Please, teacher: Stringing along with the profs

The Korean violist Sara Kim is leaving Leipzig to be professor of viola and chamber music in Bremen. Sara (pictured) starts in April.

Ex-Bavarian Radio violist German Tcakulov is now viola professor at Salzburg’s Mozarteum University.

The German-Spanish cellist Gabriel Schwalbe is now professor at the Music Academy in Lübeck.

And ex-Kronos cellist Jeffrey Zeigler has rejoined the faculty of Mannes School of Music in New York.

Also noted: The Deutsche Hochschulverband has awarded Prof of the Year to Nils Mönkemeyer, Professor of Viola at the University of Music and Theatre Munich and from April 2025 at the Hanns Eisler University of Music Berlin.

And: The Royal Conservatory of Brussels has a new bassoon teacher, Gordon Fantini.