Faculty
2012 Summer String Academy Faculty & Guest Artists
Faculty
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Mimi Zweig, Program Director
- Ching-Yi Lin
Guest Artists and Master Class Instructors
- Atar Arad
- Stephen Wyrcznski
- Mauricio Fuks
- Kevork Mardirrosian
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Clara Jumi Kang
Mimi Zweig Director of the Academy, Violin and Viola
Mimi Zweig is currently a professor of violin and director of the Indiana University String Academy. Since 1972 she has developed pre-college string programs across the United States. She has given master classes and pedagogy workshops in the United States, Mexico, Canada, Israel, Japan and Europe. She has recently produced StringPedagogy.com, an innovative web-based teaching tool. In the spring of 2006, American Public Television released the documentary, "Circling Around-The Violin Virtuosi" which features String Academy students. The String Academy and Mimi Zweig are recent recipients of a Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation grant which supports the teaching of gifted violinists. Her students have won numerous competitions, and teach and perform worldwide.
Richard Aaron
Richard Aaron has traveled extensively, giving master classes in Madrid, Spain, Manheim, Germany, Seoul, Korea, Matsumoto, Japan, and Paris, France. He has presented master classes in the U.S. at many leading schools, including Rice, Eastman, Michigan and Oberlin. During summers, he has taught at the Aspen Music Festival, Indiana University String Academy, Calgary Music Bridge, Aria, Innsbruck, the Chautauqua Festival and Idyllwild. Mr. Aaron's students have won numerous national and international competitions and have performed as soloists with prestigious orchestras, including the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Seattle Symphonies. Award-winning quartets, including the Biava, Fry Street and American, include his students. He is a member of the Elysian Trio, in residence at Baldwin-Wallace College. Mr. Aaron served on the faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music and ENCORE School for Strings faculties for fourteen years prior to his appointment at the University of Michigan.
Erin Aldridge, Violin
Erin Aldridge has won numerous awards as both soloist and chamber musician and has been featured throughout Europe, South America, and the United States. She continues to maintain an active performance schedule as a soloist, and as a chamber musician she has performed numerous concerts throughout Uruguay as well as throughout the United States with the Dorothea Trio. Dr. Aldridge received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Violin Performance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Aldridge currently serves as Associate Professor of Violin, Director of Orchestras, and violinist of the faculty piano trio Trillium at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She is also concertmaster of the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, a position she has held since 2005.
Brenda Brenner, Violin
Brenda Brenner is Associate Professor of Music Education in the IU Jacobs School of Music and Assistant Director of the IU String Academy. She specializes in the area of string music education, teaching applied violin and courses in violin and string pedagogy. Her String Academy students have been featured in concerts in major venues throughout the United States and Europe. Prior to her arrival at IU, Dr. Brenner was Assistant Professor of Music at Carleton College. Active as a performer, she received her Doctorate in Musical Arts in Violin Performance from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg, Donald Weilerstein, and the Cleveland Quartet. A member of the award-winning Augustine Quartet, she was a finalist or prize winner in several competitions, including the Banff International Quartet Competition, Concert Artists Guild, Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and Cleveland Competition, and has worked with the Cleveland, Tokyo, Juilliard, American and Emerson Quartets.
Chih-Yi Chen, Piano
Chih-Yi Chen, pianist, is currently director of Collaborative Piano at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. During her studies at IU, she worked with Lev Vlasenko, Michel Block, and the pianist of former Borodin Trio Luba Edlina Dubinsky. Active in chamber music, accompanying and teaching, she performs often in the States, Europe and Asia, and was the pianist for the String Academy for 14 years.
Jeanette Koekkoek, Chamber Music
Jeanette Koekkoek, pianist, graduated from the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam and studied with the illustrious Aube Tzerko in Aspen and Los Angeles. She performs worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician. In addition, Ms. Koekkoek, a devoted pedagogue, teaches piano and chamber music from her studio in Tuscany, Italy, where she resides. She has been a faculty member of the Indiana University String Academy since 1990.
