Violinist, Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University

Violinist Kevin Jang, who is from the Philadelphia area, has appeared as soloist at the Aspen and Cascade Music Festivals. Dr. Jang has been featured as soloist in DC region with the Catholic with the Catholic University Symphony, The Trinity Chamber Orchestra and The Washington Conservatory Community Orchestra. He has given recitals all over the DC area including the US State Department and The Ratner Museum. Dr. Jang has performed chamber music all over the country including the Blossom and Deer Valley Music Festivals. He has been featured performing chamber music throughout the DC area including the Mansion at Strathmore Music Center. As an orchestral musician Dr. Jang has appeared all over the country at Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, Strathmore Hall, Blossom Music Center and the Aspen Music Festival. Dr. Jang received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Peabody Institute studying with Herbert Greenberg. While at Peabody he was awarded the JC Hulstyen award twice for excellence in string performance. Dr. Jang completed his Doctorate of Music at the Catholic University of America. Dr. Jang is currently serving as Adjunct Professorial Lecturer atAmerican University and is also on the faculty at the Washington Conservatory of Music. He also maintains a private studio and works as a tennis pro at Manor Country Club in Rockville.

Cellist, Music Director at the Chamber Music Conference of the East

Tobias was the cellist residence and co-artistic director at Garth Newel Music Center from 1999 until 2012. He is the music director at The Chamber Music Conference of the East, artistic director of VERGE ensemble, ensemble-in-residence at the Washington Conservatory of Music, teaches at Georgetown University, and is an Arts for the Aging (AFTA) teaching artist. He has performed at the Cape and Islands Chamber Music Festival, Villa Musica Mainz, the San Diego Chamber Music Workshop, the Vail Valley Bravo! Colorado Music Festival, the Maui Classical Music Festival, in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Strathmore Hall, the Phillips Collection, the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the New York Society for Ethical Culture, and at Bargemusic. Tobias has appeared assoloist with orchestras in the US, France, Germany, and Romania, and recent performances have included the concertos of Dvorák, Elgar, Haydn, and Boccherini. He has recorded on the ECM, Darbringhaus & Grimm, Bayer Records, and Orfeo labels. Recent CD releases include Piano Quartets by Mozart, Brahms, Dvorák, and Martinu with the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, the Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by J.S. Bach, and the Sonatas for Piano and Cello by Beethoven with Victor Asuncion. Tobias studied at the Musikhochschule Freiburg in Germany, and at Boston University. His teachers have included Andrés Díaz, Christoph Henkel, and Xavier Gagnepain. He plays on an 1844 J.F. Pressenda cello.

Opera Singer, Recitalist

Employing his “impressive singing ... well-supported tone and supple phrasing,” (Baltimore Sun) baritone Rob McGinness connects characters to ideas, and listeners to sounds. Excited to return to live performance, Rob’s season includes Così fan Tutte and Carmen with Arizona Opera, The Ghosts of Gatsby Las Vegas Opera, and engagements with the Phoenix Symphony and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Often featured portraying opera’s “bad boy,” Rob’s operatic credits include the title roles in Eugene Onegin and Don Giovanni, as well as Marcello in La Bohème. He has sung Enrico in Lucia, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus, a performance lauded for a “bright baritone and winning jitteriness” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

As a featured soloist, Rob performed in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. Other concert credits include Carmina Burana with Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Duruflé Requiem with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, and Brahms Requiem with The Washington Chorus, for which the Washington Post praised his “warm baritone.”

A recent graduate of Arizona Opera’s Marion Roose Pullin Opera Studio, Rob was also a young artist with Opera Theater St. Louis, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Teatro Nuovo, and Bel Canto at Caramoor. He holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and the Peabody Institute where he currently teaches courses on grant writing and career skills. An award-winning performer, Rob placed first in the Sylvia Greene Vocal Competition, second in the Piccola Opera Competition, and received the Patricia A. Edwards Award in the Annapolis Opera Vocal Competition.

Pianist, Faculty at the Washington Conservatory of Music

Pianist Yejin Lee is an active soloist and a chamber musician based in the United States. Yejin’s performances have been praised for her “coloristic and poetic expressions” and “compelling and thrilling rhythmic senses,” and she has been invited to perform in many prestigious venues around the world. Yejin had her solo debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in New York with the invitation from the Annual Velia International Music Festival, and her appearances include as a guest artist at the Cultural Art Center in Jaen, Spain and the Tyler Recital Hall in Florida, and Seoul Arts Center and Yong San Art Hall in Seoul, Korea. She claimed top awards at national and international competitions including at Dallas International Piano Competition, Kingsville International Piano Competition, Wideman International Piano Competition. Yejin also had a privilege to perform at leading music festivals and masterclasses at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg, Banff Music Festival, Gijon Music Festival in Gijon, Spain and Piano Texas International Academy & Festival, where she shared musical inspiration with great pedagogues and pianists in this century like Richard Goode, Dmitry Bashkirov, Stephen Hough, John O’Conor, John Perry, and Karl-Heinz Kammering. Yejin holds both piano performance and vocal accompanying degrees from Oberlin Conservatory with honors under Haewon Song and Philip Highfill, and Masters and Doctorate degrees from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University under Boris Slutsky. Yejin is a member of Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) and Northern Virginia Music Teachers Association (NVMTA) –she manages a private studio to nurture the love of music learning, and this year, she was invited to judge Elizabeth R. Davis Memorial Piano Competition, MSMTA Concerto Competition and High School Competition. She is also on the piano faculty at Washington Conservatory of Music, and a guest faculty at the George Washington University to serve the University Choir.