DMSO at Home Live with Madeline Capistran

Madeline Capistran Violin

A native of Fargo, North Dakota, violinist Madeline Capistran began studying the violin at age 9 with her mother, Jane Linde Capistran. As a teenager, she continued her studies with Sally O'Reilly at the University of Minnesota. Ms. Capistran holds a B.M. in violin performance from Michigan State University and a M.M. in violin performance from DePaul University, where she studied with Ilya Kaler. As an active chamber and orchestral musician, Ms. Capistran was a member of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, and she has attended such summer programs as Musicorda, Meadowmount, the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, the Hot Springs Music Festival, Dakota Chamber Music, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chamber Music Institute.

As a soloist, Ms. Capistran has performed with the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, the Fargo-Moorhead Area Youth Symphony, on National Public Radio's show "From the Top" with pianist Christopher O'Riley, with Chicago’s Logan Chamber Players, and has appeared as part of the “Noontime Concert Series” at the University of Chicago. Other recent playing and teaching opportunities have included being a Teaching Artist at St. Ambrose University, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, and subbing with the Minnesota Orchestra. She is currently living in Iowa, where she teaches at Coe College and plays in the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra Iowa as Assistant Concertmaster.

YounJung Cha Piano

Korean pianist YounJung Cha has been praised for her playing as “personal and heartfelt ” (Paul Schenly). Cha has performed numerous concerts in the United States and South Korea to critical acclaim. Ms. Cha maintains an active performing schedule, appearing in Chicago, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, California, Missouri, Minnesota, New York, Virginia, and Washington D.C in the United States, as well as Busan and Seoul in South Korea. Ms. Cha performed for the New Music tours, visiting schools including the University of Cincinnati, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, University of Minnesota, University of Missouri–Kansas City, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. She recently has been invited to perform in the Dame Myra Hess Afternoon Concert Series at the Chicago Cultural Center with Yun-Ting Lee, violinist from the Cleveland Orchestra.

In addition to her wide range of performing repertoire from Baroque to contemporary music, Cha specializes in works of German composers, especially those of Brahms and Edward Marxsen (composition and piano teacher of Brahms). She is working on publishing her first solo CD on Selected Piano Works by Eduard Marxsen and will be the first pianist to have recorded both sets of Marxsen’s piano music, Op. 4 Six Etudes for the Left Hand and 100 Variations on a Folk Song.

Ms. Cha completed her masters degree in Piano Performance at the Cleveland Institute of Music and completed her doctoral degree in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Iowa. She has worked at Western Illinois University as a staff accompanist in Macomb, Illinois, and is currently working as a piano faculty at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa.