Meet the 2025 Artists

Soovin Kim

Soovin Kim enjoys a broad musical career regularly performing Bach sonatas and Paganini caprices for solo violin, sonatas for violin and piano ranging from Beethoven to Ives, Mozart, and Haydn concertos and symphonies as a conductor, and new world-premiere works almost every season.  When he was 20 years old, Mr. Kim received first prize at the Paganini International Violin Competition.  He immersed himself in the string quartet literature for 20 years as the 1st violinist of the Johannes Quartet.  Among his many commercial recordings are his “thrillingly triumphant” (Classic FM Magazine) disc of Paganini’s demanding 24 Caprices, and a two-disc set of Bach’s complete solo violin works to be released in 2024. Soovin Kim is the founder and artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival (LCCMF) in Burlington, Vermont.  In addition to its explorative programming and extensive work with living composers, LCCMF created the ONE Strings program through which all 3rd through 5th grade students of the Integrated Arts Academy in Burlington study violin.  The University of Vermont recognized Soovin Kim’s work by bestowing an honorary doctorate upon him in 2015. 

Violin

Gloria Chien

Taiwanese-born pianist Gloria Chien has one of the most diverse musical lives as a noted performer, concert presenter, and educator. She made her orchestral debut at the age of sixteen with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard, and she performed again with the BSO with Keith Lockhart. She was subsequently selected by the The Boston Globe as one of its Superior Pianists of the year, “who appears to excel in everything.” In recent seasons, she has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Phillips Collection, the Dresden Chamber Music Festival, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She performs frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2009, she launched String Theory, a chamber music series in Chattanooga, Tennessee that has become one of the region’s premier classical music presenters.  The following year she was appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo, a position she held for the next decade. In 2017, she joined her husband, violinist Soovin Kim, as artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont. The duo became artistic directors at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, OR in 2020. Most recently, she released two albums - her Gloria Chien LIVE from the Music@Menlo LIVE label and Here With You with acclaimed clarinetist Anthony McGill on Cedille Records.

Chien studied extensively at the New England Conservatory of Music with Wha Kyung Byun and Russell Sherman. She is Artist-in-Residence at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, and she is a Steinway Artist.

Piano

David Serkin Ludwig

David Serkin Ludwig’s first memory was singing Beatles songs with his sister; his second was hearing his grandfather perform at Carnegie Hall, foreshadowing a diverse career collaborating with many of today’s leading musicians, filmmakers, and writers. His choral work “The New Colossus,” opened the private prayer service for President Obama’s second inauguration. The next year NPR Music named him in the world’s “Top 100 Composers Under Forty.” He holds positions and residencies with nearly two dozen orchestras and music festivals in the US and abroad.

Ludwig has received commissions and notable performances from many of the most recognized artists and ensembles of our time, including the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, and National Symphony Orchestras, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Dresden Music Festival, as well as Jonathan Biss, Jeremy Denk, Jennifer Koh, Jaime Laredo, David Shifrin, eighth blackbird, the Dover and Borromeo Quartets, Imani Winds, and the PRISM Saxophone Quartet.

He has received numerous honors, recently including the American Academy of Arts and Letters annual award in music, the Pew Center for the Arts Fellowship, and the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is a two-time recipient of the Independence Foundation Fellowship, a Theodore Presser Foundation Career Grant, and awards from New Music USA, the American Composers Forum, American Music Center, Detroit Chamber Winds, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 2021 Ludwig was named a Steinway Artist. He served on the composition faculty of The Curtis Institute of Music for nearly two decades before being appointed Dean and Director of Music at the Juilliard School last year. He lives in New York City with his wife, acclaimed violinist Bella Hristova, and their four beloved cats.

Resident Composer

Jessica Lee

Hailed as “a soloist which one should make a special effort to hear, wherever she plays,” violinist Jessica Lee is the Grand Prize Winner of the 2005 Concert Artists Guild International Competition and was featured in The Strad as a “pick of up-and-coming musicians.” The Chicago Tribune described her Ravinia Rising Stars recital: “Lee’s breathtaking dexterity should enchant anyone within hearing distance.”

