Indianapolis Symphony Appoints Five New String Players

One violinist and four violists will join the ensemble for the 2023/24 season

The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra welcomes second violinist Seula Lee, and violists Caleb Cox, Ursula Steele, Lynn Sue-A-Quan, and Emily Owsinski to the ensemble.

Born in South Korea and raised in Dallas, violinist Seula Lee took her first violin lessons at the age of 10. Before coming to Indianapolis, she was Guest Concertmaster of the Richardson Symphony Orchestra, and has also appeared with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, as well as the Austin, Dallas, Detroit, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras.

Violist Caleb Cox was raised in South Carolina. Following his undergraduate studies at Bob Jones University, Cox studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Robert Vernon, receiving a master's degree and an artist diploma. He has been the principal viola of the Akron Symphony Orchestra and has played as a substitute with The Cleveland Orchestra. Cox has participated as a fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center and as principal viola and soloist of the National Repertory Orchestra.

Ursula Steele studied with Atar Arad at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music, where she received the Kuttner Quartet Scholarship four times. This enabled her to participate in an intensive chamber music residency including mentorship from the Pacifica Quartet. She has also taken part in a quartet residency at the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany. In the summers of 2018 and 2019, she was a participant of the Ravinia Steans Music Institute Program for Piano and Strings, and she was also the winner of the 2019 Viola Concerto Competition at Jacobs.

Canadian violist Lynn Sue-A-Quan studied with Hsin-Yun Huang, Heidi Castleman, and Cynthia Phelps at the Juilliard School. She has appeared as a soloist with the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, Niagara Symphony, Guelph Symphony Orchestra, and the Oakville Chamber Orchestra. In addition, she has appeared at summer festivals including the Lucerne Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, and the Verbier Festival.

Emily Owsinski first appeared with the Indianapolis Symphony in 2018 and returns to the orchestra after a year with the St Louis Symphony. Hailing originally from Pennsylvania, she studied at Indiana University with Linda Fiore, Rebecca Henry, Stephen Wyrczynski, and Edward Gazouleas.

The orchestra has also appointed Dianne Seo as Acting 2nd Flute and James Vaughen as Acting Principal Trumpet.