Brooklyn Chamber Music Society: Artists

Carmit Zori, violinist and artistic director

Violinist Carmit Zori came to the United States from her native Israel at the age of fifteen to study with Ivan Galamian, Jaime Laredo and Arnold Steinhardt at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. Ms. 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. As a soloist, she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others, and has performed in recital 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. She has performed throughout Latin America and Europe, as well as in Israel, Japan, Taiwan and Australia, where she premiered the Violin Concerto by Marc Neikrug. In addition to her appearances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Ms. Zori has performed chamber music at festivals and concert series around the world, including Chamber Music at the "Y" in New York, Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music festival, the Bard Music festival, Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Oregon, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, Bach Dancing and Dynamite in Madison, Wisconsin, Peasmarsh music festival in England, and the Orcas Island chamber music festival. She is also a senior artist at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. Ms. Zori, who for ten years was an artistic director at Bargemusic, founded the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society in 2002. She has performed in concerts sponsored by Music for Food, an organization providing local hunger relief, and Project Music Heals Us, a nonprofit community outreach organization targeting underserved populations. She is also a member artist of The Israeli Chamber Project. Ms. Zori has recorded on the Arabesque, Koch International, and Elektra-Nonesuch labels. She serves on the faculties of Bard College and Rutgers University.

Edward Arron, cello

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Arron made his New York recital debut in 2000 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since that time, he has appeared in recital, as a soloist with major orchestras, and as a chamber musician, throughout North America, Europe and Asia. The 2025- 26 season marks Mr. Arron’s 13th season as the co-artistic director with his wife, Jeewon Park, of the Performing Artists in Residence series at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Mr. Arron tours and records as a member of the renowned Ehnes String Quartet and he is a regular performer at the Boston and Seattle Chamber Music Societies, the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Bargemusic, Caramoor, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival, Seoul Spring Festival in Korea, Music in the Vineyards Festival, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Manchester Music Festival, and the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland. Other festival appearances include Salzburg, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Mostly Mozart, PyeongChang, Bridgehampton, Spoleto USA, Santa Fe, Evian, La Jolla Summerfest, Chamber Music Northwest, Chesapeake Chamber Music, and the Bard Music Festival. Mr. Arron’s performances are frequently broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today. In 2021, Mr. Arron’s recording of Beethoven’s Complete Works for Cello and Piano with pianist Jeewon Park was released on the Aeolian Classics Record Label. The recording received the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artists Award from the Classical Recording Foundation. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Mr. Arron currently serves on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Eric Bartlett, cello

Cellist Eric Bartlett has been a member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra since 1983, and recently retired from the New York Philharmonic after 23 years. He served 14 seasons as principal cellist of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival and was a guest principal of the American Ballet Theatre orchestra. Mr. Bartlett grew up in Marlboro, Vermont, where he was a student of Stanley Eukers, George Finckel, and Leopold Teraspulsky. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard School in 1978 and 1979, as a student of Leonard Rose and Channing Robbins. Mr. Bartlett made his New York Philharmonic solo debut in March, 2015, as the soloist in Per Nørgård’s second Cello Concerto on the Philharmonic’s “Contact” series, and also performed the solo cello part of Pierre Boulez’ “Messagesquisse” both in New York City and in Shanghai. Mr. Bartlett has appeared frequently as a member soloist with Orpheus and is featured on several of their Deutsche Grammophon recordings. In addition to Orpheus, other solo appearances include the Cabrillo Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Anchorage Symphony, the Hartford Chamber Orchestra, the Aspen and Juilliard Orchestras, and the New York Philharmonic’s Horizons ’84 series. Dedicated to contemporary music, Mr. Bartlett released a CD of four commissioned works, entitled Essence of Cello, on the Albany Records label. He is an adjunct professor at The Juilliard School, where he teaches orchestral repertoire for cello and coaches the conductorless Juilliard Chamber Orchestra.

Margaret Batjer, violin

Margaret Batjer has served as concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) since 1998, where she also serves as Director of Chamber Music. She is also renowned as a violin soloist, chamber musician and teacher, and has established herself as a versatile and respected artist worldwide. Batjer has appeared as soloist with America’s leading orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Batjer has also performed with leading European ensembles such as the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, the Prague Chamber Orchestra, the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (of Ireland), Berlin Symphony Orchestra, and the Hallé Orchestra. She has performed at many of the great halls across the continents such as La Scala, Carnegie Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Suntory Hall in Japan. An esteemed chamber musician, Batjer was a longtime participant at the Marlboro Music Festival. Summers have found her performing at the La Jolla Summerfest, the Sarasota Music Festival, Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival and abroad at the Naples, Cremona and the Salzburg Festival. In 2020, she formed the Los Angeles Piano Trio with colleagues Fabio Bidini and Andrew Shulman. Batjer has collaborated with such notables as Salvatore Accardo, Maurizio Pollini, Yo-Yo Ma, Jeffrey Kahane, Radu Lupu, Peter Serkin, Wu Han, David Finckel, Anne-Marie McDermott, and Chris Thile. Batjer has enjoyed an extensive recording career over the last several decades. Her most recent recording with LACO includes the live premiere of the Pierre Jalbert Violin Concerto, and works by Bach, Part and Vasks released on the BIS label. She recorded the Bach Concerto for Two Violins with Salvatore Accardo and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe for the Philips label, and a 2003 Deutsche Grammophon recording pairing Batjer and Hilary Hahn as soloists with Jeffrey Kahane conducting LACO. She has also made numerous chamber music recordings on the EMI, Nuova Era and BMG labels. Batjer has a distinguished teaching career and was a violin professor at the USC, Thornton School of Music until 2024. She now serves as a full-time faculty member at the Colburn School where she is Director of Colburn’s Music Academy and serves on the violin faculty at both the Music Academy and the Conservatory.

