2024-2025 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.
Leah Amory
A 2021 National YoungArts Foundation Winner in Classical Music, 20-year-old LEAH AMORY is a versatile young violinist. She made her concerto debut at age 15 as the First Prize winner of the International Virtuoso Competition. Other recognition includes prizes from NY Chamber Players Competition, Charleston Music Competition, the Lyra Competition and the Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competition. Leah was also a finalist for the 2022 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts. A committed chamber musician, Leah has participated in chamber performances at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute, the Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Music Workshop, Music for Food in Philadelphia, and Juilliard’s ChamberFest, appearing onstage with such eminent musicians as Miriam Fried, Erin Keefe and Areta Zhulla. She has also performed with composer Bruce Adolphe and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall, and led members of the Back to Bach Project as a Regional Director. Leah is also a member of non-profit music organizations such as Concerts in Motion and Community Table.
Kate Arndt
Violinist KATE ARNDT is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree under the tutelage of Ani Kavafian. Kate is also a graduate of New England Conservatory, where she studied under Miriam Fried. A passionate chamber musician, Kate has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kate attended the Four Seasons Winter Workshop in 2015, 2016, and 2018, where she collaborated with world-class musicians such as Hye-Jin Kim, Ara Gregorian, Robert McDonald, Ida Kavafian, Colin Carr, and Misha Amory. Other intensive chamber music programs include Music@Menlo, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Taos School of Music. Her former group, the Isolde Quartet, was featured on NPR’s From the Top, and the group also received an honorable mention at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. She has collaborated with the Calidore, Borromeo, and Parker String Quartets, as well as the Boston Trio. In addition to her performances in the US, Kate has been active in Europe, where she has participated in the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and the IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses. She currently holds a position with the Colorado Symphony as Principal Second Violin.
Christopher Buddo
Double bassist J. CHRISTOPHER BUDDO has performed at the Birch Creek Summer Music Festival, the Bedford Springs Music Festival, the Vivace International Music Festival and the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival. He has appeared with the Fort Worth, Waco, Des Moines, Quad-City, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo-Cedar Falls and Roanoke symphony orchestras. As a conductor, Buddo has directed the Iowa City Youth Orchestra and was the founding conductor of the Waco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Buddo served as Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at East Carolina University from 2012-2021 and as Director of the School of Music at ECU from 2006-2012. He previously held positions at Baylor University and the University of Northern Iowa, and is currently Professor of Double Bass at East Carolina University.
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 Radio Show, concertized with the Seattle Symphony and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and has been a guest artist with Boston Chamber Music Society, Silk Road Ensemble, Argus Quartet, Parker Quartet, and Borromeo Quartet. As a chamber musician, Audrey’s festival appearances include Yellowbarn, Music@Menlo, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Four Seasons, Perlman Music Program, Tanglewood, and Taos Music School. She received her B.A. from Harvard and M.M. from the New England Conservatory, where her teachers included Laurence Lesser and Lluis Claret. Currently, she is a D.M.A. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center under Marcy Rosen while teaching at CUNY Hunter College. She is the cellist of the Terra String Quartet. She was named a 2022 recipient of the prestigious 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.
Cooperstown Quartet
The COOPERSTOWN QUARTET brings together four of the chamber music world’s most exciting and experienced performers. Its members – violinists Ara Gregorian and Hye-Jin Kim, violist Maria Lambros and cellist Michael Kannen – are former members of some of this country’s most respected ensembles: the Brentano, Daedalus, Meliora, Mendelssohn and Ridge string quartets as well as the string sextet, Concertante. From this wealth of experience comes a brilliant new string quartet. These musicians have performed in the world’s most prestigious venues including New York’s Carnegie and Alice Tully halls, London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Vienna’s Konzerthaus; won international competitions including the Yehudi Menuhin International and Concert Artists Guild International competitions; performed throughout Asia, Australia, Europe and North America; and are veterans of the Four Seasons, Marlboro, Santa Fe, Ravinia, Yellow Barn, Chamber Music Northwest and Prussia Cove chamber music festivals. In addition to their extensive music-making careers, they are all dedicated teachers, with appointments at the Peabody Conservatory and East Carolina University. In short, four consummate musicians come together to form one dynamic string quartet.
