230 NE 9th St. Bend
OR 97701
High Desert Chamber Music presents a Master Class with Los Angeles Philharmonic Associate Principal Cellist Ben Hong. Presented in partnership with the Cascade School of Music and the Oregon branch of the American String Teachers Association, this event is free and open to the public. Mr. Hong is a three-time winner of his native country Taiwan’s National Cello Competition and regularly conducts master classes and clinics in the U.S. and abroad. He is on the faculty of University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and the Colburn Conservatory.
The students range in age from 13-21 years old, and come from the private teaching studios of Marilyn De Olveira, Hyun-Jin Kim, Valdine Mishkin, Steven Pologe, Michael Scott, and Maria Shim. They will be performing works by Elgar, Bach, Popper, Boccherini, and Tchaikovsky.