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Chung-Hoon Peter Chun

Associate Professor of Viola

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Chung-Hoon Peter Chun is the Associate Professor of viola at the University of Kansas, a position he has held since 1999, when he was appointed at the age of 28.   He is a versatile musician who has given numerous recitals and chamber music performances across the U. S., including Boston, St. Louis, and Kansas City, as well as performing internationally in Korea and Japan.   His performances have been featured at such universities as Penn State University, where he presented an acclaimed performance at the ViolaFest , University of Connecticut, Southern Illinois University, University of Ulsan in Korea, and the Conservatory of Music at University of Missouri, Kansas City.   He has appeared as soloist with Lexington Sinfonietta, the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra, and University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra.

Peter Chun's chamber music activities include a tour of Japan as the violist of the New England Chamber Ensemble.   His performances as a member of the Tonos String Quartet resulted in a highly acclaimed Seoul début, as well as being featured in Fleetbank Celebrity Series through its out-reach program, City Music , appearing with the acclaimed musician Rob Kapilow.   Other musicians he has collaborated with include artists such as James Buswell, Paula Robison, Martino Tirimo, Frank Almond, Daniel Veis, and the Borromeo String Quartet.   In 2005, he joined the acclaimed Koreana Chamber Music Society in Seoul.   His performances have been broadcast numerous times on the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) radio and television, WGBH radio in Boston, Maine Public Radio and Television, and Kansas Public Radio.  

Chun has performed and taught at many music festivals and camps, having appeared at Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Festival and Yellow Barn Music Festival, as well as the International Musical Arts Institute, in Maine, where he is a resident artist.   In addition, he has taught at the Midwestern Music Camp at KU, and is currently a faculty member of the renowned Sound Encounters festival at the Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas

Currently, Peter Chun is the violist of Quartet Accorda, a group based in Kansas City that is gaining a wide notoriety with their highly acclaimed performances that are frequently broadcast in Kansas and Missouri.   The group recently appeared in an acclaimed performance with pianist Stanislav Ioudenitch, and it has been the quartet in residence at IMAI, since 1997, and at Park University in Parkville, Missouri since 2005.

Chun's orchestral activities have included performances at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he was one of the featured members in a documentary on TMC which aired nationally on PBS, the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and the Seoul Festival Orchestra--working extensively with musicians such as Peter Serkin, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, Myung-Whun Chung, and members of the Juilliard Quartet, among many others.   In addition, he frequently performs with the Kansas City Symphony and Kansas City Chamber Orchestra.

Making his conducting début in 2005, Chun led critically acclaimed performances of Donizetti's opera L'Elisir d'Amore at LG Arts Center in Seoul that were broadcast internationally on the KBS satellite program, followed by a performance of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat at University of Kansas.

Born in Seoul, Korea, Peter Chun emigrated at age 12 with his family to the U.S.   He was trained at the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Walter Trampler, Marcus Thompson, and Eric Rosenblith.