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.

Megan Van Gomple

A native of Illinois, Megan Van Gomple joined the violin section of the Virginia Symphony in 2013. Ms. Van Gomple has appeared as a soloist here in Hampton Roads and in Indiana and continues to serve her community as concertmaster of Symphonicity, the Symphony Orchestra of Virginia Beach. She is a dedicated teacher and has been a member of the faculty of the Academy of Music of Virginia since 2008. She maintains a large Suzuki studio and her students perform throughout the area including solo performances with local orchestras. She also is an active coach for Hampton Roads Chamber Players and Bay Youth Orchestras of Virginia.

Megan began her violin studies at the age of nine. She went on to pursue her Bachelor of Music Education from Valparaiso University in Indiana and then spent her early career in Milwaukee as a public school strings teacher and regular performer with the Concord Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Van Gomple then went on to receive a Masters Degree in Violin Performance and Suzuki Pedagogy from the Hartt School of Music as a student of violinist Anton Miller and pedagogue Teri Einfeldt. She performed regularly with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra and taught on the Suzuki faculties at the University of Connecticut and the Suzuki School of Westport.

She lives in Norfolk with her husband Ryan and her son Silas. In her free time she enjoys reading, cheering on the Brewers, and traveling with her family whenever possible.

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.

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.