yuri namkung-violin/viola

education:

  • Graduate Diploma, New England Conservatory - Professional Piano Trio Program ‘09  Moët Trio

  • MM. The Juilliard School, ‘06   

  • BA. Columbia University, ‘05

  • Preparatory Division, The Juilliard School, ‘01

Principal Instructors: Miriam Fried, Donald Weilerstein, cho-liang lin, Dorothy DeLay

Teaching Experience: 

  • juilliard pre-college (ny): chamber music coach

  • Interlochen Arts Academy (MI): faculty-Instructor of Violin (2010-2013)

  • interlochen summer camp (mi): faculty-instructor of violin and chamber music coach (2011)

  • University of Alabama-School of Music: faculty-Instructor of Violin (2009-2010)

  • vero beach, fl. beyond the chamber (fl): guest teacher

  • arts ahimsa (ma): chamber music coach

  • Main Line Seminar (pa): Guest Chamber Music Coach

  • bennington chamber music conference east (vt): faculty-chamber music coach

  • brandeis university composers conference (ma): faculty-chamber music coach

  • wellesley composers conference (ma): faculty-chamber music coach

  • opus 118 harlem (ny): instructor of violin

  • Fundacion Batuta, Universidad Javeriana: Encuentros.  (Bogota, Colombia)

  • Filarmonica Joven de Bogota, (Colombia)

  • Panama Jazz Festival - Director of Classical Music Program. (panama)

  • Fundacion Danilo Perez (Panama)

  • FESNOJIV. El Sistema (Merida, Venezuela)

  • La Academia Latino Americana de Violin y la Fundacion del Estado Para El Sistema Nacional de Orquestas

    Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela (caracas, venezuela)

  • Curso/Festival de Musica de Camara (Caracas, Colonia Tovar, Venezuela)

  • carnegie hall neighborhood series (ny) with the moët trio

  • Astral Artistic Services Educational Outreach with the Moët Trio (pa)

  • Music @ Menlo  (CA)

  • Church Street School for Music and Art (NY)

Chamber Music Performances: 

  • ChamberFest Vero Beach  (FL)

  • Sykes Chapel Concert Artist Series (FL)

  • Newburyport Chamber Music Festival (MA)

  • Long Island Baroque Ensemble (NY)

  • Poor Richard’s Chamber Music Society. Philadelphia. (PA)

  • mimesis ensemble at carnegie hall’s zankel hall (ny)

  • I/O Festival at Williams College (MA)

  • Wellesley Composers Conference (MA)

  • cantata profana at national sawdust (ny)

  • Lost Dog New Music Ensemble (NY)

  • Talea Ensemble (ky)

  • Talea Ensemble (ca) Schoenberg Pierrot Lunaire

  • NUNC at National Sawdust (ny)

  • Interlochen Arts Academy (MI)

  • Northwest Bach Festival (WA)

  • Panama Jazz Festival (panama city, panama)

  • Curso-Festival de Musica de Camara (Colonia Tovar and caracas, Venezuela.)

  • Methow Valley Music Festival (WA)

  • Bargemusic (NY)

  • moMA-Museum of Modern Art (NY)

  • Music Mountain Festival (CT)

  • La Jolla SummerFest (CA)

  • 92nd Street Y (NY)

  • Verbier Festival and Academy (Verbier, Switzerland)

  • Ravinia Festival-Steans Institute (IL)

with the Moët Trio:

  • Lawrence University (WI)

  • Carnegie Hall: Neighborhood Series (ny)

  • Astral Artistic Services Education and Community (pa)

  • Cosmos Club (Washington D.c.)

  • New School-Schneider Concert Series (NY)

  • Kennedy Center: Millennium Series (washington d.c.)

  • Gardner Museum (MA)

  • Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society (NY)

  • Jordan Hall (ma)

  • Virginia Arts Festival (va)

  • Music@Menlo (CA)

Ensemble Performances: 

  • orchestra of st. luke’s (ny)

  • New Jersey Chamber Singers (NJ) Concertmaster

  • Juno Chamber Orchestra (VT)

  • Crested Butte Music Festival (CO) 2nd Violin Principal

  • A Far Cry (MA)

  • Riverside Choral Society (NY) Concertmaster

  • Mimesis Ensemble (NY) Concertmaster

  • League of Composers (NY)

  • ensemble lpr (ny)

  • Blanche Moyse Bach Orchestra. Marlboro, VT.

  • orpheus chamber orchestra (ny)

  • musica Sacra (NY)

  • metamorphosen chamber orchestra (ny)

Solo Performances: 

  • College of St. Benedict orchestra (mn). Mendelssohn Concerto-replacing axel strauss.

  • Santa Clara Center for the Performing Arts (AZ). duo Recitals with Evan Kory, piano

  • Lincoln Center Winter’s Eve Festival (ny) Solo Bach.

  • Santa Maria Philharmonic (ca). beethoven concerto. John Farrer, Conductor.

  • Spokane, Washington.  Northwest Bach Festival.  Gunther Schuller, Conductor and Artistic Director

  • Bay View, Charlevoix, (mi) Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra

  • Interlochen Arts Camp (mi) Interlochen Youth Orchestra. arvo part: fratres.

  • Filarmonica Joven de Colombia: Residency and solo Tour (Brazil and Colombia)

  • Panama Jazz Festival (panama city, panama)

  • Orchestra of St Luke's at alice tully hall (ny) with cho-liang lin, bach double concerto

  • seattle symphony (wa) with Cho-Liang Lin, Bach Double Concerto

  • Tonhalle Orchestra. (zürich, switzerland) David Zinman, Conductor

  • Stulberg International Competition: 1st prize winner 2001 (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

  • dubuque symphony (ia). mendelssohn and beethoven concertos

  • sarah lawrence orcestra (ny)

  • yonkers philharmonic (ny)

  • westchester philharmonic (ny)

  • Aspen Music Festival (co): solos with Young Artist Orchestra, American Academy of Conducting Orchestra

  • Olympia Symphony (wa)

  • Greenville Symphony (sc)

  • orchestra seattle (wa)

  • Northwest Chamber Orchestra (wa)

Additional Performances: 

  • gala performance at panama jazz festival with danilo perez, ben street, samy & Sandra Sandoval. (panama city,

    panama)

  • Ibero-American Summit Conference. gala performance at frank gehry biodiversity museum with Danilo Perez

    and ben street. (Panama City, Panama)

  • Recording for permanent art installation at frank gehry Biodiversity Museum with Danilo Perez and ben

    street. (panama city, panama)

  • presidential gala performance with Danilo Perez (Panama City, Panama)

  • Danilo’s Jazz Club (Casco Viejo, Panama)

  • Thurman Barker & The Cagy Bird Orchestra at roulette (ny)

  • mef young musicians award alumni performance with kyoko takezawa at carnegie hall’s zankel hall (ny)

Artistic and Creative Director: 

  • Artistic Director of Festival de Intercambio de Musica Clasica, Panama Jazz Productions/Fundacion Danilo

    Perez.

  • Director of Classical Music Department at Panama Jazz Festival