Wick Simmons, cello (2009, 2010) is teaching at Harmony Program in New York City. He also recently produced a video of his own composition, “Seen/Unseen: Exquisite Drones“, filmed at the Longy School of Music at Bard College and taught a college composition forum at Longy.
Raunak Kumar, alum 2014-15, 2017, 2017-18 was a 2021 winner in the YoungArts Foundation Competition. Raunak left Atlanta to attend New England Conservatory Preparatory School for his last two years of high school. Next year he will attend Columbia University. Read more
We’re so proud of Stephen Upshaw (Viola, 2003), whose ensemble was awarded a Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize for 2020/2021. “We can’t wait to get started on the many projects to come this year, including our online Wien Modern concert on Friday featuring world premieres from our friends Chaya Czernowin Clara Iannotta and Ann Cleare’s…
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Congratulations to two of our very talented alums, Lexine Feng and Eugenie Lim, for performing as winners in the Samuel Fordis Young Artists Concerto Competition Showcase Concert on Saturday, February 15 with the Georgia Philharmonic. We are so proud of them!
Two Franklin Pond alum violists, Sarah Park (2002, 2003) and Josiah Coe (2005, 2006) will perform the two solo viola parts of the Brandenburg Concerto #6 with the Columbus (GA) Symphony on October 12, 2019.
Hannah Shute (2014) was one of 10 cellists selected to participate in the Sitka International Cello Seminar with Zuill Bailey and Melissa Kraut. Other cellists are coming from CIM, Indiana, Peabody, Royal College of Music, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and more. She will attend this festival, and then fly to Italy for another festival. She…
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We are so proud of Jessica Robinson Stinson (2003) for performing a Mozart concerto with the LaGrange Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Richard Prior. Yay, Jessica! Big year for her, this, and winning the Opera job.
Jun-Ching played chamber music during one weekend in March with Jenny Chun (2002), who is teaching privately in Atlanta now, and Lee Sheehan (2005), who is studying law at Georgetown in Washington, D.C. We hear Lee is graduating and has a job lined up already.
