2026-2027 Musicians

Ara Gregorian

Violinist/violist ARA GREGORIAN made his debut as soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra in Symphony Hall and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and the Kennedy Center, and in cities throughout the world including Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Ulaanbaatar, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Helsinki. Gregorian is the founder and artistic director of Four Seasons and has appeared at the SpringLight (Finland), Storioni (Holland), Casals (Puerto Rico), Intimacy of Creativity (Hong Kong), Voice of Music (Israel), Vail, Taos and Sante Fe festivals. He has performed extensively as a member of the Cooperstown and Daedalus quartets and the chamber music ensemble Concertante. Gregorian has served on the violin/viola/chamber music faculty at East Carolina University since 1998 and is the Chair of String and Piano Chamber Music at New England Conservatory.

Serena Canin

A native of New York City, violinist Serena Canin is an active chamber musician, teacher and presenter.As a founding member of the Brentano Quartet, she has performed to critical acclaim around the world;she has also been heard at the Marlboro Festival, Chamber Music Quad Cities, Salt Bay Chamberfest,the Festival Internacional de Cartagena, the Continuum Series at Alice Tully Hall, and on tour with Music from Marlboro and the Brandenburg Ensemble.She has worked with young musicians at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Mannes Beethoven Institute, and the Chamber Music Center of New York. Serena is the director of Music Middays, a noontime series promoting young musicians in New York, where she lives with her husband, pianist Thomas Sauer, and their two sons.She holds degrees from Swarthmore College and The Juilliard School, where she studied with Robert Mann.

Colin Carr

COLIN CARR appears throughout the world as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and teacher. He has played with major orchestras worldwide, including the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, The Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, the orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Philadelphia, Montréal and all the major orchestras of Australia and New Zealand. Conductors with whom he has worked include Rattle, Gergiev, Dutoit, Elder, Skrowasczewski and Marriner. Chamber music plays an important role in his musical life. He is a frequent visitor to international festivals and has appeared often as a guest with the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets and with New York’s Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has held teaching positions at the New England Conservatory and the Royal Academy of Music. St John’s College, Oxford created the post of “Musician in Residence” for him. Since 2002 he been a professor at Stony Brook University in New York.

Audrey Chen

Cellist AUDREY CHEN has performed around the world in venues including Carnegie Hall, the Mariinsky Theatre, Royal Albert Hall, Disney Hall, and the Kennedy Center. She has appeared on NPR’s From the Top, with the Seattle Symphony and the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, and as a guest with Boston Chamber Music Society and the Silk Road Ensemble. Audrey’s festival appearances include Yellowbarn, Music@Menlo, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Four Seasons, Perlman Music Program, Tanglewood, and Taos. She received her BA from Harvard and MM from New England Conservatory, where her teachers included Laurence Lesser and Lluis Claret. Audrey is a DMA candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center under Marcy Rosen and teaches at CUNY Hunter College. She is the cellist of the Terra String Quartet, and is a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans.

Chih-Ta Chen

Violist CHIH-TA CHEN, from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, is the winner of the 2022 Chimei Arts Award and the 2018 Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award. His passion lies in performing chamber music, and he has been featured at Music@Menlo, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, and the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival. Chen was thrilled to join the prizewinning Terra String Quartet in 2023 as their violist. Chen held the Jean J. Sterne and Edwin B. Garrigues Fellowship as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music, studying under Roberto Diaz, Hsin-Yun Huang, Ed Gazouleas and Misha Amory. He previously attended the New England Conservatory and Tainan National University of the Arts and studied with Mai Motobuchi, Yong-Zhan Chen, and I-Chen Wang. In his free time, he loves playing with his two-year-old gray cat, Cheetah.

Catherine Cho

CATHERINE CHO draws upon her experiences as a soloist, chamber musician, pedagogue, and artistic director to support and mentor artists in their quests to engage and enrich their high values as future leaders. She is devoted to fostering the next generation of performers and teachers through the development of artistic excellence, inspired curiosity, and clarity of vision through a holistic view of the whole person. Her work as a teacher in the Juilliard Community Engagement Seminar highlights her passion for connection through art and communication.  Cho has served on the Violin and Chamber Music Faculty of the Juilliard School since 1994. When away from her teaching and performing, you may find her tending her Zen garden, practicing yoga, or catching up with the Times. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Todd Phillips, and son, Brandon.

