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Subito Strings is committed to creating a beautiful and memorable soundtrack for your wedding or special event. Our most popular ensembles are String Quartet, String Trio, Violin and Cello Duo, and Solo Classical Guitar. Our players are all career musicians, and hold advanced degrees from prestigious music schools and conservatories across the country, including Northwestern University, USC, The Colburn School, and The Juilliard School. Our ensembles regularly perform at venues throughout Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange and San Diego counties.
We offer: - Competitive pricing for a concert quality perfomance
- A wide selection of classical and contemporary pieces
- A coordinator to make the music selection process easy
- Highly experienced players who are professional in their appearance and conduct
Violinist and Coordinator Rebecca B. Chung holds a Master of Music in Violin Performance from The Juilliard School, where she was a pupil of Naoko Tanaka. At Juilliard, Miss Chung served as an active member of the Chamber orchestra, working closely with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. As an Irene Diamond Fellow, she received a full scholarship to pursue her degree. She was also a full scholarship recipient at Northwestern University, where she received her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Recently, Miss Chung was invited back to perform the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra as the winner of concerto competition.
Miss Chung began studying violin with Roland and Almita Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago, where she was an active member of the American Chamber Strings under the direction of Roland Vamos. She then continued her studies with Almita Vamos at Northwestern University, where she was the recipient of the Wade Fetzer Fellowship. During her high school years, she was mentored by David Taylor and Yuan-Qing Yu, both assistant concertmasters of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
As an active string quartet musician, Miss Chung has worked closely with the Pacifica Quartet and the Chicago String Quartet and has been coached by Jonathan Feldman of The Juilliard School and Peter Salaff o the Cleveland Institute of Music. Miss Chung has recently returned from a tour in South America with the Del Gesu Strings. As an orchestral performer, she has attended many renowned music festivals such as the Pacific Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Aspen Music Festival Music and School, Weathersfield Music Festival, and Meadowmount School of Music. At the Pacific Music Festival, Miss Chung premiered a string quartet work of Toru Takemitsu. An international performer, Miss Chung has performed in Austria, Germany, Korea, Japan, The Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Chile, and throughout the United States.
Violinist Jennifer Choi served as Concertmaster of “The Phantom of the Opera” National Tour for four years, performing in over forty cities across the U.S. and Canada. Originally from Saint Louis, Jennifer attended The Cleveland Institute of Music, where she earned her Bachelor and Master’s degrees as a student of David Updegraff and Paul Kantor. Since relocating to Los Angeles in 2010, she has played in studio recording sessions and performed with ensembles such as the San Bernardino Symphony, New West Symphony, and Riverside Philharmonic. Jennifer also continues her work in musical theater, performing in venues such as the Ahmanson and Pantages Theaters.
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Violinist/Violist Hui-Ping Lee was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She began her music studies in Taipei and after receiving her degree she moved to United States and began to study at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens Collge(CUNY) while studying for her masters degree in violin, she was inspired to also study viola with Professor Daniel Phillips as well as violin and Lee later collaborated with Prof. Phillips in a highly acclaimed performance of Mozart’s Sinfornia Concertante. Besides being a soloist, she is also devoted to chamber music and has experience performing a wide variety of genres of music. In Los Angeles, she meets regularly with a chamber group rehearsal under Mr. David L. Wen, derictor of Clap & Tap Chamber Orchestra. Hui-Ping had her New York debut in Carnegie Hall in 2006. Currently she is a active freelance musician and music educator in Los Angeles.
Violinist Marisa Sorajja made her solo debut with orchestra at age fourteen, and has since performed throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. Ms. Sorajja is the former concertmaster of the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra, the Colburn Orchestra, and the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra. She has also been a past participant in the Aspen Music Festival, the International Holland Music Sessions, New York String Orchestra Seminar, and the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition. Ms. Sorajja has performed in many prestigious venues such as the Philharmonie of Berlin, Kurhaus Scheveningen in The Hague, Muziekgebouw aan’t IJ in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall, and the Palau de les Arts in Valencia, Spain. She has also had numerous television and radio appearances in the US and Thailand, and has also been featured in the Bangkok Post, and Thailand’s GM magazine. Ms. Sorajja obtained her artist diploma under Robert Lipsett at the Colburn Conservatory of Music.