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 teacher and mentor, Ara Gregorian. A passionate chamber musician, 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 US, Europe, and Australia including Alice Tully Hall’s Wednesdays at One, National Sawdust, The Guggenheim, and Four Seasons. A strong advocate of community outreach and making classical music accessible for the next generation, Amelia is Perlman Program outreach artist and has given countless interactive performances throughout the US. She is a recipient of Juilliard’s Gluck Fellowship, a distinguished role dedicated to bringing educational performances of classical works to the disabled community in NYC.
Emanuel Gruber
Cellist EMANUEL GRUBER has been principal cellist of the Israel Chamber Orchestra and co-principal of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; a member of the Sequoia Quartet and the Tel Aviv Piano Quartet; and leader of the Israel Cello Ensemble. He has performed at the Salzburg (Austria), Bath (England), San Sebastian (Spain), Eilat (Israel), Musical Spring (St. Petersburg) and Rostropovich Cello (Riga) festivals, and has served on the jury of the Davidoff International Cello Competition. Gruber has collaborated with artists such as Sir Neville Marriner, Rudolf Barshai, Philippe Entremont and Janos Starker, and was awarded the Pablo Casals Prize by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and first prize in the Concert Artist Guild Auditions. Gruber has been visiting professor at Indiana University, has taught at the Academies of Music of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and is currently professor of cello at East Carolina University.
Meredith Harris
MEREDITH HARRIS, violist, lives, works and performs in Houston, TX. She is a section member with the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra (ROCO), regularly performs with the Houston Grand Opera, and has been on contract with the Houston Symphony for the past two years. Meredith has performed with Houston Ballet, Mercury Chamber Orchestra, The Grand Teton Music Festival – resident quartet, Four Seasons Next Gen, Kennedy Center Conservatory Project and The Lincoln Center Festival. Meredith maintains an active Suzuki teaching studio and enjoys learning with her students and families each week. In addition to presenting at the ASTA Conference and Suzuki Association of the Americas Leadership Retreat she is a sought after clinician for workshops and institutes around the country. Meredith is the former president and current board member of the Houston SAA chapter affiliate, Southeast Texas Suzuki Association. Originally from Greenville, North Carolina, she made Houston her home after completing her Masters Degree in Viola Performance with James Dunham at Rice University. Meredith completed her Bachelors of Music in Performance at East Carolina University with Ara Gregorian.
Sahun Sam Hong
Praised as an “artist of enormous prowess” (Verbier Festival Newsletter) with “lots of clarity, confidence, and wisdom” (New York Concert Review) and a “wide range of rich colors” (San Diego Story), pianist SAHUN SAM HONG brings his colorful style and riveting energy to the solo, chamber, and concerto stage. Hong was the winner of the 2017 Vendome Prize at Verbier, and a prizewinner of the 2023 Naumburg International Piano Competition and 2017 International Beethoven Competition Vienna. A sought-after interpreter of the duo and chamber repertoire, Hong has been invited to perform at major chamber music festivals including Marlboro, Music@Menlo, Ravinia’s Steans Institute, Four Season, and Taos. He is an artist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Hong’s mentors include Leon Fleisher, John Owings, and Yong Hi Moon. He is currently based in New York City, and serves on the faculty of CUNY Queens College.
Hsin-Yun Huang
Violist HSIN-YUN HUANG has forged a career by performing on international concert stages, commissioning and recording new works, and nurturing young musicians. Ms. Huang has appeared as soloist with leading orchestras in Berlin, London, Tokyo, Taipei, Beijing, Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Bogota. Her recording for Bridge Records, titled Viola Viola, won accolades from Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. She appears regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at Marlboro, Spoleto, Music@Menlo, Ravinia, and Santa Fe Festivals. Huang was the gold medalist in the 1988 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, the top-prize winner in the 1993 ARD International Competition, and was awarded the prestigious Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. A native of Taiwan, she received degrees from the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Curtis Institute of Music, and The Juilliard School. She now serves on the viola faculty at Juilliard and Curtis. Ms. Huang is committed to the dream of VivaViola, a hybrid educational space inspired by the global viola community, whose mission is bridging the disconnect between man and nature, East and West, the individual and society.
