Artistic Staff

In a career spanning more than 40 years, Stephen Kushner has served as the conductor of school choirs, church choirs, festival choirs, and professional choirs, including tenures as the Principal Conductor of the Choir of the Riverside Church in Manhattan, the Director of Choral Music at Phillips Exeter Academy, and the Director of Choral Music at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At both Exeter and GFS, Kushner also served as Chair of the Music Department and Director of Studies. His professional honors include the Michael V. Forrestal professorship at Phillips Exeter Academy, a Klingenstein Fellowship at Columbia University and an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from York College of Pennsylvania. Graduates of Mr. Kushner’s choirs continue to sing in choirs around the world.

Hee Sung Kim is a dynamic pianist and music director highly in demand for her versatile and sensitive musicianship. Based in New York City, she performs and works extensively across multiple genres with instrumentalists and vocalists. She performs and tours regularly with performing ensembles and institutions throughout the city, including Empire City Men’s Chorus, Choral Chameleon, and Brooklyn Ballet. She has also continually served as church music director and organist. She is currently on staff at Fordham University and Marymount School of New York.
Her music education started at The Juilliard School Pre-College and continued at Seoul
National University and Manhattan School of Music. Her expansive performing career has led her to venues across the world, including Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Seoul Arts Center, and The Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. Her initial training was in classical music, but as an avid proponent of contemporary music, she continues to premiere numerous new works by present-day composers.