She has performed worldwide, including solo appearances with the Plzen Philharmonic, Gangnam Symphony at the Seoul Arts Center, Malaysia Festival Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur, and U.S. orchestras such as the Houston, Grand Rapids, Richmond, Long Bay, Modesto, and Fort Smith Symphonies. She debuted at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in 2007, with other recital highlights at Weill Hall, the Phillips Collection, Caramoor, and the Chamber Music Society of Little Rock—named a “Top Ten Classical Concert” by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Festival appearances include Music@Menlo, Bridgehampton, Santa Fe, Chamber Music Northwest, and Olympic.

Jessica served as Assistant Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra from 2016–2024, performing at Severance Hall, Musikverein, Concertgebouw, and Berlin Philharmonie. She’s collaborated with dance icons like Lar Lubovitch and Mikhail Baryshnikov. 

An active chamber musician, she was a long-time member of the Johannes String Quartet and toured with the Guarneri Quartet. She also performed with Musicians from Marlboro, ECCO, and at Seoul’s top venues. Jessica is Head of Violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music and previously taught at Oberlin, Vassar, Curtis Summerfest, and more.

A Virginia native, she studied at Curtis and Juilliard under Robert Mann and Ida Kavafian.

Violin

David McCarroll

David McCarroll was appointed concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 2022, holding the Rachel Mellon Walton Concertmaster Chair. He has appeared as soloist with many orchestras including the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich (Simone Young, Grafenegg), Hong Kong Sinfonietta (Christoph Poppen), and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Manfred Honeck). He regularly performs in major concert halls such as Konzerthaus Berlin, Vienna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Muziekgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Library of Congress, Kennedy Center, 92nd Street Y, and Carnegie Hall. 

Also an active chamber musician, he served from 2015 to 2022 as the violinist of the renowned Vienna Piano Trio with whom he toured and recorded extensively. The Trio’s recording of the complete Brahms piano trios was awarded the 2017 Echo Klassik prize and in 2020 the Trio’s Beethoven recording won the Opus Klassik award. 

Recent performances have included Stravinsky Violin Concerto at the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Pittsburgh premiere of Schumann Violin Concerto, touring with Musicians from Marlboro, and performances of György Kurtág’s “Kafka Fragments” for violin and soprano. 

In demand as a teacher, David is on the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Music. He has previously taught at Salzburg's Mozarteum University, and has given masterclasses in violin and chamber music at Ravinia's Steans Institute, at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, and at the San Francisco Conservatory.

David plays a 1761 violin made by A&J Gagliano.

Violin

Tai Murray

Described as “superb” by The New York Times, violinist Tai Murray has established herself a musical voice of a generation. “Technically flawless… vivacious and scintillating… It is without doubt that Murray’s style of playing is more mature than that of many seasoned players… “
(Muso Magazine) 

Appreciated for her elegance and effortless ability, Murray creates a special bond with listeners through her personal phrasing and subtle sweetness. Her programming reveals musical intelligence. Her sound, sophisticated bowing and choice of vibrato, remind us of her musical background and influences, principally, Yuval Yaron and Franco Gulli. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2004, Tai Murray was named a BBC New Generation Artist. As a chamber musician, she was a member of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society II.

She has performed as a soloist on main stages world-wide, performing with leading ensembles such as the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Symphony Orchestra, and all the BBC Symphony Orchestras. She is a dedicated advocate of contemporary works. Among others, she performed the world premiere of Malcolm Hayes’ violin concerto at the BBC PROMS, in the Royal Albert Hall.

As a recitalist Tai Murray has visited many of the world’s capitals having appeared in Berlin, Chicago, Hamburg, London, Madrid, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Paris and Washington D.C., among many others.

Tai Murray plays a violin by Tomaso Balestrieri fecit Mantua ca. 1765, on generous loan from a private collection.

Murray is an Associate Professor, Adjunct, of violin at the Yale School of Music, where she teaches applied violin and coaches chamber music. She earned artist diplomas from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and the Juilliard School.

Violin

Nicholas Cords

For more than two decades, omnivorous violist Nicholas Cords has been on the front line of a unique constellation of projects as performer, educator, and cultural advocate, with a signature passion for the cross-section between the long tradition of classical music and the wide range of music being created today.