Eric Finbarr Carey, tenor

In the 2025-2026 season alone, tenor Eric Finbarr Carey appears at La Scala, Elbphilharmonie, Wiener Konzerthaus, Rudolfinum, the Ojai Music Festival, and with the Gewandhausorchester. Praised for his “silken tenor” by Opera News, he performs Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with the Czech Philharmonic under Semyon Bychkov, with the Gewandhausorchester, and at Ojai under Esa-Pekka Salonen. He makes his Irish debut with the National Symphony Orchestra Ireland in Dublin and his Swiss debut with the Tonhalle-Orchester St. Gallen, in addition to appearances with the Bach Collegium Fort Wayne. He also returns to France for his role debut as Peter Quint in Britten’s The Turn of the Screw in a company debut with Opéra de Toulon. He continued his recital collaborations with pianist Erika Switzer and returns to the Marlboro Music Festival following his tenure there as tenor-in-residence in summer 2025. Recent highlights include a celebrated run in the title role of Albert Herring with Opera Baltimore, his Carnegie Hall debut in Mozart’s Requiem and Bach’s Magnificat with the Oratorio Society of New York, appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Doug Balliet’s Beast Fights and Britten’s Canticle V, and performances as Evangelist and tenor in Bach’s St. John Passion with Princeton Pro Musica, Upper Valley Baroque and Bach in Baltimore. He has also appeared in recital with Jonathan Biss and Lydia Brown at Marlboro and collaborated with lutenist Richard Stone in a program of Air de Cour with Tempesta di Mare. Carey is a prizewinner of the Oratorio Society of New York Competition, the Gerda Lissner Foundation Song Competition, the Sparks & Wiry Cries Art Song Competition, and the 2025 Clermont Auvergne Opéra Competition. He has held residencies at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Tanglewood Music Center, the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, and the Carnegie Hall SongStudio.

Catherine Cho, violin

Catherine Cho, violin, has appeared as a soloist with the Detroit, National, Edmonton, Montreal, National Arts Center, Barcelona, Haifa, New Zealand, Buenos Aires, KBS, Seoul, and Daejon orchestras, and has appeared in recitals and chamber music performances at the Kennedy Center, Ravinia, 92nd St. Y, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Casals Halls among others. She has appeared in 12 national tours with Musicians From Marlboro and participated in the festivals of Aspen, Chamber Music Northwest, Santa Fe, Four Seasons, Bridgehampton, and Vivace. She was a member of the Johannes String Quartet and La Fenice and was awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant as well as top prizes in the Montreal (1987), Queen Elisabeth (1989), and Joachim (1991) Competitions. As a member of the Juilliard faculty, Cho is devoted to fostering the next generation of performers, teachers, and leaders through the development of artistic excellence, curiosity, and clarity of vision through a holistic view of the artist. Her work as a teacher in the Juilliard Chamber Music Community Engagement Seminar highlights her passion for community connection through art and communication. She is a Music For Food artist, the artistic director of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival, a member of the Perlman Music Program faculty (since 2007), and the artistic advisor for the Starling-Delay Symposium at Juilliard. Cho received her BM and MM degrees at Juilliard, where she studied with Dorothy Delay, Hyo Kang, and Felix Galimir. Her mentors include Ruggiero Ricci, Franco Gulli, and Michael Avsharian Jr.

Timothy Cobb, bass

Bassist Timothy Cobb joined the New York Philharmonic as Principal Bass in May 2014, after serving as principal bass of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and principal bass of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra since 1989. He has appeared at numerous chamber music festivals worldwide, including the Marlboro Music festival, through which he has toured with the Musicians from Marlboro series. A faculty member of the Sarasota Music Festival, he is helping to launch a new bass program for the Killington Music Festival in Killington, Vermont. Cobb also serves as principal bass for Valery Gergiev’s World Orchestra for Peace, an invited group of musicians from around the world who donate their time biannually and perform to promote international harmony. Cobb has been designated a UNESCO Artist for Peace from his affiliation with the World Orchestra. He has an ongoing collaboration with actor Stephen Lang, for whom he recorded a solo bass sound track for Lang’s animated short film The Wheatfield, which depicts a human drama from the Battle of Gettysburg. The two were invited to Gettysburg in July 2013 on the 150th anniversary of the battle to perform in the Salute to the States event held there, and they will continue to collaborate for future events. Cobb serves as bass department chair for The Juilliard School as well as on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, Purchase College, and Rutgers University. He is also a distinguished visiting artist for Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. A native of Albany, New York, Timothy Cobb graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Roger Scott. While at Curtis, Cobb was a substitute with The Philadelphia Orchestra and in his senior year became a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Georg Solti. Cobb can be heard on all Metropolitan Opera recordings released after 1986, as well as on a recording of Giovanni Bottesini’s duo bass music with bassist Thomas Martin on the Naxos label.

Guy Eshed, flute

Guy Eshed is the principal flutist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra since 2013. He served in the same position with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra (MD Zubin Mehta, Berlin State Orchestra (MD Daniel Barenboim), the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (MD Daniel Harding) and the Manchester Camerata (MD Douglas Boyd). He was the principal flutist in the Haifa Symphony Orchestra between 2000-2022 and since 2001 he was the principal flutist of the Divan East West Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. He is regularly invited to play as guest principal flutist with various orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, the Bamberg Symphony and the La Scala Orchestra. As a soloist, most memorable performances include his Carnegie hall debut with the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Lahav Shani as well as performances in Miami, San Francisco and performances in Buenos Aires (Teatro Colon) with Zubin Mehta. Solo performances in Europe include appearances in the prestigious Salzburg and Lucerne festivals under Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez. As a chamber musician he was a founding member of Ensemble 360 (England), with whom he also recorded, participated in important festivals and performed with renowned artists, including Daniel Barenboim, Elena Bashkirova, Kirill Gerstein, Guy Braunstein and the soloists of the Berlin Philharmonic. He also recorded for BBC radio stations, Sweden, Germany and Israel and released four CDs. Guy Eshed regularly won scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and received a special grant of excellence from the Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg.

Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano

Noted for her “dazzling, virtuoso singing” (Boston Globe), soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon delights in the range of sonic possibility inherent in the human voice. With a repertoire that ranges centuries, she specializes in the dusty corners of the canon – giving modern premieres of rediscovered works from the Baroque through the mid-20th century – and is sought-out for her collaborations with today’s composers. Ms. Fitz Gibbon has appeared as soloist with orchestras such as the San Francisco Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, American Composer’s Orchestra, Tafelmusik, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Concerto Budapest. Recent operatic engagements include Alexander Tcherepnin’s La Fée et le cultivateur (Fée) with New Asia Chamber Music Society in Alice Tully Hall; Hao Weiya’s AI Variations (Scientist) in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall; the Seattle Opera premiere of Sheila Silver’s A Thousand Splendid Suns (Laila, cover); and Tan Dun’s Tea: Mirror of Soul (Princess Lan) in Shanghai, Fuzhou, Hong Kong, Budapest, and Tokyo. An avid chamber musician, recent collaborators include the Doric, Marmen, and Brentano String Quartets; double-bassist Will Langlie-Miletich; and violinist Alexi Kenney. With her husband and longstanding collaborative partner, pianist Ryan McCullough, Lucy performs repertoire ranging from 18th century melodrama to 21st century art song on a variety of keyboard instruments. Lucy serves on the faculty of Bard College Conservatory and has been in residence at the Marlboro Music Festival annually since 2016. She is honored to be the recipient of a 2024 Fellowship from the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, whose generous support enables upcoming commissioning, recording, and performance projects. For more information, see www.lucyfitzgibbon.com.

