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  • Visiting Instructor of Music, Strings, and Composition | Music | korine.fujiwara@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Montana native Korine Fujiwara is a founding member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet, a devoted and sought-after chamber musician and teacher, and a gifted composer and arranger. Ms.

    Korine Fujiwara Visiting Instructor of Music, Strings, and Composition she/her Phone: 253-535-7602 Email: korine.fujiwara@plu.edu Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Website: //www.korinefujiwara.com Professional Biography Education M.M., The Juilliard School B.M., Northwestern University School of Music Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Violin Viola Composition Responsibilities Applied Violin, Viola, and Composition Lessons Biography Montana native Korine Fujiwara is a founding

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  • Professor of Music - Violin; Coordinator of String Studies | Music | svend.ronning@plu.edu | 253-535-7605 | Violinist Svend Rønning enjoys a varied career as an artistic director, chamber musician, concertmaster, educator, and soloist.

    Svend Rønning Professor of Music - Violin; Coordinator of String Studies Phone: 253-535-7605 Email: svend.ronning@plu.edu Office Location: Mary Baker Russell Music Center - 110 Office Hours: (On Campus) Mon - Fri: By Appointment Status:On Sabbatical Website: https://sites.google.com/a/plu.edu/svend-ronning/ Professional Biography Education D.M.A., Yale University, 1997 M.M.A., Yale University, 1993 M.M., Yale University, 1991 B.M. summa cum laude, Violin Performance, Pacific Lutheran University

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  • Lecturer - Cello | Music | finkelm@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Mara Finkelstein studied cello at the Gnessin College of Music and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow before coming to the U.S.

    its inaugural year, and is a member of the Europa Piano Trio. A cello teacher with an international reputation, Mara maintains a large teaching studio and is on a faculty of SPU and PLU. She is vice president of the Applebaum Violin Shop, and is president of the Cello Mundo Foundation.

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Education | Music | justin.lader@plu.edu | 253-535-7602 | Justin Lader received his PhD in music and human learning from The University of Texas at Austin, Master’s degree in viola performance with emphasis in string pedagogy from the University of Oregon, and Bachelor’s of Music from the Oberlin Conservatory.

    . Dr. Lader began teaching private lessons in 2008 while completing his studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He served as orchestra department coordinator and faculty instructor at the John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts – Community Music School from 2009-2017, instructing both violin and viola. From 2010-2016 Dr. Lader served as an adjunct instructor teaching private lessons, coaching chamber music, and group classes at the University of Oregon’s Community Music Institute and Suzuki

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  • Associate Professor of Music - Piano | Music | powerslm@plu.edu | 253-535-7647 | In demand as a solo and collaborative artist as well as an adjudicator and presenter, Dr.

    Leon Fleisher). Recent solo performances include repeat appearances at Estes Park Music Festival Winter Series in Colorado, performing at the College Music Society 2017 conference in Vancouver, B.C., a performance at the Oklahoma Music Teachers’ Association 2016 State Conference, and frequent two-piano concerts as part of the duo she forms with pianist Ricardo de la Torre. Lark was born in California and grew up studying the piano and the violin. She received a DMA in piano performance from the

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Music - Piano | Music | erhsuan.li@plu.edu | 253-535-7647 | Praised by the New York Concert Review as having “played with astonishing maturity and flair,” Dr.

    , Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ Violin Sonatas,” and “A Decade in the US: Stories of Studying Abroad.” This season, Li’s professional engagements will bring him to Xalapa, Mexico, as faculty for the Séptimo Festival de Perfeccionamiento Pianístico for the third consecutive year, serve as a competition staff collaborative pianist for the International Horn Competition of America, present a lecture at the annual conference of Colorado State Music Teachers Association at Colorado State University Pueblo, and

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