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Hsin-Yu Chen
Hsin-Yu Chen enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, orchestra musician, soloist and teacher. As a violinist she won a first prize of the National Symphony Orchestra Quartet Competition in Taiwan. Hsin-Yu performed at the National Concert Hall in Taipei with National Symphony Orchestra and since 2016 she has been performing with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago at Symphony Hall.
As a Civic Orchestra member 2016-18 season, Hsin-Yu worked with hundreds of students in the Chicago Public Schools, performed chamber music and orchestra music in community venues, and contributed to artistic programming, She greatly valued this opportunity to connect with the greater Chicago community.
Hsin-Yu holds Master degrees of music performance from DePaul University where her primary teachers were Janet Sung.
Jordan Kamps
Jordan Kamps is a percussionist from Chicago, IL currently teaching Percussion Ensemble, American Popular Music, Jazz History, Fundamentals of Music Theory, and Applied Percussion at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Outside the university, Jordan actively teaches high school marching bands in Wisconsin. He has taught groups in both the WSMA fall circuit and the MACBDA summer circuit. As a performer, Jordan has performed with such varying groups as the Extra Crispy Brass Band, Milwaukee Bucks Drumline, Sleeping At Last, and Chicago Arts Orchestra. Jordan holds a Bachelors of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of Wisconsin - Whitewater and a Masters of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.