Hsin-Yun Huang, viola

Since 1993, Hsin-Yun Huang has been firmly established as one of the leading violists of her generation. In that year she won the top prizes in the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and the highly prestigious Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award, which included a scholarship grant and concerto and recital appearances in Japan. Ms. Huang was also the youngest-ever gold medalist in the 1988 Lionel Tertis International Competition on the Isle of Man. A native of Taiwan, Ms. Huang currently resides in New York and is an active soloist and chamber musician in the U.S., the Far East, and Europe. She is in constant demand in her native Taiwan, appearing annually with the National Symphony of Taiwan. Ms. Huang also recently appeared in a nationally televised solo recital for President Chen Shui-Bian. She has participated in various prominent chamber music festivals including the Rome Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, the Marlboro Music Festival; Prussia Cove, England, St. Nazaire in France, Bridgehampton, the El Paso Chamber Music Festival, the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, Festival de Divonne in France, the Newport Festival, and many others. Ms. Huang was a member of the Borromeo String Quartet from 1994-2000. With the Quartet, she participated in festivals worldwide and in such prominent venues as New York's Alice Tully Hall, London's Wigmore Hall, Berlin's Philharmonie, and Japan's Casals Hall. In 1998 the Borromeo String Quartet was awarded the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award and was chosen by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to be members of "CMS Two" and featured in a "Live from Lincoln Center" telecast. Hsin-Yun Huang went to England at the age of fourteen to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School with David Takeno. She continued her studies at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia with Michael Tree, where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree, and at the Juilliard School with Samuel Rhodes, where she earned her Master of Music. She is a dedicated teacher and currently serves on the faculties of the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute.

Brian Isaacs, viola

Brian Isaacs, viola, is the 2025 winner of the Concours de Genève and prizewinner of the Markneukirchen, Oskar Nedbal, and Max Rostal International Viola Competitions. He has received awards from institutions including the Verbier Festival Academy and Yale University. Born and raised in New York City, Brian attended Yale University, where he earned degrees in sociology and music, studying with Ettore Causa. He completed his Konzertexamen (Artist Diploma) at HfMDK Frankfurt under Tabea Zimmermann, with whom he continues to study at the Kronberg Academy. An avid chamber musician, Brian's recent festival appearances include IMS Prussia Cove, Krzyzowa, La Jolla SummerFest, Marlboro, Verbier, and CMS Palm Beach. From 2027-2030, Brian will be a member of CMS Lincoln Center’s Bowers Program. Between 2023-25, Brian was a member of the Karajan-Akademie of the Berliner Philharmoniker, through which he performed regularly in the orchestra's viola section and toured with them throughout Europe and the United States. During the 2025-26 season, Brian served as assistant principal violist of the Komische Oper Berlin. Brian plays on a viola made in 2025 by Frédéric Chaudière in Montpellier, France.

Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano

Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute’s powerfully intricate performances have led critics to describe her as possessing “razor-sharp intelligence and wit” (The Washington Post) and as “an artist of commanding technique, refined temperament, and persuasive insight” (The New York Times). In 2006, she was honored as a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. In 2021, Sono Luminus released Ms. Jokubaviciute’s latest recording, Northscapes, featuring works by twenty-first-century composers from the Nordic and Baltic countries of Europe. Gramophone magazine described it as “a fascinating, well-balanced programme, played with engrossingly undemonstrative virtuosity… Jokubaviciute navigates the contrasting demands of each work with hugely impressive skill.” Jokubaviciute’s recital programs and recording projects bring her to major stages across the US and Europe. She made her orchestral debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival and has since performed concerti with orchestras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay; Washington, DC; and Fargo, ND. A highly sought-after chamber musician and collaborator, Ieva appears on major stages throughout North America and tours extensively in Europe, Japan, India, and South America. She regularly performs at international music festivals, including Marlboro, Ravinia, Chesapeake Chamber Music, Prussia Cove in Cornwall, England, and the Festival de la Musique de Chambre at La Lointaine in France. Recently, she participated at the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, VT; Seattle Chamber Music Festival; Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, CA; and the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival at East Carolina University. She is a founding member of Trio Cavatina, a winner of the Naumburg International Chamber Music Competition. Earning degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and from Mannes College of Music in New York City, her principal teachers have been Seymour Lipkin and Richard Goode. Ieva is currently Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University in Durham, NC, where she has been a faculty member since 2020. Previously, Ieva was Associate Professor, Piano at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA.

Gilbert Kalish, piano

Gilbert Kalish, piano, leads a musical life of unusual variety and breadth. His profound influence on the musical community as educator and as pianist in myriad performances and recordings has established him as a major figure in American music-making. A native New Yorker and graduate of Columbia College, Mr. Kalish studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabella Vengerova. He was the pianist of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players for thirty years and was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a group devoted to the new music that flourished during the 1960's and 1970's. He is a frequent guest artist with many of the world's most distinguished chamber ensembles. His thirty-year partnership with the mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani was universally recognized as one of the most remarkable artistic collaborations of our time. He maintains long-standing duos with cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnick, and appears frequently with soprano Dawn Upshaw. As an educator, Gilbert Kalish is Distinguished Professor and Head of Performance Activities at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. From 1968 to 1997, he was a faculty member at the Tanglewood Music Center, and served as Chairman of the Faculty at Tanglewood from 1985 to 1997. He participates at the Banff Centre, the Ravinia and Marlboro Festivals. Mr. Kalish's discography consists of more than 100 recordings, including his solo recordings of Charles Ives' Concord Sonata and sonatas of Josef Haydn, an immense discography of vocal music with Jan De Gaetani, and many musical landmarks of the 20th century. In 1995, Gilbert Kalish was presented with the Paul Fromm Award by the University of Chicago for distinguished service to the music of our time. In January 2002, he was the recipient of Chamber Music America's Service Award for exceptional contributions in the field of chamber music.

