Faculty
Department: music-academy
Percussion Faculty
Principal Percussionist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Matthew Howard has performed with such groups as the San Francisco Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, and Boston Ballet.
Music Theory Faculty
Award-winning composer of contemporary instrumental, vocal and electro-acoustic music; educator.
Oboe
Russian-born oboist Eugene Izotov is an internationally-acclaimed musician, recording artist, and educator. His meteoric career includes positions as Principal Oboe with the Metropolitan Opera, Chicago Symphony, and currently the San Francisco Symphony, as well guest principal appearances with Boston Symphony and New York Philharmonic.
Keyboard Harmony Instructor
Praised by Washington Post’s The Columbian as a “musician with great poetic phrasing and poised lyrical nature,” pianist Dr. Eloise Kim is a performing artist and passionate music educator. Dr. Kim is currently a Faculty at the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she teaches Keyboard Harmony Skills for undergraduate Bachelor of Music students. She is also a staff pianist at Colburn and continues to maintain an active collaborative performance career.
Piano Faculty, Chamber Music Faculty
Praised by critics for her “passionate…polished and expressive” performances, pianist HyeJin Kim is one of South Korea’s most thrilling young classical stars.
Violin Faculty, Chamber Music Faculty
Joan Kwuon is a critically-acclaimed soloist, described by The New York Times as “fiery, intensely musical and impassioned.”