Ching-Yi Lin, Junior String Academy
Ching-Yi Lin is Violin-Professional-In-Residence at Western Kentucky University, where she teaches violin, heads the Pre-College Violin/Viola Program, and serves as concertmaster of the Symphony. Dr. Lin holds performance degrees from Indiana University, where she was an assistant to Professor Mauricio Fuks and taught his undergraduate and graduate students at the Jacobs School of Music. At the Pre-College level, she has been featured as an instructor at the IU String Academy, teaching violin and group lessons while working closely with her mentors, Mimi Zweig and Brenda Brenner. Her other principal teachers include Fredell Lack (University of Houston), Nelli Shkolnikova (IU), and Boris Kuschnir (Vienna Conservatory).
Susan Moses, Cello
Susan Moses earned her degrees with the highest honors at Indiana and Yale Universities before completing her studies at the renowned Jascha-Heifetz-Gregor Piatigorsky Master Classes at the University of Southern California. She was awarded a Ford Foundation Prize and has performed throughout the world in recital, with orchestra and as the solo violoncellist of the celebrated I SOLISTI VENETI. While living in Europe she taught for Boston University, in the Conservatoires Regionales de France and founded the Chicago String Trio that was awarded a special Prize by the University of Milan for outstanding contributions in chamber music. She records for ERATO and CONCERTO and was nominated for a Grand Prix du Disque. Susan also was recognized by the University of Padua for her outstanding research on the school of Giuseppe Tartini in the 1700's and created for Trinity College a special music program for their Italian Elderhostel where she is principal lecturer and performer. She currently heads the cello department of the String Academy at Indiana University, has been on the faculty of Oberlin College and represents the United States in International cello competitions.
Csaba Onczay, cello
Mr. Csaba Onczay was awarded the Kossuth Prize, the highest award given to any performing artist in all of Hungary, and was awarded the prestigious Bartók-Pásztory Prize in 2004. He was also awarded the Liszt Prize and Distinguished Artist in Hungary. Mr. Onczay has won first prize at the International Pablo Casals Competition in Budapest, Hungary (1973), first prize at the International Villa Lobos Competition of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1976), and appears as a soloist in some of the most prestigious concert halls of Europe, America, Korea, and Japan. In addition to numerous recordings of concerts for radio and television, Mr. Onczay recorded for CD’s: concertos of C.P.E. Bach, Schumann, Lalo, Villa Lobos, Dohnányi, and also all the sonatas of Beethoven and all the solo suites of Bach. He regularly holds master-courses in Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, USA, Japan, and Hungary; and is invited as a soloist and chamber music player to many international festivals. They include: Pablo Casals Festival Prades, Kronberg, Springfestival Budapest, Beaumaris Festival, Bergamo, and Springfestival in Prague, in Japan Gifu and Ishikawa. In 2001, Mr. Onczay was a Visiting Professor at Oberlin Conservatory and from 2006-2009 he was a Visiting Professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Mr. Onczay is Professor of Cello at the Liszt University of Music in Budapest, Hungary, where he resides today.
James Przygocki, Viola and Chamber Music
James Przygocki is Professor of Music at the University of Wyoming where he teaches viola, violin, pedagogy and music education courses. In addition to his work with university students Mr. Przygocki teaches pre-college students for the String Academy of Wyoming and is the director of University of Wyoming String Project. Mr. Przygocki is active as a performer, conductor and clinician. He performs regularly with University of Wyoming faculty as a member of the Summit Chamber Players and serves as principal violist with the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra. He is active as a soloist and chamber musician, having performed in Europe, China, and Brazil and around the U.S. He has recorded for AK/Coburg, CRI and Indiana University Press.His viola transcriptions have been published by One World Strings.
