Andrew Irvin has a broad range of experience throughout North America and Europe. Solo appearances include works by Tchaikovsky, Paganini, Bruch, Vivaldi, Korngold, Bach, Mozart, Sarasate, Ravel and Dvorak. Currently Mr. Irvin lives in Arkansas where he is Concertmaster of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. He also enjoys playing in recital from coast to coast with organist David Christopher in the Irvin/Christopher duo. The Camino Trio is another of his chamber music outlets. This trio is made of Kelly Johnson, clarinet, and Gail Novak, pianist. All three musicians are connected by study in Arizona. Look for the Camino Trio on Kelly's CD "Child's Play" out soon. He can also be heard in recording on the Naxos label with the Hot Springs Music Festival. Mr. Irvin served as concertmaster, leader, and soloist of orchestra "Air de Cour," in Rochester, New York. This ensemble received grants from New York's State Legislature and The New York Council for the Arts.

Highlights of his chamber music career include performances with the Ying Quartet, the Audubon Quartet, and New York City premiere of composer Steve Mackey's Troubadour Songs. Mr. Irvin made his European debut at the Heidelberg Schlossfestspiele, where he was principal violin in the festival orchestra and was featured on the chamber concert series. Before moving to Arkansas, he was principal violin in the Arizona Opera Orchestra.

Ruth Meints became the Artistic Director of the Omaha Conservatory of Music (OCoM) in the fall of 2023 and was the former Executive Director from 2005-2023. She authored the String Sprouts curriculum, which launched in 2013. String Sprouts enrolls over one thousand preschoolers from underserved areas and provides an instrument for all five years of instruction at no cost to the families. She currently teaches violin and viola at OCoM and conducts various workshops around the country in violin/viola pedagogy and music education, integrating current neuroscience findings into music teaching.

While at OCoM, she has developed many music education programs, such as OCM’s Summer Institutes, Winter Festival Orchestra, a full music program at the St. Augustine Indian Mission School, as well as the Inside the Mind of the Artist recital and master class series. Her teaching experience has included head of the string department at Azusa Pacific University and faculty at Biola University in the Los Angeles area, as well as faculty at San Jose Talent Education, Omaha Talent Education, and Artist-Faculty at the Omaha Conservatory of Music. In 2016, Ruth was given the Governor’s Arts Award for excellence in arts education sponsored by Nebraska Arts Council and Nebraska Cultural Endowment. In 2019, she also presented a TedXOmaha talk entitled “Music, Preschoolers, and Poverty.”

Omaha-raised violinist Jennifer Ahn is a performer and educator who loves to share her knowledge and passion for music and other music-related disciplines. She made her solo debut with the Omaha Symphony at the age of 11, and has since made many performance and teaching appearances across North America. Some of her most notable appearances include a solo performance at Carnegie Hall, a recital at Music Academy of the West as the winner of the Duo Competition, and as soloist with the Manhattan School of Music Chamber Orchestra. She has also made appearances at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Heifetz International Institute, and the National Arts Centre in Canada. A “Notable Alumni” of the Omaha Conservatory of Music (OCM), Jennifer frequently returns to OCM for performances, chamber coachings, and masterclasses. She recently served on the Faculty for Soundwaves, OCoM’s summer institute.

An avid chamber musician, Ahn has worked with many artists including Nicholas Mann, David Geber, Julia Lichten, Anton Nel, Shai Wosner, Leonid Gorokhov, and members of the American, Borromeo, Brentano, Chiara, Emerson, and Orion String Quartets. She was featured on the Heifetz International Institute’s YouTube channel as a member of the Aria String Quartet as well as on the National Arts Centre of Canada’s channel as a participant in the Young Artist Program.

One of the most sought-after and respected American violin pedagogues of the new generation, Dr. Pasha Sabouri has performed in recitals and concerts in Holland, Sweden, Austria, Germany, UK, throughout the United States and Canada.

A passionate educator and a published author whose acclaimed book "Upbeat" guides middle and high school students and their families on the road to professional musical education and career. His students are competing and featured in such competitions and media outlets as Menuhin Competition, Sphinx Competition, Dallas Symphony’s Lynn Harrell Competition, ENKOR Competition, NPR's From The Top, winning the coveted "Jack Kent Cooke" Award, and are accepted in top conservatories – Juilliard, Colburn, New England Conservatory, Oberlin, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and many others.

Anne Nagosky has been a full-time violinist with the Omaha Symphony since 1998. She holds a Bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, with majors in music and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and a Master of Music degree in Violin Performance from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, where she received Program Honors. Her principal violin teachers were Mimi Zweig, Nina Bodnar, David Halen and Gerardo Ribeiro.

Anne is a passionate music educator and maintains one of the largest violin and viola studios in Nebraska, sharing her love of music with students ages three and up. Anne has received both the Teacher of the Year award from the Nebraska Music Teachers Association and the Outstanding String Educator Award from the Nebraska chapter of the American String Teachers Association (ASTA). She is the Chair of the Nebraska ASTA State Solo Competition for young string players and recently served a two-year term on the national ASTA Studio Teachers Committee. She has served for many years an advisor for various Omaha Symphony education projects and residencies and holds the title of Lead Residency Teacher.

Adrienne Sengpiehl has been the Principal Second Violinist of Midsummer Mozart since 1996 and spends August in Idaho as a member of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. Since playing with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, she continues her career actively freelancing with the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Santa Rosa Symphony, California Symphony, Marin Symphony, and Symphony Silicon Valley.

As a chamber musician, Ms. Sengpiehl has been heard throughout the bay area from Noontime Concerts and Old First Church in San Francisco to the Napa Valley Opera House. She has recorded for numerous movie soundtracks, video games, and special projects at Skywalker Ranch.

Recently, she performed in the pit orchestra for Soft Power at the Curran Theater in San Francisco. An avid music educator, Ms. Sengpiehl is both former faculty and affiliate teacher for the Virtuoso Program at the San Domenico School, and performer for the San Francisco Symphony’s Adventures in Music Program. She is currently a Teaching Artist for the San Francisco Symphony’s Music and Mentors Program visiting SFUSD middle and high schools, is an Artist-in-Residence at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, is creator and instructor of String Sisters at Katherine Delmar Burke School, and maintains her private home studio. She is a featured clinician at many summer music institutes including the Omaha Conservatory of Music Institute, Summer Music Institute/SVSS Music School, Sound Encounters, and formerly Summer Music West at the San Francisco Conservatory. She is a Suzuki Violin Method Specialist and enjoys being a mom to two wonderful sons. Ms. Sengpiehl holds a bachelor’s degree from the Saint Louis Conservatory and a Masters in Music in violin performance from The Juilliard School.