Nicholas is a founding member of Brooklyn Rider, an intrepid group which NPR credits with "recreating the 300-year-old form of the string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” Deeply committed to collaborative ventures, the group has worked with Irish fiddler Martin Hayes, jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman, ballerina Wendy Whelan, Persian kemancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, Mexican singer Magos Herrera, and banjoist Béla Fleck, to name a few. Their recent recording Healing Modes was lauded by the New York Times and received a 2021 Grammy Nomination. The quartet is celebrating twenty years together starting this August with a six concert mini-festival at Lincoln Center and special recital at Tanglewood where they will be joined by Yo-Yo Ma for Schubert’s Cello Quintet. Other anniversary plans include the release of their latest recording and commissioning project The Four Elements (May 23), cycles of the complete works of Philip Glass in NYC, New Haven, and Rotterdam, premieres of major new commissions by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nico Muhly, and collaborations with orchestras across North America and Europe. 

In another key aspect of his career, Nicholas served for twenty years as violist of the Silkroad Ensemble, a musical collective founded by Yo-Yo Ma in 2000 with the belief that cross-cultural collaboration leads to a more hopeful world. This mission was poignantly explored by the recent Oscar-nominated documentary by Morgan Neville, The Music Of Strangers, which makes a case for why culture matters. In addition, Nicholas served from 2017-2020 as a Co-Artistic Director for Silkroad, and previously as Silkroad’s Programming Chair for over a decade. He appears on all of the Silkroad Ensemble’s albums including Sing Me Home (Sony Music), which received a 2017 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.

His acclaimed 2020 solo recording Touch Harmonious (In a Circle Records) is a reflection on the arc of tradition spanning from the baroque to today, featuring multiple premieres. A dedicated teacher, Nicholas currently serves on the viola, chamber music, and Entrepreneurial Musicianship faculty of New England Conservatory. 

Viola

Deborah Pae

Deborah Pae has been praised for her “magical” playing (Cleveland Classical) and “extraordinary musicianship” (San Diego Union Tribune). Since her debut at the 45th GRAMMY Awards honoring Mstislav Rostropovich, she has performed at the Louvre, Wigmore Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, Taipei National Concert Hall, and appeared with the Marlboro, Ravinia, and Prussia Cove festivals.

An enthusiastic advocate for contemporary and underrepresented repertoire, Pae has inspired new concertos by Jeffrey Mumford, Dana Wilson, and Derrick Skye. Her recordings include Saint-Saëns’s Cello Concerto No. 2 with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and works by Shih-Hui Chen, Lei Liang, Wei-Chieh Lin, and others on labels such as Outhere, Bridge, New World, and TYXArt.

Pae is the cellist of the Formosa Quartet, acclaimed for its genre-defying programs and “spellbinding” performances (The Strad). For over two decades, the quartet has pushed musical boundaries that go “beyond the beautiful and into the territory of unexpectedly thrilling... like shots of pure espresso” (MUSO Magazine). She co-leads the American Mirror Project, a collaborative initiative exploring the history, identity, and meaning of "America” and co-curates their Sets from the quartet’s exclusive collection of folk, pop, jazz, and poetry arrangements. Their release on Orchid Classics, Music by George Frederick McKay (May 2025), was praised by BBC Sounds as “just gorgeous—perfect, really.” 

Pae is Associate Professor of Cello at Eastern Michigan University and serves on the Recording Academy’s Chicago Chapter Board. She performs on a Vincenzo Postiglione cello (c. 1885) from Naples. She enjoys cooking (and eating!), foraging, hiking, and gardening.

Cello

Kee-Hyun Kim

Bio

Cello

Angela Park

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, as well as 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.

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. In addition to performing early music, she has a deep interest in the music of our times and is dedicated to playing the works of living composers.

Her multifaceted performing career has led her to be a sought-after teacher and has taught multiple years at the Korean National Institute for the Gifted in Arts, the Curtis Young Artist Summer Program, Festival de los Siete Lagos of Argentina, in addition to teaching privately.

Angela plays a Paolo Antonio Testore cello and a 19th century Flemish baroque cello, both generously on private loan.

