Morgan Hunkele, Piano

Morgan Hunkele is currently a graduate student at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, under the instruction of Ran Dank. She began her piano studies at age eleven and completed high-school and undergraduate study at the North Carolina School of the Arts with Dmitri Shteinberg. She has studied and performed at Meadowmount School of Music, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, Baltimore International Piano Festival, Vivace International Music Festival, and Bowdoin International Music Festival.  

A recipient of the UNCSA Chancellor’s Excellence Award and a full-scholarship student at Cincinnati Conservatory, Ms. Hunkele has been a prizewinner in the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, the Charlotte Steinway Piano Competition, the Greensboro Euterpe Club Instrumental Competition, the Triad Institute Young Artist Competition, the North Carolina Bach Festival Young Artist Competition, and for four consecutive years in the North Carolina MTNA Piano Competitions. She has also been a finalist in the Ronald Sachs International Music Competition. She has appeared as a guest artist in the Music for a Great Space Concert series, as a soloist with the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, as a returning guest artist of the North Carolina Bach Festival, and as a featured pianist alongside the Winston-Salem Festival Ballet for the performance of three Rakowski etudes. Before joining Cincinnati Strings, Ms. Hunkele served on faculty at the UNCSA Community Music School and as a vocal accompanist at Wake Forest University. A proponent of an accessible and atypical concert experience, her 2018 program, “The Creativity Workshop,” was featured in The Independent Tribune. Her students have received recognition at the North Carolina School of the Arts Junior Classical Sonata Competition and perform in recitals regularly.