Hannah Pak

Violin

Unami Middle School: Orchestra Director

MM (Temple University), BS (Cairn University)

Hannah Pak grew up in Philadelphia, and has benefited from its public school Philly Music programs, receiving free weekly lessons on the violin, clarinet, and the harp. In addition to the school orchestral and choral ensembles, she participated in the Phila All-City Orchestra and Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, and went to Settlement Music School and its Summer Music Camp. It is through these experiences that she desired to become a music teacher. She received her Bachelor in Music Education with emphasis on Violin Performance from Cairn University, where she studied with Bernie Berman, Louis Berman (original member of the Curtis Quartet), and Xiao-fu Zhao. She also studied with Helen Kwalwasser while pursuing her Masters degree in Music History at Temple University.

Currently, Hannah is the Orchestra Director at Unami Middle School in Central Bucks School District, teaching grades 7-9 since 2005. She is also the Director of Concertino, one of several ensembles of Youth Orchestra of Bucks County, beginning her post in 2020. Hannah has also joined the adjunct faculty at Cairn University in 2020. She is an active freelance violinist in the Greater Philadelphia area, including Bucks County Symphony, Lower Merion Symphony, Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestras, Cairn Symphony and University of Pennsylvania Symphony. She also teaches violin and viola privately at the Pak Studio.

Ms. Pak is married to Rev. Micah Pak, an Administrative Pastor at Yuong Sang Presbyterian Church in Horsham, where she had taught Bible Study for the youth group. Her passion for music, faith and youth all come together at Csehy, where she has been on the faculty since 2015. Their three children, all string players, have had positive experiences as Csehy campers.