Guest Soloists

Deirdre Hutton

Deirdre Hutton, violin, is an avid solo, chamber and orchestral performer. She has performed at numerous music festivals throughout the United States including the National Repertory Orchestra, National Orchestral Institute, and the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival. In addition, Mrs. Hutton has performed in numerous orchestras in the US and Europe including the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida, the Schlossfestspiele Chamber Orchestra in Heidelberg, Germany, the North Carolina Symphony, the Charleston Symphony, the Eastern Music Festival Philharmonia, and the Knoxville Symphony. She was Assistant Concertmaster of the Roanoke Symphony.

Mrs. Hutton studied at the Eastman School of Music with Oleh Krysa and earned her Master’s degree with Roland and Almita Vamos at Northwestern University. While at Northwestern she was the Vamos’s teaching assistant and taught violin lessons to undergraduate students. In addition, she studied in London under Itzhak Rashkovsky while a member of Haydn Chamber Symphony of London and as concertmaster of the Imperial Collegium Musicum Ensemble.

Mrs. Hutton currently plays in the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and performs frequently with her ’cellist husband, Christopher Hutton. In addition, she maintains an active private teaching studio in Greenville, SC.

Christopher Hutton

Christopher Hutton, cello, is Assistant Professor of violoncello and coordinator of string chamber music.  An avid chamber music performer, Dr. Hutton has had a broad range of experiences, including duo recital tours in his home country of New Zealand (most recently with pianists Paul Wyse, Sergey Schepkin, and Thomas Lausmann) and chamber performances at the Schlossfestspiele in Heidelberg, Germany. 

In his recitals he seeks a balance of accessible modern pieces alongside more traditional repertoire.  He has recorded for New Zealand's Concert FM, Germany's SWF Radio, and appears on a disc of contemporary music on Albany Classics. Hutton served as co-principal cellist in the New World Symphony Orchestra under music director Michael Tilson Thomas and has played in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra as well as other orchestras in the United States. 

 Dr. Hutton has enjoyed collaboration with various composers, notably New Zealanders Helen Bowater and Christopher Marshall and Georgia composer Mitchell Turner.  He plays on a newly acquired 'cello made by John Betts in London, c. 1795. Dr. Hutton studied at Boston University with Leslie Parnas,
and earned his Masters and Doctorate with Paul Katz and Steven Doane at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. 

While at Eastman he was teaching assistant to Steven Doane and taught cello for the University of Rochester and the Eastman School's Community Education Division.  Since that time he has taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of Delaware, and the Eastern Music Festival.  At Furman Dr. Hutton teaches 'cello, music history, and chamber music, including coaching the Hartness and Gladden String Quartets.  In 2006 he will lead the inaugural trip of Furman’s newest Study Abroad program, the music departments "Fall in Tuscany" in Arezzo, Italy.

Kristi Parker Martin

Kristi Parker Martin, soprano, is a resident of Greenville, SC and is no stranger to the stage. In addition to performing concerts for area churches, social events, and festivals, Kristi is also a featured National Anthem singer for the Greenville Drive. She has been performing since the age of 3, and she has performed roles such as Narrator in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” Stepsister in Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,” and Sister Berthe in “Sound of Music” with various local theatres.

Kristi is a graduate of Winthrop University, and she obtained her Master’s degree from Converse College. She teaches 5th grade at Bell’s Crossing Elementary School. She lives in Greenville with her 8 year-old daughter, and in her spare time Kristi enjoys playing golf, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.

Lisa Sain Odom

Lisa Sain Odom is a soprano who enjoys singing both opera and musical theater. Recent operatic performances include Isabelle/Madeline in The Face on the Barroom Floor, Ann Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Musetta in La Boheme and Monica in Menotti's The Medium.  

Favorite musical roles include Julie Jordan (Carousel), Jeanie (Brigadoon), Sister Sophia (The Sound of Music), Rose (The Secret Garden), Chairy Barnum (Barnum!), and the Baker’s Wife (Into the Woods). 

Ms. Odom is equally comfortable on the concert stage and has served as soprano soloist for works such as Handel's Messiah, the Fauré Requiem, Bach’s cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Pergolesi's Stabat mater and Kurt Weill’s Seven Deadly Sins. 

Upcoming events include "Ophelia‘s mad scene" from Ambroise Thomas‘ Hamlet with the South Carolina Philharmonic and solo recitals at North Greenville University and Shorter College.

 This past summer Ms. Odom performed and taught as a NATS Intern in Kansas City, MO, and later in the summer she appeared with the Opera Studio for Singers with the AIMS program in Graz, Austria.

 Ms. Odom teaches voice with North Greenville University and the Pre-College program at Converse College. She is currently directing a production of The Toy Shop for the Spartanburg Repertory Company.

 Haejin Kim

Violinist Haejin Kim is the former Concert Master of Foothills Philharmonic,
and performs with the Spartanburg Symphony and the Greenville Symphony Orchestra. A native of South Korea, Haejin began piano studies at the age
of five and violin studies at the age of ten.
She continued her secondary education in Washington State where she
studied with Steven Staryk at University of Washington and received her Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music. Ms. Kim received
her Master's of Music degree from Aaron Copland School of Music of CUNY
and is currently a Doctoral candidate at the City University of New York. Her teachers include Lucie Robert, Daniel Phillips from the Orion String Quartet, Catherine Cho, and Yumi Scott from the Philadelphia Orchestra. She also attended the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival with scholarship from 1993
to 1995 and the String 2001 where she was a concertmaster and performed
for the master class of David Kim, a concertmaster of Philadelphia Orchestra.
She was principal second violin of the Nittany Valley Symphony in PA,
and has performed with the Pennsylvania Central Chamber Orchestra,
the Penns Wood Music Festival Orchestra at Penn State University, the
AIMS Music Festival Orchestra at Graz, Austria, and the Prime Symphony Orchestra in New York. She was awarded the Senior Chamber Music Live
Award and The Discimus ut Serviamus Music Award from Queens College.
She appeared as a soloist with the Kyungbook State Orchestra in South Korea. She also performed New York Debut at Carnegie Weill recital presented by Artists International.

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