Hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his "impressive clarity, sense of structure and monster technique",
Steven Vanhauwaert studied piano in Brussels at the Royal Conservatory with Boyan Vodenitcharov.
He continued his musical development in Los Angeles with professors Kevin Fitz-Gerald, James Bonn and John Perry at the
USC Thornton School of Music. He has garnered a wide array of accolades, amongst which the Maurice Lefranc award, the Rotary Prize,
the Galiot Prize and the USC Concerto Competition. In October 2004 he won the Grand Prize at the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition,
which enabled him to tour through the US and Hungary. Steven performs frequently throughout Europe and the US, both solo and in chamber music groups.
His performances are broadcast regularly on K-MZT, K-CSN, K-USC, WHKB, W-UOT, K-UAT and KLARA. Steven has been a frequent guest in
festivals such as Jacaranda, the Festival of Flanders, the Eastern Sierra Music Festival, Musik Zentral, the Malibu Coast Music Festival, the Sundays Live Series,
the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music and Euterpe among many others. He has appeared in major venues with orchestras such as the Pacific Symphony, the
Flemish Symphony, the USC Symphony, Collegium Instrumentale, the Concord Jazz Ensemble, the Auburn Symphony, the Eastern Sierra Chamber Orchestra and
Prima la Musica. In June 2010 he is scheduled to make his solo debut tour in China.
Rebecca Hang, violin,
was born in Germany and began her violin studies at the Peter-Cornelius-Conservatory in Mainz with Helga Waehdel. From 1987 until 1990 she
lived in Israel where she studied with the renowned concertmaster of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Chaim Taub. Rebecca continued her musical
education with Atar Arad and Paul Biss at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she received her Bachelors of Music "with high distinction"
and a Masters of Music in violin performance. As member of the internationally reputable Felici String Quartet, she won first prize in the 1992
Michael Kuttner Competition at IU, the MTNA Competition in Indianapolis, the Russell Award of the 1993 Coleman Competition and was a
prize winner of the International String Quartet Competition in Osaka, Japan, in the same year. In June of 1993 Rebecca gave her New York solo
debut in Lincoln Center's Juilliard Theater performing Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. As member of the first violin section of the International
"Guido Cantelli" Chamber Orchestra in Milan, Italy, she toured throughout Europe and the U.S. before accepting the NEA Rural Residency Grant with the Felici Piano
Trio in Mammoth Lakes, CA, in 1998. Rebecca dedicates much of her time to CMU’s Music School, teaching more than 80 violin students in weekly group and individual lessons.
Through her pedagogical work she hopes to nurture children’s innate musicality and lay the foundations for a lasting love of great music.
As a member of the Felici Piano Trio, Brian Schuldt has performed over 350 critically-acclaimed concerts in the U.S., Europe and South America. His chamber music
collaborations include many renowned artists, such as Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Edward Auer, Atar Arad, Corey Cerovsek, Hagai Shaham and Eli Eban.
Brian was the cellist of the Arcadia String Quartet, which won the grand prize of the 1995 Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition and the Indiana
University Kuttner Quartet Scholarship. He has soloed with the Auburn Symphony, Owensboro Symphony, Eastern Sierra Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra
"Cantelli" of Milan, Italy. He was principal cellist of the Owensboro Symphony and "Cantelli". Brian studied with Toby Saks at the University of Washington and
continued under Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi and Janos Starker at Indiana University, where he earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. From 1994-1996,
Brian held the appointment of Assistant Instructor of Cello at Indiana University. He is currently Executive Director of
Chamber Music Unbound,
director of the Sierra Chamber Workshop
and conductor of the Eastern Sierra Chamber Orchestra.
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