CAMPGround26 Performing Artists
Arda Cabaoğlu Virtanen
Arda Cabaoğlu Virtanen, is an artist, musician, music scholar, educator residing in New York City and Helsinki. A pioneer in the genre of long durational musical performance art, artist’s piece titled: “Forced Misophonia: BLAST BLOW PULSE” performing his long durational work for 4.5 weeks and 8 hours a day, considered to be the longest musical performance in the world performed by a musical instrumentalist, as a part of AKIS/FLUX curated by Marina Abramović Institute, Hudson, NY.
As broad as his cultural background, holds a doctorate at Eastman School of Music, also studied at Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden. Cabaoglu Virtanen’s mentors include Håkan Hardenberger, James Thompson, Bo Nilsson, Olle Sjöberg, and Erden Bilgen. Award-winning performer, appeared in numerous world premieres. A CAMPGround Festival artist since 2022 with his trumpets, Dr. Cabaoglu Virtanen regularly performs historical to contemporary settings in various cities in the world.
Julianna Eidle
Julianna Eidle is an Illinois-based performer, organizer, and educator recently appointed Instructor of Flute at Western Illinois University. A passionate collaborator, Julianna is Director of New Downbeat, a Cincinnati chamber ensemble rooted in intersectional feminism. An advocate for new music, Julianna has premiered over 50 works for solo flute and ensemble and performed at the BMI Composer Awards, SHE: Festival of Women in Music, Society of Composers, Inc. Student National Conference, and the Midwest Composers Symposium. She holds the Second Flute/Piccolo chair with Opera in the Ozarks and freelances with orchestras throughout the Midwest. With interests in artistic wholeness, Julianna has pursued studies in Deep Listening, Yoga Teacher Certification, and The Well’s My True SELF program. Julianna holds degrees from Indiana University (BM and Performer Diploma) and the University of Cincinnati (MM,) where she is currently a DMA candidate.
Ilana Zaks
Jewish-American violinist Ilana Zaks has been praised as “fearless, refreshing, and commanding” (Boston Music Intelligencer) and “captivating and delightful” (Worcester Telegram). A dynamic soloist, educator, and interdisciplinary collaborator, she has appeared with the Pittsburgh Symphony under John Williams and Manfred Honeck, and in concert with Anne-Sophie Mutter. She has soloed with over a dozen orchestras, including the Boston Civic Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, and Cascade Symphony, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Concertgebouw, and the Berliner Philharmonie.
Zaks currently serves as a first violinist with the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera. She is on faculty at the Seattle Conservatory of Music and joined the violin faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in summer 2025. She also coaches for the Seattle Youth Symphony and the Florida Youth Orchestras.
From 2020 to 2025, she has curated and performed Sound Worlds, a multimedia concert experience for violin and electronics that explores identity, illness, memory, and resilience. Developed during her time as a Fellow at the Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, and supported by major national and international grants, the project features immersive works by four contemporary composers, incorporating live visuals and post-concert dialogue.
Zaks holds degrees from the New England Conservatory and Yale School of Music, where she studied with Donald Weilerstein and Ani Kavafian. She also trained extensively with Itzhak Perlman at the Perlman Music Program. Her recording debut, The Persistence of Memory (2020), released as a visual album on Amazon Prime, was the first of its kind in classical music and reflects her continued commitment to interdisciplinary creation.
Jamie Jordan
Jamie Jordan devotes herself to music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Ms Jordan has collaborated with NY Philharmonic musicians on CONTACT!, the Orchestra’s new-music series, and their chamber music series at Merkin Hall. Other ensembles she has worked with include American Composers Orchestra, Bob Becker Ensemble, Ensemble Signal, Experiments in Opera, LA Phil New Music Group, Mantra Percussion, New York New Music Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Talujōn.
