Photo: William Snider
Bio
Violist Han Dewan has performed chamber and orchestral music throughout the United States, in addition to concerts in France, Canada, and Czechia. She is the former principal violist of the Midland-Odessa Symphony and Chorale and performed with the Permian Basin String Quartet from 2019-21. She currently performs and tours with Chasqui Quartet, hosts duo recitals with Carolyn Rosinsky, and actively freelances in the DMV area.
Recent series appearances include the Chasqui Quartet Midwest and Colorado tours, Groupmuse, Union Square Chamber Music Society, Garth Newel Music Center, Blair School Chamber Showcase, National Orchestral Institute, and the Festival d’Aix (FR). She is the first female student to complete the Blair-to-Owen dual B.Mus. and MBA at Vanderbilt University.
Committed to expanding the audience for art music through multimedia collaborations, recent recitals have included poetry, film, and illuminated scores. She can be heard on albums released by Naxos, Klavier, and Navona, including the world premiere recording of Jack Stamp’s “String Quartet No.1.”
She is immensely grateful to her mentors: CJ Chang at the Peabody Institute, Kathryn Plummer and John Kochanowski at the Blair School, and Sherri Fleshner. In 2022, she began medical studies at University of Maryland School of Medicine. She aims to become an otolaryngologist treating hearing loss and studies the molecular basis of hearing loss in the lab of Dr. Ronna Hertzano.