Wenting Kang, viola

Chinese violist Wenting Kang appeared as an “excellent violist” who “possesses a dark glowing sound” in the New York Times after her performance at Carnegie Hall. Kang’s playing also has been lauded as “elegant”, “precise”  as well as “pure”, “tone-passionate without ever losing a sense of control” in the Boston Musical Intelligencer. Her debut CD recording with pianist Sergei Kvitko “Mosaic” was released in 2022. Among many positive reviews, Gramophone Magazine noted “Part of the allure is her golden and glowing tone but the subtlety of her shading is just as transfixing.” “Her technique is close to flawless” “A terrific programme in every way”. It has won the gold medal as recommended CD on the Melómano Magazine in Spain. Its tracks were selected to be on the “Best New Classical Music” playlist on Spotify as well as the “New Music Friday” playlist of American Society of Composers and Publishers. Ms. Kang appeared as soloist collaborating with major orchestras such as Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra working with renowned conductors including Ivor Bolton, Michiyoshi Inoue, and José María Moreno. She studied at Central Conservatory in Beijing, the New England Conservatory in Boston, and, as a young soloist for further master degree at the Kronberg Academy in Germany, under the guidance of renowned teachers such as Nobuko Imai, Kim Kashkashian, Garth Knox, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, and Changhai Wang. Ms. Kang has been appointed as Viola Faculty to take over Kim Kashkashian’s post at the New England Conservatory in Boston from September 2024. Since 2016, Kang has been active as assistant professor alongside the renowned Nobuko Imai at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid. Most recently, she opened her class as professor at Escuela Superior de Música Forum Musikae in Madrid. In recent years, Kang has taught masterclasses for viola and chamber music in prestigious institutions such as Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Franz Liszt Academy of Music. She was invited to give masterclasses in various festivals throughout Europe and Asia.

Hye-Jin Kim, violin

Violinist Hye-Jin Kim is renowned for her musical sensitivity and deeply engaging performances that transport audiences beyond technical virtuosity. Her distinguished career as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician includes winning First Prize at the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition at age nineteen and the Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Kim has performed as soloist with major orchestras worldwide, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, New Haven Symphony, BBC Concert Orchestra (UK), Seoul Philharmonic (Korea), Pan Asia Symphony (Hong Kong), and Hannover Chamber Orchestra (Germany). She has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, Kimmel Center Verizon Hall, the Kravis Center, Salzburg's Mirabel Schloss, and London's St. John's Smith Square and Wigmore Hall. At the invitation of Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, she served as a cultural representative through concerts and outreach engagements in Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, including performances at the U.N. Headquarters in Geneva and New York. A passionate chamber musician, Kim has appeared at renowned festivals including Marlboro, Ravinia, Four Seasons, Music from Angel Fire, Music@Menlo, Taos School of Music, Seoul Spring, Bridgehampton, Music in the Vineyards, and Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music in England. Deeply committed to nurturing young talent, she frequently presents master classes throughout the United States and founded the Summer Chamber Music Institute at East Carolina University for gifted pre-college musicians. Her debut CD, “From the Homeland,” recorded with pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute, features works by Debussy, Smetana, Sibelius, and Janacek. American Record Guide praised the recording as "superb - warm, polished, expressive.” Born in Seoul, Korea, Kim entered the Curtis Institute of Music at age 14 and completed her master's degree at the New England Conservatory. She currently serves as Associate Professor of Violin at East Carolina University and teaches at Taos School of Music as a member of the Cooperstown Quartet. Kim is the founder and artistic director of Lullaby Dreams, a non-profit organization bringing the healing power of music to babies, families, and medical staff in NICUs and children's hospitals.

Julia Lichten, cello

Julia Lichten enjoys a varied career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher in the New York City area and beyond. She was a member of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra from 1995 to 2014, and has toured with Musicians from Marlboro, the American Chamber Players, and as an artistic ambassador for the U.S. State Department. Her festival engagements have included the Marlboro Music Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, Taos Chamber Music Festival, Library of Congress, Caramoor, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Chesapeake Chamber Music, and Rencontres Musicales d’Evian. She has recorded for Marlboro Recording Society, Arabesque, Koch International Classics, Music Masters, Sony Classical, and Deutsche Grammophon. Lichten has served as artist faculty at National Orchestral Institute, Kneisel Hall, Heifetz International Music Institute, Meadowmount School of Music, Yellowbarn, and Vivace. She is a member of the faculties of Manhattan School of Music and the CUNY Graduate Center. A native of New Haven, CT, Lichten graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe and New England Conservatory. Her principal teachers and mentors included Mischa Nieland, Paul Tobias, Felix Galimir, David Soyer, and Leon Kirchner.

Daniel McGrew, tenor

Daniel McGrew, tenor, is a versatile performer of a broad range of repertoires spanning opera, early music, contemporary music, and music theatre. As a winner of the 2021 Young Concert Artist Auditions, recently he and pianist Sophia Zhou presented debut recitals at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and Merkin Hall in New York City; McGrew and Zhou have also recently appeared with Buffalo Chamber Music Society, the Broman Concert Series at Mary Baldwin College, and Windsor Music in Boston. Recent concert engagements include performances with Elm City Consort, Bach Collegium Fort Wayne, and Music Worcester, among others. Passionately engaged with new music, Daniel has premiered works by composers including Benjamin C.S. Boyle, Shawn Chang, Tom Cipullo, Reena Esmail, John Harbison, Robert Kyr, and Nina Shekhar. At Tanglewood’s renowned Festival of Contemporary Music, Daniel performed the role of Mortimer in the American premiere of George’s Benjamin’s Lessons in Love and Violence under the composer’s baton. No stranger to the operatic stage, Daniel’s credits include François in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place, Candide in Bernstein’s Candide, Orphée in Charpentier’s La descente d'Orphée aux enfers, Albert in Britten’s Albert Herring, and Orfeo in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, among many others. An early music specialist, Daniel has performed many of J.S. Bach’s major works and over 30 of the church cantatas with conductors including Matthew Halls, John Harbison, David Hill, Koji Otsuki, Kenneth Slowik, and Masaaki Suzuki. He has made multiple appearances with Gamut Bach Ensemble at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and the Bach Vespers series at Holy Trinity Lutheran. The heart of Daniel’s musical passion and practice is the performance of song; he appears regularly with such ensembles as Brooklyn Art Song Society, New York Festival of Song, Mirror Visions Ensemble, and Cincinnati Song Initiative. Recent highlights from the recital stage include two performances of the complete Mörike-Liederbuch of Hugo Wolf with pianist Martin Katz; Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte with pianist, Ignat Solzhenitsyn; and Schumann’s Spanisches Liederspiel with pianist Jonathan Biss, among others. Daniel holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, Yale University, and University of Michigan. He is a committed teacher and pedagogue, having taught studio voice, lyric dictions, and music history at University of Michigan, Oberlin Conservatory, Bowling Green State University, and Adrian College.

