Minna Rose Chung

Minna Rose Chung is Professor of Cello at the Desautels Faculty of Music. She enjoys an international career in all performance milieus, has taught master classes across four continents, and is a frequent guest artist at music festivals worldwide. Skilled in both orchestral and chamber repertoire, Minna Rose was a member of The New World Symphony, the Chicago Civic Orchestra, and principal cellist of the Illinois Symphony Orchestra. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2007 as a founding member of her New York ensemble, the Pangea String Quartet under the direction of the acclaimed Kronos String Quartet. In addition to academia, Minna Rose maintains a busy performance schedule with her current ensembles which include the Crocus String Quartet, the Desautels Piano Trio, and the Nacka Duo. She is also a core member of the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Chung is director of the C-String Collective, a student-led cello/bass ensemble devoted to collaborating with the Desautels composition area in the world premiere of new works written exclusively for the collective. Since 2008, Dr. Chung has been the founder and director of Project Rio, a multi-faceted exchange program for Canadian and Brazilian music professors and students in the teaching and performance arenas. She earned her Bachelor of Music in cello performance at Oberlin Conservatory with Norman Fischer and Peter Rejto; Master of Music at Northwestern University Bienen School of Music (Evanston, IL) with Hans J. Jensen; and Doctor of Musical Arts at SUNY Stony Brook University (NY) with Colin Carr. Minna Rose plays on a French 1776 Chappuy cello.