Evan Rothstein, Chamber Music
Evan Rothstein studied chamber music with members and ex-members of the Cleveland, Tokyo, Juilliard, Fine Arts and Borodin string quartets. A grant from the Foundation des Etats-Unis gave him the opportunity to study in Paris with famed pedagogue Veda Reynolds, and he afterwards performed on French radio and in major festivals in France and across Europe. After completing his doctorate at Indiana University and several degrees in musicology, he was named instructor at the University of Paris 8 - Saint Denis, and has been invited for lectures and residencies internationally. In 2004 he was appointed as pedagogical consultant to the Pro quartet-European Center for Chamber Music. In 2009, he was elected to a three-year term as Chairman of the European Chamber Music Teachers Association (ECMTA). He is currently Deputy Head of Strings at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.
Sherry Sinift, Violin
Sherry Sinift is the director of the String Academy of Wyoming, and a member of the University of Wyoming faculty. At UW she is a member of the Summit Chamber Players, and Supervising Teacher for the UW String Project, as well as teaching violin and viola pedagogy and studio violin. Ms. Sinift is former associate concertmaster of the Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra and performed throughout the U.S. and Europe as a member of the Hawthorne Quartet. She has built exceptional violin classes at the String Academy of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Lawrence University Preparatory Program and Indiana University String Academy. Ms. Sinift holds a MM in performance from Indiana University and a BM in performance from Western Michigan University. Her influential teachers included Tadeusz Wronski, Mimi Zweig, Rostislav Dubinsky, and Gerald Fischbach. In the summer Ms. Sinift serves on the faculty of the IU Summer String Academy and the IU Retreat for Professional Violinists and Violists.
Cory Smythe, Chamber Music
Cory Smythe, pianist, is a graduate of the music schools at Indiana University and the University of Southern California. He currently resides in New York City, where he is active as a chamber musician, improviser, and composer. Recently, Cory has performed alongside flutist Dora Seres, violinist Timothy Fain, at the Jazz Standard with the Greg Osby Four, and at the Bang On A Can Marathon with the International Contemporary Ensemble. He is a member of the Oblique quartet founded by drummer/composer Tyshawn Sorey, with whom he recently finished recording an album for the Firehouse 12 label. Cory's principal teachers have included Luba Edlina-Dubinsky and Stewart Gordon.
Elizabeth Zempel, Violin
Elizabeth (VanGelderen) Zempel has studied the violin with Mimi Zweig at the String Academy of Wisconsin and received her MM degree from Indiana University. She currently oversees a large and active string program in Milwaukee.
Rebecca Henry, Violin, Viola
Rebecca Henry holds the Scott Bendann Chair in Classical Music at The Peabody Institute, where she teaches violin pedagogy and mentors students in the Masters of Performance/Pedagogy degree in The Conservatory, and chairs the Peabody Preparatory String Department where she teaches violin and viola and directs Peabody’s Pre-Conservatory Violin Program, for which she received funding from the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation. She is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Viola at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA and performs with the Kegelstatt Trio. Ms. Henry has given master classes and teacher workshops throughout the U.S. and her former students are performing and teaching around the world.
Peter Vickery
A native of Indianapolis, violinist Peter Vickery joined the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in 2010. In the past, Peter served as concertmaster of the Terre Haute Symphony and the IU Jacobs School of Music’s University and Chamber Orchestras. Some of his other musical endeavors include worldwide tours with the Jacobs School of Music’s Violin Virtuosi and chamber music collaborations with Alexander Kerr, Eric Kim, Joshua Bell, Jeannette Koekkoek, and the crossover string trio Time for Three. Peter was also an orchestral fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, where in 2009 he performed the Brandenburg Concertos with Alexander Kerr, Gil Shaham, Adele Anthony, Nicholas McGegan, and others. Peter holds a BM from the Jacobs School of Music, where he studied with Alexander Kerr. His other teachers include Brenda Brenner and Mimi Zweig.
Sarah Kapustin, Violin
Sarah Kapustin’s musical activities have taken her across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia in performances as both soloist and chamber musician. Born in 1981 in Milwaukee, WI, she has performed with such orchestras as the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Juilliard Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, and the Vogtland Philharmonie in Germany. Ms. Kapustin has received prizes and honors in numerous competitions, including 1st prize of the International Instrumental Competition in Markneukirchen. She has appeared in such prestigious concert venues as New York's Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall, Cité de la Musique in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Mexico City’s Sala Nezahualcoyotl.
