted cabaret artists, for Theaterjones.com. Jay serves as Founder and Artistic Director of Front Line Cabaret which is dedicated to bringing the art of cabaret to audiences in North Texas. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor at Collin College where he teaches musical theater song interpretation and voice.
Kim Quartet
February 15, 2026
Kim Quartet is a North Texas-based chamber ensemble that blends flute, oboe, violin, and cello, creating a unique and rich musical experience. Their mission is to inspire and engage audiences with the transformative power of music. Kim Quartet comprises siblings Helen, Hamin, Hana, and Amy Kim, whose deep familial bond strengthens their performances. Their natural synergy as a family enhances their musical connection, allowing them to create compelling and memorable performances that resonate with audiences of all ages.
Helen Kim, flutist, has performed at prestigious venues including London’s Royal Albert Hall. She is a faculty member at Dallas College and serves as the children’s music director at First Presbyterian Church of Dallas.
Hamin Kim, cellist, has performed internationally, with highlights including the Kennedy Center. He holds degrees from the Royal Academy of Music and is also a faculty member at Dallas College.
Hana Kim, violist and violinist, is a freelance musician and educator in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. She balances her performing career with international chamber tours and manages the administrative aspects of these performances.
Amy Kim, oboist, is an experienced performer with a growing private studio in Dallas. She has participated in prestigious festivals and ensembles and is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Oboe Performance at Yale University.
Julie HyoJeong Kim, pianist, is a passionate and dedicated music director, educator and performer based in Texas. She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from UNT, a Master of Music from the University of Hartford, and a Performance Diploma from Michigan State University. In addition to maintaining an active teaching studio, she currently serves as the Music Director at Holy Cross Catholic Church and as a teacher of Music History, Theory and Choir at Santa Clara Assisi Catholic Academy. As a soloist, Ms. Kim won first prize at the 2021 International Music Competition “London” Grand Prize Virtuoso and at the 2020 American Protégé International Competition of Romantic Music, which led to her debut at Carnegie Hall. She is also an active ensemble player and accompanist.
Emmanuel Kwok, Cello
March 1, 2026
Native of Hong Kong, Tsun-yuet Emmanuel Kwok has appeared as a soloist in Europe, Asia, and the United States. He has performed over 30 world premieres of contemporary music and made his Carnegie Hall solo debut in June 2023. Currently, Kwok is a member of the McKinney Philharmonic Orchestra and Dallas Chamber Symphony. He also regularly plays with orchestras and ensembles, including the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, Plano Symphony Orchestra, Irving Symphony Orchestra, and the Texas Cellos. He has previously served as principal cellist of MPO, a member of the Hong Kong New Philharmonic, Collegium Musicum Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra. Kwok has received awards, including 1st prize in the Hong Kong Music Festival and 2nd prize in the National Competition of Asia. In addition to his classical performance, he worked with worship ministries and pop singers in Southeast Asia and recorded more than ten albums as a solo cellist; in 2021, he also worked with RedSeaMusic (CA, USA) to produce music videos.
Kwok is currently a teaching artist at the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Young Musicians Program and a faculty at Tarrant County College. He also teaches privately and serves as faculty of Prime Music Institute in Plano. Kwok is a registered Suzuki cello teacher and served as full-time cello faculty at Greenville Suzuki Strings from 2021 to 2023, and Fort Worth B Sharp Youth Music Program from 2015 to 2020; during his doctoral student life, he served as a teaching assistant of internationally renowned cellist Jesús Castro-Balbi, where he taught a wide range levels including students from music minor to graduate performance major. He was also the assistant director of TCU Cello Ensemble. Besides, Kwok has also taught as cello faculty at professional music summer institutes, including Texas Cello School, Clear Creek Music Festival (OR), TCU Summer Cello Academy, and Greater North Texas Youth Orchestra Summer Music Intensive.
As a recitalist and soloist, Kwok is invited for solo and chamber recitals frequently in Dallas-Fort Worth area; and solo appearances with orchestras, including Mesquite Symphony Orchestra, The Greater North Texas Youth Orchestra, Mansfield Philharmonic, Flower Mound Symphony Orchestra, Coppell Community Orchestra, Collegium Musicum Hong Kong, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Art Academy Orchestra, and Hong Kong Baptist University Symphony Orchestra. In the season of 2023-24, Kwok's major cello projects included Dvorak Cello Concerto with Mesquite Symphony Orchestra, and Bach Suites at the Art Exhibition by Arts & Music Guild of McKinney.
Kwok believes in Authentic Christianity and the philosophy of Authentic Music Performance. As a musician and scholar, Kwok holds memberships of The National Society of Leadership and Success, Pi Kappa Lambda International Music Honor Society, and Golden Key International Honor Society. Kwok is also a regular Mu Phi Epsilon Concert Series member.
Kwok finished his Master of Music in cello performance at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and Doctor of Musical Arts at Texas Christian University School of Music, majoring in cello performance with a cognate in music theory. He had the privilege of coaching by cellists Johannes Moser, Lynn Harrell, Steven Isserlis, Vagram Saradjian, Dmitri Atapine, Maja Bogdanovic, and Li-Wei Qin.
Yongseok Kwon Trio
March 22, 2025
Korean pianist Yongseok Kwon started his piano studies at the age of seven. After graduating with a Bachelor of Music degree from Chugye University for the Arts in Seoul, Korea, Yongseok moved to North Texas to continue studying at the University of North Texas. There he earned a Master of Music degree and is currently pursuing his doctorate degree under the guidance of Adam Wodnicki.
Yongseok Kwon has appeared in several recitals and concerts both as a soloist and collaborative pianist in both Korea and North Teas. He has also played in the UNT Symphony, Concert Orchestra, Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble, as well as the NOVA Ensemble.
Eldred Marshall, Piano
April 12, 2026
The Press Enterprise (Riverside, CA) hailed his “dazzling technique” and his “clean, tidy approach.” Music critic Laurence Vittes described him as an “illumination in music,” and said of his all-Beethoven recital: “Marshall presented a recital so full of musical thrills and beauties, and so in identification with the composer’s own persona, that, for a few hours, it was as if he were communing across the centuries to conjure up a rare and magical musical spectrum.” The Telegraf Online Constanta (Romania) reported that Marshall “captivated the audience” in Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 20, which he conducted from the 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 Second Piano Concerto 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 and the Ukraine. He has performed the entire cycle of 32 Piano Sonatas of Beethoven in public, from memory, as a concentrated series, twice: once in Portland in 2007 and in San Francisco in 2008. He followed that project with a full West Coast (US) tour of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in 2008 and 2009. 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. He has appeared in piano festivals in Italy as well as the United States. 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.
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 has collaborated with the University of North Texas (UNT) Symphony Orchestra.
Marshall earned three M.M. degrees from SMU: piano (2011), organ (2012) and orchestral conducting (2013). Currently, he finished his D.M.A. in Piano Performance at UNT where he studied with Pamela Mia Paul. Additionally, he was a Teaching Fellowship at UNT and is an adjunct lecturer at SMU. His doctoral dissertation topic is on the art of conducting piano concerti from the piano – performance practice, discipline and whether or not it is “real conducting.”