Coaches

HRCP faculty are members of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, professional musicians from the Hampton Roads area, and guest artists from Europe, Asia and other regions of the United States. We provide our students with rich learning and performing experiences in a supportive and inspiring atmosphere, transforming lives through excellence in music training.

Violin

Allison Kim

Allison Kim began playing the violin after receiving a quarter size violin as a gift from her grandfather for her eighth birthday. She grew up in Asunción, Paraguay and Busan, South Korea before moving to Colorado, where she began her formal training under the tutelage of Jesse Ceci, former concertmaster of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and the Minnesota Orchestra.

She received her Bachelor of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Master of Music at Indiana University, and Advanced Music Studies certificate at Carnegie Mellon University. During the summers, she attended numerous festivals including Aspen Music Festival as an Orchestral String fellow, National Repertory Orchestra, Brevard Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival, Garth Newel Music Center, Encore School for Strings, and Madeline Island Music Camp. She is a substitute of the Colorado Symphony and New World Symphony and has been a member of various regional orchestras in Indiana and Colorado. In addition to Jesse, her teachers have included Lina Bahn, Ik-Hwan Bae, Yumi Hwang-Williams, and Andrés Cárdenes.

During her free time Allison loves playing with dogs and cheering on Denver sports teams.

Cello

Rebecca Gilmore Phillips

Rebecca Gilmore Phillips, native of North Carolina, joined the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in the fall of 1999.  Currently she is Assistant Principal Cello with the VSO.  In 2010, Ms. Gilmore Phillips was broadcast live on NPR for a performance of Schubert’s Guitar Quartet with JoAnn Falletta.  In February 2016 she is thrilled to be performing the “Beethoven Triple Concerto” with her VSO colleagues.     

Prior to being in Virginia, she performed as Principal Cellist of The Greensboro Symphony where she made her solo debut of Tchaikovsky’s “Rococo Variations”.  Much earlier in her career she soloed with the Charlotte Symphony and the Charlotte Repertory Orchestra and the latter with which she performed Haydn’s “Cello Concerto in D Major”. 

Around the Hampton Roads area, Ms. Gilmore Phillips has been a featured solo and chamber artist with the Virginia Arts Festival, The Virginia Symphony and the Norfolk Chamber Consort.  Her cello career has traveled up the east coast to perform with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra as well as in countries all over the world. Within the United States she has both taught and performed with numerous music festivals including the New England Music Camp (Maine), the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra, The Brevard Music Center, Garth Newel Chamber Music Center and the North Carolina School of the Arts’ International Music Program where she performed Saint-Saens’ “Cello Concerto” with their orchestra in ten major cities throughout Europe. During a residency in Canada with pianist/composer, Gabriela Frank, a world premiere performance of “Ríos Profundos” led to a recording titled, “It Won’t Be The Same River”.  In 2006, her Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra recorded Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons”.

Ms. Gilmore Phillips’ passion for chamber music has been the impetus for a quartet journey, comprised of professionals from the VSO, notably, Ambrosia Quartet, which began in 2002.  The group has been featured twice on the Feldman Chamber Music Society Series and the Williamsburg Regional Library series.  Ambrosia Quartet is exploring future recordings and travel abroad.

Ms. Gilmore holds degrees in Cello Performance from Indiana and Rice Universities. Her teachers include Janos Starker, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Norman Fischer and Desmond Hoebig. As a teacher herself, Ms. Gilmore Phillips “carries the torch” by working with kids throughout the Hampton Roads area through the VSO’s Community Engagement Program as well as maintaining a private cello studio.

Anastasia, or Stacey, as her friends call her is originally from New York. She received her Bachelor’s degree from The Julliard School and her Master’s degree from Rice University, Shepherd School of Music.

Stacy has played viola with the Virginia Symphony and many other area arts organizations since 1990. She also teaches violin and viola at the Governor’s School for the Arts, Old Dominion University, Norfolk State University and maintains a private lesson studio. Prior to coming to Virginia, Stacey played with the Houston Ballet Orchestra and Sinfonica D’ell Emigliz Romagne; Parma, Italy.

Stacey lives in Norfolk with her daughter and her neurotic whippet. In her spare time, she is an avid knitter, and loves being a member of the Harbor Quartet.

Violin

Maia Timm

Maia is a rising sophomore music education major at Virginia Commonwealth University studying under Susanna Klein. a Chesapeake native, Maia has been apart of HRCP as both a student and a member of the administrative staff for the last 5 years. She served as the concertmaster of the Grassfield High School Chamber Orchestra her senior year when they competed in a national competition. The group was awarded the Grand Prize, with Maia being awarded an outstanding soloist award. She also served the Concert and Freshman orchestras as a student director, teaching and conducting both groups and mentoring individual students. Additionally, she won the concerto competition held by her school and performed the first movemet of Lalo’s Violin Concerto last spring as well as being awarded the Director’s award and the peer-selected student of the year award. Maia studied under Jorge Aguirre during high school and inherited his love for supporting the younger generation.