VIVACE 2025 FACULTY

Eastman School of Music

Marina Lomazov

Vivace Co-Artistic Director

Eastman School of Music

Joseph Rackers

Vivace Co-Artistic Director

Michigan State University

Dmitri Berlinsky

VIOLIN FACULTY

The Juilliard School

Hung-Kuan Chen

Oberlin College & Conservatory

Angela Cheng

Northwestern University

Christopher Guzman

Marc-André Hamelin

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Simon James

VIOLIN FACULTY

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Yakov Kasman

Eastman School of Music

Alexander Kobrin

Principal Cello, The Cleveland Orchestra

Mark Kosower

Texas State University School of Music

Jason Kwak

The Juilliard School

Jerome Lowenthal

Private Studio

Gregg Pauley

Robert McDuffie Center for Strings

Amy Schwartz Moretti

CUNY Graduate Center & Mannes College of Music

Ursula Oppens

Online, Manchester Royal Northern College of Music & London Royal Academy of Music

Hannah Roberts

ONLINE CELLO FACULTY

Mannes College of Music and Vassar College

Thomas Sauer

USC and Principal Cello LA Chamber Orchestra

Andrew Shulman

CELLO FACULTY

UNC School of the Arts

Dmitri Vorobiev

East Carolina University School of Music

Kwan Yi

Young Faculty, Piano

Yizhen Chen

Young Faculty, violin

Laurel Gagnon

Cellist

Efe Baltacıgil

Collaborative Pianist, Julliard Prep and New York University

Nelson Padgett