Jennifer Walvoord, violin
 
Jennifer Walvoord of Holland, Michigan graduated with her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.  She has Master's degrees in both violin performance and chamber music from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor's degree in violin performance from Hope College in Holland, Michigan.  Her former teachers include Andrew Jennings, Aaron Berofsky, Martin Katz and Mihai Craioveanu.
 
Jennifer holds the position of concertmaster with the West Michigan Symphony and has been a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony and National Repertory Orchestra (Breckenridge, Colorado).  She has performed as soloist with the West Michigan Symphony on multiple occasions, the Holland Symphony Orchestra and the Hope College Orchestra.  While at the University of Michigan, Jennifer performed electric violin on the Grammy Award-winning recording of William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and Experience conducted by Leonard Slatkin.  Also while at the University of Michigan, her piano quintet performed at the Kennedy Center as part of the Kennedy Center Conservatory Project.
 
Jennifer has taught on the violin faculty of Calvin College and has taught at Hope College as a sabbatical replacement.  She enjoys privately teaching a full studio of talented violinists.  Her students have attended such music festivals as Interlochen Arts Camp and Meadowmount.  Jennifer’s students have won numerous awards including first and second prizes of the Holland Symphony Norbert Mueller Concerto Competition, concertmaster of the Michigan Youth Fine Arts Orchestra, participation in the Michigan All-State Orchestra, and a winner of the Preliminary Round of the White Lake Chamber Music Festival Solo Performance Competition.
 
Jennifer is an active chamber musician, and she performs recitals regularly with her husband, pianist Dr. Andrew Le.  Jennifer and Andrew are the Artistic Directors of the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck.  She is also Director of Marketing for the Holland Symphony Orchestra.  Jennifer collaborated with her sister, Martha, on a recording called “American Perspectives” which was recently released on the Centaur Records Label.  Jennifer and Andrew live in Holland, MI with their son, Matthew and daughter, Katherine.
​Andrew Le, piano
 
Born in Vietnam, pianist Andrew (Drew) Le has been hailed as "an impressive tour-de-force...a plenitude of poetic nuance" (New York Concert Review), and lauded for his "consummate piano virtuosity" (Goleta Valley Voice) and "pistonlike precision" (Mountain Tradition). Drew was the first-prize winner of the 2004 Hilton Head International Piano Competition, and is currently serving as Associate Professor of Piano at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He and his wife, violinist Jennifer Walvoord, are the Artistic Directors of the Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck. 
 
Drew is also the founder and director of Holland's popular Brown Bag Concerts, a series designed to encourage and foster the accessibility of classical music to the general public. Passionate about serving his local community, he has also performed recitals as food drives, the last of which brought in close to 600 non-perishable items that were donated to the Holland Rescue Mission.
 
Drew was a C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellow at the Juilliard School, where he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2007. Drew also studied piano performance at the Interlochen Arts Academy, the University of Michigan, and the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau. His teachers have included Hien Le, Vivian Kleinhuizen, Rich Ridenour, Victoria Mushkatkol, Arthur Greene, Philippe Bianconi, John Perry, and Jerome Lowenthal. Passionate about teaching, Drew's doctoral document explored the pedagogical lineage of Jerome Lowenthal's teachers, including William Kapell, Eduard Steuermann, and Alfred Cortot. Drew was appointed for three summers to the piano faculty of Interlochen Arts Camp's All-State Program as an undergraduate teaching alongside tenured professors. Later, he was selected to be Jerome Lowenthal's teaching assistant at The Juilliard School. Drew has also served on the faculty at the Gilmore Piano Camp and at Friends Music Camp.
 
Drew joined the international roster of Steinway Artists in 2013, and released his debut recording on the Blue Griffin label the same year. Drew is also a violinist, and is an active member of the Holland Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of Music Teachers National Association, Michigan Music Teachers Association, and Holland Piano Teachers Forum, and has served on the Consistory of Third Reformed Church. Drew resides in Holland, Michigan, with his wife and their two young children.
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​Alicia Eppinga joined the Hope College music faculty in fall 2014. She has been a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony since 1989 and was appointed assistant principal cello in 1990 and principal cello in 2011. Ms. Eppinga was raised in Grand Haven, Michigan, and attended the Interlochen Arts Academy from 1980–1983. She received her Bachelor of Music Performance degree at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music as a student of Richard Kapuscinski and her Master of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music with Steven Doane.
Since moving to Grand Rapids, Michigan, Ms. Eppinga has been a frequent performer in solo and chamber music concerts. She is a member of Ensemble Montage, a group of musicians dedicated to bringing unique and contemporary chamber music to West Michigan. She is also a founding member of Castalia, a piano quartet that focuses on performing music by women composers. Ms. Eppinga has appeared as a soloist with the Kent Philharmonia, Calvin Alumni Orchestra and on the Richard and Helen DeVos Classical Series with the Grand Rapids Symphony. She lives in Ada with husband, Jim, and their children, Leo and Iris.