Javier Iglesias-Martin
Spanish cellist JAVIER IGLESIAS-MARTIN combines a performing career in Europe and America with his passion for education. Born in Madrid, Javier moved to the United States in 2010 to pursue his musical studies at prestigious institutions such as the Peabody Conservatory, the New England Conservatory, and the University of Southern California. His main teachers include world-renowned cellists Amit Peled, Paul Katz and Ralph Kirshbaum. Javier is a laureate of prestigious competitions including the first prize in the American String Teachers Association National Solo Competition, and the “Juventudes Musicales” scholarship personally granted by the Queen of Spain herself. He has also participated in festivals such as Ravinia Steans Institute, Yellow Barn, Perlman Music Program, and the Heifetz Institute. Based in Los Angeles, Javier is currently a member of Delirium Musicum, Adjunct Professor of Cello at Pepperdine University, and the Artistic Director of SOL-LA Music Academy in Santa Monica.
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 concert stages around the world. During those seven years, the Brentano Quartet was awarded the first Cleveland Quartet Award, the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the Martin E. Segal Award from Lincoln Center, and appeared regularly 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 the Spoleto Festivals in Charleston, Italy and Australia. Kannen is a member of the faculty of the Yellow Barn Music Festival and is currently the Director of Chamber Music at the Peabody Conservatory.
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.
Yeesun Kim
Cellist YEESUN KIM has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a founding member of the Borromeo String Quartet, in duo with violinist Nicholas Kitchen, and as a soloist, including engagements at the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Opera Bastille in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Sejong Cultural Center in Seoul, Carnegie Hall in New York, Jordan Hall in Boston, and the Library of Congress and Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Kim has recorded and performed for NPR’s Performance Today and NHK Radio and Television in Japan, and appeared on Live from Lincoln Center. She currently serves on the faculty of the New England Conservatory in the cello and chamber music departments and teaches each summer at the Taos School of Music and at the Heifetz Institute.
Nicholas Kitchen
NICHOLAS KITCHEN has performed throughout the world both as soloist and chamber musician and as founding first violinist of the Borromeo String Quartet. He has done extensive projects with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. He has performed in some of the world’s great concert halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall in London, the Opera Bastille in Paris, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai and the Seoul Arts Center in Korea. He is the Artistic Director of the Heifetz International Music Institute and Faculty member at the New England Conservatory of Music. Nicholas is winner of the Arion Award from the Cambridge Society for Early Music, the Evian International Quartet Competition, the Cleveland Quartet Award, the Martin E. Segal Award and the Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Daniel Lail
Hailing from Hickory, NC, DANIEL LAIL completed his undergraduate degree at ECU and master’s degree at the Manhattan School of Music. Daniel’s primary teachers have been Sally Ross, Emanuel Gruber, Tommy Mesa, and Julia Lichten. At MSM, Daniel performed with the MSM Cello Ensemble, Baroque Opera Program, received coachings from members of the American String Quartet, and was principal of the MSO, leading to a performance with Leonard Slatkin. Daniel has participated in the Meadowmount School of Music, where he was selected to perform a masterclass for Lynn Harrel. Daniel’s accomplishments include being featured on NPR’s “Performance Today,” performing regularly with the Charlotte Symphony, and collaborating with musicians such as Kwame Ryan, Keitaro Harada, Christopher James Lees, and Sterling Elliot.
Márta Hortobágyi Lambert
MÁRTA HORTOBÁGYI LAMBERT was born in Greenville, North Carolina, and began her musical studies on piano and violin, later developing a love for viola. A passionate educator and advocate for the arts, Márta has taught as a teaching fellow at The Juilliard School, and as a faculty member at the Eisman Center for Preparatory Studies at Queens College, Suzuki on the Island, and Kinhaven Music School, and she is currently on faculty at the Academy for Chamber Music at Seattle Chamber Music Society. Márta’s devotion to chamber music has created opportunities to perform with members of the Cleveland, Orien, and Cooperstown String Quartets. Márta has also performed at music festivals including Donaueschingen Musiktage with Talea Ensemble, Portland Chamber Music Festival, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Prussia Cove, and Kneisel Hall, where she was a founding member of the prize-winning Blue Hill String Quartet. Márta was awarded the Dean’s Prize at Yale University and the Presser Foundation Graduate Music Award from The Juilliard School, and most recently received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School as a recipient of the C.V. Starr Fellowship and the Richard F. French Doctoral Prize. Márta is currently the Director of Education and Community Engagement at Seattle Chamber Music Society where she leads education-based community initiatives as well as the Academy for Chamber Music.