Amelia Dietrich

Violinist AMELIA DIETRICH earned her B.M. from The Colburn Conservatory under the teaching of Robert Lipsett, and her Masters from The Juilliard School studying with Ida Kavafian. She grew up in Greenville, NC, studying with her longtime mentor, Ara Gregorian. Amelia is a founding member of the Terra String Quartet, winners of the 2022 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and prizewinners of 2023 Melbourne and Osaka Competitions. Amelia has concertized across the globe, including Alice Tully Hall’s Wednesdays at One, National Sawdust, The Guggenheim, and Four Seasons. An advocate of community outreach and making classical music accessible, Amelia is Perlman Program outreach artist and has given interactive performances throughout the US. She is a recipient of Juilliard’s Gluck Fellowship, dedicated to bringing performances to the disabled community in NYC.

Jennifer Frautschi

Two-time GRAMMY nominee and Avery Fisher career grant recipient violinist JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI has appeared as soloist with innumerable orchestras such as the Cincinnati Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and St Paul Chamber Orchestra. She is an artist-member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and has appeared as chamber musician at Chamber Music Northwest, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, La Jolla Summerfest, Music@Menlo, Tippet Rise Art Center, Toronto Summer Music, and the Bridgehampton, Cape Cod, Charlottesville, Great Lakes, Lake Champlain, Moab, Ojai, Salt Bay, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Spoleto Festivals.  Her extensive discography for the Albany, Artek, and Naxos labels includes the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerti with the Seattle Symphony. Born in Pasadena, California, Jennifer attended the Colburn School, Harvard, the New England Conservatory, and the Juilliard School. She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the “ex-Cadiz,” on generous loan from a private American foundation with support from Rare Violins In Consortium. She teaches in the graduate program at Stony Brook University.

Clive Greensmith

From 1999 until its final season in 2013, CLIVE GREENSMITH was a member of the world-renowned Tokyo String Quartet, giving over one hundred performances each year in the most prestigious international venues, including New York’s Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, London’s South Bank, Paris Chatelet, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. He has collaborated with international artists such as Andras Schiff, Pinchas Zukerman, Leon Fleisher, Lynn Harrell, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Alicia de Larrocha, and Emanuel Ax.

Mr. Greensmith has given guest performances at prominent festivals worldwide. In North America, he has performed at the Aspen Music Festival, Marlboro Music Festival, Music@Menlo, La Jolla SummerFest, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Cleveland Chamber Fest, and the Ravinia Festival. He is a regular guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and will undertake a national tour with Paul Huang, Wu Han, and Matthew Lipman in 2020. Internationally he has appeared at the Salzburg Festival in Austria, Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, Pacific Music Festival in Japan and the Hong Kong Arts Festival. As a soloist, Clive Greensmith has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, and the RAI Orchestra of Rome among others.

During a career spanning over twenty-five years, Mr. Greensmith has built up a catalog of landmark recordings, most notably The Complete Beethoven String Quartets for Harmonia Mundi with the Tokyo String Quartet, Mozart’s ‘Prussian’ Quartets with the Tokyo String Quartet, Brahms Cello Sonatas with Boris Berman for Biddulph Recordings, and Clarinet Trios of Beethoven and Brahms with Jon Nakamatsu and Jon Manasse for Harmonia Mundi. In June 2018 he performed the newly reconstructed Pál Hermann cello concerto (1925) with the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra under conductor, Theodor Kuchar. Toccata Classics released a live recording of his world premiere performance of the Concerto with Theodore Kuchar and the Lviv International Symphony Orchestra in the spring of 2019.

