https://bakkenensemble.org/home daily 1.0 2026-04-04 https://bakkenensemble.org/about daily 0.75 2024-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f64c7b19e658f2e8925c326/1601071584789-KVLNFRZ3IDKJEHKS1TF4/Bakken_180731_TN_130.jpg About Stephanie Arado (Violinist and Bakken Artistic Director) Violinist Stephanie Arado’s career encompasses a wide range of performance and teaching experience. Born in Chicago, Ms. Arado played her first solo recital at the age of eight and went on to debut with the Chicago Symphony at the age of twelve. She continued her solo career, performing as soloist with the Detroit, St. Louis and Minnesota Orchestras as well as many others across the nation. Active in competitions in her early years she was a prize winner in several prestigious competitions, winning first prize in the Julius Stulberg and Irving M. Klein Competitions and was a semi-finalist at the Tchaikovsky International Competition. Ms. Arado’s musical pedigree has been enriched by a diverse collection of the foremost pedagogues of our time, including Almita and Roland Vamos, Paul Kantor, Dorothy Delay, Paul Rolland and Camilla Wicks. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Western Illinois University and holds a Masters of Musical Performance from the Juilliard School. Ms. Arado has participated in chamber music festivals both nationally and internationally and has had the privilege to coach and perform with such masters as Paul Tortelier, Joseph Silverstein, Joel Smirnoff and Yuri Bashmet. Ms. Arado’s experience extends to the orchestral world where she spent twenty two years as Assistant Concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra and also served one season as Concertmaster of the Colorado Symphony. In 2012, Ms. Arado resigned from her position with the Minnesota Orchestra to devote more time to teaching and chamber music. A recipient of a McKnight Foundation Grant for Performing Artists, Ms. Arado currently holds a position as Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of Minnesota. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f64c7b19e658f2e8925c326/1601071747092-1MZT0ACOF4NDURZGE5RJ/Bakken_180731_TN_149.jpg About Pitnarry Shin (Cellist and Bakken Artistic Director) Cellist Pitnarry Shin has been praised in Strad magazine for her beautiful tone and passionate interpretations in her New York debut recital at Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall. She has toured throughout the United States, Europe, and her native Korea and has performed as soloist with the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) Symphony Orchestra, the Kunsan Philharmonic, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and the Queens Symphony Orchestra. Pitnarry has appeared at many of the leading international festivals including the Ravinia Festival, the Edinburgh and Dartington Festivals (England), Colmar and Evian Festivals in France. A recipient of a Fulbright Grant to Germany, Ms. Shin served as guest Co-Principal Cellist with the London Symphony Orchestra and as Acting Principal of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. She has played with the New York Philharmonic and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Currently a cellist with the Minnesota Orchestra, Pitnarry received her musical education at the Curtis Institute of Music at Yale University Music School, where she received the Aldo Parisot-Yo Yo Ma Prize upon graduation, and at Stony Brook University. Pitnarry is married to Kyu-Young Kim, principal Second Violinist in the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and has two children. https://bakkenensemble.org/contact daily 0.75 2023-06-25 https://bakkenensemble.org/covid19-precautions daily 0.75 2022-12-06