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 is an accomplished soloist and chamber musician who has performed with the London Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Gyeonggi Philharmonic of Korea, and Orchestre National de Belgique. She is a laureate of many competitions, including the Leopold Mozart Competition, the Andrea Postacchini International Competition, and the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition. An exuberant chamber musician, her past 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 as a student of Miriam Fried and Lucy Chapman. She completed her Master’s at The Juilliard School with Catherine Cho, Daniel Phillips, and Donald Weilerstein, and upon graduation received the prestigious William Schuman Prize for outstanding achievement and leadership in music.
Orin Laursen
Violinist ORIN LAURSEN possesses an impressive musical range. He has worked closely with mentors from a bygone era including Leon Fleisher, Robert Mann of the Juilliard Quartet and Martin Lovett of the Amadeus, as well as eminent figures of the present day including Steven Isserlis, Lukas Hagen, and members of the Artis, Tokyo, Belcea, and Brentano quartets. He has both performed in early music ensembles alongside Trevor Pinnock, members of Tafelmusik Baroque and the Fitzwilliam Quartet, and worked directly with contemporary composers including Harrison Birtwistle, Terry Riley, Unsuk Chin, Christian Wolff, Kati Agócs, Jan Radzynski, and John Zorn. Orin grew up in the Southeastern US playing folk music from the region, as well as folk music from Ireland, Cape Breton, Norway, Sweden, Hungary, and American Swing Jazz and Bebop. Orin currently serves as 1st Concertmaster of the Leipzig Radio Symphony (MDR-Sinfonieorchester), and holds the title of Concertmaster of the Southwest Florida Symphony.
Julia Lee
Korean-American cellist JULIA LEE is passionate about creating authentic connections and relationships through her love of music. She is a prize winner of the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition, and has collaborated with renowned artists such as Clive Greensmith, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Inon Barnatan, Blake Pouliot, Merry Peckham, Julie Albers, Molly Carr, and Takács Quartet across various international stages. An avid chamber musician, she has appeared at the Perlman Music Program, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, and Music in the Vineyards Festival in Napa Valley. Julia also heavily involves herself in community engagement, most recent being her collaboration with Molly Carr and ‘Project: Music Heals Us’ working closely with inmates of the Santa Rosa County Jail and Jericho Project. Julia received a Bachelor of Music at The Juilliard School where she studied with Darrett Adkins. She is currently pursuing a Master of Music at Juilliard where she studies with Joel Krosnick.
Yura Lee
Violinist/violist YURA LEE is one of the very few musicians that is equally virtuosic on both violin and viola. She has performed with major orchestras including those of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She has given recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and has received numerous international prizes, including top prizes in the Mozart, Indianapolis, Hannover, Kreisler, Bashmet, and Paganini competitions. As a chamber musician, she regularly takes part in the festivals of Seattle, Marlboro, Salzburg, Verbier, La Jolla, Caramoor, to name a few. She is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as both violinist and violist; she is also a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. Lee plays a fine Giovanni Grancino violin kindly loaned to her through the Beares International Violin Society by generous sponsors. Her viola was made in 2002 by Douglas Cox, who resides in Vermont. Lee is a professor at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.
Florrie Marshall
FLORRIE MARSHALL is an acclaimed violist celebrated for her performances, teaching, and arts advocacy. Founder and artistic director of Sound Bridges International Company, Florrie premiered “A Tale of One Viola” at the 2022 International Viola Congress and American Viola Society festival. Marshall has participated in esteemed chamber music festivals like the ClasClas Chamber Music Festival in Spain under Guy Braunstein and the Four Seasons “Winter Workshop” under Ara Gregorian. Recent performances include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the United Nations Headquarters, and the Paax Festival in Cancun, Mexico, under Maestra Alondra de la Para. Under mentorship from Ettore Causa and Steven Tenenbom, Marshall earned her master’s from Yale School of Music in 2018 and is now a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate degree, also at Yale. Marshall received the 2017 Graduate Music Award and the 2018 Philip Nelson Prize and completed the 2022 Plank Foundation Artist Residency in Sheridan, Wyoming. Marshall serves on faculty at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Towson University, inspired by her lifelong teachers, including Dora Mullins, Hye-Jin Kim, and Ara Gregorian.