Deeply committed to the mentoring and development of young musicians, Clive has enjoyed a long and distinguished teaching career. In addition to his fifteen-year residency with the Tokyo String Quartet at Yale University, Mr. Greensmith has served as a faculty member at the Yehudi Menuhin School and Royal Northern College of Music in England, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. In 2013, following the final concerts of the Tokyo String Quartet, Mr. Greensmith joined the faculty at the Colburn School where he is currently a professor of cello and coaches chamber music for the Conservatory of Music and the Music Academy. Students of Mr. Greensmith have gone on to secure major positions in orchestras throughout the world and have won a number of prestigious awards.

In July 2019, he succeeded Günther Pichler as director of string chamber music at the Accademia Chigiana International Festival and Summer Academy in Siena, Italy. Also in 2019, Greensmith became the Artistic Director of the Nevada Chamber Music Festival.

Mr. Greensmith is a founding member of the Montrose Trio with pianist Jon Kimura Parker, and violinist Martin Beaver.

Ieva Jokubaviciute

Pianist IEVA JOKUBAVICIUTE made her Chicago Symphony debut at the Ravinia Festival in 2005 and was honored as a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2006. She has performed concerti with orchestras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay; Washington, DC; and Fargo, ND and has appeared at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Four Seasons, Bard, Caramoor, La Lointaine (France) and Prussia Cove (England) festivals. Jokubaviciute won the 2009 Naumburg International Chamber Music Competition as a member of Trio Cavatina and has toured with violinist Midori in Europe, Japan, India, North and South America. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and the Kennedy Center; with Musicians from Marlboro; and at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Jokubaviciute received degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the Mannes College of Music and is Associate Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University.

Michael Kannen

Cellist MICHAEL KANNEN was a founding member of the Brentano String Quartet and for seven years performed with that group on stages around the world. During those years, the Quartet was awarded the Cleveland Quartet Award, the Naumburg Award, and the Segal Award from Lincoln Center, and appeared in venues such as Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw, and the Sydney Opera House. Kannen has been a member of the Apollo Trio and the Meliora and Cooperstown string quartets, has appeared at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has performed at Spoleto in Charleston, Italy, and Australia. Kannen has been faculty at Yellow Barn and Taos School of Music. For 22 years he was Director of Chamber Music at the Peabody Conservatory, where he still teaches, and in 2019 received the Johns Hopkins Excellence in Teaching Award.

Kim Kashkashian

Hailed as “an artist who combines a probing, restless intellect with enormous beauty of tone,” KIM KASHKASHIANS’ work as performing and recording artist and pedagogue has been recognized worldwide.

She won the coveted Grammy Award for her recording of Ligeti and Kurtag solo viola works in 2013, and received the George Peabody Medal and Switzerland’s Golden Bow Award for her contributions to music. In 2016, she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, was named an Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music.

As soloist Kashkashian has appeared with the orchestras of Berlin, London, Vienna, Milan, New York and Cleveland in collaboration with Eschenbach, Mehta, Welser-Moest, Kocsis, Dennis Russel Davies, Blomstedt, and Holliger.

Recital appearances include the great halls of Vienna, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Tokyo, Athens, London, New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia where Ms. Kashkashian appears with the Trio Tre Voce, and in duo partnerships with pianist Robert Levin and percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky.
She is also a regular participant at the Verbier, Salzburg, Lockenhaus, Marlboro, and Ravinia festivals.

Pursuing her lifelong search for new directions in music making, Ms. Kashkashian has forged creative relationships with the world’s leading composers—including György Kurtág, Krzysztof Penderecki, Alfred Schnittke, Giya Kancheli, and Arvo Pärt and commissioned compositions from Eötvös, Ken Ueno, Betty Olivero, Thomas Larcher, Lera Auerbach, Tigran Mansurian, and Toshio Hosokawa.

Ms. Kashkashian’s long association with the ECM label has yielded a discography that has garnered an abundance of praise and international awards—including a Grammy in 2013 for her solo recording of works by György Ligeti and György Kurtág, a Cannes Classical Award in 2001 for her recording of the viola concertos of Kurtág, Béla Bartók, and Péter Eötvös, and an Edison Prize in 1999 for her recording with pianist Robert Levin of the sonatas of Johannes Brahms. Ms. Kashkashian’s most recent recording of the six unaccompanied suites of J.S. Bach, was released to critical acclaim in October 2018 and garnered the Opus Klassik Prize.

