Kathryn Lockwood, Viola
Kathryn Lockwood has been distinguished as a violist of exceptional talents in reviews around  the country. The Cleveland Plain Dealer proclaimed, “...Lockwood played the  vociferous viola cadenza with mahogany beauty and vivid character.” 2005 marked  the release of Kathryn’s solo recital CD of Viola Music by Inessa Zaretsky,  “Fireoptics”, which Strad declared “Lockwood is absolutely inside the music's  idiom finding appropriate tonal shadings”.  Kathryn is  a member of the internationally renowned Lark Quartet, and has  been guest artist with ensembles such as Trio Solisti, The Muir Quartet, and  Triple Helix, and has collaborated with artists Branford Marsalis, Cho-Liang  Lin, and the Bill T Jones Dance Company. A native of Australia ,  Kathryn moved to the US in 1991 and captured solo awards at the Primrose International Viola  Competition, and The Washington International Competition for Strings. As a  founding member of the Pacifica Quartet, she was heard live in residence on  National Public Radio's "Performance Today" and on the stages of Carnegie Hall,  Alice Tully Hall, and at The Ravinia Festival.  She has recorded for  Cedille records, including a collaboration with Guarneri String Quartet violist  Michael Tree and for Arabesque and Bribie Recordings.  Recent  faculty positions include University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Boston  University Tanglewood Institute, and in the past, Northwestern University ,University of Chicago ,  Interlochen Academy, Music Institute of Chicago, and National Music Camp in Australia .  She earned her master's degree with Donald McInnes at the University of Southern  California and her Bachelor of Music degree from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music  with Elizabeth Morgan.

Described by critics around the world for their “superb” and “extraordinary” musicianship, Kathryn Lockwood and Yousif Sheronick join forces in a rare combination of viola and percussion.  With heritages stretching as far as Australia, Lebanon and the United States, the Lockwood/Sheronick Project is truly a duo of the world.  Drawing from their melting pot home of New York City, LSP has commissioned composers in the fields of Jazz, European Classical and World Traditions encompassing diverse and creative repertoire that is both aurally and visually alluring.  Along side the viola, the percussion batterie includes the durbahek (goblet drum) and riq (tambourine) from the Middle East as well as the West African djembe and frame drums from around the globe.
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Kyu Young Kim, Violin
Kyu-Young Kim is one of the most versatile and accomplished violinists of his generation.  Hailed by John von Rhein of the Chicago Tribune for his “flawless musical and technical command”, Kim is an active soloist and chamber musician.  Most recently he performed in Carnegie Hall and in the major halls of Europe, including the Musikverein (Vienna), the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the Philharmonie (Cologne, the Cité de la Musique (Paris), the Mozarteum (Salzburg), the Palais des Beaux Arts (Brussels), the Festpielhaus (Baden-Baden), and the Megaron (Athens).  As a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet, winners of the Grand Prize at the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition, he has toured throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada, Japan and Panama, and is now a member of Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Two Program. He has appeared as soloist with the Korea Broadcasting System (KBS) Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, of which he served as Associate Concertmaster for five years, the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Poland, and the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. As a recitalist, he has performed throughout the U.S. and in Korea, Japan, Germany, and New Zealand.

Mr. Kim is a recipient of the 2007 Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center in recognition of outstanding young artists from the Lincoln Center community.  As a former member of the Pacifica String Quartet, Mr. Kim won the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1998 and served as an artist-in-residence for National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.”  Mr. Kim’s other chamber music activities have included collaborations with pianist Gary Graffman and the Juilliard String Quartet, and performances with the Chicago Contemporary Players, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the DaCapo Chamber Players, and the New Juilliard Ensemble. He has toured on four continents with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has performed with the Sejong Soloists.  Widely recognized for his teaching and musical outreach activities, Kim has served on the faculties of Columbia University, the University of Chicago, the Music Institute of Chicago, and the Interlochen Summer Festival, among others, and has given outreach concerts to young audiences throughout the United States.  Mr. Kim has received degrees from the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and has studied with Donald Weilerstein, Robert Mann, Jaime Laredo, Yumi Scott and Shirley Givens.
www.renegadeclassicproductions.com/soyulla.htm
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Joan Panetti, Pianist & Composer
Joan Panetti, pianist and composer, garnered first prizes at the Peabody Conservatory and the Conservatoire de Musique in Paris. She received her B.A. degree from Smith College before coming to the Yale School of Music, where she received the D.M.A. in 1974. Her principal mentors were Olivier Messiaen, Yvonne Loriod, Wilhelm Kempff, Alvin Etler, Mel Powell, and Donald Currier. She has toured extensively in the United States and Europe and performs frequently as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles. Most recently, she recorded a disc of works by Schumann, Schubert, Debussy, and Gershwin with her faculty colleague, violinist Syoko Aki, for the Epson label. Joan Panetti's recent compositions include three fantasies (violin and piano, oboe and piano, and cello and piano) as well as songs for mezzo-soprano and piano. In 2004-2005 she performed her piano quintet, In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See, with the Tokyo Quartet in Pasadena, San Francisco, at the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State, and at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York. The work, commissioned by Music Accord, received wide acclaim. Her piano trio, The Instant Gathers, commissioned by the St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, was premiered in June 2006 at the Chelsea Art Museum with the composer at the piano. Her most recent composition, A gust inside the god, for chorus and chamber ensemble was commissioned by the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival for its centenary and premiered in August 2006. Ms. Panetti has served for the past thirty years on the faculties of Yale College and the Yale School of Music, where she has developed a nationally recognized course, Hearing, that emphasizes the interaction between performers and composers. She was also on the faculties of Swarthmore College and Princeton University. In January 2007, Ms. Panetti conducted an interactive workshop on Hearing at the Chamber Music America National Conference in New York. In May 2007, she also taught aspects of the Hearing program, coached chamber music, and gave composition classes at the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China. Ms. Panetti was director of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and The Yale Summer School of Music and Art from 1981 to 2003. She is the recipient of the Luise Voschergian Award for excellence in teaching from Harvard University, the Nadia Boulanger Award from the Longy School in Boston, and the Ian Mininberg Distinguished Alumni Award from the Yale School of Music. She was named the Sylvia and Leonard Marx, Jr. Professor of Music at Yale University in 2004.
www.yale.edu/music/faculty.html (Musicianship)

