Unami Middle School: Orchestra Director

MM (Temple University), BME (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 Summer 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, and his father, the late 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,  she is the Orchestra Director at Unami and Lenape Middle Schools in Central Bucks School District, finishing her 20th year teaching grades 7-9. Hannah is an active freelance violinist in the Greater Philadelphia area, including Bucks County Symphony, New Jersey Chamber Orchestra, Cairn University Symphony. She also has a full studio teaching violin and viola.

Mrs. Pak is married to Rev. Micah Pak, an Administrative Pastor at Yuong Sang Presbyterian Church in Horsham. Her passion for music, faith and youth all come together at Csehy, where she has been on faculty since 2015. All three of their children had been Csehy campers as string players and are now in college and in the working world.