Ms. Kashkashian, who studied with Karen Tuttle and Walter Trampler at Baltimore’s Peabody Conservatory and Felix Galimir at Vermont’s Marlboro Festival has held teaching positions at Indiana University, the Freiburg Hochschule für Musik, and the Hans Eisler Hochschule of Berlin. Currently, Ms. Kashkashian makes her home in Boston where she coaches chamber music and viola at New England Conservatory of Music.

Ms. Kashkashian is Founder and Artistic Director of “Music for Food” a musician-led hunger relief initiative that to date has presented hundreds of artists in concert which have created more than one and a half million free meals for people in need.

Ani Kavafian

Violinist ANI KAVAFIAN has performed as soloist with virtually all of America’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Francisco and Seattle symphony orchestras. She has appeared at the White House on three separate occasions for three different presidents. Kavafian has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1979, performs frequently with her sister, Ida Kavafian, and has appeared in solo recitals at New York’s Carnegie and Alice Tully halls. She has appeared at the Four Seasons, Music from Angel Fire, Bravo! Vail and Bridgehampton festivals, and recorded the Mozart violin concerti with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. Kavafian has held teaching positions at Mannes College, Manhattan School of Music, McGill University in Montreal and Stony Brook University. She is currently full professor at the Yale University School of Music.

Ida Kavafian

The versatile violinist/violist IDA KAVAFIAN recently completed her 35th year and final year as Artistic Director of Music from Angel Fire.  She is co-founder of Tashi, OPUS ONE, Trio Valtorna and Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival (running it for ten years), frequent artist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, former violinist of the Beaux Arts Trio and faculty member of The Curtis Institute (where she holds the Nina von Maltzahn Violin Chair).  She has premiered numerous new works including concerti by Toru Takemitsu and Michael Daugherty, toured and recorded with jazz greats Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis and Fiddler/Composer Mark O’Connor, appeared with the Guarneri, Orion, Shanghai and American String Quartets (as violist), and has had a solo feature on CBS Sunday Morning.  A graduate of Juilliard studying with Oscar Shumsky, she made her NY debut under Young Concert Artists with the pianist Peter Serkin.  Together with her husband, violist Steven Tenenbom, she breeds, trains and shows prize-winning Vizsla dogs, which presently include a Gold Grand Champion as well as a Master Hunter.

Alan Kay

Praised by the New York Times for his “spellbinding” performances and “infectious enthusiasm and panache,” ALAN R. KAY is Principal Clarinetist and a former Artistic Director of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He is the recipient of the Classical Recording Foundation’s Samuel Sanders Award, a Presidential Scholars Teacher Award, and the 1989 Young Concert Artists Award with the sextet Hexagon. A founding member of the Windscape Quintet, he is a regular guest in chamber music venues throughout the world including the Yellow Barn, Orlando (Holland), and Bowdoin festivals and curated a concert series at the Cape May Music Festival for 25 years. Kay teaches at the Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School, and Stony Brook University, where he also serves as Executive Director of the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. He has served on the juries of Young Concert Artists, Concert Artist Guild, and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.

Hye-Jin Kim

Violinist HYE-JIN KIM was awarded first prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition and the Concert Artists Guild Competition. She has performed as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic, and has been presented at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Kim has appeared at the Four Seasons, Marlboro, Ravinia, Music from Angel Fire, Prussia Cove and Music@Menlo festivals and was a member of the Cooperstown Quartet. She has toured as a member of Musicians from Marlboro and recently founded “Lullaby Dreams,” an initiative that brings beauty and humanity to babies and families in NICUs and children’s hospitals through music. Kim is associate professor of violin at East Carolina University.

Maria Lambros

Violist MARIA LAMBROS has performed as a member of four of the country’s finest string quartets in venues such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. She was a member of the Ridge and Mendelssohn string quartets, a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning Meliora String Quartet, and is currently a member of the Cooperstown Quartet. Lambros has appeared at the Four Seasons, Helsinki, Yellow Barn, Aspen, Tanglewood, La Jolla, and Chamber Music Northwest festivals. She has performed with the Guarneri, Cleveland, Juilliard, Muir, Brentano, Borromeo, and Orion quartets and was named one of “Montana’s Leading Artists and Entertainers of the 20th Century.” She is founder and artistic director of Our Joyful Noise Baltimore and is on faculty at the Peabody Conservatory.

