OUR ENSEMBLE & STAFF
KENJI BUNCH, Artistic Director
MONICA OHUCHI, Executive Director
“Fear No Music’s husband-and-wife leadership team—Artistic Director Kenji Bunch and Executive Director Monica Ohuchi —have spent the past five years making FNM the best kind of Portland hybrid: a classical ensemble with unimpeachable performance credentials, a love for local and contemporary composers, and a mature sense of social justice and responsibility.”
Ensemble Members
KEIKO ARAKI, violin
AMELIA LUKAS, flute
MICHAEL ROBERTS, percussion
ARWEN MYERS, voice
JAMES SHIELDS, clarinet
AMANDA GRIMM, viola
NANCY IVES, cello
JEFFREY PAYNE, piano
EMILY COLE, violin
Guest Musicians: 2024-25
PANSY CHANG, cello
Pansy Chang has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Chamber Music Northwest, on Bob Sherman’s “Listening Room” – WQXR New York, and in both the Yale University Spectrum Series at Weill Hall and the Yale Faculty Artist Series in New Haven. Prior to her tenure as Associate Professor of Violoncello at Miami University of Ohio from 2001-2016, she was a member of the Oregon Symphony from 1997-2001 and served as Assistant to Professor Aldo Parisot and Lecturer in Violoncello at the Yale University School of Music from 1995-1997. Ms. Chang was a Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom and a semi-finalist in the Leonard Rose International Cello Competition. She is very grateful for her principal teachers, Aldo Parisot, William Pleeth, Eleonore Schoenfeld, Evelyn Elsing, and Susan Kelly.