Clara Neubauer, violin

Violinist Clara Neubauer was a recipient of the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music from The Juilliard School and the Ana Chumachenco Award from Kronberg Academy. She has appeared at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Taos, Prussia Cove, Music@Menlo, Angel Fire, and Olympic Music Festivals, collaborating with artists such as Mitsuko Uchida, Itzhak Perlman, and Steven Isserlis. She joins the Bowers Program at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for the 2027–2030 seasons. Recent performances include appearances at the Caramoor Center, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Rome Chamber Music Festival, and an international tour with musicians from Marlboro. Since making her solo debut at age ten with the National Repertory Orchestra, she has appeared as soloist with ensembles across the U.S. and Europe, including the Symphony of Westchester, Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, New York Concerti Sinfonietta, and Ensemble 212. A recipient of the Kovner Fellowship, Clara studied at The Juilliard School with Li Lin, Itzhak Perlman, and Catherine Cho. She served as concertmaster of The Juilliard Orchestra, including a performance conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Clara currently attends Kronberg Academy in the Professional Studies Program as a student of Mihaela Martin. Clara can also be heard as the voice of the audio guide at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum alongside Robert De Niro.

Paul Neubauer, viola

Violist Paul Neubauer's exceptional musicality and effortless playing led the New York Times to call him “a master musician.” In 2025 he will release two albums for First Hand Records that feature the final works of two great composers: an all Bartók album including the revised version of the viola concerto and a Shostakovich recording including the monumental viola sonata. At age 21, Mr. Neubauer was appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic, and he held that position for six years. He has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics; Chicago, National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; and Mariinsky, Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle orchestras. He’s also premiered viola concertos by Béla Bartók (revised version of the Viola Concerto), Reinhold Glière, Gordon Jacob, Henri Lazarof, Robert Suter, Joel Phillip Friedman, Aaron Jay Kernis, Detlev Müller-Siemens, David Ott, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tobias Picker, and Joan Tower. He performs with SPA, a trio with soprano Susanna Phillips and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, with a wide range of repertoire including salon style songs. He has been featured on CBS's Sunday Morning, A Prairie Home Companion, and in Strad, Strings, and People magazines. A two-time Grammy nominee, he has recorded on numerous labels including Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Red Seal, and Sony Classical. Mr. Neubauer appears with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is the artistic director of the Mostly Music series in New Jersey. He is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College.

Evren Ozel, viola

American pianist Evren Ozel is the Bronze Medalist of the 17th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (2025), where he also received the special prize for the Best Performance of a Mozart Concerto. Ozel has performed extensively throughout the United States and internationally, and is the recipient of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2022 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant. He is currently represented by Concert Artists Guild as an Ambassador Prize Winner of their 2021 Competition. Since making his orchestral debut with the Minnesota Orchestra at age 11, Ozel has appeared as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and Florida Orchestra, performing under conductors such as Marin Alsop, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Christian Reif, Ruth Reinhardt, and Hugh Wolff. His debut album—Mozart concertos recorded with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Howard Griffiths—was released in 2025 on Alpha Classics. Highlights of Ozel’s 2026-27 season include recitals at Washington Performing Arts, Capital Region Classical, and Cliburn Concerts, as well as concerto debuts with the Grand Rapids Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Hartford Symphony, and Alabama Symphony. A laureate of both the Cleveland International Piano Competition and the Dublin International Piano Competition, Ozel has given recitals internationally at Salle Cortot (Paris), Brandenburgische Sommerkonzerte (Berlin), and Vilnius Piano Festival. A committed chamber musician, Ozel collaborates with artists including David Finckel and Wu Han, Stella Chen, Paul Huang, Geneva Lewis, Kim Kashkashian, and Marcy Rosen. He spent four summers at the Marlboro Music Festival, and is currently a 2024–27 Bowers Program Artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, with upcoming appearances at Alice Tully Hall. Raised in Minneapolis, Ozel studied with Cindy Malmin and later with Paul Wirth for seven years, while also drawing early musical guidance from Sarah Miller and conductor Courtney Lewis. He currently resides in Boston and holds Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Artist Diploma degrees from the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Wha Kyung Byun for eleven years. Among his other important mentors are Jonathan Biss, Imogen Cooper, Richard Goode, András Schiff, and Mitsuko Uchida.

Angela Park, cello

Equally at home as a soloist and chamber musician, Angela Park has performed throughout the North and South Americas, Europe, and East Asia. Notable appearances are solo concerts with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Seoul Philharmonic, and chamber music appearances at the Marlboro, Verbier, and Ravinia Festivals. In recent seasons, Angela has performed with Helsinki Baroque, Anne-Sophie Mutter on her Virtuosi European Tour, Incheon Philharmonic, and has returned to the Marlboro Music Festival, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, and Festival de los Siete Lagos in Argentina. She has been awarded the Silver Medal and SeongYawng Park Talent Award at the International Isang Yun Competition, in addition to prizes at the Stulberg International Competition and the Young Tchaikovsky Competition. She has worked with Leonidas Kavakos, Peter Wiley, Bruno Canino, and Richard Goode, and has also performed the concerto repertoire with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Korean Broadcasting System Orchestra, and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Angela is increasingly in demand as a baroque cellist. She often performs the Bach Suites in a baroque setup, and has played continuo at the Pyeongchang Music Festival with Helsinki Baroque, as well as for the Gamut Bach Ensemble Philadelphia. Sha also has a deep interest in the music of our times, and has taken part in dozens of world premieres. Born in 1987 in California to Korean parents, Angela started playing the cello at age 10 with Sungeun Hong and Kyungmi Lim. Performing from an early age soon thereafter, Angela won virtually every competition in Korea and made her debut with the Seoul Philharmonic at the age of 12. At age 14, she started her studies at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music with Peter Wiley and the late Orlando Cole. There started her long relationship and love for chamber music while working with luminaries such as Pamela Frank, Joseph Silverstein, and MengChieh Liu. While at Curtis, she made her debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Christoph Eschenbach. Upon graduation, Angela studied with Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory, and with Jens Peter Maintz at the Universität der Künste Berlin in the Konzertexamen Program, where she was a DAAD Scholar (German Academic Exchange), graduating with highest distinction in 2013. She also seeks mentorship from the baroque cellist Kristin von der Goltz. Angela plays a Paolo Antonio Testore cello and a 19th century Flemish baroque cello, both generously on private loan.

