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Master of Music, University of Utah

Giyeon Min is a classical violinist and educator with over 15 years of experience in both performance and teaching. A registered Suzuki instructor and MTNA-certified teacher, she blends her performance background with a student-centered approach, drawing from Suzuki, Galamian, Fischer, and Rolland methods to support each student’s unique learning style. She has prepared students for recitals, competitions, and youth orchestra auditions, while fostering confidence and musicianship through integrated theory and regular performance opportunities.

As a performer, Giyeon has served as Assistant Concertmaster with the Silicon Valley Orchestra and Santa Barbara City College Orchestra, Concertmaster of the Goleta Orchestra, and first violinist of the Stella String Quartet, in addition to collaborations with chamber ensembles and regional orchestras across California and Utah.

Passionate about music’s ability to connect communities, she has shared her artistry through outreach in schools, hospitals, senior living facilities, and shelters.

VIOLIN | VIOLA

Dual Master’s Degree:

Orchestral & Opera Conducting, Violin Performing

Choral Conducting, Viola Performing and Music Theory, Composition

A German-born conductor, composer, violinist, and violist with extensive international experience as a performer, educator, and musical leader. He holds dual Master’s degrees with honors in Violin and Viola Performance, Orchestral and Choral Conducting, and Music Theory/Composition.

He studied with distinguished pedagogues connected to legendary violinists such as David Oistrakh, Leonid Kogan, and Joseph Joachim, and trained in conducting under maestros including Georges Prêtre, Sir Colin Davis, and Herbert Blomstedt, inheriting the traditions of iconic conductors like Furtwängler, Toscanini, and Bernstein.

Mr. Schumann has performed in over 28 countries across Europe, North America, and Israel, with a repertoire spanning classical masterworks and contemporary compositions. As an educator, he offers violin and viola instruction from beginner to master’s level, as well as conducting mentorship, blending technical precision with expressive depth.

He continues to perform, teach, and mentor musicians worldwide, connecting students to classical traditions while preparing them for today’s musical landscape.

VIOLA I ERHU 二胡

 First Prize in the 2008 Juilliard Viola Concerto Competition  

Wei-Yang Andy Lin, is recognized as one of the most promising and the only active performers who specialized in both western and eastern instruments.  Praised by The Strad “The great Molto adagio…..elicited some of the night’s most sensitive work, especially from Wei-Yang Andy Lin on viola.” and New York Times “Taiwanese-born violist Wei-Yang Andy Lin..…is also a virtuoso on the erhu, and he gave a brilliant performance.”  Andy came to the U.S. in 1997 to attend the Idyllwild Arts Academy and holds his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School with full scholarship, and received his Doctor’s degree in Musical Arts from SUNY Stony Brook also with fullscholarship.  Andy has won numerous competitions including Taiwan National Viola Competition, the Idyllwild Concerto Competition, First Prize in the 2008 Juilliard Viola Concerto Competition and subsequently made his Lincoln Center solo debut at the Avery Fisher Hall (now David Geffen Hall) with the Juilliard Orchestra. He has also appeared as soloist with orchestras such as Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, Orford Academy Orchestra, Incheon Philharmonic, New York Classical Players, and Children’s Orchestra Society.  In addition to his solo career, Andy is an avid chamber musician and is a founding member of the award winning string quartet, the Amphion String Quartet.  The quartet was a winner of the 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and was on the roster of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society CMS2 Program from 2013~2016.  Andy is also a member of the Musicians of Lenox Hill and serves as principal violist of the New York Classical Players and the Solisti Ensemble.  He has been invited to perform chamber music with Itzhak Perlman where The New York Times described “Mr. Perlman, playing first violin..… answered in kind by the violist Wei-Yang Andy Lin.”  In addition to his accomplishments as a classical musician, he is also an active erhu player.  He has recorded film music for a number of movies and short films, including “The Blood Brothers” and the award winning short film “Daughters” (Best Original Score at NYU Tisch Film Festival).  He has performed the erhu solo part at the U.S. Premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ “Kommilitonen!” with the Juilliard Opera Production, as well as the world premiere of Jeeyoung Kim’s “Engraft” for solo erhu and string orchestra with Solisti Ensemble at Carnegie Hall.  He also premiered Winnie Lan-In Yang’s “Fantasy for Erhu and Strings” with the New York Classical Players.  He has recently performed an erhu concerto “Wild Grass” by Wenjing Guo with the Juilliard Orchestra at its Focus! Festival final concert at Alice Tully Hall at the Lincoln Center in which it was featured on the New York Times, this also made him the only person in the Juilliard history who performed concertos with the Juilliard Orchestra on both western and eastern instruments.