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Alan Hoeckelman

Music Technician

Alan Hoeckelman received a BS Electronics – Communications degree with a minor in Physics from SEMSU. While there, he became a member of Phi Mu Alpha Professional Music Fraternity, Iota Psi Chapter.

He worked for ten years at McDonnell-Douglas Astronautics in the Harpoon program and four more at McDonnell-Douglas Training Systems as a tech writer. A budgetary layoff forced a change in career to that of a piano technician, which up to that point had been a hobby.

He spent more than three years at Ludwig-Aeolian Piano Exchange in Earth City and passed the required three tests given by the Piano Technicians Guild (PTG) becoming a Registered Piano Technician (RPT) in 1997. Over the course of some three to four years, he rebuilt more than 60 grand pianos while employed by a local technician, and several more were rebuilt while solo, including a nine-foot Mason & Hamlin CC for the Missouri State Capitol Rotunda. He has been a piano technician at SCC since 2006.

Dr. Mihyun Lee

as Piano

Dr. Lee has earned critical acclaim as a recitalist, orchestral soloist, and chamber musician. She has given recitals at the world’s major halls including Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in D.C, Seoul Arts Center in South Korea, Czech, and Italy. She has performed with the Russia Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Vienna CMS Orchestra, Romania Oltenia Craiova Philharmonic Orchestra, Janacek Chamber Orchestra, and Sae-Jong Symphony Orchestra. She received first prize in the International Young Artist Piano Competition, Asia International Music Competition, and Korean World Arts Association Piano Competition. Degrees include Sook-Myung Women’s University (BM), Cleveland Institute of Music (MM), and Ohio State University (DMA). Engagements at international music festivals include Liszt-Garrison Piano Festival, Music Fest Perugia, and Julliard Music Festival in Seoul. Dr. Lee is currently Adjunct Piano Faculty at SCC.