Repertoire Hannah Kendall: Verdala (2018)Christopher Trapani: Unfeeling (2021, U.S. premiere) Frederick Fox: Dreamcatcher (1994)P. Q. Phan: Concerto for violin and sinfonietta (2024, world premiere)About the ArtistsDavid Dzubay's compositions have been performed in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Asia by the symphony orchestras of Aspen, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Guangxi, Guiyang, Honolulu, Kansas City, Louisville, Memphis, Minnesota, Oregon, Oakland, St. Louis and Vancouver; the American Composers Orchestra, National Symphonies of Ireland and Mexico, New World Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, and New York Youth Symphony; and ensembles including the Grossman Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Onix, Manhattan and St. Louis Brass Quintets, Voices of Change, the Alexander, Orion and Pacifica string quartets, the League/ISCM, Earplay, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. His music has been championed by conductors including James DePreist, George Hanson, Keith Lockhart, David Loebel, Michael Morgan, Eiji Oue, Richard Pittman, Iván del Prado, Mark Russell Smith, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Michael Stern, Carl Topilow, David Wiley, Kirk Trevor, Thomas Wilkins, and David Zinman. Honors include two Fromm Music Foundation commissions; Guggenheim, MacDowell, Yaddo, Copland House, and Djerassi fellowships; the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition, Utah Arts Festival Commission, William Revelli and Walter Beeler Memorial Prizes, Wayne Peterson Prize; and grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music for two portrait CDs. Currently professor of music and director of the New Music Ensemble at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Dzubay was previously on the faculty of the University of North Texas in Denton. Since 2011, he has taught composition for three weeks each summer at the Brevard Music Center. From 1995 to 1998, he served as composer-consultant to the Minnesota Orchestra and during the 2005-06 season, he was Meet the Composer/American Symphony Orchestra League Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. Dzubay has conducted at the Tanglewood, Aspen, and June in Buffalo festivals as well as the National Symphony of Columbia, Grossman Ensemble, League of Composers Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Music from China, and Voices of Change. Korean leading violinist Kyung Sun Lee has achieved remarkable success in her career, earning such prestigious prizes as the Tchaikovsky Competition (1994), Queen Elizabeth Competition (1993), Washington International Competition (1991), and the Montreal International Competition (1991). Having served as assistant professor of violin at the Oberlin Conservatory starting in 2001 and later as associate professor at the University of Houston from 2006, she has been recognized as a professor at Seoul National University from 2009 until 2022. Sought after for her pedagogical expertise, she has taught at the Aspen Music Festival, Borromeo International Music Festival, and Heifetz International Institute. In recent years, she has also been a highly regarded judge in esteemed violin competitions, including the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium, Singapore International Violin Competition, Max Rostal Music Competition in Berlin, and Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Germany. Furthermore, Lee serves as the artistic director of Changwon International Chamber Music Festival and the Seoul Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra since 2015. Lee pursued her education at Seoul National University, Peabody Conservatory, and The Juilliard School, studying under the guidance of such esteemed teachers as Sylvia Rosenberg, Robert Mann, and Dorothy Delay. With her exceptional talent, she displays her musical prowess using a 1723 Joseph Guarnerius violin. In January of last year, Lee was appointed Dorothy Richard Starling Chair in Violin Studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.