2025 Festival Faculty
connect. engage. inspire.
Festival Directors
FESTIVAL/ADULT WORKSHOP DIRECTOR
FESTIVAL MANAGER
JUNIOR FESTIVAL DIRECTORS
Heartland Chamber Music
Guest Artists & Festival Faculty Artists
2025 FESTIVAL QUARTET-IN-RESIDENCE
Christina Bouey | violin
Ulysses String Quartet Violinist
Albany Symphony Concertmaster
Ithaca College
Rhiannon Banerdt | violin
Ulysses String Quartet Violinist
Pete Dudek | viola
Ulysses String Quartet Violist
Grace Ho | cello
Ulysses String Quartet Cellist
FESTIVAL FACULTY ARTISTS
Julius Adams, viola
Chamber Orch of the Triangle
Andrew Book, bass
Blue Valley West HS
Yu-Fang Chen |violin
Ball State University
Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City Symphony
Jesse Henkensiefken | symphony
HCM & MAPAA Director
Henrie Violin Studio
Langston Hemingway | brass choral
William Jewell College
Kansas City Symphony
Tatiaana Tessman | piano
Mid-America Performing
Arts Alliance
Creston Herron | camerata
University of Kansas
JUNIOR FESTIVAL FACULTY ARTISTS
Violetta Strings
Judy Erpelding | violin, orchestra
Blue Valley North HS
Blue Valley West HS
Andrew Gafrick | bass
HCM Assistant
Wichita Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Masotto | viola
Shawnee Heights HS
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Dawn Herron | violin
Free State HS
Creston Herron | violin
University of Kansas
Erinn Renyer | cello
Washburn University
Dana Woolard | cello
William Jewell College
ADULT WORKSHOP FACULTY ARTISTS
Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City Symphony
HCM & MAPAA
Henrie Violin Studio
University of Kansas
Mid-America Performing
Arts Alliance
University of Kansas