Karin Redekopp Edwards, Professor of Piano, performs frequently in Canada and the U.S. as guest artist with orchestra and in solo recital. As a member of the duo piano team, Redekopp and Edwards, she has performed in Japan, Korea, England, Canada, and the U.S. With grants from the Canada Council, Dr. Edwards earned MM and DM degrees at Indiana University, studying with artist-teachers Abbey Simon, Alfonso Montecino, Julius Herford, and Menahem Pressler. As a collaborative artist, Dr. Edwards has toured South Africa, Israel, Europe, England, Canada and the U.S. Dr. Edwards has served as the pianist for the Milwaukee Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, working with conductors Robert Shaw, Lukas Foss, Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, and others. She has recorded a solo CD featuring works of Chopin, Liszt and Eckhardt-Gramatté and is also featured on a CD of Canadian artists. Dr. Edwards has served as 1st Vice President and Convention Chair of the Illinois State Music Teachers Association.

Daniel Paul Horn, Professor of Piano, studied at the Peabody Conservatory and at Juilliard, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree. A prize-winner in the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, he studied with Martin Canin and Walter Hautzig, and coached with Ann Schein, Jerome Lowenthal and Menahem Pressler.

An active performer, he gives recitals throughout North America, and appears as soloist with Midwestern orchestras. He regularly collaborates as a chamber musician with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the Ying String Quartet, and violinist John Dalley. As a fortepianist, he recorded works of Schubert and Mendelssohn for Titanic Records, and can also be heard on the Centaur and College Avenue Arts labels. Dr. Horn has served on the summer faculties of the Sewanee Music Festival, and the Adamant Music School in Vermont; he is also a frequent competition adjudicator and lecturer for MTNA, in which he holds national certification. Dr. Horn serves as chair of the keyboard department. Click here for Dr. Horn's website.

Edward Zimmerman is Associate Professor of Organ and Harpsichord, and College Organist at Wheaton College-Conservatory of Music in Wheaton, Illinois, where he teaches organ, harpsichord, and church music. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY, where he was a student of Russell Saunders. An accomplished church musician, he has held long tenures as minister of music at churches in Virginia and Illinois. His work on the liturgical music of French organist, Felix-Alexandre Guilmant, has been published in the anthology, French Organ Music from the Revolution to Franck and Widor. He currently maintains an active performance schedule, including appearances in England and on the Continent, and the Far East, as well as a schedule of solo concerts across the USA. His recent two-volume Compact Disc release on the Afka label, Germania, features the music of nineteenth century German organist, Otto Dienel, as performed on historic nineteenth century organs. In November, 2003, he planned and led an international organ symposium at Seoul Presbyterian Church, South Korea, featuring their large new Johannes Klais mechanical action organ which he designed. Click here to read more about Wheaton's spectacular organ in Edman Memorial Chapel.

John D. Zimmerman, Associate Professor of Music, holds degrees from Wheaton College and the University of Illinois, where he studied with Stanley Fletcher and Anis Fuleihan. He teaches piano and has taught keyboard harmony, counterpoint, and 20th-century composition. He enjoys regular performance as a church musician and has arranged numerous hymns and songs in addition to performing as soloist and in various ensembles on and off campus.

Deborah Hollinger, Guest Lecturer in Piano, holds a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from Wheaton and a Master of Music degree in piano pedagogy and performance from Northwestern University. Mrs. Hollinger teaches private lessons, as well as sightsinging and eartraining classes, and performs collaborative recitals and concerts several times a year. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she directs a girls choir and high school choir at College Church in Wheaton and is busy with her three children.

	Cheryl Cheon-Ae Lim, Guest Lecturer in Piano, holds a bachelor degree in piano from Seoul National University in her native land of Korea, and a Master of Music degree in piano chamber music and accompanying from Northwestern University. She won first place in the Korean Cultural Center piano competition, and also received first place in the Chicago Musical College Scholarship Competition. Cheryl Lim was selected as one of six demonstration student-teaches at the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy, while she was working on her Doctor of Music study in piano pedagogy and performance at Northwestern University. Ms. Lim is a frequent competition adjudicator for MTNA, Guild, and the Society of American Musicians. Her students won numerous competitions including Steinway Piano Competition and the Concerto Competition with Harper Symphony Orchestra. She holds a national certification from MTNA and Suzuki Association of the Americas.
	Sung Hoon Mo, Guest Lecturer in Piano. Korean-born pianist Sung Hoon Mo earned a doctorate at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, after studies at the Eastman School of Music and Indiana University. His principal teachers include Ellen Mack, James Tocco, Leonard Hokanson, Gyorgy Sebok and Robert Spillman; in addition, he has coached with Leon Fleisher, Emanuel Ax, John Browning, Robert McDonald, Yo-Yo Ma, and Janos Starker. Winner of competitions sponsored by the National Society of Arts and Letters, New York Federation of Music, and National Women's Club Young Artist Audigtions, he has performed in live and broadcast appearances throughout the United States, in Germany and in Guatemala. As a chamber musician, he has performed with noted artists including Charles Castleman, Pamela Frank, Victor Tretjakov and Pieter Wispelwey. Dr. Mo is currently on the faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago, and joined the Wheaton Conservatory of Music faculty Fall of 2007.

William Phemister, Professor Emeritus, is a graduate of the Juilliard School, the École Normale de Musique (Paris), and the Peabody Conservatory, where he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree. With world-class teachers like Josef Raieff, Edward Steuermann, Jules Gentil and Leon Fleisher, he won a Fulbright Grant to France and first prizes in important piano competitions such as the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artists Award, the Debut Award of the Young Musicians Foundation, and has participated in major international competitions such as the Geneva Concours and the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. His concert career has taken him throughout the U.S. and around the world. In recent years, he has performed and held seminars in Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, North Korea, and China. In addition, Professor Phemister is the author of American Piano Concertos (College Music Society), the editor of the multi-volume Masterworks Piano Library and is a published composer with the Fred Bock Music Company (Bock's Best Friends). He has produced nine recordings and continues to compose, edit, transcribe and record many piano compositions. A deeply committed teacher of young musicians, William Phemister has been a Professor of Piano in the Wheaton Conservatory of Music for the past thirty-five years. After he retires from Wheaton this semester he plans to expand his writing, teaching, and performing opportunities, including a new piano concerto by the composer, Jacob Bancks, commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria. It will have its premiere next season with the South Dakota Symphony.