Praised for his "vibrant intensity," (The Times, London) and playing "supremely convincing in its vitality," (Cleveland Plain Dealer) violinist Kevin Lawrence has consistently elicited superlative responses for his performances throughout the United States and Europe. His assertive style and strong musical personality have thrilled audiences at Merkin Hall, Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and in Houston, Chicago, London, Frankfurt, Rome, Prague, St. Petersburg, and Amsterdam, where the Dutch press described him as "simply miraculous." (Het Vaderland) In the fall of 2003 he made an extensive recital tour of Europe, including concert appearances in Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, Germany and Italy. His release of the complete violin works of the American composer Arthur Foote on the New World label was "highly recommended" as "beautifully played" by the Washington Post, and heard on the Ken Burns series “Not for Ourselves Alone,” broadcast on PBS; his second CD of American violin sonatas, released recently by New World, was hailed as “vital playing” and “a labor of love” by Classics Today.com.

Kevin Lawrence received his musical education at the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Ivan Galamian and Margaret Pardee. While at Juilliard he also studied chamber music with Felix Galimir and continued his chamber music study with Josef Gingold at the Meadowmount School in Westport, New York. Appointed to the Meadowmount faculty by Ivan Galamian in 1980, he taught there each summer until 1994, when he became the Dean of the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. He served as Killington's Artistic Director from 1997 through 2004, when he founded the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. Lawrence has given master classes throughout the United States, and in Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, Russia and Venezuela. He currently serves as chair of the string department at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he has taught since 1990.

Sophie Arbuckle currently serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School Pre-College Division, the Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division, and the School for Strings.  She is a co-founding director of the Port Jefferson Music Academy and Academy Concerts.  Ms. Arbuckle has been a member of the artist-faculty of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival since 2006.

Ms. Arbuckle has performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. She has appeared in several chamber music festivals, including Music@Menlo (California), where she has co-directed the chamber music workshop, the Killington Music Festival (VT), Patrimoine en Musique des pays de l'Ain (France),  Fêtes Musicales de Savoie (France), and Interharmony International Chamber Music Festival (Germany).  She has served as guest concertmaster of the Sudbury Symphony (Canada), with whom she performed frequently as a soloist.   Recent solo appearances include Mozart Simphonie Concertante with the Belgorade Orchestra (France).

As the violist of the Braude Ensemble, Ms. Arbuckle has performed in many prestigious venues such as the Royal Flemish Philarmonie Chamber Music Series (Antwerp), Philarmonique de Namur (Theatre Royal, Ghent), Series Pont Rouge (Ghent), Astoria Concerts (Brussels), Festival des Arcs (France) where the ensemble was in residence,  Fêtes Musicales de Savoie (France), Musique sans  frontieres (France), Musicales Internationales (France), and Mainzer Kammerorchester Chamber Series (Germany) 
 
 Ms. Arbuckle has been closely affiliated with her husband, violinist Arik Braude, teaching a large and vibrant studio of young musicians.  In 2007, they were invited to bring selected students for professional engagements as a part of the “Fêtes musicales de Savoie” in France. The success of the concerts led to the establishment of the “Jeunes Virtuoses de New York” master course and concert series.

 Ms. Arbuckle holds an MM degree from the Juilliard School. 

 "...flamboyantly responsive, flexible and supple playing."
            Marie Louise Scharf, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany

 "Ms. Arbuckle possessing a technical mastery and keen sensitivity while bringing the works of the composers to a living and breathing reality".     
            Le progrès de l'Ain, Ambérieu, France

A versatile performer of music both new and old, violinist David Bowlin is active as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He has been a prizewinner in national and international competitions, including first prize at the 2003 Washington International Competition, and was recipient of the 2007 Samuel Baron Prize from Stony Brook University. As a passionate proponent of contemporary music, he has given dozens of premieres, including the 2007 world premiere at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall of Mahagoni, a violin concerto written for him by Austrian composer Alexandra Karastoyanova-Hermentin. Mr. Bowlin is a founding member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) with whom he has toured in Mexico, Poland, and across the United States; and a former member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players, with whom he has toured in the U.S., Russia, and Belarus.   

Mr. Bowlin was appointed to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music faculty in 2007, having previously served as teaching assistant to Ronald Copes at the Juilliard School. He has given master classes at Stony Brook University, Cornell University, the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Conservatorio de las Rosas in Morelia, Mexico, and Beijing's Central Conservatory. He has taught on the faculties of the Mannes Beethoven Institute, the Madeline Island Music Camp, and the Okemo Young Artist Program, in addition to serving in educational residencies at Northwestern University, Bard College, New York University, and Columbia College Chicago, among others.

