Faculty
Elizabeth Suh-Lane, Artistic Director, has concertized throughout the world with the London
Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. She has given solo and chamber music recitals
throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Japan. Chamber music venues include the international festivals of Tanglewood, Britten-Pears, Schleswig-Holstein and Bach Aria. Locally, she has appeared as a soloist with the Kansas City Symphony, Kansas City
Chamber Orchestra and the Kansas City Youth Symphony, among others. She
is the founder and artistic director of the Bach Aria Soloists.
Elizabeth was a Chancellor’s Scholar at the UMKC Conservatory of
Music, and a Phi Kappa Phi Fellow at the Yale School of Music where she
received her Masters of Music.
Chung-Hoon Peter Chun, Artistic Director,
was appointed as the Assistant Professor of Viola at
University of Kansas, at the age of 28. He is a versatile musician who
has given numerous recitals and chamber music performances across the
U.S., as well as performing internationally in Korea and Japan. In the
spring of 2005, he is scheduled to make his conducting debut at the LG
Art Hall in Seoul, Korea, with the Donizetti opera L’elisir
D’amore. Peter Chun has appeared at such summer festivals as
Yellow Barn, Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, and has
been a resident artist at the International Musical Arts Institute
(Maine) since 1997. He is the violist of Quartet Accorda, a group based
in Kansas City that is gaining wide notoriety with their highly
acclaimed performances frequently broadcast in Maine, Kansas and
Missouri. Born in Seoul, Korea, Peter Chun emigrated at age 12 with his
family to the U.S. He was trained at the New England Conservatory,
where he studied with Walter Trampler, Marcus Thompson, and Eric
Rosenblith.
* Matthew Johnson is a
graduate of the the University of Southern California, where he studied
with Ron Leonard and Andrew Shulman. A dedicated chamber musician,
Matthew has performed in many cities throughout North America and
Europe. Recent activities include performances in the Sarasota and
Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) music festivals. Mr. Johnson moved to
Kansas City in 2003 after winning a job as cellist in the Kansas City
Symphony. Since moving to the Kansas City area, Matthew has been active
as a recitalist and dedicated teacher, maintaining a private studio in
Overland Park, KS.
He also performs regularly with the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra. Matthew has received numerous
awards and has soloed with orchestras in Los Angeles and Salt Lake
City, including the American Youth Symphony and the Utah Symphony.
**Paula Kosower, cello, has given concerts in Europe, North and South America, China and North
Korea. She recently performed at the Ravinia Festival and Mostly Music Festival in Chicago, and performs regularly with Chicago-based
contemporary sextet, CUBE, the cutting-edge Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and the Chicago Symphony. Ms Kosower teaches a course
in cello pedagogy at Northwestern University, private lessons at the Northwestern University String Academy and chamber music at the Merit
School of Music where she is a member of the faculty piano trio. She received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from Indiana
University where she was a student of Janos Starker.
*Andy Simionescu, violin, has
appeared as soloist with the symphonies of Houston, North Carolina, Montreal, Vienna, and Tokyo in halls such as Carnegie, Lincoln Center, Alice Tully, The White House, and Kennedy Center. As a duo with wife, Pamela Frank, they appeared with Buffalo, and Austin's Symphony orchestras. Alexander performs regularly at numerous summer festivals including the Bowdoin, Rockport, Utah, Martha's Vineyard, Mostly Mozart, and Bravo!. He has performed over 300 concerts with the Bowdoin Trio, winner of 1984 Concert Artists Guild International, and is a member of the Raphael Trio. Andy recently recorded Bartok “Violin Duos” with superstar cellist, Matt Haimovitz, on the critically acclaimed “Goulash” cd. (purchase from Amazon)
***Sunghae Anna Lim,
violin, has performed throughout the United States, Central America, Europe and Japan and enjoys a varied career as chamber musician and teacher. She is a founding member of the Laurel Trio, winner of the 1995 Concert Artists Guild Management Award and ProPiano Competition,
and violinist of the New Millennium Ensemble, the Naumburg Award-winning sextet. She has participated in Marlboro, Tanglewood, Ravinia and Prussia Cove Festivals, and has recorded for Koch International, CRI and Newport Classics. Ms. Lim received a B.A. from Harvard University in German History and Literature and completed her
Diploma at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She teaches violin at Princeton University.
* In Residence Week 1 Only
** In Residence Week 2 Only