 Daniel Ching
Senior Lecturer Instructor of Violin
dching@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-9449
Daniel Ching, a founding member of the Miró Quartet, spent his childhood years in the San Francisco area, and began playing the violin under the guidance of his father at age 3. At age 5, he entered the San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory Division on a full twelve-year scholarship, where he studied violin with Serban Rusu and Zaven Melikian, and chamber music with Susan Bates. As a student at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music he studied violin with Kathleen Winkler, Roland and Almita Vamos, and conducting with Robert Spano and Peter Jaffe. He holds his M.M. from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with former Cleveland Quartet violinist Donald Weilerstein. He also studied recording engineering and production with Thomas Knab of Telarc, and subsequently engineered the Miró Quartet's first promotional disc. Daniel is a discerning connoisseur of all things electronic, an avid skier and tennis player, and a dedicated reader of science fiction. Daniel serves as Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin.
 Brian Lewis
Professor of Violin
blviolin@aol.com
512-663-4150
One of the most versatile and charismatic violinists on the current scene, Brian Lewis is an exceptionally dedicated and gifted performer whose passionate artistry has been heard and embraced around the world. "There are a lot of fine violinists on the concert stage today, but few can match Lewis for an honest virtuosity that supremely serves the music,” reports the Topeka Capital-Journal. Acclaimed performances include concerto debuts in both New York's Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, as well as performances with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Berlin (Germany), Louisiana, Kansas City, Syracuse, Odense (Denmark), Wichita, Hartford, Eugene, Spokane, and American Symphony orchestras, among others. He has recorded six CDs, most recently for Delos as soloist with the London Symphony Orchestra of music by Leonard Bernstein and Hollywood composer Michael McLean.
Mr. Lewis has won numerous young artists' competitions, including the grand prize in the Mid-America Violin Competition. In addition to the Waldo Mayo Talent Award, he holds both the Peter Mennin Prize and William Schuman Prize awarded by Juilliard for outstanding achievement and leadership in the field of music. Mr. Lewis was one of the first recipients of the Sony ES Award for Musical Excellence, and he has received two Elizabeth B. Koch Fellowships from the Kansas Cultural Trust. In 2005-06, Mr. Lewis received both the Texas Exes Teaching Award and The University of Texas School of Music Teaching Excellence Award.
Known for his variety in programming and ability to communicate with audiences of all ages, Mr. Lewis has performed frequently as a member of the Kansas Arts Commission Touring Program and the Mid-America Arts Alliance Regional Touring Program.
Radio and television appearances include performances on WNYC, WFMT (Chicago), National Public Radio, and CBS “Sunday Morning.” An advocate for music education in the schools, Mr. Lewis frequently presents concerts, workshops, and master classes for Young Audiences of Houston. Named National Artist of the Year in 1998 by Young Audiences, Inc., he was also presented the 2003 Fredell Lack Award by YAH for having performed for more than 165,000 young people in the Houston area.
As a student of Eleanor Allen, Mr. Lewis began his violin studies at the age of four and participated in the Ottawa Suzuki Strings program under the direction of his mother, Alice Joy Lewis. He later studied with Tiberius Klausner, and twice traveled to Japan where he studied with Dr. Shinichi Suzuki at the Talent Education Institute in Matsumoto. He holds both the Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School where he was a student of Dorothy DeLay, Masao Kawasaki, and Hyo Kang. Mr. Lewis holds the David and Mary Winton Green Chair in String Performance and Pedagogy at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also Artistic Director of the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at The Juilliard School in New York City, concertmaster of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston, founding member of the Texas Piano Quartet, and Artistic Director of the Starling Distinguished Violinist Series at UT.
 Satoko Sandy Yamamoto
Senior Lecturer Instructor of Violin
syamamoto@mail.utexas.edu
512-232-2088
Satoko (Sandy) Yamamoto, violinist, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina has been a member of the Miró Quartet since 1996. At age 11, Sandy made her solo debut with the North Carolina Symphony and has since performed with various orchestras including the Winston Salem Symphony, the Durham Symphony, the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, the International Music Program Orchestra, and the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra. At age 13, she won the North Carolina National Bank Music Competition, which gave her a full scholarship to attend the North Carolina School of the Arts for high school to study with Elaine Richey. She continued her studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music where she earned both her Bachelor's and her Masters' degrees studying with Donald Weilerstein and David Cerone. She has performed to great acclaim in venues across Europe and the United States including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fischer Hall, Alice Tully Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Sandy serves as Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin.
 WILLIAM FEDKENHEUER
Senior Lecturer in Violin Violin, Miró Quartet Chamber Music Strings williamfed@gmail.com (link sends e-mail)
Office Phone: 512-471-0524
Office Location: MRH 5.116
Specialties: Violin
Second violinist of the world-renowned Miró Quartet, William Fedkenheuer has distinguished himself as a versatile artist with international performances as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. Mr. Fedkenheuer has been featured at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall Presents, San Francisco Performances, and the National Gallery in Washington, DC. Abroad, selected appearances include the American Academy in Rome, Fountainbleu, Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, the Taipei National University of the Arts, and in Austria at the famed Esterhazy Castle for the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria. Making his solo violin debut with the Calgary Philharmonic in 1994, Mr. Fedkenheuer went on to receive a Bachelor of Music from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music under the tutelage of Kathleen Winkler and continued his graduate studies with Miriam Fried at Indiana University. Formerly a member of the Borromeo and Fry Street Quartets, he has served on the faculties of the New England Conservatory and the Caine College of the Arts at Utah State University. Mr. Fedkenheuer performs on a violin by Peter and Wendy Moes and a bow by Charles Espey.
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