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.
Clara Neubauer
Praised for her “seductive artistry” and “rare grace” (Classical Voice North America), violinist CLARA NEUBAUER is a recent recipient of the Ana Chumachenco Award from the Kronberg Academy and the Peter Mennin Prize from The Juilliard School. Clara has appeared at festivals including the Ravinia Festival, Taos School of Music, Music@Menlo, Four Seasons, Music from Angel Fire, Olympic Music Festival, and Marlboro Music Festival. Winner and recipient of the silver medal at the National YoungArts competition, Clara has appeared as soloist with the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, the Symphony of Westchester, the National Repertory Orchestra, the New York Concerti Sinfonietta, the Little Orchestra Society, Ensemble 212, and the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra. Clara received her Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School as a student of Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman and a recipient of the Kovner Fellowship.
Victoria Pan
From Charlotte, North Carolina, VICTORIA PAN began her studies on the violin at age four. Her past teachers have included David Russell, Weiwei Le, Hye-jin Kim, Ara Gregorian, Miriam Fried, and most recently Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory of Music. She has had the pleasure to solo with both the Charlotte Symphony and Charleston Symphony Orchestras and has attended festivals such as Kneisel Hall, the Heifetz Institute, the Taos School of Music, Four Seasons Winter Workshop, Banff Centre for the Arts, and Music in the Vineyards. She was also a member of Highland St., a quartet which won the Honors Ensemble Competition at NEC 2017-2018. Starting this summer, Pan has moved from Boston to Charlotte to help bring the knowledge and inspiration from her music education and experience back to her community.
Leonardo Perez
Praised for his “assured and lovely” playing (Classical Voice of North Carolina), LEONARDO PEREZ is Assistant Professor of Violin and Viola at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. An avid chamber musician, he has made numerous appearances at concert series throughout North America including performances at the Antigonish Performing Arts, Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance and Musique Royale series, at the Scotia Festival, and with the Music Room Chamber Players in Halifax, NS. Perez has appeared regularly as a Next Generation Artist with Four Seasons. He holds degrees from East Carolina University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Iowa and his principal teachers include Ara Gregorian, Hagai Shaham, Scott Conklin, and Dora Mullins.
Daniel Phillips
Violinist DANIEL PHILLIPS is co-founder of the Orion String Quartet, which gave its last concert in April 2024 presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln after an illustrious 37-year career. A graduate of Juilliard, his major teachers were his father Eugene Phillips, Ivan Galamian, Sally Thomas, Nathan Milstein, Sandor Végh, and George Neikrug. Since winning the 1976 Young Concert Artists Competition, he has performed as a soloist with many orchestras, including the Pittsburgh, Houston, New Jersey, Phoenix, San Antonio symphonies. He appears regularly at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, St Lawrence String Quartet Seminar, Heifetz Institute, Chesapeake Music Festival, the International Musicians Seminar in England, and Music from Angel Fire, where he is co-artistic director. He was a member of the renowned Bach Aria Group and has toured and recorded in a string quartet for Sony with Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, and Yo-Yo Ma. Phillips is a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and serves on the faculties of the Bard College Conservatory and the Juilliard School. He lives with his wife, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, and their two dachshunds on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
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.
Raman Ramakrishnan
Cellist RAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN enjoys performing chamber music, old and new, around the world. For two decades, as a founding member of the Horszowski Trio and the Daedalus Quartet, he toured extensively through North and South America, Europe, and Asia and recorded for Bridge Records and Avie Records. Ramakrishnan is currently a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and is on the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music. He has given solo recitals in New York, Boston, Seattle, and Washington D.C. and has performed chamber music at Caramoor, Bargemusic, with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and at the Aspen, Four Seasons, Kingston, Lincolnshire (UK), Marlboro, Mehli Mehta (India), Oklahoma Mozart, and Vail festivals. Ramakrishnan has served on the faculties of the Kneisel Hall and Norfolk chamber music festivals.