Jamie has appeared at the American Academy in Rome, Cornell University, Eastman School of Music, Ithaca College, University of Notre Dame, New York University, Syracuse University, University of Maryland, and University of Pennsylvania, among many others. She has performed with Alia Musica Pittsburgh, Baltimore Lieder Weekend, Bargemusic, Bang on a Can Marathon, Brooklyn Philharmonic Chamber Music Series, CAMP (Contemporary Art Music Project, Tampa, Fla.), FeNAM (Festival of New American Music, Sacramento State University), June in Buffalo, Music on the Edge (University of Pittsburgh), NYCEMF, NOCCO (Seattle), Resonant Bodies Festival, String Orchestra of Brooklyn, and Unruly Music Festival (University of Milwaukee).
Jamie Jordan is profoundly grateful for the profound vocal artistry and wisdom of Judith Kellock, Lauralyn Kolb, and Susan Davenny-Wyner. She is passionate about music literacy and teaches piano and voice throughout the NY metropolitan area.
Kevin von Kampen
Kevin von Kampen is an active percussionist and educator based in Tampa, FL. He is currently on the music faculty at the University of South Florida teaching percussion. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music, a Master of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of South Florida, and a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Kevin was previously the Percussion Director for the University of South Florida Herd of Thunder Marching Band, a percussion instructor for the University of Cincinnati Bearcat Marching Band, the director of the Cincinnati Youth Percussion Ensemble through CCM Prep, and a middle school and high school music teacher in the Hillsborough County Public School District.
As a performer, Kevin is active in solo, concerto, chamber, and large ensemble works. He appears on Baljinder Sekhon: Places and Times released by Innova Recordings, Globe, Travel, Homeland released by Ravello Records, the McCormick Percussion Group recordings Plot: Music for Unspecified Instrumentation and Plugged and Unplugged: The Music of Ciro Scotto both released by Ravello Records, and Patterns: Chamber Works released by Navona Records. Kevin is also active in commercial music, performing with touring artists such as “Weird Al” Yankovic, Michael Bolton, Irish Tenors, and Michael Amante, and with shows such as “In Dreams” – Roy Orbison Hologram Tour, Video Games Live, 4U: A Symphonic Celebration of Prince, Cirque Musica, and Rocktopia. His primary teachers include Rusty Burge, Jim Culley, Robert McCormick, Al Rometo, Tony Falcone, and Dana Murray.
Eunmi Ko
Hailed as “exceedingly interesting” by the New York Concert Review and “kaleidoscopic” by the San Francisco Classical Voice, pianist/entrepreneur Eunmi Ko concertizes as a recitalist and chamber musician throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. As a sought-after collaborator and champion of new music, she works with contemporary composers, ensembles, and performers from around the world.
She was the resident artist for the award-winning percussion ensemble McCormick Percussion Group (MPG) and collaborated with Director Robert McCormick for the Concerti for Piano and Percussion Project. Their collaborative partners include composers Alessandro Annunziata, Anthony R. Green, Emily Koh, David Liptak, Hilary Tann, among others.
Ko may also be heard on recently published CD releases by Innova Recordings, Neuma Records, Centaur Records, and Ravello Records.
Ko holds graduate degrees (MM and DMA) from the Eastman School of Music. She is the co-founder and President of the Contemporary Art Music Project (CAMP) and artistic director of the international new music festival Dot The Line (Korea).
Calvin Falwell
Calvin is currently the 3rd/Bass Clarinet/Utility with the Sarasota Orchestra and is Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of South Florida. Festivals include Central City Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera and Killington Music Festival. Performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Memphis Symphony, Florida Orchestra and Ensemble NewSRQ. Calvin has presented classes at The Guildhall School of Music, Trinity Laban, University of Sheffield, University of North Texas, Boston University, Lynn Conservatory of Music, University of Miami, National Conservatory de Colombia and the European Clarinet Congress. Former appointments include the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarasota Opera and The College of New Jersey. Calvin is a Buffet Crampon, D’Addario Woodwind and BG Artist.