Jeewon Park, piano

Korean-American pianist Jeewon Park has garnered worldwide acclaim for her lyrical and poetic musicianship. Equally at home in the classic and contemporary repertoire, her recent seasons have featured performances ranging from J.S. Bach’s Goldberg variations, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Schubert’s late piano sonatas to the world premieres of Earth by Aaron Jay Kernis and Voyage Out by Sebastian Currier. Since making her debut at the age of 12 performing Chopin’s First Concerto with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Park has appeared as concerto soloist with orchestras including the KBS Orchestra, Hwa-Eum Chamber Orchestra, Charleston Symphony, Mexico City Philharmonic, Monterey Symphony, and Florida Orchestra, and has performed in major venues as recitalist and chamber musician across North America, Asia and Europe. This season, Jeewon Park celebrates her 13th year as the co-artistic director of the Performing Artists in Residence series at Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA, along with her husband, cellist Edward Arron. A devoted chamber musician, Ms. Park is a founding member of the Palladium Chamber Players in residence at St. Petersburg College in Florida, and has performed at virtually all of the prestigious chamber music series and festivals in the United States, such as Caramoor, Lake Champlain, Manchester, Seattle Chamber Music Society, Spoleto USA, Tucson, Bridgehampton, New York’s Metropolitan Museum, the 92nd Street Y, Maui,Taos, Norfolk, Chautauqua, Bargemusic, Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, Pablo Casals, and Four Seasons. Internationally, she has been invited to perform as a soloist in the inaugural festival of The IBK Chamber Hall at the Seoul Arts Center, Seoul Spring Festival and the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea, Emilia-Romagna Festival in Italy, Music Alp in Courchevel in France, and Kusatsu Music Festival in Japan, among others. In September of 2022, Ms. Park was invited as the guest pianist and curator for the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra chamber music series in Korea. She has premiered important new works by leading composers such as David Ludwig, Lisa Bielawa, Nick DiBerardino, Michi Wianko and Paul Moravec. In January of 2021, Ms. Park’s recording of Beethoven’s Complete Works for Cello and Piano with cellist Edward Arron was released on the Aeolian Classics Record Label. She received the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artists Award from the Classical Recording Foundation. Ms. Park has been heard in numerous live broadcasts on National Public Radio and New York’s Classical Radio Station, WQXR. She came to the U.S. in 2002, after having won all the major competitions in Korea, most notably Joong-Ang and KBS competitions. She attended Yonsei University in Korea, The Juilliard School and Yale University, where she was awarded the prestigious Dean Horatio Parker Prize for best fulfilling Dean Parker’s lofty musical ideals. Subsequently, she earned her doctoral degree in musical arts from Stony Brook University. Her teachers include Young-Ho Kim, Herbert Stessin, Claude Frank and Gilbert Kalish. A dedicated teacher, she has served on piano faculty at New England Conservatory, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Bowdoin International Music Festival, and has given master classes and workshops at Swarthmore College, Williams College, Amherst College, University of Washington, University of South Florida and University of South Carolina, among others. Ms. Park performs on Steinway pianos provided through the courtesy of Steinway and Sons in New York. Ms. Park currently lives in Amherst, MA with her family, and their sweet Labrador retriever.

Daniel Phillips, violin

Violinist Daniel Phillips enjoys a versatile career as an established chamber musician, solo artist, and teacher. He serves as co-artistic director of the Music from Angel Fire chamber music festival with his wife, flutist Tara Helen O'Connor, and he was a founding member of the Orion String Quartet. The quartet's discography includes the complete quartets of Beethoven and Kirchner. Phillips is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a winner of the 1976 Young Concert Artists competition. His major teachers were his father, Eugene Phillips; Ivan Galamian; Sally Thomas; Nathan Milstein; Sandor Vegh; and George Neikrug. Throughout his career, Phillips has performed as a soloist with ensembles such as the Boston, Houston, New Jersey, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, and Yakima symphony orchestras. His festival appearances include Chamber Music Northwest, the Spoleto Festival USA, and the Chesapeake Music Festival. He's performed at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival every season since 1979, and he's participated in the International Musicians Seminar in Cornwall, England, since its inception. Phillips's faculty appointments include the Mannes School of Music, Juilliard, the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, and the Bard College Conservatory of Music as well as the summer faculties of the Heifetz International Music Institute and the St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber Music Seminar at Stanford. Daniel Phillips is a former member of the renowned Bach Aria Group, and he's toured and recorded in a string quartet for Sony Classical with violinist Gidon Kremer, violist Kim Kashkashian, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. In 2018, he served as a judge for the Seoul International Violin Competition, and last summer he served as a judge for the Leipzig International Bach Competition, where he won third prize in 1976. Phillips lives with his wife and two cute dachshunds on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Todd Phillips, violin

Todd Phillips made his solo debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony at the age of thirteen, and has appeared with many orchestras throughout the United States, Europe and Japan since then, including the Brandenburg Ensemble, the Jacksonville and Honolulu symphonies, Camerata Salzburg and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1982 with the New York String Orchestra and conductor Alexander Schneider. Mr. Phillips is a founding member of the highly acclaimed Orion String Quartet which recently concluded their 37 -year career as a group.The Orion Quartet has been the quartet-in-residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Mannes College of Music and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Their television appearances have included PBS’ “Live from Lincoln Center,” three performances on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and A&E’s “Breakfast with the Arts.” The Quartet’s recordings of the complete Beethoven quartets have received wide critical acclaim. They are in the process of preserving their legacy of music-making by posting both commercial recordings and recordings of live performances on their YouTube Channel. Todd Phillips’ experience as a frequent leader of the conductorless Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has led to engagements as conductor/leader with the Camerata Nordica of Sweden, The New World Symphony, The Brandenburg Ensemble, the Tapiola Sinfonietta of Finland, and the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Phillips serves on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and the Cleveland Institute of Music where he is also Co-Artistic Director of the new chamber music workshop, CMI@CIM. Mr. Phillips lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, violinist Catherine Cho and is the father of four children: Lia, Eliza, Jason, and Brandon and is grandfather of Theo and Mila.

Anna Polonsky, piano

Anna Polonsky is widely in demand as a soloist and chamber musician. Ms. Polonsky has collaborated with the Guarneri, Orion, Juilliard, and Shanghai Quartets, and with such musicians as Mitsuko Uchida, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Goode, and Emanuel Ax. She has given concerts in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Stern, Weill, and Zankel Halls, and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. A frequent guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, she was a member of the Chamber Music Society Two during 2002-2004. She is a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award. Anna Polonsky made her solo piano debut at the age of seven at the Special Central Music School in Moscow, Russia. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She received degrees from The Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of Peter Serkin, and from the Juilliard School, studying with Jerome Lowenthal. In addition to performing, she serves on the piano faculty of Vassar College, and in the summer at the Marlboro and Kneisel Hall chamber music festivals. Together with violinist Jaime Laredo, violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, and cellist Sharon Robinson, Polonsky is a member of the Espressivo! Piano Quartet. With the clarinetist David Shifrin and cellist Peter Wiley, she performs with the Polonsky-Shifrin-Wiley Trio. Ms. Polonsky is a Steinway Artist.