Jorge Richter
Violist JORGE RICHTER is associate professor of music at East Carolina University. He holds a BM in violin performance from the Parana State School of Music and Fine Arts in Curitiba, Brazil, an MM in conducting from Andrews University, and a DMA in conducting from Michigan State University where he studied with Leon Gregorian. Richter has held similar positions at Truman State University, Oklahoma State University and the University of Tennessee, has performed at the Utah and Four Seasons chamber music festivals, and has served as guest conductor of the Espirito Santo Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to his conducting duties, Richter teaches violin, viola and chamber music at East Carolina University.
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 40th, 50th, and 60th 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.
Macintyre Taback
Born in New York City, MACINTYRE TABACK began his cello studies at the age of 11 as a part of his school’s strings program. Mac is the founder of the Bennetts Point Cello Seminar in Charleston, SC, which held its first festival in January of this year. In addition, he has recently performed at IMS Prussia Cove, the Perlman Music Program, Yellow Barn, and the Kronberg Academy’s ‘Chamber Music Connects the World”. Mac has worked closely with musicians such as Steven Isserlis, Gary Hoffman, and the Brentano Quartet, and has recently collaborated with Gidon Kremer, Lawrence Power, Erich Höbarth, Alasdair Beatson, and the Emerson, Borromeo, and St. Lawrence String Quartets. In 2021, Mac completed his undergraduate studies with Steven Doane and Rosemary Elliott at the Eastman School of Music, where he received the Performance Certificate and Harris Cello Prize. He is currently pursuing his DMA at the New England Conservatory under Laurence Lesser, Donald Weilerstein, and Vivian Weilerstein. Mac plays on a cello made by David Tecchler in Rome, 1723.
Steven Tenenbom
STEVEN TENENBOM is the violist of the Orion String Quartet, which has served as the quartet-in-residence of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Aspen Music Festival, the Mannes College of Music, and the Santa Fe Music Festival. He has appeared with the Guarneri and Emerson string quartets, the Kalichstein-Loredo-Robinson and Beaux Arts trios, TASHI, and as soloist with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Brandenburg Ensemble. Tenenbom has had a long association with the Marlboro Music Festival, including many tours across the United States, Japan, and France, and has appeared at the June Music, La Jolla Mostly Mozart, Chamber Music Northwest, Four Seasons, Music from Angel Fire, and Bravo! Colorado festivals. He is co-founder of Opus One and is on the faculties of the Curtis Institute, The Juilliard School, and the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
Sophia Anna Szokolay
Lauded for her “stirring and singing tone” by Martha’s Vineyard Gazette, Canadian violinist SOPHIA SZOKOLAY has captivated audiences across North America and Europe as a recitalist and chamber musician. Sophia balances a busy concert schedule while completing her Doctorate at the New England Conservatory, where she serves as Donald Weilerstein’s teaching assistant and leads a music history course on Bartók’s String Quartets. Sophia regularly performs and tours with the conductorless chamber ensembles Delirium Musicum and Palaver Strings. A champion of new music, she has collaborated with and premiered works by György Kurtág, James Lee III, Jörg Widmann, Shulamit Ran, and Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol, among others. In past seasons, Sophia has performed at the Ravinia, Four Seasons, YellowBarn, Lucerne, Perlman Music Program, and Taos Chamber Music Festivals. Sophia received her Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory and her Master’s Degree from Juilliard. Her teachers include Catherine Cho, Miriam Fried, and Donald Weilerstein. Beyond music, Sophia is a photographer and avid distance runner.
Terra String Quartet
The TERRA STRING QUARTET is a vibrant young international ensemble based in NYC. Praised for their “remarkable maturity and musicality” and “superb ensemble playing” (Hyde Park Herald), these four musicians hail from across the globe and are committed to infusing the string quartet with equal parts passion, spontaneity, and humor. TSQ are Yale University’s Graduate Quartet in Residence for 2024 and have also been named the Ernst Steifel Quartet in Residence at the Caramoor Festival for the 2024-2025 season. They have appeared in concert with Marc-André Hamlin, Miriam Fried, The Cremona Quartet, Ray Chen, Diane Walsh, Barry Shiffman, Zvi Plesser, Ara Gregorian and have performed throughout the US and abroad 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.