As a member of the Oberlin Trio with Oberlin faculty members Haewon Song and cellist Amir Eldan, he is currently working on a CD project of Haydn and Brahms. Other recording credits include works by over a dozen composers including Stravinsky, Webern, George Crumb, Chinary Ung, Huang Ruo, Ursula Mamlok, Dai Fujikura, Richard Wernick, Su Lian Tan, Brian Fennelly, and Corey Dargel.   

Performing both traditional and contemporary chamber music has taken Mr. Bowlin to most of New York's major venues, including Weill Recital Hall, Zankel Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd St. Y, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Merkin Concert Hall, and Symphony Space. Recent concerts include Musicians from Marlboro tour performances along the east coast, and recital and chamber music performances in New York, Ohio, Illinois, Oregon, Vermont, and Virginia. In 2007 Mr. Bowlin was appointed as artistic director of Chamber Music Quad-Cities, an organization that brings chamber music performances to the community in eastern Iowa and western Illinois where he is a native.

Mr. Bowlin graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory, The Juilliard School, and Stony Brook University. Principal teachers are Roland and Almita Vamos, Ronald Copes, Pamela Frank, Philip Setzer, Ani Kavafian, and Stephen and Kimberly Sims.   

Praised for "sophisticated, warm intensity, radiant timbre and well-balanced, harmonious performance style in the best chamber music tradition," (Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Germany), violinist Arik Braude performs regularly in concert series and festivals on both sides of the Atlantic. As a soloist he has appeared with the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, the Israeli Sinfonietta, the Belgorod Symphony Orchestra (Russia), the Antwerp Chamber Orchestra (Belgium), and numerous festival orchestras, including the International Master Players (Switzerland), the Yehudi Menuhin Festival Orchestra (Switzerland), and most recently, the Minsk Orchestra of Belo Russia (Fetes musicales de Savoie, France).  Chamber music festival appearances include Music@Menlo (CA), Festival des Arcs (France), Fetes musicales de Savoie (France), Sulzbach-Rosenberg International Music Festival (Germany), and the Killington Chamber Music Festival (VT).  He has recorded for Music@Menlo, Talent Cassics and Le Chant de Linos labels, and has given master classes in France, Germany, England and in the US.  

Mr. Braude teaches at the Aaron Copland Conservatory of Music at Queens College (CUNY), and the Mannes College of Music preparatory division. He is presently the director of the “Jeunes Virtuoses de New York” concert series (France), and has directed the Young Artist program at the Music@Menlo festival (CA).  He has served as guest violin professor at the Festival des Arcs (France), and has been a member of the artist-faculty of the Killington music festival (VT) and the Interharmony Music Festival (Germany).   Mr. Braude was featured in the February 2010 issue of the Strad Magazine, in an interview about his teaching.

Mr. Braude’s students have appeared as soloists with professional orchestras in France, and have been given opportunities to collaborate with some of the leading chamber musicians in New York City. They have won numerous competitions, including From the Top and the LISMA International Music Competition. Mr. Braude’s students have successfully served as concertmasters of most of the major student orchestras of New York, including the New York Youth Symphony, and have soloed with most of them.  

In 2007, Mr. Braude was invited to bring selected students for professional engagements as a part of the “Fetes musicales de Savoie” concert series in France. The success of the concerts led to the establishment of the “Jeunes Virtuoses de New York” master course, and to repeated concert reengagements.

Mr. Braude began violin studies in a special music school in Kazan, Russia, with his father Nathan Braude, a student of the legendary Abram Yampolsky. He continued his studies in Israel with David Oistrach's assistant, Piotr Bondorenko, with Felix Andrievsky, and later in Hanover, Germany, with Jens Ellermann, in London with Ifrah Neeman, and in New York with Sally Thomas. He has performed in master classes for Isaac Stern and Alexander Schneider at the Jerusalem Music Center, and Ruggiero Ricci at the Yehudi Menuhin International Music Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland. He graduated with “Premier Prix” from the Royal Brussels Conservatory of Music, and completed his DMA course work at the Graduate Center of CUNY.

Elizabeth Chang has given solo recitals throughout the United States as well is in Europe and South America, and has appeared as soloist with orchestras both in the US and in Europe. She has been a guest artist and master teacher at the Sao Paulo International Chamber Music Festival in Brazil, and as a chamber musician has collaborated with many of today's most prominent artists including Bernard Greenhouse, Paul Neubauer, Anne-Marie McDermott, Aaron Rosand, and Robert White. A native New Yorker, Ms. Chang studied in the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School with Louise Behrend and Joseph Fuchs, and at Harvard University, where she was a violin student of Roman Totenberg and a chamber music student of composers Leon Kirchner and Luise Vosgerchian. Upon graduation from Harvard she continued her violin studies in Switzerland with Professor Max Rostal. Ms. Chang was the recipient of the Presidential Scholar in the Arts Award and the Beebe Fellowship for Study Abroad awarded by New England Conservatory.