Cello

Peter Stumpf

Peter Stumpf is professor of cello at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Prior to his appointment, he was the principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 9 years following a 12-year tenure as Associate Principal Cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He received a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and an artist’s diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music. 

A dedicated chamber music musician, he is a member of the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio and has 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 Marlboro, Santa Fe, Bridgehampton, Spoleto, and Aspen. He has toured with music from Marlboro, and with pianist Mitsuko Uchida in performances of the complete Mozart Piano Trios. As a member of the Johannes Quartet, he collaborated with the Guarneri String Quartet on a tour including premieres of works by Bolcom and Salonen.

Concerto appearances have included the Boston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and at the Aspen Festival among others. Solo recitals have been at Jordan Hall in Boston, on the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society series, on the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series in Los Angeles and at the Philips and Corcoran Galleries in Washington D.C. His awards include first prize in the Washington International Competition.   

He has served on the cello faculties at the New England Conservatory and the University of Southern California.

Cello

Thomas Van Dyck

Thomas Van Dyck has been a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s double bass section since January 2013. An avid chamber musician, he became a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society (BCMS) in 2021 and has played chamber music at the Mostly Mozart Festival, New York City’s Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center among many others. Additionally, he is a member of the self-conducted East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) that compromises top solo, chamber, and orchestral string players from around the country. Van Dyck has played with the Borromeo, Ying, Lydian, and Parker string quartets and was a founding member of A Far Cry chamber orchestra. Van Dyck received his bachelor’s degree at Rice University studying with Paul Ellison and his master’s at Boston University with Ed Barker. In addition to enjoying a diverse performing career, Van Dyck enjoys and values teaching. He is on the string faculty of New England Conservatory and Boston University. In his spare time, he likes to ride bicycles and spend time in the mountains, but most of all loves spending time with his wife and two young boys 

Double Bass

Romie de Guise-Langlois

Praised as “extraordinary” and “a formidable clarinetist” by The New York Times, Romie de Guise-Langlois has appeared as soloist and chamber musician on major concert stages throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. She has performed as soloist with the Houston Symphony, the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Connect, and at Festival Mozaic, Sarasota Music Festival, and Banff Center for the Arts. Ms. de Guise-Langlois is a winner of the Astral Artists’ National Auditions and a recipient of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation award. She was also awarded First Prize in the Ima Hogg Competition, the Woolsey Hall Competition at Yale University, the McGill University Classical Concerto Competition and the Canadian Music Competition. An avid chamber musician, she has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has appeared at numerous chamber music series, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, 92nd Street Y, the Kennedy Center, and Chamber Music Northwest. She has performed as principal clarinetist for the Orpheus and Saint-Paul Chamber Orchestras, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New Haven and Stamford Symphony Orchestras, NOVUS NY and The Knights Chamber Orchestra. A native of Montreal, Ms. de Guise-Langlois earned degrees from McGill University and the Yale School of Music, where she studied under David Shifrin. She is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and an alumnus of Ensemble Connect and The Bowers Program. Associate Professor of Clarinet at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she previously served on the faculty of Montclair State University.

Clarinet

Roman Rabinovich

BioPraised by The New York Times for his “uncommon sensitivity and feeling,” pianist Roman Rabinovich is known for performances that combine intellect, curiosity, spontaneity, and emotional depth. Winner of the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, he has since performed across Europe and the U.S. in major venues including Gewandhaus, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Cité de la Musique, and Wigmore Hall, where he gave three solo recitals in the 2024–25 season. Renowned for his inventive solo recital programs, Rabinovich brings a curatorial imagination to the stage.

He has appeared with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, under the batons of Zubin Mehta, Sir Roger Norrington, JoAnn Falletta, Gerard Schwarz, Ludovic Morlot, and Joseph Swensen.

Highlights of the 2025–26 season include performances with the New Mexico Philharmonic, Paducah Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic, Okanagan Symphony, Symphony Tacoma, and San Antonio Philharmonic in concertos by Prokofiev, Ravel, and Brahms.

A passionate Haydn advocate, he has performed full sonata cycles at the Lammermuir and Bath Festivals and curated a Haydn Day at Wigmore Hall. His two recordings on First Hand Records highlight his elegance, wit, and expressive insight.

