Yeonsook Han
Viola
Violist Yeonsook Han obtained her Vordiplom and Diplom from the UdK Berlin in Germany. While attending UdK Berlin, she studied at the Vienna State University of Music for one year as an Erasmus exchange scholarship student. After that, she graduated from the Meisterklasse at the National University of Music in Munich, and at the same time, she studied and worked for two years as a member of the academy at the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. She later served as principal violist of the Innsbruck State Orchestra and became the tenured chief violist of the Munich Symphony Orchestra in Germany.
While attending the Munich University of Music, she was selected as a scholarship student by programs such as the Villa Musica Scholarship Foundation and Odeonskonzert and performed with leading musicians.
After returning to Korea, she taught at Deokwon Arts High School, Gyeonggi Arts High School, and Kyunghee University. She is currently a lecturer at Sejong University and a member of the Korean Chamber Orchestra.
Kyle Shaw
Composition
Composer Kyle Shaw writes colorful, energetic music, in acoustic and electro-acoustic mediums, tailored to the people and circumstances of their occasions and informed by his experiences as a performing artist. He studied piano with Richard Shuster before pursuing undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University in composition and organ, where he studied with Michael Hicks, Steve Ricks, Christian Asplund, Neil Thornock, Don Cook, and Doug Bush. He received additional private lessons and masterclasses with Gail Archer, William O. Smith, Benjamin Ellin, David Rakowski, David Maslanka, Chaya Czernowin, and David Lang.
He has presented his scholarly work at the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, the Intellectual Worlds of Johannes Brahms International Conference, and the Grawemeyer 30th anniversary conference; and his musical work at the SPLICE Institute, the University of Nebraska’s Chamber Music Institute, Electronic Music Midwest, the Studio 300 Digital Arts Festival, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Eastern, the International Computer Music Conference, and the SEAMUS conference. His music can be heard on the SEAMUS miniatures recording series.
He is a recent winner of the Catherine M. Urner Composer Discovery Project and has been a finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, a prize winner of the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival, the American Guild of Organists Composition Competition, and 1st-prize winner of the Iowa State University Carillon Composition Competition and the Vera Hinckley Mayhew Creative Arts Contest.
He has been commissioned by the Barlow Endowment, the 17th-annual 21st-Century Piano Competition, and has been a resident fellow at the Osage Arts Community’s Mid-Missouri Composers Symposium.
He earned his DMA from the University of Illinois, where he studied composition with Carlos Carrillo, Stephen Taylor, Heinrich Taube, Reynold Tharp, and electroacoustic music with Scott Wyatt and Eli Fieldsteel. He is currently associate professor of music theory and composition at California State University, Bakersfield.