David Lee Ruest was born in South Korea and grew up in New York New
York. He originally moved to California to perform as a violinist with the Santa Barbara Symphony. As an orchestral violinist he has also performed with the Harrisburg, Annapolis, Baltimore, New West, and Long Beach Symphonies. He has received a MM from UCLA, a BM from Peabody Conservatory and a Diploma from the Juilliard Pre-College Division. In addition to playing violin and viola he is an active private teacher. In his free time he enjoys watching Korean Drama and playing tennis.
Violinist Eric Wuest is a versatile musician equally accomplished as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. He has performed as a soloist with many orchestras, including the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the University of Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra, and the UCLA Philharmonia. Eric has participated in international violin competitions, including the Second Benjamin Britten International Violin Competition, the 10th Pablo Sarasate International Violin Competition, and 8th Seoul International Music Competition. As a chamber musician, he has performed throughout southern California on many concert series, including the South Bay Chamber Music Society and Dana Point Coastal Arts concert series. Eric has attended the Taos School of Music and Banff Summer Chamber Music Residency, where he has worked closely with members of the Borromeo, Brentano, Juilliard, Shanghai, and St. Lawrence string quartets, as well as pianists Robert MacDonald and Jamie Parker. As an experienced orchestral musician, Eric has been a member of the New West Symphony since 2007. He was also the principal second violinist on the multi-Grammy Award winning album "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" by William Bolcom, which was recorded at the University of Michigan in 2004.
Violist Nicholaus Yee completed his doctoral studies at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, where he was the teaching assistant to Professor Donald McInnes and Dr. Pamela Goldsmith from 2004 through 2007, and attended as a
full fellowship recipient. In addition to his viola studies, he is trained as an instrumental conductor, early music specialist, and music educator, topics he minored in as part of the rigorous and multi-faceted program at USC. An avid string quartet musician, he was honored to perform with the renowned violinist Midori Goto shortly after her faculty appointment at USC. Nick has been heard in broadcast on KUSC 91.5 both in chamber string music and orchestral music performances.
Ensembles he has been a member of include the USC Symphony and Chamber orchestras, the USC Early Music Ensemble, and Orange County’ s Pacific Symphony Orchestra (America’ s largest per service orchestra). Nick has performed with such musical legends as Yo-Yo Ma, Bobby Mcferrin, Lynn Harrell, Doc Severinsen, Gary Graffmann, and David Shifrin. Conductors he has worked with include Carl St. Clair, John Williams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Sergiu Commissiona, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and Lucinda Carver. Nick recently won the fourth chair position of the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carlo Ponti.
A dedicated educator, Nick has taught privately since the age of sixteen and in various capacities at public schools and youth orchestras since 1995. His teaching philosophy centers on the love of music, fostering achievement through discipline and methodical practise, and he encourages a close partnership in teaching and learning music with his students. He is also currently a conductor for Irvine Young Concert Artists orchestra.
Nick is an avid sports fan who follows college football as well as NFL and baseball, and other interests include billiards, bicycling, tennis, going to concerts, reading, and trying various cuisines.
A native of Los Angeles,Christopher Ahn has recently performed solo recitals at the Brand Library and Art Center, UCLA, California State University, Dominguez Hills, and Santa Monica College, and has collaborated chamberrio music performances on the Chapman University faculty concert series, the Dilijan chamber music series at Zipper Hall, the L’Ermitage Foundation concert series, the Music Guild concert series, the Blackbird Music Project in Orange County, the concert series at Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan Beach, and with the Los Angeles contemporary music collective ‘Synchromy.’ He has also performed numerous times for live radio broadcasts on the Sundays Live recital series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Summer activities have included the Aspen Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Banff Centre Masterclasses, Meadowmount School, and most recently, the Rencontres Musicales Camerata Lysy in Montepulciano, Italy. Chris has collaborated with members of the St. Lawrence, Ysaye, and Amar string quartets, and has performed in masterclasses for such distinguished musicians as Anner Bylsma, Ralph Kirshbaum, Lynn Harrell, Paul Katz, and members of the Takacs, Cleveland and Borodin quartets. Chris received his Bachelor of Arts with Honors from UCLA and Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan, with additional graduate work at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Currently, he is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at UCLA. His principal teachers have included Antonio Lysy, Richard Aaron, Stephen Geber, and Colin Carr.
