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Kirsten Yon
is currently in residence at Texas Tech University where she serves as
Assistant Professor of Violin. She received her undergraduate and
graduate degrees from the University of Michigan and the Cleveland
Institute of Music before pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at
the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. The winner of multiple
competitions, she has been a soloist, concertmaster and performer with
numerous professional orchestras in the United States and South America,
including the Ann Arbor Symphony and the Houston Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Yon was a founding member of such chamber ensembles as the Champlain
Trio, the Athena Quartet, and the Archiano Ensemble, giving concerts and
masterclasses throughout the United States and Brazil to critical
acclaim. She spent several summers at the Meadowmount School for
Strings, where she was the first recipient of the Catherine Tait
Memorial Scholarship for Teaching and Outstanding Leadership. Most
recently she was awarded a Texas Tech University Alumni Association New
Faculty Award for her work at the School of Music.
Currently the
concertmaster of the Caprock Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, she also
performs with the Texas Tech University Faculty String Quartet. Her
concert schedule in the 2004-05 season includes appearances throughout
Texas, New York, Minnesota and Michigan. In May 2005 she will be
premiering a work by composer Peter Fischer at the International Viola
Congress, held in Reykjavik, Iceland. In addition, Ms. Yon is founder
of Cuerdas de Enlace (String Connection), a Texas Tech University
pedagogical outreach program with ties to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. During
the summer months, Ms. Yon has taught at the Interlochen Center for the
Arts as an assistant to William Preucil in the Valade Program and at the
Texas Tech University Orchestra Camp.
To contact Kirsten Yon, email
kirsten.yon@ttu.edu. |