Also a composer and visual artist, Rabinovich views music as a total art form. Born in Tashkent and raised in Israel, he debuted with the Israel Philharmonic at age 10. A Curtis and Juilliard graduate, he co-directs ChamberFest Cleveland and ChamberFest West.

Piano

Parker Quartet

Internationally recognized for their “fearless, yet probingly beautiful” performances (The Strad), the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has established itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation since its founding in 2002. Renowned for fresh interpretations of the canon and passionate advocacy for contemporary music, the Quartet continues to chart a dynamic artistic path rooted in both tradition and innovation.

Praised by Gramophone for playing in which “virtuosity and emotion are one,” the Parker Quartet has performed for over two decades on many of the world’s leading stages, including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. They’ve appeared at major festivals such as Tanglewood, Big Ears, Bridgehampton, and Banff.

In 2025–26, they will launch The Schubert Project—a deep exploration of Schubert’s final chamber works. Highlights include quintet performances with Jay Campbell, Paul Watkins, and Raman Ramakrishnan, a multi-island Hawaii tour, and renewed collaborations with mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron.

Bold programming and cross-disciplinary projects are hallmarks of their identity. In 2024, they curated a program combining music and poetry, including a new commission by Anthony Cheung. Their 20th anniversary Beethoven Project featured the complete quartets, six new commissions, a video library, and community performances in non-traditional Boston venues.

The Quartet has commissioned works by Augusta Read Thomas, Felipe Lara, Zosha Di Castri, Paul Wiancko, and others. They also participated in Miller Theatre’s Mission: Commission, premiering works by Kate Soper, Oscar Bettison, and Vijay Iyer.

Recordings are central to their work, including award-winning releases of Ligeti, Beethoven, and Dvořák. The Quartet serves as Professors of the Practice at Harvard University, with additional residencies at the University of South Carolina and Walnut Hill School. Honors include the Cleveland Quartet Award and top prizes at Bordeaux and Concert Artists Guild competitions.

string Quartet

Paul Berry

Paul Berry is Deputy Dean and Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Music History at the Yale School of Music. He earned his BA in Humanities and Music from Yale College (2000) and his PhD in historical musicology from the Yale Department of Music (2007). His scholarly work focuses on compositional process and interpersonal communication in the chamber music and songs of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, and other composers and performers of the nineteenth century. As a tenor, Paul specializes in early music, German lieder, and recent compositions. He has studied voice with Gene Ferguson, Douglas Ahlstedt, and Richard Lalli; recital collaborators have included fortepianist Christoph Hammer and pianists Boris Berman and Charles Rosen. 

Guest Speaker

Minji Lee

Minji Lee, a native of South Korea, began studying violin at age six and made her debut with the Suwon Philharmonic Orchestra at ten. She has earned numerous honors, including Second Prize at the Bales Violin Competition and Third Prize at the Ilona Fehér International Violin Competition in Budapest. She has performed in masterclasses for artists such as Augustin Hadelich, Maxim Vengerov, Mihaela Martin, David Chan, Aaron Rosand, Shlomo Mintz, Mimi Zweig, and the Dover Quartet.

She has attended leading festivals, including the Taipei Music Academy and Festival, Taos School of Music, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Heifetz Institute’s Ashkenasi/Kirshbaum Seminar, Kneisel Hall, New York String Orchestra Seminar, and Bowdoin. As Principal 2nd Violin of the New York String Orchestra, she performed Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro under Jaime Laredo.

Her performances have taken her to major venues such as Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, Severance Hall, Woolsey Hall, and Seoul Arts Center. She was awarded the 2020 Mark Zinger Memorial Foundation Scholarship. An avid chamber musician, her quartet received top prizes at the 2023 Plowman and Glass City Chamber Music Competitions and the Sidney D. and Nina Josephs Chamber Music Award from the Cleveland Institute of Music.

She has collaborated with Jaime Laredo, Philip Setzer, Todd Phillips, Rafael Figueroa, members of the Miró and Borromeo Quartets, Ole Akahoshi, and James Austin Smith. Lee holds degrees from the New England Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Yale School of Music.

