Faculty - Strings - Washington Conservatory of Music

AMADI AZIKIWE
Online Violin, Viola

M.M., Indiana University B.M., New England Conservatory of Music

Violinist, violist. Currently, Teaching Artist, ClassNotes, the Noel Pointer Foundation, member of Harlem Chamber Players, Pressenda Chamber Players; Music Director, Harlem Symphony Orchestra. Formerly: Artist Faculty, Brevard Music Center, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, Bennington Chamber Music Conference, University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Summer), Aria International Academy, London, Ontario; conductor, Old Dominion University Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta University Center Orchestra. Visiting faculty, Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music; faculty, James Madison University. Performances in the US, Israel, Canada, South and Central America, Switzerland, India, Japan, Nigeria, Hong Kong, and the Caribbean.

SONYA CHUNG
ON SABBATICAL
Violin

M.M. Peabody Conservatory; B.A. (philosophy, honors) Harvard College; Yellow Barn Music Festival; Tanglewood Music Festival, two-year fellowship.

Studied with Violaine Melançon. As avid chamber musician, performed with members of the Peabody Trio, Brentano, Mendelssohn, and Takács Quartets. Opera and orchestral performances include concerts under the direction of James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, Sir Roger Norrington, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Recent notable trips include Carnegie Hall in New York, Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, and Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

KEVIN JANG
Violin

D.M.A., Catholic University; M.M., B.M., Peabody Institute.

Concertmaster, Peabody Symphony, Catholic University Symphony. J.C. Hulstyen Award for excellence in violin, Peabody Institute. Guest concertmaster, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. Artist-in-Residence concert, Strathmore Mansion, Soloist, Cascade Festival Orchestra, Catholic University Symphony and Aspen Mozart Orchestra. Member, Aspen Festival Orchestra and Chamber Symphony. Joseph Gingold Award for excellence in chamber music, Kent/Blossom Festival.

BECKY JOHNSON
Suzuki Violin & Viola, Suzuki Academy Coordinator

M.M. (Suzuki pedagogy), Ithaca College; B.M. (viola performance), Oberlin Conservatory.

Wisconsin-born violinist and violist. Trained with Carrie Reuning-Hummel at Ithaca College. Her other teachers include Peter Slowik, David Quiggle, Yuliya Smead, and Barbara Beechey. Johnson has received additional Suzuki training from Sandy Reuning, Kimberly Meier-Sims, Ed Kreitman, and Tom Wermuth. As an orchestral musician, Johnson has performed as a member of The Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and the National Festival Orchestra at the National Orchestral Institute. She has also performed as a member of the Florestan Quartet and as part of the Credo Chamber Music Festival. Johnson has been teaching for over ten years.

KATHY JUDD
Violin, Executive & Artistic Director

M.M.A., Yale University; B.M., New England Conservatory of Music, Wichita State University.

Former member, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Idyllwild Trio, Mariposa Piano Trio; concertmaster, Boulder (CO) Bach Festival, Las Vegas Symphony. Lead commercial musician, Las Vegas. Orchestral, chamber music, festival performances throughout the U.S., Europe, and Taiwan. Faculty, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Idyllwild (CA) School of Music and the Arts. Instructor, Elizabethtown College. National and State grants panelist. Executive and Artistic Director, Music at Gretna (PA) chamber music and jazz concert series.

GEORGE OHLSON
Viola, Violin

B.A., Washington University (St. Louis, Missouri).

Member, National Gallery Orchestra, Washington Chamber Symphony and American Chamber Orchestra. Member, Belmont String Quartet. Lecture/demonstrations at Washington-area schools. Violist at Grand Teton Music Festival.

DREW OWEN
Cello, Suzuki Cello

M.M., Cleveland Institute of Music; B.M., College Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati; Aspen Music Festival, Fellowship student.

Instructor, Howard, Tulane Universities. Former member, New Orleans Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. Performs with the National Symphony, the Baltimore Symphony, and Washington National Opera; has toured Japan with the Washington National Opera, and China and Korea with the National Symphony.

TOBIAS WERNER
Cello, Chamber Music

M.M., Musikhochschule Freiburg in Germany, and B.M., Boston University.

Music Director, The Chamber Music Conference of the East, Artistic Director, Pressenda Chamber Players, Arts for the Aging (AFTA) teaching artist. Formerly cellist in residence and co-artistic director, Garth Newel Music Center. Performances at the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, Villa Musica Mainz, San Diego Chamber Music Workshop, Vail Valley Bravo! Colorado Music Festival, Maui Classical Music Festival, in venues including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Strathmore Hall, the Phillips Collection, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the New York Society for Ethical Culture and Bargemusic. Soloist with orchestras in the US, France, Germany and Romania. Recorded on ECM, Darbringhaus & Grimm, Bayer Records, and Orfeo labels. Former faculty, Georgetown University.

EMILY KONKLE
Violin, Suzuki Violin

M.M., BM, violin performance, Pennsylvania State University; D.M.A expected 2023, University of Maryland.

Member, Eaken Piano Trio. Winner, Music Teacher’s National Association Young Artists National Competition, Shenandoah Conservatory Soloist Competition, Graduate Instrumental Division. Former Violin teacher, State College Suzuki Program, Adjunct violin professor, Lycoming College (Williamsport, PA) and Juanita College (Huntingdon, PA). Member, Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra, Williamsburg Symphony, New Orchestra of Washington, former member, Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, Roanoke Symphony.

Faculty – Strings

AMADI AZIKIWE
Online Violin, Viola

SONYA CHUNG
ON SABBATICAL
Violin

KEVIN JANG
Violin

BECKY JOHNSON
Suzuki Violin & Viola, Suzuki Academy Coordinator

KATHY JUDD
Violin, Executive & Artistic Director

GEORGE OHLSON
Viola, Violin

DREW OWEN
Cello, Suzuki Cello

TOBIAS WERNER
Cello, Chamber Music

EMILY KONKLE
Violin, Suzuki Violin

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Faculty – Strings

AMADI AZIKIWE Online Violin, Viola

SONYA CHUNG ON SABBATICAL Violin

KEVIN JANG Violin

BECKY JOHNSON Suzuki Violin & Viola, Suzuki Academy Coordinator

KATHY JUDD Violin, Executive & Artistic Director

GEORGE OHLSON Viola, Violin

DREW OWEN Cello, Suzuki Cello

TOBIAS WERNER Cello, Chamber Music

EMILY KONKLE Violin, Suzuki Violin

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AMADI AZIKIWE
Online Violin, Viola

SONYA CHUNG
ON SABBATICAL
Violin

KEVIN JANG
Violin

BECKY JOHNSON
Suzuki Violin & Viola, Suzuki Academy Coordinator

KATHY JUDD
Violin, Executive & Artistic Director

GEORGE OHLSON
Viola, Violin

DREW OWEN
Cello, Suzuki Cello

TOBIAS WERNER
Cello, Chamber Music

EMILY KONKLE
Violin, Suzuki Violin