GUEST ARTISTS

Dualis is fortunate to be able to collaborate with a wide variety of masterful musicians. Below are some of the amazing humans we are collaborating with in our 24-25 season. 

Dr. Jordan Prescott

Piano, Continuo
Jordan Prescott is Organist-Choirmaster at Grace and St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Mount Vernon and a member of the music theory faculty at the Peabody Institute. In addition to earning the Doctor of Musical Arts from Peabody, Dr. Prescott holds the Associateship Diploma from the American Guild of Organists. A sought-after recitalist, he has performed at prestigious venues across the United States including appearances at the Spoleto Festival, national conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society, Grace Cathedral (San Francisco), and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York City). Dr. Prescott is represented by Seven Eight Artists. ​

​DUALIS STRING QUARTET

The Dualis String Quartet will be featured on our upcoming performance, "What We Hide,"
and will perform Nathaniel Park's "but sometimes I worry" as well as Aaron Manswell's "Poverty."

Dr. Shawn Wang
Concertmaster, Violin I

Dr. Shawn Wang, a faculty of Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, is an active performer with The Baltimore Symphony, The Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, The Boston Festival Orchestra and the Harrisburg Symphony as well as the Atlas Duo with his colleague Dr. Justin Badgerow.
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Dr. Wang has been on stage with The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, The Boston Chamber Orchestra, The Boston Symphony, and The New World Symphony in Miami, he enjoyed performing at festivals including Tanglewood, the Pacific Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival and Aurora Music Festival in Sweden.
As an active chamber music player, Dr. Wang has had the honor of sharing the stage with wonderful musicians such as Yo-Yo Ma, David Chan, Steve Rose, and Jorja Fleezainis. He has also had the privilege to work with members from The Juilliard String Quartet, the Borromeo String Quartet, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Vienna Philharmonic.
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A passionate educator, Dr. Wang has been on faculty at The Boston University Tanglewood Institute, The New England Conservatory Prep School, The Winsor School, The Chestnut Hill School, and the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, Wang started The American New Music festival week as the Artistic Director in Chengdu China, collaborating with the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. The festival premiered (in Asia) Dr. Samuel Adler’s All Natural Play.
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Other highlights include performing with Yo-Yo Ma at the Kennedy Center Honors honoring Seiji Ozawa. His major musical inspiration and mentors include Lynn Chang, Joseph Silverstein, James Buswell, Malcolm Lowe and Lucia Lin.

https://www.wangviolin.com

​Claire Hebeison
​Violin II

Violinist Claire Hebeisen is a player of music, a connector of people, and a sharer of stories. She aims above all to listen – to music, audiences, and students – and to approach everything she does with a sense of loving vulnerability and openhearted curiosity.

Claire is active in chamber music, solo performance, and community engagement in North America and Europe and has performed in the United States, Canada, France, Iceland, the Netherlands, and England. In 2024, Claire recorded and gave the world premiere of two violin concerti by Tristan Latchford; toured a concert of her creation, entitled Sorrow and Kindness, which weaves together solo violin music, poetry, and meditation; and joined Alberta, Canada’s Windwood Music Festival team as a performer and administrator.

​Claire is the Artistic Director of the Honey Acres Music Center where she runs the HAMC Concert Series and Teaching Studios. She also teaches with the DC Youth Orchestra and substitute teaches for Peabody Preparatory. She received a BM in ‘21 and MM in ‘22 from Peabody Institute and a GDP from McGill University in ‘23 studying with Violaine Melancon and Judith Ingolfson. Learn more about Claire at clairehebeisen.com.

​https://clairehebeisen.com/about

Gavon Peck
Viola

Gavon Peck is a violist in the Baltimore-DC area. As a soloist, Gavon has given recitals at the Peabody Conservatory, two recent performances in Utah sponsored by the Utah State University Music Department, and multiple GroupMuse recitals, among others.

As a chamber musician, his performances have ranged from on-stage appearances alongside international DJ Kygo, to Fever Candlelight Concerts in Washington DC, to the wedding of Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski, and classical programs with Baltimore Chamber Encounters. Gavon served as principal violist of the Peabody Conductors Orchestra, as well as the Peabody Symphony, Chamber, and Modern Orchestras, under the batons of Marin Alsop, David Zinman, Joseph Young, and Michael Hersch.

He has been a guest with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Annapolis Symphony, and the York Symphony. Gavon received his Bachelor of Music degree from Utah State University under the tutelage of Bradley Ottesen and the Fry Street Quartet. He went on to receive a Master of Music and Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory studying with Victoria Chiang.

​At Peabody, he was the graduate assistant to Dr. Elizabeth Tolbert, head of ethnomusicology, Dr. David Gutkin, musicology, and he was the chamber music graduate assistant under Michael Kannen, head of chamber music at Peabody and founding member of the Brentano String Quartet.

​In addition to performance engagements on the viola, Gavon is a Registered Yoga Teacher and a Certified Group Fitness Instructor, and he is an Artistic Director with Listeso Music Group. He performs on a 2015 viola by Dan Salini with a 2017 bow by Michael Yeats.

Soyoon Park
Cello

Soyoon Park is an award-winning Korean cellist who performs as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Alongside her performing career, Park maintains an active private teaching studio and serves on the cello faculty at the Peabody Preparatory of the Johns Hopkins University. Previously, she taught at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (UC-CCM) Preparatory Department.

Park won positions with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra and currently performs as a substitute cellist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with ensembles such as the Washington Chamber Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra.

She has participated in prestigious summer festivals including the Music Academy of the West, Spoleto Festival USA, National Repertory Orchestra, Texas Music Festival, and Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. She spends her summers performing at the Bellingham Festival of Music in Bellingham, WA, and The Hamptons Music Festival in East Hampton, NY. At the Music Academy of the West, she performed in a chamber concert with Martin Beaver and Richard O’Neill.

In addition to her performing career, Park collaborated with Hans Jørgen Jensen and the Northwestern University Cello Ensemble on recording projects. She is featured on the albums The Wind in High Places (Cold Blue Music, 2015) and Shadow, Echo, Memory (Sono Luminus, 2016).

Park earned her Master of Music degree in both cello performance and cello pedagogy from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of Alan Stepansky. She received her Bachelor of Music degree cum laude from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with Alan Rafferty. Park is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.