Ms. Chang enjoys a busy performing and teaching career in New York and Massachusetts. She plays regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and has performed, recorded, and toured with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra both in this country and abroad. She has appeared as a guest with the Perspectives Ensemble, Ensemble Sospeso, Sequitir and many other groups in New York City, as well as with the Walden Chamber Players and the Smith Chamber Players in Massachusetts. Ms. Chang is Artistic Director and founding member of the Lighthouse Chamber Players, a chamber music festival on Cape Cod. She has been an artist faculty member at New York University and co-founded an intensive chamber music workshop at NYU in the summer of 2002. She has been on the violin and viola faculties at the Mason Gross School of the Arts in Rutgers University, and she is currently on the violin and viola faculties of the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School as well as on the violin faculty of The School for Strings in New York, where she launched an intensive chamber music workshop in the summer of 2003. In 2005 she was appointed to the position of Visiting Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

A top prizewinner of the International Paganini Competition in Genoa Italy, violinist Lynn Chang has enjoyed an active and versatile international career as soloist, chamber musician, and educator for over thirty years. A native of Boston, Mr. Chang began his violin study at the age of seven with Sarah Scriven and Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Alfred Krips. He continued his studies at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian, and then went on to receive his Bachelor's Degree in Music from Harvard University.

For twenty five years Lynn Chang performed as a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. He has also appeared at the Wolf Trap, Great Woods, Marlboro, and Tanglewood Music Festivals, and as soloist with orchestras in Miami, Salt Lake City, Oakland, Seattle, Honolulu, Beijing, Taipei, and Hong Kong. He has performed with members of the Juilliard, Tokyo, Cleveland, Vermeer, Muir, and Orion String Quartets. In December 2010 Mr. Chang performed at the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo to honor Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Mr. Chang has collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma on numerous occasions. Their performance of Leon Kirchner's "Tryptich" has been recorded for Sony Classical. Their world premiere performance of Ivan Tcherepnin's Double Concerto with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra received the Grawmeyer Award for best new composition in 1995. In 2010 he participated in Ma's Silk Road Project residency at Harvard University. He also collaborated with Dawn Upshaw on her Grammy Award winning CD, "Girl with the Orange Lips."

In 2001 Mr. Chang was honored with the first Distinguished Leadership Award from the Institute for Asian American Studies of the University of Massachusetts Boston for his achievements as educator and musician. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and in June of 2008 he was elected to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University.

Mr. Chang teaches at the New England Conservatory, Boston University, Boston Conservatory, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His former students now perform in such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York. His former student Joseph Lin was recently named first violin of the Juilliard String Quartet.

Stephanie Ezerman has appeared in concert across the United States and Canada as a soloist and chamber musician. She has performed with the Memphis Symphony, New World Symphony, Pine Mountain Music Festival, and Spoleto Festival USA. Active as a chamber musician, she performs regularly with her husband, Alex Ezerman, as part of the Ezerman Duo. She has participated in numerous premiers, most recently a recording of Theresa LeVelle's The Shadowlands, released on the Innova label in 2005. She studied with Sally O'Reilly, Mark Bjork and, most recently, John Gilbert.

Violinist Jubal Fulks is an award-winning and critically acclaimed artist and teacher who specializes in both contemporary and Baroque repertory. As a concerto soloist he has performed with orchestras across the United States, and has been heard on National Public Radio's "Performance Today." As a recitalist he has appeared at numerous summer festivals and concert series in the United States, and has toured extensively in Europe with orchestras and chamber groups. A winner of national honors from the American String Teachers Association and the National Federation of Music Clubs, he has been awarded fellowships with Aspen Music Festival's Contemporary Ensemble and the New York Institute and Festival for Contemporary Music.

Dr. Fulks holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in violin performance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he studied with Kevin Lawrence, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where his teacher and mentor was the late Mitchell Stern. While at Stony Brook he won the prestigious Ackerman Prize for Excellence in Performance, and he played the Berg Violin Concerto with the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Gunther Schuller.

