category: Strings

Bing Kuang Fang has been playing violin with the Knoxville Symphony since 1995. He was born in Shanghai and graduated from Shanghai Conservatory. After graduation, he played violin with the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra for 10 years. He has two daughters who are violinists in the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra.

A violinist and conductor trained by the National Youth Orchestra System of Venezuela (currently known as “El Sistema”), Edward Pulgar was born in Caracas and began his musical studies at age eight in solfège, percussion, and violin. At thirteen years old, he won his first violin competition at the Juan Bautista Plaza V National Violin […]

Lin is from Taipei, Taiwan. She began studying piano and violin at age 5. She acquired a Bachelor of Music in 2009 and Master of Music in 2012 from National Taiwan Normal University where she studied with Nanette Chin-Horng Chen. After graduation, she moved to the United States to study with Alexander Kerr at Indiana […]

Violinist Kyle Venlet joined the Knoxville Symphony in October 2019. Formerly, he was Assistant Principal 2nd Violin of the Traverse Symphony Orchestra and performed with Midland, Lansing, Battle Creek, West Michigan, and Southwest MI Symphony Orchestras. He has been featured on KSO’s Q Series at the Elks Lodge, the Bill and Joanne Church West Circle […]

Originally from Boise, Idaho, Jennifer joined the Knoxville Symphony in September of 2022. Previously, she was a member of the Naples Philharmonic for 6 seasons from 2016-2022, where she received tenure under the baton of Andrey Boreyko. During that time, she spent her summers performing with the Charlottesville Opera as a core second violin. Prior […]

The founder of Farr Horizons, Elizabeth Farr, is well known throughout East Tennessee as a violinist, harpist and teacher.  She serves as Music Director at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Farragut, where she has conducted such works as John Rutter’s “Mass of the Children,” and “Requiem” as well as Respighi’s “Laud to the Nativity”. She […]

Julie Swenson received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Iowa. She also studied violin with David Cerone at the Meadowmount School of Music in New York, and Suzuki pedagogy with Doris Preucil at the Preucil School of Music in Iowa City. Her Suzuki pedagogy training continued at the […]

Daniel Zellers is originally from Cosby, Tennessee, where he began studying music at the age of eight. He continued his violin studies under the direction of Edward Pulgar, attending Carson-Newman University. In 2017, Daniel graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory. Daniel became a member of the Knoxville Symphony […]

Peter Aguilar became a member of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra in 1997.  He has also performed with both the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra as well as the Symphony of the Mountains. He is a native of Knoxville and began learning the violin at age five as a student in the Suzuki Program of Knoxville.  He […]