William Purvis, horn

William Purvis pursues a multifaceted career in the United States and abroad as horn soloist, chamber musician, conductor, and educator. He is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, the Yale Brass Trio, and the Triton Horn Trio, and is an emeritus member of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. A passionate advocate of new music, he has participated in numerous premieres of pieces for solo horn, horn concerti, horn trios, and woodwind quintets by such composers as Krzysztof Penderecki, Steven Stucky, and Elliott Carter. Purvis has also been a frequent guest artist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Boston Chamber Music Society and has collaborated with many of the world’s most esteemed string quartets. At the Yale School of Music, Purvis teaches a studio of graduate-level horn students and has been featured many times in performances on the School’s Faculty Artist Series. A Grammy Award winner, Purvis has recorded extensively for numerous labels including Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, Naxos Records, Koch Entertainment, and Bridge Records.

Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

Raman Ramakrishnan was a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet, winners of the grand prize at the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition. During his eleven years with the quartet, he performed coast-to-coast in the United States and Canada, in Japan, Hong Kong and Panama, and across Europe. The quartet has been in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University. In 2011, he formed the Horszowski Trio with violinist Jesse Mills and pianist Rieko Aizawa. He has given solo recitals in New York, Boston, Seattle and Washington, D.C., and has performed chamber music at Caramoor, at Bargemusic, with the Boston Chamber Music Society, and at the Aspen, Charlottesville, Four Seasons, Lincolnshire (UK), Marlboro, Mehli Mehta (India), Oklahoma Mozart and Vail Music Festivals. He has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has performed, as guest principal cellist, with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a guest member of Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, he has performed in New Delhi and Agra, India and in Cairo, Egypt. Mr. Ramakrishnan was born in Athens, Ohio and grew up in East Patchogue, New York. His father is a molecular biologist and his mother is the children's book author and illustrator Vera Rosenberry. He holds a bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University and a master's degree in music from The Juilliard School. His principal teachers have been Fred Sherry, Andrés Díaz and André Emelianoff. He lives in New York City with his wife, the violist Melissa Reardon. He plays a Neapolitan cello made by Vincenzo Jorio in 1837.

Robert Rinehart, viola

Violist Robert Rinehart, a member of the New York Philharmonic, is a familiar figure on the New York chamber music scene. A founding member of the Ridge String Quartet, Mr. Rinehart has performed in every major music center in the United States, as well as in Europe, South America, Canada, Australia and Asia, and has collaborated with Benny Goodman, Rudolf Firkusny, and the Guarneri String Quartet, among many others. He has appeared at the Spoleto Festival, the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, the Bridgehampton Festival, Chamber Music/West, Chamber Music Northwest, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, at the 92nd Street Y in New York, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. His recordings include albums which have received a Grammy Award, two Grammy nominations and the Diapason d'Or. A native of San Francisco, Mr. Rinehart studied violin there with Isadore Tinkleman, and at the Curtis Institute of Music with Jaime Laredo, David Cerone and Ivan Galamian. He is a member of the faculty at the Manhattan School of Music.

Marcy Rosen, cello

Marcy Rosen has performed in recital and with orchestras throughout Canada, Japan, Europe, and all fifty of the United States. She made her concerto debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of eighteen and has since appeared with the Dallas Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony, the Caramoor Festival Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Jupiter Symphony and the Tokyo Symphony. In recital she has appeared throughout the United States, and for many years hosted a series at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington entitled "Marcy Rosen and Friends." With pianist Diane Walsh she performs as half of the Rosen/Walsh Duo and she is a founding member of the ensemble La Fenice. She is also a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet. She appears regularly at festivals both here and abroad. Since 1986 she has been the co-artistic director of the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival in Maryland and as a long-time participant at the Marlboro Music Festival, she has taken part in sixteen of their "Musicians from Marlboro" tours. Marcy Rosen won the 1986 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was further honored with the Walker Fund Prize and the Mortimer Levitt Carreer Development Award. She is the winner of the Washington International Competition for Strings, and was the first recipient of the Mischa Schneider memorial award from the Walter W. Naumberg Foundation. Her performances can be heard on the Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, CBS Masterworks, and Phillips labels, among many others. Ms.Rosen is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, and teaches at Queens College and at the Mannes College of Music in New York.

Randall Scarlata, baritone

Known for versatility, consummate musicianship, and winning way with the audience, baritone Randall Scarlata’s repertoire spans five centuries and sixteen languages. A sought-after interpreter of new music, he has given world premieres of works by George Crumb, Paul Moravec, Richard Danielpour, Ned Rorem, Lori Laitman, Thea Musgrave, Benjamin CS Boyle, Melissa Dunphy, Hilda Paredes, and Christopher Theofanidis, among others. He is particularly well known for his recital appearances and chamber music collaborations. Randall Scarlata has appeared on concert stages all over the globe and sung with many of the world’s great orchestras and early music ensembles. He has performed at festivals such as Ravinia, Marlboro, Edinburgh, Vienna, Music at Menlo, Gilmore, Kaposfest, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Salzburg, Manchester Music Festival, and the Norfolk, Aspen, Rockport, and Spoleto (Italy) festivals. Mr. Scarlata is a prolific recording artist. His recording of Schubert’s Winterreise with pianist Gilbert Kalish was honored with a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Vocal Solo. Mr. Kalish and Mr. Scarlata’s recording of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin will be released this fall. Future recording projects include an album of French mélodie with pianist Laura Ward, and an album of late Schubert songs with pianist Cameron Stowe. In addition to his performing career, Mr. Scarlata is a sought-after master teacher. In 2019, he joined the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University and the Tanglewood Music Center, where he was named Endowed Berkshire Master Teacher Chair. In 2026, he took on the position of Co-Artistic Director of the recital series, Lyric Fest, based in Philadelphia.

