Faculty
Chung-Hoon Peter Chun, joined the Kansas City String Quartet Program faculty in 2003 and was appointed Artistic Director in 2010. He assembles a nationally renowned team of teaching artists to perform for and instruct the region's talented, young string players. Peter is a versatile musician who has given numerous recitals and chamber music performances across the U.S. and internationally. In 2009 he was invited to perform and conduct a masterclass at the International Viola Congress held in South Africa. In the spring of 2005, he made his conducting debut at the LG Art Hall in Seoul, Korea, with the Donizetti opera L'elisir D'amore. Peter has appeared at such summer festivals as Yellow Barn, Martha Vineyard Chamber Music Society, and has been a resident artist at the International Musical Arts Institute (Maine). He is the violist of acclaimed Quartet Accorda, a Kansas City group with former KC Symphony concertmaster Kanako Ito, Ben Sayevich and Martin Storey. At the age of 28, Peter was appointed professor of viola at University of Kansas and is a sought after clinician and adjudicator. Born in Seoul, Korea, he emigrated at age 12 to the U.S. Peter was trained at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Walter Trampler, Marcus Thompson, and Eric Rosenblith.
Elizabeth Suh Lane, Lead Clinician, was Artistic Director from 2000 to mid-2010. She 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.
*HANNAH HOLMAN is the cellist of the Maia Quartet, Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Iowa. Hannah began her professional career in England, playing with the English String Orchestra under Yehudi Menuhin and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Simon Rattle. An active chamber musician, she was a founding member of the Beaumont Piano Trio, which performed recitals around the United States and England, and was also founded Quadrivinium, a music ensemble in residence at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She has an active solo career, performing solo recitals and with orchestras in Michigan, Virginia, Georgia and Iowa. Additionally, Ms. Holman was invited to and participated in the Pablo Casals Cello competition in Germany and the Luis Sigall Cello Competition in Chile. Ms. Holman has served on faculties of the Worcester College (UK), Michigan State University Community School and Virginia Union University. In her orchestral career, she has been assistant principal cellist of the Richmond Symphony, the Michigan Chamber Orchestra, the American Sinfonietta and performed with the Grand Tetons Festival Orchestra. Hannah has just recently won a position as principal cellist of the Quad Cities Symphony. She studied at the Eastman School of Music and Michigan State University, where she completed her Bachelor of Music degree and obtained her Master of Music Degree with Fritz Magg at the New England Conservatory.
**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.
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