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Roger Braun is Associate Professor and Director of Percussion Studies at Ohio University. His prior teaching appointments include the University of Michigan-Flint, Albion College, Interlochen Arts Camp, and the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. An active clinician, he endorses Encore Mallets and Pro-Mark Sticks and has presented numerous masterclasses throughout the United States and in Japan and Cuba. Braun maintains an active and diverse performance career spanning the idioms of contemporary, classical, jazz, popular, and world music. He has performed extensively throughout the United States and in Europe and Japan— including collaborations with many notable musicians such as Keiko Abe, Lyle Mays, Bob Mintzer, and Bernard Woma. Braun has worked with many conductors and orchestras, including the Lansing, Flint, Ann Arbor, and Saginaw Symphonies, the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, the Detroit Chamber Winds, and in the Broadway touring orchestras for Beauty and the Beast, Titanic, and Ragtime. Currently, Braun performs world percussion with the Biakuye Percussion Group, as principal percussionist of the Ohio Valley Symphony, latin jazz with Los Viejos Blanquitos, and contemporary music with Galaxy Percussion. Braun can be heard on a dozen CD recordings and produced a recording of contemporary music for percussion and strings. Braun earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan and his Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music.

 
 

Anthony Di Sanza has performed, presented master classes, and held residencies in North America, Europe and Asia. He has appeared as a visiting artist at over 35 colleges, universities and conservatories, and has performed in some of the world’s most important concert halls. Active in a wide variety of Western and non-Western percussive areas, he can be heard on numerous recording labels in various musical settings, including Sole Nero Piano and Percussion Duo, Linda Maxey with Galaxy Percussion, Keiko Abe and the Michigan Chamber Players, the Brass Band of Battle Creek and the Reptile Palace Orchestra. Di Sanza will soon release his first solo CD, which features works for multiple
percussion, marimba and darabukka, on the Equilibrium label. Currently serving as principal percussionist with the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Di Sanza’s 2007-2008 performance season includes appearances throughout the US and in China.
Mr. Di Sanza has works published by HoneyRock and Alfred, and his new handbook Improvisational Practice Techniques is published by RGM. Anthony is Associate Professor of Percussion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, overseeing all aspects of the percussion program. He is an endorser of Sabian Cymbals, Black Swamp Percussion, Encore Mallets and is an educational endorser for Pro-Mark Drumsticks.

 

Violinist Kyung Sun Lee captured sixth prize in the 1994 Tchaikowsky Competition, a bronze medal in the 1993 Queen Elizabeth Competition, first prizes of the Washington and D'Angelo International Competitions, and third prize in the Montreal International Competition, where she also won the Audience Favorite and the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work prizes. Subsequent to winning these awards she has enjoyed ever-increasing popularity as a performer. She has received high critical acclaim: "Exceptional tonal suavity and expressive intensity in equal measure," commented The Strad. "Godard's 'Concerto Romantique' could not have had a more outstanding soloist than Kyung Sun Lee," proclaimed Harris Goldsmith in the New York Concert Review. "Fluidity and grace; pathos and emotion," raved the Palm Beach Post. "Lee is the most musical, the most intelligent soloist to have played with the orchestra in quite a while," maintained the Tuscaloosa News. "Penetrating clarity, a strong sense of style and a technical supremacy that conquered all difficulties with unruffled ease," announced the Miami Herald. "Beyond superb execution, she conveyed [Vieuxtemps's Concerto no. 5]'s particular Romanticism expertly," remarked Dennis Rooney in The Strad.
In great demand as a soloist, Kyung Sun Lee also performs frequently in duo with husband Brian Suits, with whom she is one of the newest members of the Community Concerts roster. For years a highly sought after teacher in Seoul, Lee became professor of violin at the Oberlin Conservatory in the fall of 2001. In summers she teaches at several chamber music festivals in both the United States and Korea. Lee is a former member of the acclaimed KumHo/Asiana String Quartet of Korea, with whom she performed worldwide.
Lee has recorded two CDs with pianist/husband Brian Suits, "Salut d'Amour" with pianist HaeSun Paik on EMI, several recordings with KumHo/Asiana String Quartet, "Spanish Heart" with German pianist Peter Schindler and guitarist Sung-Ho Chang on Good International, and a CD in trio with Suits and soprano Jennifer Aylmer. Her latest album, with cellist Tilmann Wick, was released in January of 2004 on Audite Records. Kyung Sun Lee studied at Seoul National University, Peabody Conservatory and The Juilliard School. Her teachers have included Nam Yun Kim, Sylvia Rosenberg, Robert Mann, Dorothy Delay and Hyo Kang.