Elina Vähälä
Born in the United States and raised in Finland, ELINA VÄHÄLÄ made her orchestral debut with Sinfonia Lahti at the age of twelve and was later chosen by Osmo Vänskä as the orchestra’s “young master soloist”. Since that time, her career has continued to expand on international stages, winning praise from audiences and musicians alike as “a fluent, stylish and gifted musician whose brilliant technique is matched by an abundant spirit, sensitivity and imagination” (Chicago Tribune). Elina Vähälä appears regularly with all of the key Finnish orchestras as well being a guest of countless high-profile orchestras across the globe such as Houston Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Dortmund Philharmoniker, Istanbul State Symphony, Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, RTVE Spanish Radio Orchestra, and has toured throughout the UK, Finland, Germany, China, Korea and South America. She enjoys a fruitful working partnership with many leading conductors such as Leonard Slatkin, Carlos Kalmar, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Okko Kamu, Jakub Hrůša, Thierry Fischer, Sakari Oramo, Leif Segerstam, Josep Caballé-Domenech, Alexander Liebreich, and Michał Nesterowicz.
Santiago Vazquez-Loredo
Violist SANTIAGO VAZQUEZ-LOREDO has participated in many Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival initiatives-Next Gen on the Road, the Summer Chamber Music Institute, Next Gen Goes Solo and Winter Workshop in June 2022. He has appeared at festivals such as Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. As an orchestral musician, Santiago has performed with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, regularly subs with the Minnesota Orchestra, and continues his second year at the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra of Contemporary Music. A native of Hickory, North Carolina, he has received degrees from East Carolina University where he studied with Ara Gregorian and Hye-Jin Kim, and New England Conservatory where he studied with Kim Kashkashian.
Gilles Vonsattel
Swiss-born American pianist GILLES VONSATTEL is an artist of extraordinary versatility and originality. He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2016 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, and a winner of the Naumburg and Geneva competitions. He has appeared with many of the world’s most prestigious orchestras and has performed recitals and chamber music at many major festivals. He has premiered numerous works by composers including Jörg Widmann, Heinz Holliger, Anthony Cheung, and George Benjamin. An alum of the Bowers Program, he holds degrees from Columbia University and the Juilliard School. Vonsattel is Professor of Piano at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and serves on the faculty of Bard College Conservatory of Music.
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.
Cherry Choi Tung Yeung
Violinist CHERRY CHOI TUNG YEUNG was born and raised in Hong Kong and won her first job in a major US orchestra at the age of 21. Ms. Yeung is now the Associate Principal Second Violin of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the New York Philharmonic, New World, and Princeton Symphony Orchestras; Symphony in C; New Jersey Festival Orchestra; and as concertmaster of The Juilliard School Orchestra and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Her numerous prize wins include the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Competition, the Juilliard Violin Concerto Competition, and the Schoenfeld International String Competition. In 2018, she was named a New York Philharmonic Global Academy Zarin Mehta Fellow. Ms. Yeung is an artist at the prestigious Marlboro School of Music. She holds an artist diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard, where she finished both degrees in 4 years. Her former teachers include Ivan Chan, Ida Kavafian, Michael Ma, Arnold Steinhardt, and Steven Tenenbom.
Stephanie Zyzak
Praised for her sensitive musicianship and heartfelt playing, violinist STEPHANIE ZYZAK is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the most soulful and profound musicians of her generation. Since making her debut at the age of seven with Cincinnati’s Starling Chamber Orchestra, Stephanie has performed as a soloist throughout Germany, Russia, Austria, Sweden, Spain, Italy, and France. A deeply passionate chamber musician, Stephanie performs regularly at the Marlboro Music Festival, Caramoor, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival, and on tour with Musicians from Marlboro. She has collaborated with renowned artists including Jonathan Biss, Kim Kashkashian, Ida Kavafian, Danny Phillips, Marcy Rosen, and Mitsuko Uchida, among many others. Stephanie studied with Miriam Fried and Mark Steinberg and performs on a 1748 Zosimo Bergonzi violin courtesy of Guarneri Hall NFP and Darnton & Hersh Fine Violins, Chicago and a bow by François-Nicolas Voirin.