Dr. Cate Hummel

Cate Hummel founded Dr. Cate's Flute Camp in 2000. She has large private studios in Naperville and Carpentersville, IL. Earning a reputation as one of the most successful flute instructors in Chicagoland, every year she has students who go on to be performance and music education majors at music schools and universities in Illinois and around the country. She has performed numerous times in the Chicago area including performances on the Dame Myra Hess Series at the Cultural Center, Harold Washington Library Orpheus Series, DePaul Music Mart Lunchtime Concerts, and for the Musicians Club of Women. As winner of the Artists International Young Artists Competition, she was presented in a debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Cate received her DMA and MM degrees from the Manhattan School of Music and BM from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts.

Dr. Sang Joon (Fritz) Park

Flutist Sang Joon Park is the recipient of the prestigious 2005 Samuel Baron Prize awarded at the SUNY Stony Brook University where he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree under the tutelage of Carol Wincenc. He received his Bachelor of Music from Mannes College under Judith Mendenhall and Thomas Nyfenger and Master of Music from Manhattan School of Music under Linda Chesis. Park is a winner of numerous competitions and awards including Artists International Competition (New York Debut, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall), Downeast Orchestra Competition, LaGuardia Orchestra Competition, Manhattan School of Music and Mannes College of Music Concerto Competitions, Westchester Symphony Competition, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Young Winners Series, Ira Gershwin, Louis Hammershlag, and Lewis Silver Awards.  Sang Joon Park�s interest in baroque flute and baroque performance practice began while pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Stony Brook, where he was a member of its distinguished Baroque Ensemble (Arthur Haas, director). He studied baroque flute with Sandra Miller, Janet See, Stephen Schultz and Jed Wentz.