 
 

Praised by Strings magazine as a "poised, appealing performer with a rock-solid technique, a warm, powerful tone and a simple, direct expressiveness," Sang-Jin Kim is an artist boasting an unusually broad range of musical experience. The winner of several solo and chamber music competitions both in Korea and internationally, Mr. Kim has performed at the festivals of Marlboro, Aspen and Music Mountain in the United States, at Rheingau, Villa Musica and Mach-art in Germany, Prague Springs in The Czech Republic, Cervo in Italy, and at the international Musician's Seminar at Prussia Cove, UK. Besides appearing at virtually all the concert halls and festivals of Korea, Sang-Jin Kim has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the 92nd St. Y and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, at Washington's Kennedy Center, in Paris (Salle Gaveau), Frankfurt (Alte Oper), Berlin (Kaiser-Wilhelm Gedaechtnis Kirche), Moscow, London, Milan, Bucharest, and in China, Japan, Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Iran, Egypt, South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe.
Born in Seoul, Korea Mr. Kim first studied the viola with his father, Professor Yong-Yun Kim, the principal violist of Linz Bruckner Symphony orchestra in Austria, continuing his studies with Rainer Moog in Colgne, Germany, and with Samuel Rhodes at The Julliard School in New York. A former member of the International Sejong Soloists and the Kumho Asiana String Quartet, Mr. Kim is now the violist of the newly formed piano quartet M.I.K. Ensemble, and teaches at Yonsei University.

 
Marjorie Bagley made her Lincoln Center Debut in 1997 and has been heard in London’s Wigmore Hall and Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall. Recent concerts have taken her to Seoul, Korea, and to Moldova for an appearance with the Chisinau Philharmonic. As a founding member and first violinist of the Arcata String Quartet, she has toured throughout Europe and North America, and has collaborated with members of the Tokyo, Emerson, American, and Guarneri String Quartets. The Arcata Quartet can be heard on the New World and Vox labels. Marjorie is co-director of the Juniper Chamber Music Festival, an organization that promotes audience development and educational outreach while presenting world-class artists in concert. She is a frequent recitalist and plays in several chamber music groups, including a trio with keyboardist Kenneth Cooper and cellist Michael Carrera. She is a special guest artist for the Lark Chamber Artists and plays with the Berkshire Bach Society. Marjorie has given masterclasses at many schools, including the University of Michigan, Carnegie-Mellon University, and the State University of New York Buffalo. Marjorie is currently Associate Professor of Violin at Ohio University, and has served on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, the Perlman Music Program, Utah State University, the Brevard Music Center and the Kinhaven Music School.
Cellist Michael Carrera has performed in the halls of New York, Paris, and London, and has been heard in radio performances on Germany’s MDR, France’s Radio 3, and National Public Radio in the United States. He is the Artistic Director of the Juniper Winter Chamber Music Festival, a chamber music festival where international artists come together to give concerts, master classes, and outreach activities. Recent tours have taken him to Moldova for a concerto appearance with the Chisinau Philharmonic and Seoul, Korea.
Since graduating from the Manhattan School of Music, he has performed concerts throughout the United States and Europe including a Carnegie debut at the Weill Recital Hall, Town Hall in New York City, London’s prestigious Wigmore Hall and received rave reviews for performances at the Rheingau and Mecklenberg Music Festivals in Germany. An avid promoter of new music, Michael has presented works of Paul Chihara, Judith Shatin, David Noon, Nils Vigeland and William Campbell. As former member of the Arcata String Quartet, he has recorded for New World Records and VOX. In 2002 the Arcata Quartet performed the world premiere of Paul Chihara’s Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, Kisses Sweeter than Wine, with the Utah Symphony and conductor Keith Lockhart
In 2008 he will release a new CD on the Albany label of music for percussion and cello by Tan Dun. Michael is now Associate Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at Ohio University in Athens.
   
   
  Kristin Agee holds a bachelor's degree and a master of music degree from Ohio University where she studied percussion performance. She has been awarded scholarships to study in Toronto with the percussion group Nexus, and to study in France at the Academie de Musicale Villecroze with Sandeep Das and Mark Suter of the Silk Road Ensemble. Kristin has performed professionally with the River Cities Symphony Orchestra, the Huntington Symphony, the Hamilton Fairfield Symphony Orchestra, and the Ohio Valley Symphony Orchestra. With the Agee/Van Hassel percussion duo she performed at the 2007 Percussive Arts Society National Convention. As a music educator, Kristin's has many years of experience teaching private lessons, master classes, music workshops, and marching band drum line and pit instruction. At Ohio University Kristin held the percussion teaching assistantship where her duties included teaching applied lessons, percussion methods class, and percussion ensemble. In Oxford, Ohio, Kristin started the Mcguffey Music Camp for kids, which has had two very successful years. Kristin currently lives in Cincinnati where she freelances and teaches at the Loveland Music Academy and in her own private studio.
  Joseph Van Hassel earned his bachelor of music in percussion performance from Ohio University. Joseph has performed with Roland Vazquez, Bernard Woma, Doug Walter, Mark Stone, Paschal Younge, Allen Vizzuti, Payton MacDonald, Allen Otte, Rusty Burge, and the Ethos Percussion Group. He has performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Ohio Music Education Association Conference, the Collegiate Music Educator’s National Convention, and at the 2007 Percussive Arts Society International Convention. He has performed in the percussion sections of the River Cities, Ohio Valley, and Kentucky Symphonies, and is involved with an upcoming recording by the Cincinnati College- Conservatory of Music Philharmonia. Van Hassel is currently pursuing a master of music degree in percussion performance at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where he studies with the Percussion Group- Cincinnati.