Meet Our Faculty

Violin Faculty

The Montecito International Music Festival is dedicated to bringing masters of teaching to mentor their students. Click on faculty to see their full biographical information. This string faculty roster is subject to change without notice.
Julie Lin
Violin Session 1 and 2
Ben Sayevich
Violin Session 4
Keum Hwa Cha
Violin session 3 and 4
Francesca dePasquale
Violin Session 1
Miclen LaiPang
Violin Session 4
Er-Gene Kahng
Violin Session 1,2,3,4
Thomas Lee Cooper
Violin Session 4
Iryna Krechkovsky
Violin Session 4
Ayke Agus
Violin/Piano Guest Artist Session 1
Sungho Jung
Violin/Viola Session 1
Igor Petrushevski
Violin Session 1,2,3,4
Junshi Yang
Violin Session 1,2,3,4
Jing Zeng
Violin Session 2
Gulia Gurevich
Violin Session 1 to 4
Alexander Treger
Violin Session 1 to 4
Shmuel Ashkenasi
Violin Session 4
So Jin Kim
Violin Session 2
Amanda Yang
Violin / Viola Session 3 and 4
Evgeny ZVONNIKOV
Violin Session 2
Ji Young An
Violin Session 3
Aaron Boyd
Violin Session 1 & 2
Hanbyul Jang
Violin Session 1
Limor Toren-Immerman
Violin Session 3
James Choi
Violin - Session 2 and 3
Dimitry Olevsky
Violin Session 1,2 and 3
Yunjung Lee
Session 1, 2, 3 and 4
Benjamin Bartelt
Violin/Viola Session 1,2,3 and 4
Gary Levinson
Violin Sessions 1,2
Christina Adams
Violin/Viola, Session 1,2
Junqi (Sophie) Tang
Violin - Session 1, 2
Joan Kwuon session 4
Violin - Session 4
Elise Goodman
Violin - Session 1, 2 ,3 and 4
Tina Chang Qu
Violin - Session 1, 2
Sergiu Schwartz
Violin - Session 1, 2
Sam Fischer
Violin -Session 1, 2
Danwen Jiang
Violin - Session 3
Ken Aiso ( Co-String Coordinator )
Violin - Session 1, 2 ,3 and 4
Cho-Liang Lin
Violin - Session 2
Linda Wang
Violin - Session 2
Samuel Fischer
Violin, Chamber Music Coordinator
Alexander Kalman
Violin - Session 1, 2, 3
Chan Ho Yun
Violin - Artistic Director & CEO