Praised as “spectacular” by the Los Angeles Times and “extraordinary” by the Ventura County Star, the Times describes percussionist Ji Hye Jung as “a centered player who can give the impression of being very still yet at all places at once”.

Ms. Jung began concertizing in her native South Korea at the age of nine where she performed more than 100 concerts including solo appearances with every major orchestra in Korea.  Soon after coming to the United States in 2004, Ms. Jung garnered consecutive first prizes at the 2006 Linz International Marimba Competition and the 2007 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition.

With percussion repertoire still in its formative stages, Ms. Jung feels strongly about collaborating with composers to further the creation of a new voice for the art form.  She has commissioned and premiered works by several important composers including, Kevin Puts, Alejandro Viñao, Paul Lansky, John Serry, Lukas Ligeti, and Jason Treuting.  In 2013 she made the premier recording of Michael Torke’s marimba concerto Mojave and in 2014 recorded Phillip Glass’ Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra for the Naxos label.

Ms. Jung frequently performs with many of today's most important conductors and instrumentalists. For six years she has served as principal percussionist with the west coast-based chamber music ensemble Camerata Pacifica, with whom she has premiered works by Bright Sheng and Huang Ruo.  She has also recorded Stravinsky’s Les Noces with JoAnn Falletta at the Virginia Arts Festival, performed as soloist with David Robertson conducting an all Messiaen program at Carnegie Hall, and made her concerto debut with the Houston Symphony under the baton of Hans Graf in 2005.

Other performance credits include appearances at Portugal’s Tomarimbando Festival, the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Ireland, The Intimacy of Creativity in Hong Kong, the Grand Teton Music Festival, Germany’s Schleswig-Holstein Festival, and the Grachtenfestival in Holland.

In 2015 Ji Hye Jung was named Associate Professor of Percussion at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. She previously served as Associate Professor of Percussion at the University of Kansas for six years. An active educator and clinician, Jung has presented masterclasses at the Curtis Institute, the Peabody Conservatory, Rice University, Beijing's Central Conservatory, and the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland.

Ji Hye Jung completed a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, both under the tutelage of Robert van Sice. As an artist endorser, she proudly represents Pearl/Adams instruments, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, and Zildjian cymbals.

Eunhye Kim was the first percussion major admitted to the Yewon School. She continued her studies at the Korea National University of Arts for gifted students and graduated from Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris(CNR).

A contemporary music enthusiast, Kim has performed extensively as a member of Ensemble TIMF (Tongyeong International Music Festival). As a Seoul Percussion Ensemble member, she has served in the roles of performer and manager of the Seoul International Percussion Festival held biannually, In her work with the New Music Group Project21AND, she focuses on works by Korean composers, Her percussion duo Moitié presents programs through the Asian Composers League, Contemporary Music Society in Seoul, and PAN Music Festival.

Kim Eunhye is on the percussion Faculty at the Korea National University of Arts.

June Moon Kyung Hahn has performed at the Tianjin Chamber Music Festival, Festival Connect 2021, International Computer Music Conference in Shanghai, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Tongyeong International Music Festival, Seoul Spring Festival of Chamber Music, Seoul International Computer Music Festival. Ms. Hahn is a member of Ensemble TIMF and Percussion Duo Moitié, which has collaborated and premiered many works by living composers. Hahn gave the U.S. premiere of Michael Jarrell’s concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra (cond. Matthias Pintscher) in 2014. In 2016, she released a recording of Jeajoon Ryu’s marimba concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (cond. Grzegorz Nowak) and performed with Sinfonia Varsovia in Warsaw, Poland.

She won first prize at the Japan Marimba Competition at age 12 and has received prizes at the Paris Marimba Competition, the International Competition of Contemporary Chamber Music in Krakow, Poland, the World Marimba Competition in Shanghai, and the MTNA Competition in the U.S. Born in California and raised in South Korea, Hahn attended Seoul Arts High School as a student of Dong-Wook Park, received bachelor and master’s degree at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Roland Kohloff, Joseph Pereira, Daniel Druckman, and Gordon Gottlieb. She also received an Artist Diploma at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris, where she studied with Eric Sammut. Currently she serves as a percussion faculty for Pre-College division and Graduate Studies for Orchestral Studies at the Tianjin Juilliard School.

Having performed on four continents and more than forty states, Michael Burritt is one of his generation’s leading percussionists. He is in frequent demand, performing concert tours and master classes throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia and Canada. Mr. Burritt has been soloist with the United States Air Force Band, Dallas Wind Symphony, Omaha Symphony, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, Nexus, Third Coast Percussion, Ju Percussion Group (Taiwan), Percussion Art Quartet (Germany) and the Amores Percussion Group (Spain). Mr. Burritt has three solo as well as numerous chamber recordings. In 2018 he recorded his Home Trilogy with the world-renowned percussion group Nexus, and is soon to release a new recording of solo and chamber works by Alejandro Viñao with the Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion. In 2006 he recorded the Joseph Schwantner Percussion Concerto with the Calgary Wind Ensemble on the Albany label.

He has been a featured artist at nine Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. In 1992 he presented his New York solo debut in Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and in 1998 performed his London debut in the Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall. Mr. Burritt has extensive chamber and orchestral experience and has performed with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, The Chicago Symphony, Nexus, Third Coast Percussion and the The Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra.

Mr. Burritt is also active as a composer, with three concertos to his credit as well as numerous solo and chamber works for marimba and percussion. His works for solo marimba have become standard repertoire for the instrument, and are frequently required repertoire on international competitions. Commissions include The World Marimba Competition in Stuttgart Germany, The Paris International Marimba Competition, Nexus and the Paris Percussion Group. Mr. Burritt is published with Keyboard Percussion Publications, C. Alan, Masters Music, and Innovative Percussion. Burritt is also an artist/clinician and product design/consultant for Malletech, where he has developed his own line of marimba mallets and the MJB Signature Marimba. He is an artist/educational clinician with the Zildjian Company, Evans Drum Heads, and Yamaha Drums. Mr. Burritt is the President Elect of Percussive Arts Society, was a member of the Board of Directors from 1996 to2008, a contributing editor for Percussive Notes magazine from 1991 to 2006 and was chairman of the PAS Keyboard Committee from 2004 to 2010.

Michael Burritt is currently Professor of Percussion and chair of the Winds, Brass, and Percussion department at the Eastman School of Music. He is only the third person in the history of the school to hold this position. Prior to his appointment at Eastman, Mr. Burritt was Professor of Percussion at Northwestern University from 1995 to 2008, where he developed a program of international distinction. Mr. Burritt received his Bachelor (’84) and Master of Music (’86) Degrees, as well as the prestigious Performers Certificate, from the Eastman School of Music.