Harriet Langley

Korean-Australian violinist HARRIET LANGLEY who has performed with the London Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Gyeonggi Philharmonic, and Orchestre National de Belgique. She is a laureate of the Leopold Mozart Competition, the Postacchini International Competition, and the Menuhin International Competition. Her festival appearances include Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, YellowBarn, and Prussia Cove. She is a founding member of the Terra String Quartet, winners of the 2022 Fischoff Competition and laureates of the Melbourne, Osaka, and Banff Competitions. She received her Bachelor’s from New England Conservatory, studying with Miriam Fried and Lucy Chapman. She completed her Master’s at Juilliard with Catherine Cho, Daniel Phillips, and Donald Weilerstein, where she received the prestigious William Schuman Prize.

Robert McDonald

ROBERT MCDONALD has toured extensively as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. He has performed with major orchestras in the United States and was the recital partner for many years to Isaac Stern and other distinguished instrumentalists. He has participated in the Marlboro, Casals, and Luzerne Festivals, the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center, and has broadcasted for BBC Television worldwide. He has appeared with the Takács, Vermeer, Juilliard, Brentano, Borromeo, American, Shanghai, and St. Lawrence string quartets as well as with Musicians from Marlboro. His discography includes recordings for Sony Classical, Bridge, Vox, Musical Heritage Society, ASV, and CRI. Mr. McDonald’s prizes include the Gold Medal at the Busoni International Piano Competition and the Deutsche Schallplatten Critics Award. A member of the piano faculty at the Juilliard School since 1999, Mr. McDonald joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2007, where he holds the Penelope P. Watkins Chair in Piano Studies. During the summer, he is the artistic director of the Taos School of Music and Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico.

Jesse Mills

Since his concerto debut at the Ravinia Festival, violinist JESSE MILLS has established a unique career, performing music from classical to contemporary, as well as composed and improvised music of his own invention. Mills earned two Grammy nominations for his work on several discs of Arnold Schoenberg’s music, released by NAXOS. As a composer and arranger, Mills has been commissioned by Columbia University’s Miller Theatre and Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon. He is co-founder of the prize-winning Duo Prism, and of the Horszowski Trio. Mills is co-artistic director of the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival in Silverthorne, Colorado. He studied with Dorothy DeLay, Robert Mann, and Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School. He is on the faculty at Brooklyn College and the Longy School of Music. He has received awards for musical achievement from the Third Street Music School in 2010 and from the Chamber Music Center of New York in 2023.

Adam Neiman

American pianist ADAM NEIMAN has performed as soloist with the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Minnesota, Saint Louis, San Francisco, and Utah, as well as with the National Symphony Orchestra. He has performed throughout the US and Canada and internationally in Italy, France, and Japan. In 1995, Neiman became the youngest-ever winner of the Gilmore Young Artist Award, and the following year won the Young Concert Artists Auditions. Neiman’s live performance of the Brahms Rhapsodies at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival on NPR’s Performance Today was nominated for a Grammy Award. He has received an Avery Fisher Career Grant and is artistic director of the Manchester Music Festival. Neiman is Associate Professor of Piano and Chair of the Music Conservatory at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

Paul Neubauer

This past summer, violist PAUL NEUBAUER premiered a new viola concerto by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich with conductor JoAnn Falletta at the Brevard Music Center. This season, he will record and perform the work with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2025, he released two albums on First Hand Records featuring the final works of two great composers: an all-Bartók album including the revised version of the Viola Concerto, and a Shostakovich recording that includes the monumental Viola Sonata. Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at the age of 21, Neubauer has appeared as soloist with the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki Philharmonics; the Chicago, National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth Symphonies; and English Chamber Orchestras. A two-time Grammy nominee, Neubauer teaches at the Juilliard School and Mannes College.

