Repertoire Stark: Suite (2015)Gulino: Azure Dawn (2012)Johns: A Tale of Two Nights, Op. 32 (2024, premiere)Lewinter: Quartet (2020)About the ArtistsLayne Anspach is visiting lecturer in music in chamber music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. As a chamber musician, Anspach performs in a variety of ensembles. He founded and manages Ivory Winds, a mixed chamber ensemble of piano and winds. He has experience with a variety of other ensemble configurations, including brass and wind quintets, horn trios (horn, violin, piano), and a variety of mixed ensembles. Through chamber music, Anspach seeks to connect with audiences by providing the historical background of works. In addition to chamber music, Anspach performs regularly as a freelance musician in orchestras across the Midwest. An avid recitalist, Anspach has performed dozens of unique recitals around the United States. Prior to his current appointment, Anspach was the adjunct instructor of horn at Valparaiso University. He has also served on faculty at the Csehy Summer School of Music since the 2021 season. Anspach earned a Bachelor of Music from the Jacobs School and a Master of Music from The Ohio State University. He is currently a Doctor of Music candidate at Jacobs. His teachers include Richard Seraphinoff, Thomas Jöstlein, Bruce Henniss, Lin Foulk Baird, and Debra Inglefield. When not focusing on music, Anspach enjoys spending time with his family. His hobbies include fishing, hiking, traveling, and watching Cubs baseball. South Korean pianist Yeon-Kyung Kim explores the diverse branches of music with her classical piano training. She has performed at venues in the United States and South Korea. She enjoys performing music from outside the canon and working with living composers. In 2025, she will present a solo recital comprising character pieces by contemporary American, African, Korean, and European composers. A sought-after chamber musician, Kim has collaborated with diverse instrumentalists and singers. She recently recorded and performed an album of horn and piano music with members of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. She also has been featured on faculty recitals at Western Illinois University (WIU), where she served as a full-time staff pianist and coached student chamber groups. An advocate of Korean art songs, she has worked on them with students and professionals who are native English speakers. In 2025, she is performing Korean and Singaporean art songs at College Music Society (CMS) conferences with soprano Janani Sridhar. Now living in Champaign, Illinois, she will be performing with guest artists and students of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Kim also maintains a small private studio online and in-person and has taught group piano classes and private lessons at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). She has taught at summer programs in Warsaw, Indiana, and Winter Park, Florida. She has presented her pedagogy research at the National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy, Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Conference, and CMS. Her article on asynchronous teaching video was featured in American Music Teacher, a peer-reviewed journal of MTNA. Kim earned a D.M.A. in Piano Performance at CCM, studying with. James Tocco. She has also studied with Aviram Reichert at Seoul National University, Christopher Harding at the University of Michigan, and Émile Naoumoff at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Her coaches include Kenneth Griffths, Anne Epperson, and Amy Cheng, to name a few. She also presented at master classes for John O'Conor, André Watts, Peter Takács, and Warren Jones. Trombonist Matt Williamson, from Naperville, Illinois, serves as principal trombonist of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, second trombone of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, and is currently serving a trial period as the principal trombone of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra. He also performs as a substitute musician with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, New Mexico Philharmonic, Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, South Bend Symphony Orchestra, and Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, among others. Williamson serves as adjunct instructor of low brass at Monmouth College and maintains an online private studio. He was recently featured as a soloist in a performance of Viet Cuong's Howls and Hymns with the Monmouth College Wind Ensemble. From 2017 to 2021, Williamson was a member of various administrative offices at the Jacobs School of Music, including the Office of the Deans and the Music Undergraduate Office, working with current and prospective students as well as all faculty and staff. In 2016, he participated in an exchange program with the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where he took part in performances of La Traviata, Norma, and Lucia diLammermoor, and studied with members of the orchestra. Williamson is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree as a teaching assistant at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studying with Jonathan Whitaker. He earned a Master of Music in Trombone Performance degree with Peter Ellefson at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2017. Prior to his graduate studies, he earned a Bachelor of Music with highest distinction in Trombone Performance at the Jacobs School as a student of M. Dee Stewart. Before college, Williamson studied with Max Bonecutter, former bass trombonist of the Minnesota Orchestra and Metropolitan Opera.