Young Artists Quartet, violin

Miranda Werner

A musician devoted to expressive artistry on both violin and viola, Miranda Werner is a second-year M.M. candidate at the Yale School of Music, studying with Ettore Causa. She also earned an M.M. from Yale under Soovin Kim, and completed her undergraduate studies at Indiana University with Mark Kaplan, graduating with High Distinction and Music Honors. Additional mentors include Nicholas Cords, Mark Holloway, and Linda Case.

Miranda advanced to the quarterfinals of the 2025 Tokyo International Viola Competition and will compete in the 2025 Hindemith International Viola Competition. She was a finalist in the 2020 and 2021 IU Violin Competitions and runner-up in the 2022 IU Viola Competition.

An avid chamber musician, Miranda has premiered works by Joel Thompson and Juhi Bansal, and collaborated with artists such as the Miró Quartet, Frank Morelli, Boris Berman, Melvin Chen, Colin Carr, Jesse Mills, Clancy Newman, Catherine Cho, and Midori. Her trio won the Yale Chamber Music Society Competition and performed on the Yale in New York series at Carnegie Hall. The Uni Quintet, her ensemble, earned second prize at the 2023 Coltman Chamber Music Competition. 

She has attended renowned festivals including the Ravinia Steans Institute, Norfolk, Taos, Four Seasons, Heifetz Ashkenasi/Kirschbaum Seminar, and Maine Chamber Music Seminar. She has held leadership roles in orchestras, including Concertmaster of the Yale Philharmonia.

Miranda received the 2024 Yale Alumni Association Prize and serves as a Teaching Artist for the Music in Schools Initiative. She also performs with Project: Music Heals Us.

Young Artists Quartet, violin

Jiwon Grace Kim

Born in Seoul, South Korea, violist Jiwon Grace Kim is the second-prize winner of the 2022 Washington International Competition. She has also been invited to the live rounds of the 2021 Primrose International Viola Competition, the 2023 ARD International Music Competition, and the 2024 Max Rostal International Competition.

Ms. Kim made her U.S. debut at the age of 16, performing as a soloist with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has performed and collaborated with esteemed musicians, including the A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra, Philip Ying, David Ying, Philip Setzer, Nicholas Kitchen, Steven Tenenbom, and Itzhak Perlman. She is the violist of the ARKO (Arts Council Korea) Ensemble, representing Korean classical musicians on the East Coast of the United States. Additionally, she has participated in the Heifetz Ensemble-in-Residence.

Ms. Kim has been a participant in prestigious festivals such as the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, the Chamber Music Fellowship at the Heifetz International Music Festival, the Fellowship at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West. She has also performed in solo masterclasses with Roberto Díaz, Kim Kashkashian, Carol Rodland, Richard O'Neill, Karen Dreyfus, Cynthia Phelps, and Teng Li.

Ms. Kim holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music, and she is a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the New England Conservatory. She is grateful to her mentors Mai Motobuchi, Jeffrey Irvine, Hsin-Yun Huang, Misha Amory, and Wenting Kang.

Ms. Kim is deeply appreciative to play a Siegfried bow, generously loaned by The Maestro Foundation.

Young Artists Quartet, viola

Hun Choi

Praised for his “playing with finesse and precision,” cellist Hun Choi made his U.S. solo debut with the Penn Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Thomas Hong, performing Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations in 2022.

He has appeared in solo and chamber recitals at venues including New York’s 92nd Street Y, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Jordan Hall in Boston, Bennett Gordon Hall in Chicago, Raymond F. Kravis Center in Florida, and Kumho Art Hall and Daejeon Arts Center in South Korea. He was also invited to perform at the 9th Korean American Day celebration at Philadelphia City Hall. A passionate chamber musician, Choi has collaborated with Osmo Vänskä, Erin Keefe, Ettore Causa, and members of the Orion and Borromeo String Quartets. He has also performed as soloist with the PyeongChang Festival Orchestra, Namyangju Symphony Orchestra, and Yewon Orchestra.

Choi won first prize at the Seoul Youth Chamber Music Competition (2015) and the PyeongChang Music Festival Concerto Competition (2018). He participated in the Prague Spring International Music Competition (2018), the ISANGYUN Competition (2022), and was a semi-finalist at the 2023 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions.

