Piano Collaborators

DAVID DUNFORD received his Bachelor of Music from the University of Arizona and his Master of Music from Eastman School of Music. David has performed at numerous recital programs all over the country, including on TV and radio, and has also been the opening act for musicians such as Aretha Franklin. He has soloed with the Tucson Symphony and appeared with the Richmond Symphony performing Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F Majors and Rhapsody in Blue. He currently serves as the Director of the Pioneer School of Music at the Salvation Army Tustin Ranch, and is both Deputy Songster Leader and Corps pianist.

Pianist MATTHEW HAGLE lives and works in the Chicago area, having performed at the Ravinia Festival’s Martin Theater, Symphony Center, the Chicago Cultural Center, and live from radio station WFMT, among other venues. He has performed in England, Australia, and Japan, as well as throughout the United States. His recent solo performances have explored the often neglected masterpieces of the 20th-century piano repertoire and connections between newer and older music, including pieces of Copland, Carter, Ives, Schönberg, Messaien, Ligeti, and Takemitsu. Since 1999, he has been principal collaborator to violinist Rachel Barton Pine, joining her for performances around the United States including a recent recital at the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as appearances on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, St. Paul Sunday, and the Jerry Lewis Telethon. In 2005, he joined Ms. Pine for a series of performances of the complete works for violin and piano by Beethoven, live on WFMT. He also performs with members of the Chicago Symphony and as a piano duo with his wife Mio.
Clavier Magazine has praised the “rare clarity and sweetness” of Mr. Hagle’s playing, which has been described by both Piano and Keyboard and the New Haven Register as “outstanding.” The Charleston Post and Courier commented on his “unusual sensitivity,” and the Springfield (MA) Union News applauded his “unaffected brilliance and profound understanding,” “elegant phrases and majestic expostulations,” and “rhythmic dependability, guarded exuberance, and a glorious fourth and fifth-finger legato with which to sing gleaming upper-octave melodies.”
A dedicated teacher of piano, chamber music, music theory, and composition, Mr. Hagle currently is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago. His students in piano and composition have won prizes in local and national competitions. He also has taught at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, at Elmhurst College, and at the International Institute for Young Musicians at the Universities of Kansas and California at Santa Barbara. In addition to teaching composition, Mr. Hagle has composed pieces for solo flute and piano that have been performed in Germany and Japan. He was a laureate of the 1997 American Pianists Association Competition, and one of 36 pianists chosen to compete in the 2000 Sydney International Piano Competition.
Matthew Hagle is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory (B.M.) and of Yale University (M.M., M.M.A., D.M.A), receiving faculty prizes in piano, accompanying, and music theory. He has also received a Fulbright Grant to study piano privately in London. His teachers were Claude Frank, Robert Weirich, Donald Currier and Maria Curcio Diamond.
Clavier Magazine has praised the “rare clarity and sweetness” of Mr. Hagle’s playing, which has been described by both Piano and Keyboard and the New Haven Register as “outstanding.” The Charleston Post and Courier commented on his “unusual sensitivity,” and the Springfield (MA) Union News applauded his “unaffected brilliance and profound understanding,” “elegant phrases and majestic expostulations,” and “rhythmic dependability, guarded exuberance, and a glorious fourth and fifth-finger legato with which to sing gleaming upper-octave melodies.”
A dedicated teacher of piano, chamber music, music theory, and composition, Mr. Hagle currently is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago. His students in piano and composition have won prizes in local and national competitions. He also has taught at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, at Elmhurst College, and at the International Institute for Young Musicians at the Universities of Kansas and California at Santa Barbara. In addition to teaching composition, Mr. Hagle has composed pieces for solo flute and piano that have been performed in Germany and Japan. He was a laureate of the 1997 American Pianists Association Competition, and one of 36 pianists chosen to compete in the 2000 Sydney International Piano Competition.
Matthew Hagle is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory (B.M.) and of Yale University (M.M., M.M.A., D.M.A), receiving faculty prizes in piano, accompanying, and music theory. He has also received a Fulbright Grant to study piano privately in London. His teachers were Claude Frank, Robert Weirich, Donald Currier and Maria Curcio Diamond.

MILANA PAVCHINSKAYA was born in Odessa, Ukraine and had her first piano lessons when she was five years old. She studied for eleven years at the Special Music School of Stolarsky in Odessa before entering the State Music Institute of Gnessin in Moscow, Russia. She joined the faculty of the Special Music School (Moscow) and later became the staff accompanist at the Odessa State Conservatory. Ms. Pavchinskaya has received her MM in piano performance and pedagogy from Northwestern University and was the recipient of the Hoverson Piano Award in honor of Pauline Lindsley. She now frequently appears as a chamber musician and collaborative pianist throughout the Chicagoland area and is on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago.

SUNG MOON HO is on the piano and musicianship faculty at the Music Institute of Chicago. He recevied his DMA from the Peadbody Conservatory of Music, his MM, Performer's Certificate from Indiana University, and his BM from the Eastman School of Music.