The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

Currently pursuing her DMA in Flute Performance, Kristin Bacchiocchi-Stewart is also on the flute and chamber music faculty at Peabody Conservatory of Music, and has previously served on the faculty of Frostburg State University, Schenectady County Community College, Ithaca College, the Savage Mountain Summer Chamber Music Series and Flauto Musicale. A member of TRITONIS (flute, cello, and guitar), she also frequently concertizes with guitarist Joel Brown, with percussionist Michael Zell and I Venti Semplice. As an orchestral musician, she has played with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Catskill Symphony, and The Albany Pro Musica. She was a prize winner at the 2002 National Flute Association's Young Artist Competition, a participant in the First Beijing Nicolet International Flute Competition and a semi-finalist in the Myrna Brown and Ducrest Young Artist Competitions.

Ms. Bacchiocchi-Stewart received her M.M. from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a B.M. from Ithaca College. She has participated in the Aspen Music Festival, the Colorado College Music Festival, and the Piccinini International Zurich Masterclass series. Her main teachers have been Marina Piccinini, Bradley Garner, Wendy Mehne, Claudia Anderson and Selma Moore.

Joon Hyuk Choi has performed in numerous prestigious venues including the Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and at the Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh. He currently studies flute as a Master of Music candidate under the guidance of Marina Piccinini at the Peabody Conservatory, and received his Bacheor's degree under the tutelage of Jeanne Baxtresser and Alberto Almarza at Carnegie Mellon University. Previous teachers include Laurie Sokoloff at the Peabody Conservatory, Soo-Kyung Park at the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division and Diane Spatalny in Chappaqua, NY. He has also worked with Peter-Lukas Graf at the Mozarteum Academy in Salzburg.

Esther Choi began her flute studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and continued her musical education at the University of Toronto with Susan Hoeppner. She later studied with Jeffrey Khaner in Philadelphia and has joined the studio of Marina Piccinini for her graduate degree. She has performed in numerous masterclasses including those of Louis Moyse, Julius Baker, Emmanuel Pahud, Robert Langevin, Carol Wincenc, Peter Lloyd, Jeanne Baxtresser, among others. Ms. Choi has won numerous competitions including first place at Nationals of the 2007 Canadian Music Competition, and the UTSO Concerto Competition where she performed with the orchestra under the direction of Maestro Raffi Armenian. She has given recitals at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto and was featured soloist with the Toronto Senior Strings. An active chamber and orchestral performer, Ms. Choi has performed under the batons of many conductors including Helmuth Rillings, Agnes Grossman and Sir Andrew Davis. She toured with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada this past summer under conductor Jacques Lacombe.

 Jeong-hyun Kim, DMA degree-in-progress with Marina Piccinini. MM Carnegie Mellon with Jeanne Baxtresser and Alberto Almarza. BM Seoul National University with Kyung-wha Song and Mi-sun Lee. Currently playing in Chicago Civic Orchestra.

Camille Delaney  is currently in her first year towards a Master’s degree at the  Peabody Institute and previously earned her Bachelor’s Degree from the  University of Maryland College Park under Kathleen Trahan and William Montgomery. She has participated in master classes given by Michel Debost, Mary Karen Clardy, Gary Schocker, Alexa Still, Bonita Boyd, and Susan Hoeppner.   Ms Delaney has won various competitions held by the Flute Society of Washington, including the Collegiate Solo Competition, Guest Artist Masterclass competition, and 2^nd place winner of the Wallace Mann Orchestral Competition. She has worked with the Prince George’s Philharmonic as well as the  Inscape Music Chamber group. Other highlights have included an a capella duo performance with Kathleen Battle at a Benefit Gala for the Ford Theatre Academy, as well as numerous appearances with her mother, the soprano Carmen Balthrop, both in the US as well as in China and Tawian.

KyongA Kim, is the assistant principal flutist of the Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra in Korea and is currently on a one-year  leave of absence so as to pursue her GPD-Graduate Performance Diploma degree  with Marina Piccinini. She earned her BM with Youngji Song and Misook Kim at the Yonsei University, and her MM with Jinhae Kim at the Seoul National University. She also attended the Mozarteum Summer Academy in  Salzburg and Nice Summer Music Festival in France.
Ms. Kim has been soloist with the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, Yonsei Orchestra, Chungnam Philharmonic Orchestra, Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra and has  won prizes in the Korea Flute Association, Chosun Newspaper and Eum-Hyup Competitions.
From 1999 to 2006 she was the  Flute instructor at Bai Jai University in Korea.

SangAe Kim, a native of Korea, is a second year master of music degree student studying with Marina Piccinini. Previously she studied with HyeKung Lee,Young Mi Kim and Valentine Zvreve at the Korea National University of Arts. She has been a soloist with the Korea National University of Art Symphony, Paris Maissy Orchestra, Seoul Wind Ensemble and has performed in recital at Kum-ho Art hall. SangAe Kim has won prizes in several competitions such as Dae gu TBC Competition, Kyng-Hang &Ewha music Competitions and Busan MBC Competition. She was selected for the Eum-Yeon Summer Music Festival Coca-Cola scholarship. SangAe most recently won 1st prize in the Osaka International Music Competition.

