2026 STRING FACULTY
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DANIELLE BELEN
CSS Founder and Artistic Director
Professor of Violin, University of Michigan -

ELBERT TSAI
Violin Faculty, San Francisco Conservatory Pre-College Academy
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FABIOLA KIM
Assistant Professor of Violin, University of Michigan; Co-Founder, Sounding Point Academy
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SHERYL STAPLES
Principal Associate Concertmaster, New York Philharmonic; Violin Faculty, The Juilliard School and Juilliard Pre-college
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ILANA SETAPEN
Associate Concertmaster, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
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KRISTINA ZLATAREVA
CSS Managing Director; Violin and Viola Faculty, Northwestern University String Academy
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HORACIO CONTRERAS
Professor of Cello, University of North Texas
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AMIR ELDAN
Professor of Cello, University of Michigan
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LEO SINGER
Faculty Director, University of Michigan Prep Division
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ERIC NOWLIN
Principal Violist, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
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ZOIE HIGHTOWER
Lecturer of Viola, University of Michigan
Adjunct Professor of Violin and Viola, Hillsdale College
2026 CHAMBER MUSIC FACULTY
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SANG MEE LEE
Director of CSS Chamber Music
String Department Chair, Music Institute of Chicago -

ANNIE FULLARD
Professor and Sidney M. Friedberg Chair, Peabody Institute; Founding Member, the Cavani String Quartet
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MARI SATO
Chamber Music, Visiting Artist, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
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ERIC WONG
Violist, Blair String Quartet; Assistant Professor of Viola at Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music
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KYLE PRICE
Cellist, the Cavani Quartet; Founder, Caroga Arts Collective
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KARLA DONAHEW PEREZ
Violinist, the Catalyst Quartet; Professor of Violin Studies at the Longy School of Music of Bard College
PIANO COLLABORATION
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MI-EUN KIM
Head of CSS Piano Collaboration
Faculty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -

NAKI KRIPFGANS
Collaborative Pianist, University of Michigan
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SARINA ZHANG
Faculty, University of Michigan Prep Division
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BOGUM PARK
Collaborative Pianist, University of Michigan
SPEAKING & PRESENTATION TRAINING
TEAGAN FARAN
ARTISTIC
OPERATIONS
ADALUS LOW-MANZINI