BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Dr. Elliott Bark, Music Director
Dr. George Boespflug, Dean of Music Conservatory at Biola University
David CM Kim, Music Director of Bethel Korean Church, Irvine, CA

ADVISORY BOARD

Diane Bish, Founder/Director of Joy of Music; Organist
James Buswell, New England Conservatory Professor; Violinist
Patrick Kavanaugh, Director of the Christian Performing Artists’ Fellowship
Susann McDonald, Indiana University Distinguished Professor
Carol Ou, New England Conservatory Professor, Cellist
David Reimer, Calvin College Professor; Violinist
Linda Strommen, Indiana University Professor; Oboist

OFFICERS

Dr. Elliott Bark, President
Carrie Ann Bark, Secretary
Clay Parkley, Treasurer

Jeehee Christy Oh, Piano

Jeehee Christy Oh is a pianist and music educator. She completed her Bachelor's Degree in Piano at Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, where she studied under Edmund Battersby and Reiko Neriki. She also attended Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and Colburn School of Performing Arts. She is currently a member at Music Teachers' Association of California and is teaching at the OrchePia School of Music in Irvine, CA. She loves inspiring young students to love music and enjoys performing with many various ensemble and choir groups.

Yoon-Hee Jung, Flute

Yoon-Hee Jung, a native of Seoul, South Korea, began her flute studies at the age of seven and made her debut with the New Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra four years later. She attended the Yewon School and the Seoul Arts High School in Korea. Ms. Jung received her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA, and she is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Flute Performance at USC under James Walker. She also studied traverso with Dr. Rotem Gilbert and joined the Baroque Sinfonia of USC, in addition to performing with LA Opera's early music production of Dido and Aeneas by Purcell. Currently, Ms. Jung is working in the Colburn School's Jumpstart Young Musician's Program as a flute teaching artist, plays as a member of USC's Scholarship Woodwind Quintet 2014-2015.

Hee-Seung Lee, Piano

Hee-Seung Lee, a native of Korea, has won the First Prize in Eum Hyup Competition of Korea, Redlands Bowl Young Artist Competition, MTAC State Piano Competition, Palisades Symphony Young Artist Competition, Glendale Piano Competition, the Second Prize in Dan Stover Music Competition and Oberlin Mozart Concerto Competition among many others. Lee has soloed with Palisades Symphony, Los Angeles Doctors Symphony and Crossroads Chamber Orchestra. Lee has received BM under full scholarship and the Piano Faculty Prize from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, MM and Performer Diploma under Associate Instructorship from Indiana University and is currently completing DMA under merit scholarship at USC Thornton School of Music studying with world-renowned pianist Daniel Pollack. Lee has studied with Yin Yin Huang, Angela Cheng, Arnaldo Cohen, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, and with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Mack McCray during summers.

Elliott Bark, Conductor

Elliott Bark has received The 31st Republic of Korea Composition Award (the most prestigious composition award in Korea) and Carnegie premiere of his Shalom for Flute and Orchestra. As a conductor, he devotes a tremendous amount of time to conducting new music by living composers, premiering more than 50 compositions by living composers. A recipient of 2012 Mrs. Hong Pham New Music Performance Award from Indiana University, Elliott is currently music director/conductor of Ensemble Christo, Bethel Vision Orchestra and Porterville Summer Strings, and previously worked with Indiana University New Music Ensemble as assistant conductor. Elliott received his Doctor of Music at Indiana University, studying composition with Claude Baker, David Dzubay, Don Freund and P.Q. Phan and instrumental conducting with David Effron and Arthur Fagen.

Rachel Spidell, Horn

Rachel Spidell received her Bachelor’s Degree in Horn Performance from the University of Arizona in 2013.  While in Tucson, Rachel was an active presence in both the University and local music scenes, performing with groups such as the Arizona Symphony Orchestra, the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra, and the Sierra Vista Symphony Orchestra, as well as with various chamber ensembles.

In the summer of 2013 Rachel performed as a member of the 2013 Disneyland All-American College Band in Anaheim, CA.  Last fall she relocated to Southern California where she freelances and performs as a community volunteer with the UCI Symphony Orchestra.

Carrie Ann Bark, Violin

Carrie Ann Bark received her Bachelor’s in violin performance at the Jacob School of Music in Bloomington, IN in 2009, and masters with certification in music education, also at Jacobs, in May 2013.  As a music teacher, she currently works for the Long Beach Unified School District in four different elementary schools, while teaching violin privately in Orange County.  On weekends Carrie partners with her husband, Elliott Bark, in directing the Christian Youth Symphony of Irvine (CYSI).  To continue using her skills as an orchestral performer, she plays for Bethel Korean Church in Irvine.