Aviva Hakanoglu joins the faculty at University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music as assistant professor of violin, effective July 2026. She will collaborate with Professor Ann Miller on growing Pacific's violin studios.

Hakanoglu enjoys a varied career as a performer, educator and advocate for community engagement. As a member of the Euclid Quartet, she performs across the country and makes regular appearances at festivals such as Music Mountain and Mostly Modern. The quartet has released several albums on the label Afinat Records, including an album of short works “Breve” which was lauded by Gramophone magazine, “stunning…their command is exhilarating in its silken breadth and sleek virtuosity.” The Euclid Quartet also recently gave the world premiere of Anna Clyne’s string quartet concerto “Quarter Days” to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.

An active orchestral musician, Hakanoglu holds the principal second violin position of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, with which she has also been featured as a soloist. She has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and previously held positions with the Owensboro and Terre Haute Symphony Orchestras.

Prior to her appointment as assistant professor of violin at Pacific, Hakanoglu was on the faculty of Indiana University South Bend.

Always actively searching for creative ways to bring music into her community, Hakanoglu has organized musical events all over South Bend, including at the Civil Rights Heritage Center and the St. Joseph County Public Library. She co-founded and co-directs the Addicott Summer Chamber Music Festival, which invites two dozen young artists and world-renowned string quartets to the region for ten days of chamber music performances, masterclasses and more. Previously, she served as assistant director of the Three Village Chamber Players, a chamber music collective that provides free concerts and educational events around Long Island. She looks forward to bringing her passion for making music accessible to her new community in the Central Valley.

Hakanoglu earned her Doctor of Musical Art degree from Stony Brook University and her Master of Music degree from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She holds a Bachelor of Art in philosophy and music from Harvard University. Her teachers and mentors include Jennifer Frautschi, Philip Setzer, Simin Ganatra, the Pacifica Quartet and the Emerson Quartet.