Alumni

The Viana Music Festival Alumni

David Chan: Laureate of the IX Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition in England, the Bronze Medal in the 1994 Indianapolis International Competition, Concertmaster at the Metropolitan OperaOrchestra in New York, Faculty at the Juilliard School of Music.

Frank Almond: Laureate of the Paganini International Competition in Italy and the VIII Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, former concertmaster of the Dallas/Fort Worth Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and current concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic and London Philharmonic.

Igor Gruppman: Former concertmaster of the London Symphony, the San Diego Symphony, and the Miami Symphony and the San Diego Chamber Orchestra. Professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah and current Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic.

Soo Young Yoon: Concertmaster of the Korean Radio Orchestra and a professor at the National University of Seoul, Korea.
Nokuthula Ngwenyama: Internationally acclaimed soloist, Laureate of 1993 Primrose Memorial Competition and 1994 Young Concert Artists Audition. Recipient of the 1997 Avery Fisher Career Award.

Susan Dubois: Professor and Chair of String Department at the University of North Texas; Principle Viola, Dallas Opera.
Tiffany Modell: Former Concert Mistress of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Professor at the California Institute of Music.
Yurika Mok: First violinist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York City.

Debbie Buck: Violinist with the Lark Quartet.

Erik Ulman: composer,and violinist, has served on the faculties of Stanford and the`University of Illinois at Urbana. A winner of a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard, Erik has directed the POTO Festival in the Bay Area since 2004.