Recently appointed assistant professor of violin at the University of Alabama, Jubal Fulks served previously on the faculty of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He has also taught at the State University of New York-Stony Brook and Michigan Technological University, and conducts frequent master class at universities throughout the United States. During the summer months he has taught and performed at Lutheran Summer Music Festival in Iowa, in Vermont at Kinhaven Music School, and for the Vermont Youth Orchestra at Saint Michael's College in Colchester.

Violinist John Haspel Gilbert has been praised by legendary performers such as the late Josef Gingold ("I have great admiration for this superb violinist"), Glenn Dicterow ("Obviously we are dealing with a very high level of artistry"), Camilla Wicks, Arnold Steinhardt and the late Joseph Fuchs. An active soloist, recitalist and chamber music collaborator, he regularly performs throughout the United States, having appeared from coast to coast in prestigious venues from Weill Recital Hall in New York City, to Abravanel Hall in Santa Barbara(CA). In recent seasons he has performed concerti of Brahms, Bruch, Corigliano, Peter Fischer (world premiere), Vivaldi, and Kurt Weill, and has been heard in broadcasts on National Public Radio. European solo and chamber music appearances have included performances in France, Iceland, Italy, England and Ireland, and masterclasses at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, the Cork School of Music, and the Royal College of Music in London. Appointed to the faculty of the Texas Tech University School of Music as Artist-Performer and Professor of Violin in 1995, he is a sought after clinician and adjudicator and has been heard in concert in every major city in Texas. His students hold university positions and have won auditions with the Baton Rouge Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (New Orleans), Memphis Symphony, Nashville Symphony Orchestra, New World Symphony Orchestra, and the Phoenix Symphony.

From 1990-1995 Gilbert was the teaching assistant to Sally O'Reilly at both the University of Minnesota and Louisiana State University. A member of the artist-faculty of the Schlern International Music Festival in Italy, he has performed and taught at summer festivals around the world, including the BRAVO! Summer String Institute, Eastern Music Festival, Heidelberg Castle Festival, Killington Music Festival, Spoleto Festival, and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival.

Gilbert's principal studies were with Sally O'Reilly and Charles Castleman. He holds degrees from the University of Minnesota, the Yale University School of Music, and the Eastman School of Music, and has held fellowships at the Aspen Music School in both chamber music and orchestral performance. His chamber music coaches are current or former members of the Juilliard, Tokyo, Cleveland, Fine Arts and Yale string quartets, and the Eastman and Rafael trios.

Acclaimed for his deep musicality and virtuosity, Chin Kim, one of the most versatile, and sought-after violinists of our day, has been concertizing extensively throughout North America, Asia and Europe as guest artist with orchestras as those of Philadelphia, St. Louis, Montreal, and Atlanta with such conductors as Leonard Slatkin, John Nelson, Myung Whun Chung, and Sixten Ehrling. As recitalist, Mr. Kim has appeared in major halls of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, Brussels, and Seoul. Prizewinner in several of the most prestigious international violin competitions including the Concours International de Musique de Montreal, the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the Paganini Competition, and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Mr. Kim's recent concerts include the performance of Bernstein's Serenade with the Atlanta Symphony, Barber Concerto with Wayne Chamber Orchestra, and the Glazunov Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic.

Mr. Kim's debut recording of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in g minor with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic (Russia) under the baton of Paul Freeman, and the Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 in D Major with pianist David Oei, was released on the ProArte/Fanfare label. His second CD consisting of the Mendelssohn c minor, and the Tchaikovsky Piano Trio with the Starr-Kim-Boeckheler Piano Trio was released on the Mastersound label, and his most recent CD, containing the Glazunov and Tchaikovsky Concertos was recorded and released by Intersound/Fanfare label following the performances of these concertos with the Moscow Philharmonic in the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. " Virtuoso," "musically assertive," "rich, golden tone" and "perceptive" are the words of critical acclaim describing Mr. Kim's performances of the Prokofiev Concerto No. 2 and Prokofiev Sonata No. 2 compact disc. "Kim's deep, into-the-strings tone," with "more than enough technique to master these piece..." are critics’ comments describing his recording of the Tchaikovsky and the Glazunov concertos.

Mr. Kim is the recipient of the Nan-Pa Prize awarded by the Nan-Pa Foundation in Korea, which is one of the highest honors given to a Korean-born musician. He graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and, subsequently from the Juilliard School where he received the Petschek Award, and won the Concerto Competition which led to the performance of the Glazunov Concerto with the Juilliard Philharmonia in Lincoln Center. With his busy performing schedule, he also teaches at the Mannes College of Music in New York. His major teachers included Ivan Galamian, Dorothy Delay and Josef Gingold. He serves on the faculty of The Mannes College of Music in New York.