Zvi Plesser

Israeli cellist ZVI PLESSER enjoys a wide-ranging career as a soloist, chamber music performer, educator and music director. As a soloist Mr. Plesser plays regularly in his home country with all the orchestras. On the world stage he has performed with such orchestras as Berlin Philharmonic, Saint Martin in the Fields, the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington DC, Shanghai Philharmonic, and the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, to name a few. Mr. Plesser devotes much of his time to chamber music. He has performed on some of the world’s leading stages, including Vienna’s Konzerthouse, Berlin’s Philharmonie, NYC’s Carnegie Hall, and London’s Wigmore Hall, among others. He is frequently invited to music festivals around the world including Four Seasons and Mayfest in the US, Utrecht International Music Festival, Rolandseck, ClasClas and Salon de Provence in Europe as well as Le Point in Japan. Mr. Plesser is a graduate of the Juilliard School where he studied with Zara Nelsova. Mr. Plesser is a professor at the Jerusalem Academy of Music. In the fall of 2024, he will begin teaching at the Juilliard School.

Marcy Rosen

MARCY ROSEN, cello, has established herself as one of the most important and respected artists of our day. The New Yorker magazine dubbed her “a New York legend of the cello,” and the Los Angeles Times has called her “one of the intimate art’s abiding treasures.” She has performed throughout the world and in all 50 of the United States. Sought after for her riveting and informative Master Classes, she has been a guest of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea and the Cartagena International Music Festival in Colombia. She is a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and has been co-artistic director of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival in Maryland since 1986. Since first attending the Marlboro Music Festival in 1975, she has taken part in 25 Musicians from Marlboro tours and performed in concerts celebrating the 40^th, 50^th, and 60^th anniversaries of the festival. A graduate of the Curtis Institute, Ms. Rosen is currently Professor of Cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, also serving as artistic director of the Chamber Music Live concert series. In 2024, she was appointed Artistic Director of the Evnin Rising Stars program at the Caramoor Center for the Arts.

Thomas Sauer

Pianist THOMAS SAUER has performed at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Merkin Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Musikgebouw and at Berlin’s Philharmonie. He has appeared throughout the world with his long-time duo partner Colin Carr, as well as with Midori and the Brentano String Quartet; has performed at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; has appeared at the Four Seasons, Taos, Portland, Seattle, Marlboro and Music@Menlo festivals; and performed as soloist with the Quad-City and Tallahassee symphonies. Sauer’s varied discography includes recordings of Beethoven and Haydn piano sonatas for MSR Classics, the complete cello and piano works of Mendelssohn with Colin Carr on Cello Classics and a disc of Hindemith sonatas with violist Misha Amory on the Musical Heritage Society label. Sauer is a member of the music faculty of Vassar College and the piano faculty of the Mannes College of Music.

Peter Stumpf

PETER STUMPF is Professor of Cello at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Prior to this appointment, he was principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which followed twelve years as associate principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory. A dedicated chamber musician, he is a member of the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio and appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, in Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Cologne. He has performed with the chamber music societies of Boston and Philadelphia, and at numerous Festivals, including the Casals Festival, Marlboro, Santa Fe, Bridgehampton, Spoleto, and Aspen. He has toured with Music from Marlboro, and with pianist Mitsuko Uchida. Concerto appearances have been with the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the LA Philharmonic among others. As a recitalist, he has performed at the Universities of Hartford, Syracuse, and Delaware; at Jordan Hall in Boston; and at the Phillips and Corcoran Galleries in Washington, DC. His awards include first prize in the Washington International Competition, the Graham-Stahl Competition, and the Aspen Concerto Competition.

Steven Tenenbom

STEVEN TENENBOM’S impeccable style and sumptuous tone have made him one of the most respected violists today. He has appeared with the Guarneri and Emerson String Quartets, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson, and Beaux Arts Trios. As soloist, he has appeared with the Utah Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Brandenburg Ensemble. He was violist of the Orion String Quartet, and co-founder of the piano quartet, OPUS ONE. He has appeared at festivals including Santa Fe, Norfolk, and Music From Angel Fire. He is a member of the faculty at Juilliard. He also served at the Curtis Institute of Music and was a visiting professor at Yale. Tenenbom’s teachers include Max Mandel, Heidi Castleman, Milton Thomas, Michael Tree, and Karen Tuttle. Married to violinist Ida Kavafian, the Tenenboms live in Connecticut where they breed, raise, and show champion Vizsla purebred dogs.

