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.
Sung-Eun Cho
Violin
Sung-Eun Cho was born in Seoul, South Korea, and began her violin studies when she was five years-old. After highly trained as a musician studying at Yewon arts middle school and Seoul arts high school, she graduated at the 2nd place from music department of Seoul National University and got the second prize in the Korea’s Musical Society Competition in 1992. After that, she performed as a soloist along with the Korea Chamber Orchestra, for which she also worked as a concertmaster.
After graduating, Sung moved to the USA and got her Masters degree from Manhattan School of Music in New York, subsequently continued to do professional studies at Mannes School of Music. Among her teachers are Min Kim, Peter Winograd, Kenneth Cooper, Schirley Givens, Felix Gralimir, and Hyo Kang.
Sung-Eun Cho was soloist at the Baroque Aria Ensemble and concertino at the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra. After winning the International Artists Competition, she was entitled to hold a recital at the Carnegie Hall. Year of 1997, she passed the international audition of Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo – Osesp - music director and principal conductor Thierry Fischer, which took place in NY and moved to São Paulo where she is working until now.
Over these years, Sung took part in a number of Osesp’s chamber music series, playing at the soloist of osesp series, Campos do Jordão music festival and participated on international tours such as Edinburgh International Festival,Salzburg festival, Lucerne Festival and BBC Proms. Strongly concentrated on chamber performance, she is a member of Osesp string quintet, Vesper piano trio and São Paulo chamber soloists. Currently playing on Jean Baptiste Vuillaume,1864
Joel Haney
Music History: Lecture Presentation
Dr. Joel Haney is Professor of Music at California State University, Bakersfield. He teaches music history and literature to music majors as well as courses in American and global musics in the university’s general education curriculum and the Helen Hawk Honors Program. He enjoys getting students to ask how music has been put together, how it can shape our experience, and what it has meant to individuals and groups. He has also explored these questions with the broader Bakersfield community through public lectures, including prep lectures for high school students participating in the United States Academic Decathlon. His scholarly work centers on the historical interpretation of European music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published articles in Journal of the American Musicological Society, The Journal of Musicology, Nineteenth-Century Music, and the Hindemith-Jahrbuch, and he has contributed the entry on Paul Hindemith for Oxford Bibliographies. Work in progress includes a study of Hindemith’s duo sonatas (1935-1955) that relates compositional design to performer experience. Dr. Haney is President of the Pacific-Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society and a recipient of the College & University Music Educator of the Year Award from the Kern County Music Educators Association.