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, soprano
JAMES SHIELDS, clarinet
AMANDA GRIMM, viola
NANCY IVES, cello
JEFFREY PAYNE, piano
EMILY COLE, violin
Guest Musicians
Shanshan Zeng
Shanshan Zeng, from Chengdu, China, began learning the violin at the age of four with her great aunt Wenyuan Chen at Sichuan Conservatory of Music.
She was a member of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, the Altantic Symphony Orchestra, and the Phoenix (the Orchestra Reborn) while studying in Boston. She played in the American Youth Symphony, and was the assistant concertmaster of the Debut Chamber Orchestra in Los Angeles from 2017-18. She has also performed as a substitute violinist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
She has participated in the Tanglewood Music Center Festival in 2011 and 2012, and served as concertmaster under the baton of Maestro Kurt Masur. Other Festivals included the Valdres Festival in Norway, the Gonggeng Academy in China, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival.
She earned her bachelor’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music studying with Wei He and Ian Swensen, and her master’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Lucy Chapman. She graduated in May 2019 with a Graduate Certificate degree from the Thornton School of Music at USC, where she studied with Bing Wang.
She joined the Oregon Symphony in the fall of 2019.