Since her arrival to Los Angeles, Cellist Alisha Bauer has been an active performer and collaborator in both classical and popular music settings. During her graduate studies in cello at UCLA, Ms. Bauer co-founded the Alcantara Piano Quartet, an ensemble that went on to participate in the Fischoff and Coleman International Chamber Music competitions. Ms. Bauer has performed in many weddings throughout Southern California and very much enjoys being apart of such a special occasion. She also has worked with notable artists in both live performance and in the studio, as well as performing on and off screen for the TV and Film music industries. Some of her recent performances include concerts with Tony Bennett, Andrea Bochelli, Sara Bareilles, William Joseph, and Mariah Carey. In addition, Ms. Bauer maintains a private studio and teaches cello at Los Angeles City College.
Elizabeth D. Chung holds a Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance from The Juilliard School, where she is currently a Master of Music candidate. Elizabeth has performed with the Kuopio Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Academy Conducting Orchestra, Keweena Symphony Orchestra, and Harper Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth is a prize-winner of The Third Triennial Johansen International Competition, Lennox String Competition, MTNA String competition, Keweena Symphony Concerto Competition, Aspen Cello Concerto Competition. In 2007, Elizabeth was named semi-finalist in the Paulo International Cello Competition. In addition to her public performances, Elizabeth's performance of the Shostakovich Cello Concerto in Orchestra Hall was broadcast by Chicago's WFMT 98.7 classical radio station. Elizabeth has performed solo and collaborated with the internationally renowned violinist, Midori, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., which was later broadcasted through NPR’s From the Top.
Cellist Jonathan Thomson moved from Washington State to Los Angeles in 2005 to continue his
studies and immediately began performing, recording, and teaching professionally. He has performed
internationally in England, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, South Korea and China. As a chamber
musician, Jonathan has formed successful string quartets and piano trios that participated in the
Fischoff and Coleman chamber music competitions. He has taught at Azusa Pacific University since
2008 and is a doctoral candidate at UCLA, studying under Antonio Lysy and Lynn Harrell. He lives
with his wife and cat in Alhambra and enjoys traveling, reading, running, and watching tennis (Viva Rafa!).
Guitarist Tom Farrell began performing at the age of fifteen in the Chicago music scene. His interest in performing high energy music paved the way to an obsession with classical music. While the breadth of his work as a soloist and chamber musician has been in classical, jazz, and world music, Tom's curiosity extends to other genres not only as a performer but as well a composer and passionate educator. While studying the guitar at Northwestern, Tom had the opportunity to perform in master classes with a multitude of world class artists. In the summer of 2000, Tom was accepted into the famous master class taught by Oscar Ghiglia at the Academia Chigiana in Siena, Italy. Tom fell in love with Italy, returning for extended periods at a time to study the language and culture, going so far as herding and milking sheep for a Sardinian sheep farmer. Regardless of his role in life, Tom believes that music is the study and expression of human spirit and that the awareness and presence it brings forth creates a vital element in our world. Tom holds a Master of Music in Guitar Performance and Pedagogy from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Music in Guitar Performance from Depaul University.
Paul Kay has over 30 years of experience as a soloist and chamber musician in the Detroit and Chicago area and now, Los Angeles area. He has also taught flute lessons for many years and is Chair of the Music Department at Mirman School. Paul holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Education from the Roosevelt University Chicago College of Performing Arts in Chicago, IL. At Roosevelt, Paul studied with Jean Berkenstock, principal flutist with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Chicago Philharmonic. Prior to moving to Chicago, Paul attended Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. He studied with former principal flutist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Ervin Monroe. Paul has performed with orchestras, wind ensembles and flute choirs. He continues to gig with harpists in the Los Angeles area and is a member of the Song of the Angels Flute Orchestra.
Jon Minei made his concert premier at the Mirabelle Palace in Salzberg, Austria
and also at Mozart’s Residence in Vienna at age 19. While working on his Master’s
degree at USC, he was a founding member of the Solaris Guitar Quartet (formerly the
Brouwer Quartet) working under the tutelage of William Kanengiser and Scott Tennant
of the world renowned Grammy Award winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Jon has
worked with a variety of theater companies; performing as a pit musician for Man of
La Mancha at the 2001 Tony Award Winning Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar
City, Utah. David Nichols of the Los Angeles Times calls his playing “Superb!” The
late Poly Warfield of Backstage West described his playing as “… plangent strains of
enchantment …” As a soloist he has performed extensively both locally and abroad,
most notably playing a concert in Osaka, Japan in the spring of 2005. Jon’s principle
instrument is a 7-string classical guitar with extended lower and upper registers, made
by Michael Thames of Taos, New Mexico. Jon Minei is currently a Doctoral candidate
in classical guitar performance at the Thornton School of Music at the University of
Southern California with a minor in Jazz Guitar.