Pitnarry Shin, Cello
Pitnarry Shin is a dynamic soloist and chamber musician and has been praised in Strad magazine for her beautiful tone and passionate interpretations in her New York debut recital at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall. She has toured throughout the United States, Europe, and her native Korea. Ms. Shin has performed as soloist with the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) Symphony Orchestra, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, the Queens Symphony Orchestra, and the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra. She has also appeared at many of the leading international festivals including the Ravinia Festival, the Edinburgh and Dartington Festivals (England), Colmar and Evian Festivals (France), Banff Festival (Canada), and the Piatigorsky Seminar. Ms. Shin was the recipient of a Fulbright Grant to Germany, which allowed her to participate and perform in several European festivals such as the Manchester Festival, the Kronberg Festival, and the Ensemble InterContemporain Summer Festival, where she played solo cello under Pierre Boulez. As a chamber musician, Ms. Shin has toured throughout South Korea with the Chung Trio. She is a recipient of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Prize and is a founding member of the Soyulla Duo, along with her husband, violinist Kyu-Young Kim. The Soyulla Duo won the prestigious McKnight Fellowship in 2002 and has toured throughout the United States and Korea.

Ms. Shin can be heard on the Grammy nominated recording of Dominick Argento’s music on the Gothic label as well as Koch and New World Records. Ms. Shin’s other projects have included collaborations with Yo Yo Ma at the Tanglewood Festival on the Silk Road Project, the American premiere of Paul McCartney’s production of “A Garland For Linda” to help raise money for cancer research, and touring with the Mark Morris Dance Company as solo cellist. Ms. Shin has served as co-principal cellist with the London Symphony Orchestra and as acting principal of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She has also played with the New York Philharmonic, most recently on their historic North Korea tour, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She was a member of the Minnesota Orchestra from 2001-2006. She received her musical education at the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University Music School, where she received the Aldo Parisot-Yo Yo Ma Prize upon graduation, and the Juilliard School of Music.

Wei-Yi Yang, Pianist
Internationally acclaimed pianist Wei-Yi Yang enjoys a flourishingconcert career, appearing before audiences in North and Central Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia in solo recitals, chamber music concerts and with symphony orchestras.  Winner of the Gold medal and Grand Prize in the Fifth San Antonio International Piano Competition, Mr. Yang has performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Steinway Hall, Merkin Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, South Korea, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music in Glasgow, Scotland, the Great Hall in Leeds, England, the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland, and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney, among many other major concert stages around the world.  An avid chamber musician, Mr. Yang has performed with members of some of the world's finest ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, Orpheus and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras, the London Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Orquestra do Estado de Sao Paulo, and Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society II.

Born in Taiwan of Chinese and Japanese heritage, Mr. Yang was first educated in the United Kingdom, then as a scholarship recipient under the tutelage of Russian pianist Arkady Aronov at New York City's Manhattan School of Music.  Additionally, Mr. Yang has worked with such artists as Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Vera Gornostaeva, Byron Janis, Murray Perahia, and the late Hans Graf. Under the guidance of Boris Berman, Mr. Yang was awarded a doctorate in musical arts by Yale University in 2004.  In addition to receiving numerous awards and fellowships, Mr. Yang has also garnered top prizes in the Manhattan Concerto Competition, New York's FiveTown Arts Foundation Competition, the San Jose International Piano Competition, and the Long Island Young Artist Competition.  Mr. Yang co-founded the award-winning Soyulla Ensemble, which recently debuted at Alice Tully Hall, toured Korea, and released a CD on the Renegade Classics label.  Mr. Yang's performances have been featured around the globe via international television, radio, and web broadcasting medias.  An avid chamber musician, Mr. Yang has appeared at festivals in Novi Sad (Serbia), Monterrey (Mexico), Kotor (Montenegro), Norfolk (Connecticut), Napa Valley and La Jolla (California).  In recent festival performances, Mr. Yang has collaborated with such renowned artists as mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and the Naumburg-winning Pacifica String Quartet.  Mr. Yang will make his concerto debut in Hong Kong next season, and will serve on the selection jury for the 2009 San Antonio International Piano Competition. Wei-Yi Yang joined the faculty at Yale University in 2005.