Faculty - Ensemble Coaches

NANCIE LINN SHAW - Ensemble Director (See Dept. Chairs).
Viola/Violin. Music Director, Conductor Bellevue HS, Odle MS, freelance performer, teacher.

BRIANNA ATWELL - Viola (MM, DMA Candidate, UW),
performer viola & violin, teacher violin & viola, computerizes manual scores. (See Music Studies Faculty).

JIM PAUL - Piano, Organ, Harpsichord, Early through Contemporary Chamber Music, & Choral Music. (See Music Studies Faculty).

MELISSA PLAGEMANN - Vocal Ensembles. (See Music Studies
Faculty).

STEPHEN CRESWELL - Violin/Viola. Chamber Music Performer. Studio teacher, freelance performer.

HIRO IMAMURA DAVID - Piano - collaborator, accompanist, studio teacher, Accompanist for Kent Coleman's studio. See Music Studies Faculty

BRAD HAWKINS - Cello (UW & Northwest School Faculty), performer, studio teacher, recording artist.

HARUMI MAKIYAMA FLESHER- Piano -
Collaborator & freelance performer. Piano Performance,
New England Conservatory in Boston (M.M. and G.D.); B.M. & M.M Elizabeth University of Music in Hiroshima, Japan. An avid performer of contemporary music; studied
with Futaba Inoue, Kyoko Sato, Veronica Jochum; completing her doctoral degree in piano performance with Craig Sheppard, U.W. Her participation at international festivals includes the Northwest
German Academy of Music Summer Festival in Detmold, Adriatic Chamber Music Festival in Bonefro, Italy. Appeared at major international venues,
such as Benaroya Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall and the Tokyo Bunkakaikan. Performed with international ensembles such as the Krakow Chamber Music Orchestra and the Razumovsky Quartett Wien. In 2003, she won first prize
in the Padronini Young Artist Trust Competition in Kitakyushu, Japan. Recently, she worked as a collaborative artist with the Northwest Girlchoir. Leads an active professional life as a concert pianist and collaborative artist.

SACHI HIRAKOUJI - Piano - DMA Candidate
UW Accompanist/Collaborator. DMA candidate in piano performance, University of Washington; M.M. in piano performance, University of Hawaii; B.M. in piano performance, Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo, Japan.  Currently faculty at the Chopin Academy of Music.  Ms. Hirakouji has an extensive career as a solo pianist, chamber musician, and accompanist. In the future, she hopes to expand her work into an outreach performance program.

DOROTHY KLOTZMAN - (See Dept. Chairs / Music Studies Faculty).

ALAN FUTTERMAN - Bassoon (See Dept. Chairs).

Other professional coaches as needed.