A devoted and passionate chamber musician, Ms. Kapustin has appeared at various international festivals, notably Musique de Chambre à Giverny (France), Sitka Summer Music Festival (AK), El Paso ProMusica (TX), Peter de Grote Festival (Netherlands) and Marlboro Music Festival (VT) where she has performed with such distinguished artists as Claude Frank, Joseph Silverstein, David Soyer, and Kim Kashkashian. She was formerly a member of the Atlas Trio and the Dubinsky Quartet, prizewinner at the Fischoff and Coleman Chamber Music Competitions. Ms. Kapustin shows great interest in contemporary music, and has had the honor to work with several composers on their own compositions, including Henri Dutilleux, Kryzstof Penderecki, Jörg Widmann and Ned Rorem. For the past several years, she has performed duo recitals with pianist Jeannette Koekkoek; in April 2010 the duo released the complete recordings of the ten Beethoven Sonatas for the Olive Music label, distributed by Et'cetera/Codaex, which has received international praise.
Ms. Kapustin received a Masters degree in violin performance at The Juilliard School with Robert Mann in May 2005. She previously received a Bachelor of Music and an Artist Diploma from Indiana University as a pupil of Mauricio Fuks, and formerly studied with Mimi Zweig and James Przygocki at the String Academy of Wisconsin. She has participated in masterclasses with Joshua Bell, Midori, Leonidas Kavakos, Mihaela Martin and William Preucil. After receiving a Fulbright Scholarship, Ms. Kapustin spent 2006-2008 in Paris as a student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique, studying chamber music with Michel Strauss and Vladimir Mendelssohn as member of the Trio Archiduc. She also served as concertmaster of the Orchestre des Lauréats du Conservatoire during the 2007-08 season.
Since 2008 Ms. Kapustin resides in the Hague, the Netherlands, where she is 1st violinist of the Rubens Quartet, and since 2011 she is a professor of violin and chamber music at the ArtEZ Conservatorium in Zwolle, the Netherlands. She also performs and tours regularly with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Kapustin plays on the ”Nico Richter and Hetta Rester” G.B. Rogeri, Brescia, ca. 1690, on loan to her from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds in Amsterdam.
Afiara Quartet, Chamber Music
The all-Canadian Afiara String Quartet is the Morrison Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence at San Francisco State University's International Center for the Arts, where they serve as teaching assistants to their mentors, the world-renowned Alexander String Quartet. Winner of the 2008 Concert Artists Guild International Competition in New York and awarded 2nd Prize at the prestigious Munich ARD International Music Competition, the San Francisco Classical Voice calls the Afiara Quartet "a terrifically unified, versatile, and moving ensemble" with "startling intensity" and a "powerful, keen-edged collective sound". They have performed at Carnegie Hall in the "Kronos: Signature Works" series, were presented in their New York debut by Chamber Music America and the Kronos Quartet at St. Luke's Church, and taught as faculty ensemble at Chamber Music of the Rockies and Canada's Southern Ontario Chamber Music Institute. They have been heard on Bavarian Radio, CBC Radio 2, KALW, and were featured in the "Road to Banff" documentary.
Formed in 2006, the Afiara Quartet was invited to compete as one of the ten semi-finalists in the 2007 Banff International String Quartet Competition. In 2008, they were one of the two quartets-in-residence of Aspen Music Festival's Advanced Quartet Studies Program. Since their inception, where members of the quartet were students in the Chamber Music Program at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, they have been Artists-in-Residence at Lake Tahoe Music Festival's Education and Outreach Program, and Affiliates of San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.
