by The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team

Join the Ann Arbor Symphony at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor on Monday, May 1 at 1:30 pm. This hour-long concert features the unique four-voice cello choir from the studio of renown U-M cellist, Richard Aaron. The quintet will expand the choir to include special songs sung to a cello accompaniment. The program will include: Tchaikovsky’s Andante Cantabile from String Quartet No.1 ; selections from Chiquilin de Bachin, Romantico Idilio, Chau Paris by Astor Piazzolla; Schubert’s Gute Nacht from Winterreise; Mahler’s Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen; Strauss’ Morgen; and new composter Victor Huls’ Andante for Cello Trio.

Special Guests Include:
Victor Minke Huls, cello and piano
Caroline Kim, cello
Richard Narroway, cello and piano
Nathaniel Pierce, cello and voice

Victor Minke Huls

Victor Minke Hulls is a cellist, conductor, countertenor and pianist who comes from a Floridian family of musicians. A recent dual-Masters graduate from the University of Michigan, Victor studied cello performance with Richard Aaron and orchestral conducting with Kenneth Kiesler. For three years he served as Music Director and conductor of the Ann Arbor Camerata, a local chamber orchestra of University of Michigan students and professionals. With this group he organized a total of 16 orchestral performances, dozens of outreach events, and multiple recording sessions of new works, including a CD project with Dr. Nancy Ambrose King titled “IllumiNation: New AmericanConcertos for Oboe,” to be released by Equilibrium Records with worldwide distribution. In 2015, Victor was featured cello soloist in the NAXOS recording project led by David Alan Miller at the National Orchestral Institute. Last summer, Victor was associate principal cellist of the Aspen Chamber Symphony and is excited to return as an AACA cello fellow. In June, Victor will be Student Guest Conductor for the OperaMaya festival in México, and teach at Prelude Chamber Music Camp in his home city of Jacksonville, Florida. Victor is currently a semi-finalist with the New World Symphony.

Caroline Kim

Korean Canadian cellist, Caroline Kim, is currently a doctoral student at University of Michigan and a member of the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra. She is a recent graduate of the Accelerated BM/MM program at the Juilliard School where she was the recipient of the Irene Land Scholarship, the Genevieve Kniese Cahudhuri Cello Scholarship, and the Betty & Daniel Bloomfield Fund Scholarship.

Caroline has given performances across the United States and Canada in many acknowledged venues such as Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall. Caroline is also the winner of the graduate concerto competition at University of Michigan 2017. She has given recitals in Calgary, Alberta, New York City, and Aspen, Colorado. As a student at the Juilliard School, she had been selected as a member of the pool of principal cellists since 2012.