Possessing a knack for adventurous yet accessible programming, enhakē (in-HA-kee) has consistently distinguished itself with performances of startling intensity. Drawing its name from the Seminole (Creek) word for sound or call, enhakē has been praised for its “playing of the very highest caliber” (Fanfare) and “keen instinct for exciting programmes” (BBC Music Magazine). Their 2010 Carnegie Hall recital Made in America was lauded for its "rock solid rhythmic integrity...strengths in balance, intonation, and musicality” and described as a “polished, yet spontaneous performance" (The New York Concert Review).
Their distinctive instrumentation (Wonkak Kim, clarinet; M. Brent Williams, violin; Katherine Decker, cello; Eun-Hee Park, piano) allows them the flexibility to perform repertoire from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras in addition to the most captivating contemporary masterworks. The grand-prize winner of the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition (2009), gold medalist of the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition at Carnegie Hall (2008), and laureate of the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition (2011), enhakē has successfully toured on three continents and in some of the world’s most exciting venues including: NYC’s Carnegie Hall, at the OK Mozart Festival, South Korea’s Young-San Arts Hall, the Pan-Music Festival at the Seoul Arts Center, and the Promising Artists of the 21st Century Series in Costa Rica under the auspices of the US Department of State and Costa Rica—North America Cultural Center. They have also been the ensemble-in-residence for the Albany Symphony Orchestra (GA) and Tallahassee Youth Orchestras (FL).
Strong advocates for new music, enhakē has had works written for and dedicated to them by many of the world’s leading composers including: Libby Larsen, Peter Lieuwen, and Edward Knight. The quartet’s members are all dedicated educators having held posts at universities in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin, in addition to being faculty members at the Chapel Hill International Chamber Music Workshop (NC), Music in the Mountains Conservatory (CO), Interlochen Center for the Arts (MI), and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (MI).
As a group they have produced CDs for the MSR, Naxos, and Emeritus labels, which can be heard on NPR stations across the United States, Sirius XM, and public radio in Korea. enhakē’s latest CD, Prepárense: The Piazzolla Project, was called “positively delightful…[t]he sense of ensemble is near-miraculous” (Fanfare). Another reviewer stated, “[t]he intensity is real, the sounds gorgeous, the rhythms infectious…this version strides proudly alongside the legendary recording by Piazzolla himself” (Gramophone).
For more information, visit their website at www.enhake.com.
Their distinctive instrumentation (Wonkak Kim, clarinet; M. Brent Williams, violin; Katherine Decker, cello; Eun-Hee Park, piano) allows them the flexibility to perform repertoire from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras in addition to the most captivating contemporary masterworks. The grand-prize winner of the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition (2009), gold medalist of the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition at Carnegie Hall (2008), and laureate of the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition (2011), enhakē has successfully toured on three continents and in some of the world’s most exciting venues including: NYC’s Carnegie Hall, at the OK Mozart Festival, South Korea’s Young-San Arts Hall, the Pan-Music Festival at the Seoul Arts Center, and the Promising Artists of the 21st Century Series in Costa Rica under the auspices of the US Department of State and Costa Rica—North America Cultural Center. They have also been the ensemble-in-residence for the Albany Symphony Orchestra (GA) and Tallahassee Youth Orchestras (FL).
Strong advocates for new music, enhakē has had works written for and dedicated to them by many of the world’s leading composers including: Libby Larsen, Peter Lieuwen, and Edward Knight. The quartet’s members are all dedicated educators having held posts at universities in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin, in addition to being faculty members at the Chapel Hill International Chamber Music Workshop (NC), Music in the Mountains Conservatory (CO), Interlochen Center for the Arts (MI), and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp (MI).
As a group they have produced CDs for the MSR, Naxos, and Emeritus labels, which can be heard on NPR stations across the United States, Sirius XM, and public radio in Korea. enhakē’s latest CD, Prepárense: The Piazzolla Project, was called “positively delightful…[t]he sense of ensemble is near-miraculous” (Fanfare). Another reviewer stated, “[t]he intensity is real, the sounds gorgeous, the rhythms infectious…this version strides proudly alongside the legendary recording by Piazzolla himself” (Gramophone).
For more information, visit their website at www.enhake.com.
The Park-Williams Duo (M. Brent Williams, violin; Eun-Hee Park, piano) has been performing together since 2007 having met at FSU during their graduate school stints. Their repertoire spans the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras all the way up to the most thrilling contemporary works. They have performed as a duo at leading venues and universities in Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and at the OK Mozart International Music Festival.