He has attended leading festivals including PyeongChang Music Festival and School, Morningside Music Bridge, Seoul Arts Center Music Academy, and Heifetz International Music Institute, where he was a String Scholar Fellow. In 2025, he joins the Ravinia Steans Institute.

Born in Seoul, Choi holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and is pursuing a Graduate Diploma at the New England Conservatory under Laurence Lesser. His previous teachers include Peter Wiley, Gary Hoffman, Carter Brey, and Myung-Wha Chung.

Young Artists Quartet, cello

Amane Sakaguchi

Amane Sakaguchi is a Japanese composer and shamisen player (traditional Japanese three-stringed lute), dividing her time between Tokyo and Philadelphia. She completed her bachelor’s degree in shamisen performance at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2021. Currently, she is furthering her studies in composition at the Curtis Institute of Music since 2024.

Growing up in a family deeply rooted in Nagauta (traditional Japanese music), she has been surrounded by this art form from an early age. Her family has maintained the largest Nagauta school in Japan for over 200 years. She listened to her father and grandfather playing shamisen both at home and in Kabuki theaters, which fostered her familiarity with the music. In 2019, she took on the stage name "Kosaburo Kineya," under which she performs professionally as a shamisen player.

Her musical education also includes piano, which she began at the age of four. Through her piano studies, she has participated in various competitions, achieving first prize in some. These experiences include performing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra at the Romanian Athenaeum and engaging in chamber music with members of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

In her current work, she explores the integration of traditional Japanese musical elements into the framework of Western classical music. She has also been commissioned to compose works incorporating traditional Japanese instruments, including a collaborative piece by the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan and Kitakyushu City.

Young Composer

Junqi Wan

Junqi Wan (b. 2002, Shanghai) is a composer currently based in New York, where she is pursuing her Master’s degree in composition at The Juilliard School, studying with Dean David Ludwig and Dr. Melinda Wagner. She previously earned her Bachelor of Music in Composition from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

A multi-instrumentalist since childhood, she trained in piano, guzheng, saxophone, dizi, and guqin—an eclectic foundation that informs her rich, multi-layered compositional voice. With roots in both Western and Chinese musical traditions, her work explores the collision and integration of diverse cultural and sonic languages.

Junqi’s creative interests also lie at the intersection of graphic notation and zoomusicology (the study of animal sounds). Her output spans contemporary concert music, sonic arts, electroacoustic and interactive media, film scoring, and music for installation and visual art. Her works have been performed by ensembles including RedNote and Hebrides, and featured at festivals such as the RCS PLUG New Music Festival and Juilliard’s Future Stage Festival.

Beyond composition, Junqi is passionate about interdisciplinary collaboration, integrating music with visual arts, technology, and cultural narratives. She has worked with visual artists from China, the US, the UK, and Germany, with her collaborative projects exhibited at international festivals including the New Media Art Exhibition (Shenzhen), VRHAM! Virtual Reality Festival (Hamburg), the 50th SEHSÜCHTE International Film Festival (Potsdam), the 2022 Jinan International Biennale, and the First Shanghai International Digital Art Fair.

Young Composer

Elise Winkler

Elise Winkler (b. 2001) grew up on the western coast of Washington State. From a young age, she was drawn to the piano, and soon found her way to choir and composition. Her works tap into her passions and vulnerabilities, striving to connect audiences through shared experience. She especially loves to work on interdisciplinary projects, believing in the power of collaboration to cultivate creative problem-solving and compromise.

Elise has worked with many esteemed ensembles, including the Seattle Symphony, Symphony Tacoma, The Juilliard Orchestra, Trio Immersio, Seattle Opera, The Dolphins String Quartet, and the Talea Ensemble, as well as soloists Paul Demers and Efe Baltacigil. Her works have also been premiered at the Curtis Institute of Music's Young Artists' Summer Program, Atlantic Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

As a pianist, she has championed contemporary music at large. She has performed as a soloist at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre and as a chamber musician with The NowBeat Project and The Juilliard Orchestra. She has also premiered her own works in Morse Recital Hall at The Juilliard School and Studzinski Recital Hall at Bowdoin College.


Elise completed her Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in Music at The Juilliard School. She studied with Melinda Wagner, David Ludwig, and Valerie Coleman.

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