Flutist Cheryl Lim is currently pursuing her DMA at the Peabody Institute with Marina Piccinini. A native of Singapore, she performs regularly as principal flutist the Singapore Festival Orchestra and the Singapore Lyric Opera Orchestra, as well as the Singapore Symphony Orchestra and Singapore National Youth Orchestra, where she also performed as soloist. Ms. Lim has attended the Canton International Summer Music Academy where she performed under the baton of Charles Dutoit, and has participated in the Nice International Academy in France and the Domaine Forget festival in Canada. She has performed in master classes by Maxence Larrieu, Emmanuel Pahud, Sir James Galway, Jose-Daniel Castellon and Juliette Hurel.  Ms. Lim received a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music under Michael Parloff,  and a Bachelor of Music degree with First-class Honors from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of the National University of Singapore as a student of Jin Ta.  Other teachers include Evgueni Brokmiller and Wang Tong.

Russian flutist Anastasia Petanova began playing the flute at the age of four and continued her studies at the Central Music School of the Moscow State Conservatory with Uriy N. Dolzhikov. Ms. Petanova has performed in Russia, Austria, Great Britain, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and the USA, including the Festival de Russe in Cannes and the Music Festival in Colmar . She has appeared as soloist with the Moscow Virtuosi and the Russian National Orchestra under Vladimir Spivakov on several tours both in Russia and abroad. She received her Bachelor of Music form the Peabody Conservatory of Music where is also currently enrolled in the prestigious Artist Diploma program under Marina Piccinini.

Elena Yakovleva began playing both piano and flute as a child in Kaliningrad, Russia and later graduated from the Rachmaninov Music College with Honors in Performance and Pedagogy. Elena continued her studies at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold and at the Folkwanghochschule Essen, Germany, studying under Prof. Hans-Jörg Wegner and Prof. Gunhild Ott, and later, under Jeanne Baxtresser and Alberto Almarza as a Performance Residence Program student at the Carnegie Mellon University on full scholarship. Since 2006 she has been pusuing graduate studies at Peabody Institute with Marina Piccinini.

Currently, Elena holds the piccolo and third flute position with the Delaware Symphony, and has also played piccolo  with the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, toured as a soloist and with the Rachmaninov wind quintet, the Traditional Russian Instrument Orchestra and the Kaliningrad Symphony Orchestra throughout Russia and Europe . She has performed in the Peabody “Side by Side” project with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Marin Alsop, participated in the Summer Opera Theatre of Washington, D.C. and the Blossom Festival. A scholarship recipient from the Russian Ministry of Culture, she was selected for the artist roster of Yehudi Menuhin's foundation "Live Music Now", has been a winner of the "New Names" Festival in Moscow , the "Villa Musica" Award, and in 2006 won 2nd prize in the New York Flute Club Competition.

Kimberly Zaleski, Currently in her third year of the Bachelor's of Music Program with Ms. Piccinini, she is a graduate of the Juilliard School's Pre-College division where she studied with Dr. Bradley Garner, and studies with Renee Siebert, flutist of the New York Philharmonic. Ms. Zaleski has been a member of the Tanglewood Institute Wind ensemble, the New York State All-State Ensemble, and the New York State Summer School of the Arts Orchestra. Winner of the United States Military Academy Instrumental Competition and was featured on the nationally broadcast radio show "From the Top". Master classes with Sir James Galway, Julius Baker, Ransom Wilson, Kerry Walker, Trudy Kane, Susan Hoeppner, and Gary Shocker, Jeffrey Khaner. Participated in the 2009 Schloss Moritzburg Akademie in Germany.

A native of Seoul, Korea, flutist EunJin Raoul Cho began his flute studies at the age of eleven. While studying in Korea, Mr.Cho won first prize in many competitions including the Seoul Flute Association Competition, Kyung-Won University Competition and twice won the Ewha University Kyung-Hyang Newspaper Competition. Mr.Cho had a solo recital through the young artist program at Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, Korea and also performed in the Youth Music Festival and Winner’s Concert of Ewha Univ. Kyung-Kyang Newspaper Competition. Mr. Cho has participated in the 2003 Aspen Music Festival and the 2008 Fairbanks Arts Festival. Mr. Cho is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Music at Peabody University as a third year student. Former teachers include Jae-Young Bae, Mihi Kim Raffael Leone and Wolfgang Shultz.

Eric Maul, in his freshman year  pursuing  a Bachelor of Music at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins studying with Marina Piccinini is currently co-principal of the Peabody Wind Ensemble and a member of the Baltimore Concerto Orchestra. In the past, Mr. Maul has been a member of the Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra and the Chesapeake Youth Symphony Orchestra Senior Flute Ensemble. Mr. Maul has also performed as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Naval Academy as the winner of their respective concerto competitions. Mr. Maul is a Maryland Distinguished Scholar (Talent in the Arts) and a recipient of the Al Sanders Scholarship. He has performed in master classes for Michael Debost, Amy Porter, and Bonita Boyd and has participated in summer programs such as the Marina Piccinini International Summer Master Class, Aria Summer Institute, and the Oberlin Summer Flute Institute. Past teachers include Melinda Wade-English and Laurie Sokoloff