Pound Ridge
Chamber Music Festival
About the Director
Zoe Dweck believes that the performing arts should center collaboration and conversation. As a violinist, educator, and administrator, she is dedicated to fostering meaningful connections both on and off the stage. Ms. Dweck’s performance career has taken her from Carnegie Hall in New York City, to the Sunset Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, to Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Notable highlights include a collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center through the University Musical Society (UMS), Carnegie Hall’s Link Up! program, and regular performances with regional orchestras in both Ann Arbor and the Bay Area.
She maintains an active private studio of violinists and violists across the country, and in addition to her private teaching, has served as Adjunct Faculty at New York University and as Pre-College Faculty at the Michigan Youth Performing Arts Program. She is currently a faculty member at the Ithaca College Summer Music Academy.
As an administrator, Ms. Dweck worked in the Executive Office at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and currently serves as the Assistant to the Director at Sounding Point Academy at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, California. She previously served as the Chamber Music Manager at Festival Napa Valley and in various roles at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Ms. Dweck holds both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Violin Performance and Chamber Music from New York University and the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. Her primary teachers include Fabiola Kim, Naoko Tanaka, and Cyrus Beroukhim, and her chamber music studies were with Annie Fullard (Cavani Quartet), Matt Albert (Eighth Blackbird), and Amy I-Lin Cheng. Ms. Dweck completed additional studies at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, Center Stage Strings, and Sounding Point Academy. She is currently a student and graduate assistant at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.
2025 Artists
Sarah Thune, Guest Artist
Pianist Sarah Thune is a native of Des Moines, Iowa. Ms. Thune completed her DMA in Collaborative Piano at the University of Michigan studying under Martin Katz. She also
holds degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder (M.M. Collaborative Piano), Syracuse University (M.M. Piano Performance), and Drake University (B.M. Piano Performance).
As a vocal coach and répétiteur, Ms. Thune has worked in productions of Don Giovanni (University of Michigan), Le Nozze di Figaro (The Academy of Vocal Arts and Brancaleoni International Music Festival), Amahl and The Night Visitors (Music on Site Inc.), and will music direct a cabaret show, Caught in the Crossfire, in Manhattan’s Green Room 42 this summer. She has also held répétiteur and class pianist positions at Ballet Arizona, The School of Ballet Arizona, and Interlochen Arts Camp.
An active chamber musician, Sarah has performed in concerts given through the Anchorage Music Festival, the University of Alabama, Chandler-Gilbert Community College, the Civic Music Association of Des Moines, Iowa, Civic Morning Musicals in Syracuse, New York, the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, the Western Slope Concert Series in Grand Junction, Colorado, and the Tuesday Morning Musicale in Detroit, among others.
In the 2024-2025 academic year, Ms. Thune held a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. She is currently based in Philadelphia.
Lily Kimble, Young Artist and Artistic Operations Intern
Violinist Lily Kimble is a Pound Ridge native going into her Senior year at Fox Lane High School. She is in her eighth year of violin study and is currently enrolled in the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College program as a student of Christina Khimm Rosand. Most recently, her Fox Lane High School string quartet performed Brahms' String Quartet No. 2, Op. 51 in A minor as a semi-finalist in the Young Musicians Concert Competition, hosted by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. As an orchestral musician, Ms. Kimble has performed with the Norwalk Youth Symphony and the Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Symphony Orchestra. As a selected violinist in the Fox Lane High School advanced ensembles, she has shared leadership responsibilities for both the Chamber Orchestra and Sinfonia. In 2024, Ms. Kimble performed as the Concertmaster of the Westchester Area-All State Orchestra, as well as an invited violinist for the annual NYSSMA All-State Symphony Orchestra at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. In addition to her commitment to classical music, Ms. Kimble enjoys performing in pit orchestras, most recently as a violinist for Fox Lane High School’s production of Something Rotten. She also enjoys singing and playing both guitar and piano.