Terra String Quartet

The TERRA STRING QUARTET is a vibrant young ensemble based in NYC. Praised for their “remarkable maturity and musicality” (Hyde Park Herald), they are committed to infusing the string quartet with passion, spontaneity, and humor. TSQ are Yale University’s Graduate Quartet in Residence for 2024 and the Ernst Steifel Quartet in Residence at the Caramoor Festival for the 2024-2025 season. They have appeared with Marc-André Hamlin, Miriam Fried, The Cremona Quartet, Ray Chen, Diane Walsh, Barry Shiffman, Zvi Plesser, Ara Gregorian and have performed at the Chesapeake, Rockport, Four Seasons, and Emilia-Romagna festivals. TSQ received 2nd prize at the 2023 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, the Bronze medal at the 2023 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, and the Grand Prize and Gold Medal at the 2022 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.

Xiao-Dong Wang

Violinist XIAO-DONG WANG was the first prize winner at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition and the Wieniawski-Lipinski International Violin Competition at the ages of thirteen and fifteen. He has performed with orchestras around the world including the Royal Philharmonic in London, the London Mozart Players, the Adelaide, Perth, and Queensland symphony orchestras and the Sydney Opera Orchestra, and his recording credits include the Bartok Concerto No. 2 and Szymanowski Concerto No. 1 for Polygram Records. Wang has appeared on both violin and viola in chamber music concerts at Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center and at the Four Seasons, Aspen, Ravinia and Voice of Music in the Upper Galilee festivals. Wang was the resident soloist of the Shanghai Symphony for the 2012-13 season, appearing three times as soloist with the orchestra as well as presenting chamber music concerts and master classes. Wang was a founding member and artistic director of Concertante, where he collaborated with world-renowned musicians and made a vast number of chamber music recordings.

Carmit Zori

Violinist CARMIT ZORI is the recipient of a Leventritt Foundation Award, a Pro Musicis International Award, and the top prize in the Walter W. Naumburg International Violin Competition. She has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others, and has given solo recitals at Lincoln Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the Tel Aviv Museum and the Jerusalem Center for the Performing Arts. Her performances have taken her throughout Latin America and Europe, as well as Israel, Japan, Taiwan and Australia, where she premiered the Violin Concerto by Marc Neikrug. 
Ms. Zori enjoys a prolific career as a chamber musician. After ten years as artistic director at Bargemusic, she founded the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society in 2002. In addition to her own series, she has appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has been a guest at chamber music festivals and concert series around the world, including the Chamber Music at the Y series in New York City; Festival Casals in Puerto Rico; Chesapeake Bay Music Festival; Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival; Bard Music Festival; Chamber Music Northwest; Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival; La Jolla Chamber Music Festival; Seattle Chamber Music Festival; Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival; Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society in Wisconsin; Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival; Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival in the UK; Philadelphia Chamber Music Society; Sarasota Music Festival; and is a regular participant at the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival in Vermont. 
Ms. Zori has played for Music for Food, a concert series that helps relieve food insecurity in cities all over the United States. She has also participated in Project: Music Heals Us, a nonprofit organization that aims to educate and heal marginalized communities through music. Carmit is also a member of the Israeli Chamber Project, an ensemble that performs chamber music and conducts educational outreach in the US, Israel, and various other countries throughout the world. 
Ms. Zori can be heard on the Arabesque, Koch International, and Elektra-Nonesuch labels. In addition to teaching at the Bard Conservatory, she is professor of violin at Rutgers University and SUNY-Purchase.
At the behest of violinists Alexander Schneider and Isaac Stern, Ms. Zori came to the United States from her native Israel at the age of fifteen to study at the Curtis Institute of Music with Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo and Arnold Steinhardt.