Meet the Schubert Club Team

Schubert Club Board of Directors

Officers

Ann Juergens, President
Katie Condon, Vice President, Artistic
Michael Manns, Vice President, Audit & Compliance
Nancie Litin, Vice President, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Laura Krider, Vice President, Education
John Nuechterlein, Vice President, Finance & Investment
Luther Ranheim, Vice President, Marketing & Development
Anne Kruger, Vice President, Museum
Braxton Haulcy, Vice President, Nominating & Governance
Nancie Litin, Recording Secretary

Board of Directors

Megen Balda
Ernest Bisong
Aaron Brown
Katie Condon
Amy Furman
Cléa Galhano
Ines Guanchez
Reynolds-Anthony Harris
Braxton Haulcy
Jake Heller
Dorothy Horns
Anne Huart Vars
Dominique Jones
Ann Juergens
Rodger Kelly
Laura Krider
Anne Kruger
Andy Lang
Nancie Litin
Michael Manns
Stephen Menya
John Nuechterlein
Vaughn Ormseth
Luther Ranheim
Karl Reichert
Kate Roberts
Michael Sanders
Jonathan Seaberg
Chris Temperante
Jean Thomson
Eric Won
Jeffrianne Young
Donna Zimmerman

Staff

Kyu-Young Kim, Artistic & Executive Director
Gweni Caine, Education & Museum Programs Manager
Maximillian Carlson, Program Manager
Ben Cook-Feltz, Patron Services Manager
Galen Higgins, Graphic Designer
Kristina MacKenzie, Director of Marketing & Communications
Amy Marret, Director of Development
Chris McDonald, Education & Museum Associate
Janet Peterson, Business Manager
Anna Torgerson, Artist & Event Manager
Shekela Wanyama, Education, Community Partnerships and Museum Director

Museum Interpretive Guides: Ann Braaten, Alan Kolderie, Ed Kvarnes, Ansel Langmead, Chad McAnally, Derek Parshall, Allika Polowchak, Muree la Roland, Susan Thompson, Nolan Wagner

Project CHEER Director: Joanna Kirby

Project CHEER Instructors: Joanna Kirby, Emma Buddecke, Enzo Mazumdar Stanger, Jake Vaino, Cory Watson

Kyu-Young Kim, Artistic and Executive Director

Kyu-Young Kim has forged a distinctive path as a visionary arts leader. From 2016-2024, Kim served simultaneously as the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Artistic Director and Principal Violin, a dual leadership role that was unique among major American orchestras. During his time serving as Artistic Director, the SPCO named ten Artistic Partners and hired sixteen new members, opened its new Concert Hall at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts to great critical acclaim, and toured throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Kim was responsible for programming over 100 concerts per season and led the development and execution of the SPCO’s artistic vision. Under his leadership, the group launched an exciting new composer residency model called Sandbox, honed its musician-led artistic model, increased the diversity of its repertoire and guest artists, and won an ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and a GRAMMY® Award for its disc of Schubert’s Death and the Maiden with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja.

Outside of his work at the SPCO, Kim has had a rich and varied life as a chamber musician, orchestral leader and educator. He was a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet with whom he won the Grand Prize at the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition and a former member of the Pacifica String Quartet, winners of the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award. He has also served as guest concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Minnesota Orchestra, as guest principal second violin of the Houston Symphony, and is an Emeritus Member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Kim is on the violin faculty of the University of Minnesota School of Music and has done guest master classes in violin and chamber music throughout the United States and Canada, including recent residencies at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Kim and his wife, Pitnarry Shin, a cellist in the Minnesota Orchestra, have enjoyed living and working in the Twin Cities for 20 years. In Minnesota, they have found the perfect home for sharing their love of music with the community. Their greatest accomplishment by far is raising two wonderful children, Orion and Ariella, with whom they love to play family chamber music.