Katherine Weintraub
Dr. Katherine Weintraub is a Sarasota native and passionate performer-educator based in Tampa Bay. Hailed for her “technical brilliance” and “uncanny ability to communicate music” (Libby Larson), she is Professor of Saxophone and Music Theory at the University of South Florida and Director of Outreach for the Contemporary Art Music Project (CAMP). A dedicated advocate for new music, she has premiered works at events such as the 2018 World Saxophone Congress in Croatia. Dr. Weintraub has appeared as soloist with ensembles including the USF, FSU, and Eastman Wind Ensembles and the Flint Symphony Orchestra. She previously taught at Florida State University and was tenor saxophonist with the award-winning quartet Project Fusion (2020–2024). Her accolades include top prizes at international competitions. She holds degrees from Eastman (D.M.A.) and the University of Michigan (B.M., M.M.), and is a Selmer Artist performing exclusively on Selmer-Paris saxophones.
Sebastian Stefanovic
Violist Sebastian Stefanovic joined The Florida Orchestra in the fall of 2022. He is a Baltimore native and completed bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Rice University’s Shepherd School while studying with Ivo-Jan van der Werff.
Stefanovic is a passionate advocate for new music and the expansion of the viola repertoire, and he has commissioned, premiered and recorded a variety of solo and ensemble works, including the winning composition of the American Viola Society’s Gardner Prize, as well as participating in the 2025 Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz.
As a chamber musician, he has received quartet fellowships at the Aspen Music Festival and the Robert Mann String Quartet Seminar. He enjoys inventive and multifaceted programming, frequently curating interdisciplinary collaborations as a core member of Houston-based conductorless string orchestra Kinetic Ensemble, which recently completed a weeklong residency at MIT and debuted a self-titled album at the top of the Billboard Classical charts.
Since moving to Tampa Bay, Stefanovic has helped create and co-teach three years of Community Strings summer programming as TFO’s first community embedded musician. He is also the director of the Pinellas Youth Philharmonic.
When not playing music, Stefanovic enjoys cooking, reading, pickleball, and soccer.
Photo by Natalie Gaynor
Yeil Park
Dr. Yeil Park (pronounced ‘Yale’) enjoys his career as a soloist, chamber musician, and as an orchestral cellist in Arizona. He has served as Acting Principal of Sedona Symphony, Arizona Philharmonic, and was a tenured member of Arizona Opera. Other orchestral engagements include Arizona Musicfest, Castleton Festival Orchestra, and as a regular substitute with The Phoenix Symphony, and Tucson Symphony Orchestra. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with members of The Cleveland Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Shanghai Quartet, the Brentano String Quartet, and The Ying Quartet. Other highlights include performing the Elgar Cello Concerto and Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations as the winner of ISU's Concert of Soloist competition.
Dr. Park served as the cello faculty at Glendale Community College. He received his DMA at Arizona State University and wrote his dissertation on the efficacy of online lessons through quantitative analysis.
Outside of music, Dr. Park enjoys marathon training, cooking, baking and occasionally drawing on his Etch-a-Sketch.
Sini Virtanen Cabaoğlu
Praised for her “expressive tone,” violinist Sini Virtanen Cabaoglu concertizes through Asia, Europe, and the United States. As a champion of new music, Virtanen Cabaoglu has featured as a guest artist at the 2016 Madrid Contemporary Music Festival, Ossia, Eastman Virtuosi, Tyler Time! at the Union College, Weill Recital Hall, Eastman Hatch Recital Hall, and USF New Music Festival. Virtanen Cabaoglu has been a CAMPGround Festival artist since 2022.
Dr.Virtanen Cabaoglu earned her BM degree from Sibelius Academy, studying with Päivyt Meller. She received her MM and DMA degrees from Eastman School of Music under the guidance of Mikhail Kopelman. Virtanen resides and teaches in Finland as a lecturer of violin at Lahti Conservatory, and performs actively as a solo and chamber musician. Virtanen can be heard on Centaur Records (Musical Landscapes of Hilary Tann) and Ravello Records (Strings & Hammers).