Close this window Kenji Bunch Viola, and Composition A native of Portland, Oregon, Kenji Bunch currently resides in New York City, where he enjoys an active career as a performer, composer, and teacher. As a violist, he frequently performs solo, chamber, orchestral, contemporary, and experimental music in a wide variety of contexts and venues. He is a member of the Flux Quartet and continues to support new music as a member of The Nurse Kaya String Quartet, new music group Continuum and the perfomring composer group Ne(x)tworks. He also plays fiddle in the New York-based bluegrass band Citigrass. As a composer, his works are regularly performed and broadcast worldwide, and have been recorded on the EMI, Helicon, Pony Canyon, RCA and Cristal labels. He has served as composer in residence for the Mobile Symphony, Young Concert Artists, Inc. and Music at Maple Mount. Kenji studied viola with Toby Appel and composition with Robert Beaser at the Juilliard School, where he now teaches both these subjects in the school's Pre-College division.