PLU Artist Series: Jennifer Rhyne, Flute; Rowena Hammill, Cello & Oksana Ejokina, Piano

• Jennifer Rhyne, flute
• Rowena Hammill, cello
• Oksana Ejokina (Ezhokina), piano

Recital featuring PLU faculty Jennifer Rhyne, flute; Rowena Hammill, cello and Oksana Ejokina, piano.

About Pacific Lutheran University Music Department

https://www.plu.edu/music/

About Jennifer Rhyne, flute

https://www.plu.edu/flute/dr-jennifer-rhyne/

About Rowena Hammill, cello

Originally from Australia, cellist Rowena Hammill graduated with a master's degree from Indiana University where she was teaching assistant to Janos Starker. She has held professorships at the University of Northern Iowa and California State University Northridge and was Associate Principal Cello of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Presently, she divides her time between her positions as Associate Principal Cello of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and Artistic Director of Vashon Chamber Music in Washington state.

In Los Angeles, she has performed with the Gold Coast Concert Artists, Pittance Chamber Music, and for the Guild Series. In the Seattle area, she curates and performs concerts for Club Shostakovich, and with the Girsky Quartet presents the Vashon Beethoven Quartet Project, performing all the quartets of Beethoven over three years, 2015-2018.

In 2016, she directed the inaugural Vashon Island Cello Camp, a summer camp for students ages 14 and older. Vashon Chamber Music is now in its eighth season, bringing chamber music concerts to the residents of beautiful Vashon Island in Puget Sound as well as outreach concerts in schools and senior centers all over the Seattle area.

About Oksana Ejokina (Ezhokina), piano

Russian-born pianist Oksana Ejokina appears frequently as guest recitalist and chamber musician on concert series across the United States and abroad. Oksana is the pianist of the Volta Piano Trio, whose recordings received accolades in multiple international music magazines, such as The Strad, Gramophone and American Record Guide. A sought-after teacher, Ejokina is Chair of Piano Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University. She has been associated with the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts for nearly fifteen years serving as Artistic Director of several flagship classical music programs.