 Corinne Stillwell
Assistant Professor of Violin
850-644-1862
csbowman@fsu.edu
Assistant Professor of Violin CORINNE STILLWELL entered the Juilliard School at the age of ten, where she subsequently earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Greater Rochester Women’s Philharmonic, the Amarillo Symphony, and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, among others. As a recitalist, she has performed at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, the Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago, and the Aspen Music Festival.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Stillwell has collaborated in performances at Alice Tully Hall, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Kosciuszko Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, and the American Festival of Microtonal Music. She has also performed with the Amarillo Chamber Music Society and the chamber music festivals in Norfolk and Skaneateles.
In 1997, Ms. Stillwell joined the Harrington String Quartet, in residence at West Texas A&M University and with the Amarillo Symphony, where she served as Concertmaster. With the Quartet, she performed extensively across the Midwest, with appearances from Texas to Wisconsin. Other projects included a PBS documentary, TV and radio broadcasts, and collaborations with clarinetist David Shifrin, pianist Robert Levin, guitarist Pepe Romero, and members of the Pro Arte and Cavani quartets.
Before joining the College of Music faculty at FSU, Ms. Stillwell was the Assistant Concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic and a founding member of the string quartet Quartos. She performed regularly with Chamber Music Rochester and faculty from the Eastman School, and was often heard on WXXI-FM Public Radio. She joined the faculty at the Hochstein School in 2002, where she directed the Chamber Music Connection.
 Ben Sung
Assistant Professor of Violin
Email: BSung@fsu.edu Assistant Professor of Violin at Florida State University, violinist Benjamin Sung is also concertmaster of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, a faculty member of the Brevard Music Institute, and a roster artist for Florida Arts on Tour. His 2014-15 calendar includes appearances at the University of Miami, Rutgers University, and Framingham State University; the Brevard Music Festival; the Festival Nuevo Mundo in Aruba; Festival Virtuosi in Recife, Brazil; and a TEDx talk for TEDx Fargo. Sung has performed as soloist with orchestras including the Camerata Romeu of Havana, Cuba, the Virtuosi of Festival Internacionale de Musica in Recife, Brazil, and the National Repertory Orchestra. He is equally in demand as a chamber musician, having shared the stage with pianist Monique Duphil, cellists Antonio Meneses and Marcio Carneiro, and French horn player William Purvis, among others. He is a past winner of the Starling Award of the Eastman School of Music, the Violin Fellowship of the Montgomery Symphony, and an Aaron Copland Fund Recording Grant.
An enthusiastic advocate of contemporary music, Sung has worked with many of the greatest composers of this generation, including John Adams, Pierre Boulez, George Crumb, and Helmut Lachenmann. He recently released an album of new American works entitled FluxFlummoxed on Albany Records, a recording that Fanfare Magazine calls a “brilliant performance of four superb works” with “impeccable intonation and tone production.” Sung holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Oleh Krysa, and Master’s and Doctoral degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, from the studio of Nelli Shkolnikova.
Professor Sung maintains a personal website at benjaminsung.com
 Shannon Thomas
Assistant Professor of Violin
Phone: 850-644-1070 Email: strem@fsu.edu Assistant Professor of Violin Shannon Thomas has garnered a reputation for exciting, thoughtful performances as a chamber musician, soloist, and in recital throughout the United States and abroad. Recent performing engagements have taken her to the Kennedy Center, Spoleto Festival USA, Carnegie Hall, and the Banff Centre where she has collaborated with artists such as the St. Lawrence String Quartet, David Halen, Richard King, Wendy Chen, and Anita Pontremoli.
In addition to concerts with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and Naples Philharmonic, Shannon performs regularly with the IRIS Orchestra under the direction of Michael Stern. She has performed at festivals around the country including Kneisel Hall, ENCORE School for Strings, Sarasota Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival, working with musicians such as Joseph Silverstein, Laurie Smukler, Robert Lipsett, and members of the Juilliard, Blair, and Cavani String Quartets.
Prior to her arrival at Florida State University, Shannon also served on the faculties of the University of Southern Mississippi, the Cleveland Institute of Music Preparatory Division, Interlochen Arts Camp, and Lee University. Her students have been prizewinners and finalists at national competitions, including MMTA and the Sphinx Competition. She is on the violin and chamber music faculty of the Kinhaven Music School and serves as Education Director of the Innsbrook Institute Summer Music Academy and Festival.
Shannon earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she served as Paul Kantor’s teaching assistant. She received her Master of Music from Yale University and a Bachelor of Music from Vanderbilt University, and also pursued graduate work at Arizona State University, where she was the first student to be accepted into the Artist Diploma program. Her principal teachers have included Paul Kantor, Cornelia Heard, Jonathan Swartz, and Ani Kavafian.
For more information, visit shannonthomasviolin.com
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