Eun-Hee Park, a prizewinner of the Competition Internationale in Santa Fe, is frequently in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist. Since winning Oklahoma’s Young Artists Competition, Park has been featured as a soloist on numerous occasions, including a concerto appearance with the Oklahoma City Orchestra. Park has participated in the Corsi Internazionali di Musica (University of Urbino, Italy) and played in master classes for Margo Garrett, David Koreyaar, Renato Premezzi, Daniel Epstein, Daniel Pollack, Robert Marler, Tanya Bannister, Peter Miyamoto and the Merling Trio. Park received her MM degree with high honors at Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University and her BA degree at Mesa State College (CO) where she graduated summa cum laude. Her teachers include Amy I-Lin Cheng, Ernestine, and Michael Baron. She completed her Doctoral degree in the Accompanying/Chamber Music program at Florida State University under the tutelage of Carolyn Bridger and has been on the faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi and Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop.
Eun-Hee Park, a prizewinner of the Competition Internationale in Santa Fe, is frequently in demand as a soloist, chamber musician and collaborative pianist. Since winning Oklahoma’s Young Artists Competition, Park has been featured as a soloist on numerous occasions, including a concerto appearance with the Oklahoma City Orchestra. Park has participated in the Corsi Internazionali di Musica (University of Urbino, Italy) and played in master classes for Margo Garrett, David Koreyaar, Renato Premezzi, Daniel Epstein, Daniel Pollack, Robert Marler, Tanya Bannister, Peter Miyamoto and the Merling Trio. Park received her MM degree with high honors at Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University and her BA degree at Mesa State College (CO) where she graduated summa cum laude. Her teachers include Amy I-Lin Cheng, Ernestine, and Michael Baron. She completed her Doctoral degree in the Accompanying/Chamber Music program at Florida State University under the tutelage of Carolyn Bridger and has been on the faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi and Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop.
The Rio Verde String Quartet [Sophia Han and M. Brent Williams, violins; Matt Diekman, viola; Daniel Ketter, cello] formed in 2019 with the hope of combining their love of classical music performance with whitewater rafting. Yes, you read that correctly. Their aim is to harness the, at times, unpredictable power of this genre with an unquenchable sense of adventure. They collectively draw upon their shared experiences with other award-winning chamber music groups [the American Wild Ensemble, enhakē, the Walden Chamber Music Society, the Eppes String Quartet, etc.] to form something wholly new. They have performed at some of the world’s most important venues and taught at a variety of institutions of higher education across the U.S., including in: Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin. Their repertoire includes some of the most important works written for/arranged for string quartet from the Baroque era through the 20th Century. The members of the Rio Verde String Quartet are very excited to make their Durango, CO debut in 2020.
As their name suggests, The Antheil Duo (M. Brent Williams, violin; Doug Jurs, piano) bonded over their mutual admiration of contemporary music (especially that of American composers) and aim to bring these undervalued, and largely unknown, masterworks to new audiences. Their recent recitals have taken them to Georgia and Florida and they are planning upcoming tours of Vermont, Honduras, and India for this upcoming season.
Chicago born pianist Douglas Jurs was appointed Assistant Professor of Piano and Music Theory at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Fall 2012, having previously served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin – Madison and Edgewood College. His degrees are from The University of Wisconsin, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Indiana University – Bloomington, where he double majored in Piano and English was awarded a Friends of Music Fellowship. Dr. Jurs has performed solo and collaborative recitals throughout the United States and Europe, and at such festivals as the International Holland Music Sessions, Banff Centre for the Arts, Aspen Music Festival and others. He won First Prize at the 2004 Lee Biennial Piano Competition and in 2010 was winner of the University of Wisconsin Beethoven Competition. While a graduate student in Cleveland, Dr. Jurs served as an Associate Artist with Cleveland Opera, performing in over a hundred touring opera productions throughout the state. Since moving to Georgia in 2012, Dr. Jurs has enjoyed performing throughout the Southeast with colleagues from Atlanta, Macon, Athens, and Valdosta. He continues to serve as Artistic Director of the Blue Horse Music Festival in Woodstock, Vermont, where he presents and performs alongside leading musicians from New York’s classical and new music scenes in the intimate Blue Horse Inn music parlor.
Chicago born pianist Douglas Jurs was appointed Assistant Professor of Piano and Music Theory at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Fall 2012, having previously served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin – Madison and Edgewood College. His degrees are from The University of Wisconsin, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Indiana University – Bloomington, where he double majored in Piano and English was awarded a Friends of Music Fellowship. Dr. Jurs has performed solo and collaborative recitals throughout the United States and Europe, and at such festivals as the International Holland Music Sessions, Banff Centre for the Arts, Aspen Music Festival and others. He won First Prize at the 2004 Lee Biennial Piano Competition and in 2010 was winner of the University of Wisconsin Beethoven Competition. While a graduate student in Cleveland, Dr. Jurs served as an Associate Artist with Cleveland Opera, performing in over a hundred touring opera productions throughout the state. Since moving to Georgia in 2012, Dr. Jurs has enjoyed performing throughout the Southeast with colleagues from Atlanta, Macon, Athens, and Valdosta. He continues to serve as Artistic Director of the Blue Horse Music Festival in Woodstock, Vermont, where he presents and performs alongside leading musicians from New York’s classical and new music scenes in the intimate Blue Horse Inn music parlor.
