ST. PAUL VIOLIN LESSONS

Ana Caridad Frómeta Borrayo

Available Wednesdays from 4 PM-7 PM

Ana Caridad Frómeta Borrayo is a violinist with a strong academic background and experience in both performance and teaching. She graduated with a Gold Diploma from the Higher Institute of Art (ISA) in Cuba and has been a member of renowned ensembles such as the Havana Chamber Orchestra and the Liceo de La Habana Orchestra, performing in numerous concerts under the direction of distinguished conductors and receiving training from prestigious musicians and teachers.

As a founding member of the Havana Quartet, she has participated in international festivals and educational projects in the United States, including performances at Minnesota Orchestra Hall and the Harvard Music Festival. In addition to her career as a performer, Ana teaches violin and chamber music, focusing on the technical and expressive development of the students.

Ana teaches beginners through advanced. Age 5 to adult.

Eunice Kim

Available: Mondays from 4:00-6:00. Tuesdays from 3:00-5:00 PM

A young artist with a unique voice, violinist Eunice Kim has been proclaimed “just superb” by The New York Times and “a born performer” by Epoch Times. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, the award-winning violinist has been featured soloist with many orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Louisville Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Albany Symphony Orchestra, with which she recorded George Tsontakis’s Unforgettable, released in 2017 on Naxos Records. She made her solo debut at the age of seven with the Korean Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra.

Ms. Kim’s past performances include playing for the United Nations and Secretary General at Bohemian National Hall and the Henry Kissinger Prize Ceremony at the American Academy in Berlin. She was featured as a soloist at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall as a part of the Curtis Chamber Orchestra’s residency with Krzysztof Penderecki performing his Duo Concertante. She has appeared multiple times at the Kennedy Center as a performer for the Millennium Stage Series, representing the Curtis Institute of Music and San Francisco Conservatory of Music. As a guest artist for Curtis on Tour, she has performed across the United States, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Germany with Roberto Diaz. She was invited to perform on the “Ward” Stradivarius violin at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.

Her unique duo collaboration with double bassist Xavier Foley has brought all across the country, the most recent tour including their solo debuts with Williamsburg Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, Akron Symphony, Boulder Philharmonic, and Wheeling Symphony as well as being featured on the Vanguard Series on the Violin Channel. 

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Kim has performed at festivals such as Marlboro Music School and Festival, Ravinia’s Steans Institute of Music, Music@Menlo, Music From Angel Fire, Taos School of Music, Aspen Music Festival, Great Mountains Music Festival, amongst others. She has collaborated with prominent artists including Miriam Fried, Nobuko Imai, Peter Wiley, Gary Hoffman, Ralph Kirshbaum, Cynthia Raim, and Eighth Blackbird. She is the former violinist of Ensemble39, a contemporary mixed string and wind quintet devoted to commissioning new music and pushing the boundaries of the concert experience. She performed at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts for two years as an artist in the Evnin Rising Stars series and performs regularly at the Chamber Music Festival of Black Hills.

A winner of Astral Artists 2012 audition, she has been partnered with the Philadelphia Orchestra Department of Education to perform outreach series and has also been invited to be a teaching artist for the William Penn Residency at schools in the Philadelphia area. Ms. Kim has been invited to perform and teach at numerous international music festivals, the latest ones including Teatro Del Lago Festival in Chile and Valdres Music Academy in Norway.

Ms. Kim graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ida Kavafian, where she was the recipient of the Rose Paul Fellowship. She won the concertmaster position of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, participated as a mentor in the Curtis Community Engagement program, and was awarded with the prestigious Milka Violin Artist Prize upon graduation. She started the violin at age six and formerly studied with Wei He at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She currently plays on a 1726 Julius Caesar Gigli. 

*Eunice is not taking beginning students at this time.