Sophie Shao, cello

Cellist Sophie Shao, winner of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and top prizes at the Rostropovich and Tchaikovsky competitions, is a versatile and passionate artist. Shao has commissioned Howard Shore’s cello concerto Mythic Gardens, performing the premiere with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra, the UK premiere with Keith Lockhart and the BBC Concert Orchestra, and European premiere with Ludwig Wicki and the 21st Century Orchestra. She also premiered Richard Wilson’s The Cello Has Many Secrets and Shih-Hui Chen’s multimedia concerto Our Son is Not Coming Home to Dinner. Shao has appeared as soloist throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, with the Houston Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, and Pacific Symphony. She has given recitals in Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Middlebury College, Phillips Collection, University of Notre Dame, Lyric Society of New York, at Lincoln Center, Bargemusic, and the complete Bach Suites at Union College. Her dedication to chamber music has conceived her popular “Sophie Shao and Friends” groups and performs in festivals around the country such as Chamber Music Northwest, Vail, Santa Fe, and Festival Mosaic. She has attended the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia Steans Institute, and was a member of Chamber Music Society Two, a young artist residency of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She is a dedicated music educator, presenting a lecture “Why Bach is Still Relevant in the 21st Century” and recital at the National Gallery of Art, artist-in-residence at the Zeta Charter Schools in the Bronx, masterclasses at University of Michigan, Juilliard, Indiana University, and is on faculty at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches cello, chamber music, and organizes an annual UConn Cello Day. She has previously been on the faculty of Vassar College, Princeton University, and Bard Conservatory. Ms. Shao’s new solo album, CanCan Macabre, has just been released on Centaur Records. A native of Houston, Texas, Ms. Shao began playing the cello at age six, and studied with Shirley Trepel, the principal cellist of the Houston Symphony. At age thirteen she enrolled at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, studying cello with David Soyer and chamber music with Felix Galimir. She then continued her cello studies with Aldo Parisot at Yale University, receiving a B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale College and an M.M. from the Yale School of Music, where she was enrolled as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. She plays on an Honore Derazey cello ca. 1855, formerly owned by Pablo Casals.

Peter Stumpf, cello

Peter Stumpf is professor of cello at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Prior to his appointment, he was principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Stumpf's tenure in Los Angeles followed 12 years as associate principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. His professional orchestral career began at the age of 16 when he joined the cello section of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. He received a bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and an Artist's Diploma from the New England Conservatory. A dedicated chamber musician, he is a member of the Johannes String Quartet and has appeared on chamber music series at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, the Boston Celebrity Series, the Da Camera Society in Los Angeles, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Casals Hall in Tokyo, and in the concert halls of Cologne. He has performed with the chamber music societies of Boston and Philadelphia and at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, as well as the Festivals of Marlboro, Santa Fe, Bridgehampton, Ottawa, Great Lakes, Ojai, Spoleto, and Aspen. He has toured with Music from Marlboro, the Casals Hall Ensemble in Japan, and with pianist Mitsuko Uchida in performances of the complete Mozart Piano Trios. He has also collaborated with pianists Leif Ove Andsnes, Emmanuel Ax, Jorge Bolet, Yefim Bronfman, Radu Lupu, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Andras Schiff, Jean Yves Thibaudet, Mitsuko Uchida, and with the Emerson and Guarneri String Quartets. Concerto appearances have been with the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Philharmonic, the Virginia Symphony, the Vermont Symphony, the Connecticut String Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, the American Youth Symphony, and at the Aspen Music Festival. As a recitalist, he has performed at the Universities of Hartford, Syracuse, and Delaware, at Jordan Hall in Boston, and at the Philips and Corcoran Galleries in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he performed the Six Suites for Solo Cello by J. S. Bach on the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Series and on the Chamber Music in Historic Sites Series in Los Angeles. His awards include first prize in the Washington International Competition, the Graham-Stahl Competition, and the Aspen Concerto Competition and second prize in the Evian International String Quartet Competition. As a former member of the Boston Musica Viva, he has explored extended techniques, including microtonal compositions and numerous premieres. As a teacher, he has served on the cello faculty of the University of Southern California, Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford, the New England Conservatory, and guest artist faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music as well as at the Yellow Barn Music Festival and the Musicorda Summer String Program.

Peter Wiley, cello

Cellist Peter Wiley enjoys a prolific career as a performer and teacher. He is a member of the piano quartet, Opus One, a group he co-founded in 1998 with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, violinist Ida Kavafian and violist Steven Tenenbom. Mr. Wiley attended the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of David Soyer. He joined the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1974. The following year he was appointed Principal cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for eight years. From 1987 through 1998, Mr. Wiley was cellist of the Beaux Arts Trio. In 2001 he succeeded his mentor, David Soyer, as cellist of the Guarneri Quartet. The quartet retired from the concert stage in 2009. He has been awarded an Avery Fischer Career Grant, nominated for a Grammy Award in 1998 with the Beaux Arts Trio and in 2009 with the Guarneri Quartet. Mr. Wiley has participated at leading festivals including Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, OK Mozart, Marlboro, Santa Fe,Bravo! Great Lakes and Bridgehampton. Mr. Wiley teaches at the Curtis Institute of Music and Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Shai Wosner, piano

Pianist Shai Wosner’s performances of a broad range of repertoire—from Beethoven to Ligeti to music of today—reflect a degree of virtuosity and intellectual curiosity that has made him a favorite among audiences and critics. Highlights of Wosner’s 2024-25 season are a tour of the northeastern United States and Canada with clarinetist Martin Fröst and violist Antoine Tamestit. Wosner brings the same musicality, intellect, and sensitivity to his arrangements as he does his piano playing. He has arranged Beethoven’s Symphony Nos. 1, 4 and 6 as trios for cellist Yo-Yo Ma, pianist Emanuel Ax, and violinist Leonidas Kavakos. The latter two arrangements are featured on the trio’s “Beethoven for Three” recordings from Sony Classical. This season, Wosner also performs a recital program of Schubert and David Lang with baritone Benjamin Appl commemorating the centenary of legendary baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau at New York’s Town Hall, presented by the Peoples’ Symphony Concerts (PSC) where Wosner is Artist-in-Residence; a performance with the JACK Quartet on the Music Mondays series in New York, and performances with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Additionally, he tours Europe with violinist Joshua Bell, and continues to perform as part of the Zukerman Trio with violinist Pinchas Zukerman and cellist Amanda Forsyth. Wosner has appeared with the major orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Berkeley, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Ottawa, San Francisco, and Toronto, among others. He has performed abroad with the BBC orchestras, the Barcelona, Bournemouth, and Gothenburg Symphonies, LSO St. Luke’s, Staatskapelle Berlin, and the Vienna Philharmonic, among others. Wosner performs regularly at chamber music festivals, including Chamber Music Northwest, Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival, Oregon Bach Festival, and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. His acclaimed recordings for Onyx Classics range from Schubert sonatas, to chamber works by Bartók and Kurtág, to concerti by Haydn and Ligeti. Recent albums include a recording of Beethoven’s 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120 also released on Onyx. Born in Israel, Wosner enjoyed a broad musical education from a very early age, studying piano with Opher Brayer and Emanuel Krasovsky, as well as composition, theory, and improvisation with André Hajdu. He later studied with Emanuel Ax at The Juilliard School, where Wosner is also now on the piano faculty. He is a recipient of Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. For more information on Wosner go to shaiwosner.com.