Along with their studies with the Alexander String Quartet, the Afiaras are fortunate to have worked with the American, Cavani, Emerson, Kronos, Takacs, and Ying String Quartets, Earl Carlyss, James Dunham, Henk Guittart, Bonnie Hampton, Geoff Nuttall, Barry Shiffman and Scott St. John, and at the San Francisco Conservatory with Paul Hersh, Mark Sokol, and Ian Swensen.
Cecilia Quartet
Praised for their “extraordinary commitment and maturity” (Montréal Gazette) and “stunning spirit of creativity” (Barry Shiffman, The Banff Centre), the Cecilia String Quartet is one of Canada’s most exciting young ensembles today. First Prizewinners at the 2010 Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC), they are currently the Resident String Quartet at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada.
The CSQ has performed across Europe and North America in such halls as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and Berlin Konzerthaus, and for notable organizations such as Music Toronto (Toronto, Canada), La Jolla Music Society (La Jolla, USA), Beethoven-haus (Bonn, Germany) ProQuartet (Paris, France), and Ottawa Chamber Music Society (Ottawa, Canada). In 2007 they toured Ontario, Québec and British Columbia with Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, and they will tour with them again in the Maritime Provinces in 2012. In addition to winning first prize at BISQC, they were prizewinners at other notable string quartet competitions such as Bordeaux (2010) and Osaka (2008), and winners of the 2007 Galaxie Rising Stars Award in Canada.
The CSQ is highly committed to teaching and outreach. The ensemble has held teaching duties at the Austin Chamber Music Festival in Texas, San Diego State University in California, McGill University in Québec, and QuartetFest at Laurier University in Ontario, and has presented educational programs for elementary and high schools across the USA, Canada, Italy, and France. They firmly believe in reaching out to many different types of audiences, and their presentations have taken them to a wide range of settings, from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center to the Monarch School for Homeless Youths.
The CSQ enjoys taking on large scale projects that are aimed at musical exploration and innovation. In 2009 the CSQ embarked on the project ‘BLiM’ (Breathing Life into Music), a month long residency in France generously supported by ProQuartet and the Centres Culturels de Rencontre Association in France and Europe (ACCR). They kicked off 2010 with another project at the Banff Center for the Arts, involving collaborations with Common Sense Composers Collective and the Afiara String Quartet. 2011 began with the CSQ featured in the multimedia production ‘The Snow Queen’, a setting of the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen for string quartet and actor. The production, which combined elements of concert performance, storytelling, and choreography, was presented in Ottawa and Vancouver with actor and director Alon Nashman.
Most recently, the CSQ was the Resident String Quartet at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University, and the Resident String Quartet for the 60th anniversary season of Jeunesses Musicales du Canada. Since their inception in 2004, the quartet has held short and long term residencies at San Diego State University, Laurier University, and the University of Toronto where the quartet was formed. They have participated in many prestigious summer festivals, such as the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar in New York, the Stanford Chamber Music Seminar in California, and the Aspen Music Festival’s Advanced String Quartet Studies program in Colorado.
The Cecilia String Quartet takes its name from St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music. They have worked with members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Tokyo, St. Lawrence, Brentano, Schoenberg, Ying, and Orford Quartets, among others. CSQ Performances have been broadcast on DeutschlandRadio (Berlin, Germany), Classical 96.3 FM (Toronto, Canada), CBC Radio 2 (Toronto, Canada), KUT 90.5 FM (Austin, Texas), and ABC Classical FM (Melbourne, Australia). Min-Jeong Koh currently plays on the ca. 1767 Joannes Baptista Guadagnini violin on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts and an anonymous donor. Sarah Nematallah currently plays on the 1851 Jean Baptiste Vuillaume on loan from an anonymous donor. The quartet would like to thank the anonymous donor and the Canada Council for the Arts for their generous support.
The CSQ is very excited to be recording four CDs with Analekta Records. The first CD, set to be released in winter 2012, will feature works by Antonin Dvorak.
Approaching the third decade of an extraordinary career, has become one of the most celebrated chamber ensembles of their generation. These four musicians from Poland, Canada, and the USA bring their varied yet collective experience to create performances that demonstrate their “remarkable range of technical excellence and emotional sweep” (Toronto, Globe and Mail).
The Quartet's performing schedule takes them annually to the great concert stages of North and South America, Europe and the Far East. Recent appearances include New York (Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall), Madrid, Amsterdam (Concertgebouw), Prague, St. Petersburg, Rome, Belgrade, Zagreb, Paris, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Indiana University, Wieczory Arsenale Festival in Poland, Is Arti Festival in Lithuania, Rive-Gauche Concerti in Italy, the Festival Internacional de Musica in Venezuela, Casalmaggiore Festival and Incontri in Terra di Sienna in Italy, Musicarama Festival Hong Kong, and the Shanghai International Arts Festival. The PSQ appears extensively in Canada, giving numerous performances in all the major centres from coast to coast and participating in this country’s foremost concert series such as the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Festival of the Sound, Banff Centre’s Music and Sound, Festival Vancouver and Music Toronto.
The Penderecki Quartet collaborates regularly with eminent and diverse artists such as Martin Beaver, Atar Arad, Antonio Lysy, Luba Dubinsky, Jeremy Menuhin, James Campbell, jazz saxophonist Jane Bunnett, pipa virtuoso Ching Wong, choreographer David Earle, NYC turntable artist DJ Spooky, and actor Colin Fox.
The Penderecki Quartet was founded in Poland in 1986 at the urging of the pre-eminent Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki. The fruit of their association includes Penderecki's complete works for String Quartet on CD (United Records, England). To this day the Quartet is a devoted champion of the music of our time, and has performed a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Brahms, Bartók to Ligeti, Frank Zappa to John Oswald, as well as premiering over 100 new works from numerous composers including Brian Cherney, Linda C. Smith, Randolph Peters, Harry Freedman, Glenn Buhr, Alice Ho, Peter Hatch, Omar Daniel and Gilles Tremblay with assistance from the Canada Council, the Laidlaw Foundation, the CBC, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Described by Fanfare Magazine as "an ensemble of formidable power and keen musical sensitivity", the Penderecki Quartet's large discography includes over 25 recordings including the chamber music repertoire of Johannes Brahms on both the Marquis and Eclectra labels, as well as a new release of the six Béla Bartók quartets under the auspices of Chamber Music in Napa Valley. The Quartet has also recorded discs for CBC, CMC, Centaur, EMI, United, and Artifact labels among others.
The Penderecki String Quartet devotes much of its time to Quartetfest, an intensive Spring-term seminar held at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario where guest faculty have included the Tokyo Quartet, the Ying Quartet, and the Colorado Quartet. The Penderecki Quartet's involvement in education is a year-round commitment as they enter their 16th year as Quartet-in-Residence at Waterloo's Wilfrid Laurier University. Under the Quartet's direction, the string program has become one of the top programs in Canada, attracting an international body of students.
Shanghai Quartet
Renowned for its passionate musicality and impressive technique, the Shanghai Quartet has become one of the world's foremost chamber ensembles. Its elegant style melds the delicacy of Eastern music with the emotional breadth of Western repertoire, allowing it to traverse musical genres from masterpieces of Western music to cutting-edge contemporary works.
Formed at the Shanghai Conservatory in 1983, the Shanghai Quartet has worked with the world's most distinguished artists and regularly tours the major music centers of Europe, North America and Asia, from the Beijing International Music Festival to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Among innumerable collaborations with noted artists, they have performed with the Tokyo, Juilliard and Guarneri Quartets, Yo-Yo Ma, Lynn Harrell and Peter Serkin.
The Quartet has a long history of championing new music and has premiered works by such composers as Krzysztof Penderecki, Chen Yi, Bright Sheng and Zhou Long. Their extensive discography includes more than 25 recordings, the most recent of which are the complete Beethoven String Quartets on Camerata.
The Shanghai Quartet currently serves as Quartet-in-Residence at Montclair State University and Ensemble-in-Residence with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. They are visiting guest professors at the Shanghai Conservatory and the Central Conservatory in Beijing.