Violinist Kyung Sun Lee captured sixth prize in the 1994 Tchaikowsky Competition, a bronze medal in the 1993 Queen Elizabeth Competition, first prizes of the Washington and D'Angelo International Competitions, and third prize in the Montreal International Competition, where she also won the Audience Favorite and the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work prizes.  Subsequent to winning these awards she has enjoyed ever-increasing popularity as a performer.  She has received high critical acclaim: "Exceptional tonal suavity and expressive intensity in equal measure," commented The Strad. "Godard's 'Concerto Romantique' could not have had a more outstanding soloist than Kyung Sun Lee," proclaimed Harris Goldsmith in the New York Concert Review.  "Fluidity and grace; pathos and emotion," raved the Palm Beach Post.  "Lee is the most musical, the most intelligent soloist to have played with the orchestra in quite a while," maintained the Tuscaloosa News.  "Penetrating clarity, a strong sense of style and a technical supremacy that conquered all difficulties with unruffled ease," announced the Miami Herald.  "Beyond superb execution, she conveyed [Vieuxtemps's Concerto no. 5]'s particular Romanticism expertly," remarked Dennis Rooney in The Strad.

In great demand as a soloist, Kyung Sun Lee also performs frequently in duo with husband Brian Suits, with whom she is one of the newest members of the Community Concerts roster.  For years a highly sought after teacher in Seoul, Lee became professor of violin at the Oberlin Conservatory in the fall of 2001.  In summers she teaches at several chamber music festivals in both the United States and Korea.  Lee is a former member of the acclaimed KumHo/Asiana String Quartet of Korea, with whom she performed worldwide.

Lee has recorded two CDs with pianist/husband Brian Suits, "Salut d'Amour" with pianist HaeSun Paik on EMI, several recordings with KumHo/Asiana String Quartet, "Spanish Heart" with German pianist Peter Schindler and guitarist Sung-Ho Chang on Good International, and a CD in trio with Suits and soprano Jennifer Aylmer.  Her latest album, with cellist Tilmann Wick, was released in January of 2004 on Audite Records.  Kyung Sun Lee studied at Seoul National University, Peabody Conservatory and The Juilliard School.  Her teachers have included Nam Yun Kim, Sylvia Rosenberg, Robert Mann, Dorothy Delay and Hyo Kang.

Kathryn Lucktenberg's performance credits include solo appearances with the Honolulu, Savannah, and Augusta Symphonies, and, as a member of the Kasimir String Quartet, a highly acclaimed tour of England, France, and Italy. She has concertized extensively in the western United States and Asia, with concerts in Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, New Zealand and Hawaii. She has given recitals at Washington, DC's Kennedy Center, and the Musician's Club of New York, and she has performed on the popular Bargemusic series in Brooklyn. In addition to solo engagements, Lucktenberg concertizes extensively in the Pacific Northwest with the Oregon String Quartet and as a member of Trio Pacifica. She has recorded for CRI and Koch labels.

A fourth-generation violinist, Kathryn Lucktenberg entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at age 15. She completed high school there and earned her Bachelor of Music from Curtis in 1980, studying with Jascha Brodsky, Jaime Laredo, and Ivan Galamian.

Lucktenberg's professional debut was with the Philadelphia Orchestra, performing the Barber Violin Concerto. She was a national winner in the competition arena and a semifinalist in the Indianapolis and Flesch International Competitions. She now serves frequently on adjudicating panels, and regularly sends her own students to major competitions.

Lucktenberg has taught master classes internationally, in the Pacific Northwest, and in the southeastern United States. She has also served on the faculty of the Grand Teton Orchestral Training Seminar. While in Hawaii, she co-founded and co-directed the Honolulu Academy of Arts' "Academy Camerata" series. During a recent tour of Asia, she served as a visiting professor for the University of Otago in New Zealand. Prior to joining the violin faculty of the University of Oregon in 1993, she was concertmaster of the Honolulu Symphony for 11 seasons.

Felicia Moye has performed throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America as soloist and chamber musician with groups such as the Miami String Quartet, Orpheus and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Moye was first violinist of the Miami String Quartet when the group won top prizes in both the Evian and London International String Quartet Competitions and recorded with the group under the Pyramid Records label. She was a founding member of the trio Amade (Klavier Records label), currently performs with Trio Latino in residence in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and has also performed chamber music in collaboration with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Blossom Music Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival in Avery Fisher Hall, and cellist Yo Yo Ma.

Ms. Moye has served as concertmaster of the Santa Fe Opera and Honolulu Symphony, and as acting concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony. In the fall of 2005, she performed as concertmaster of the National Arts Centre Orchestra under the direction of Pinchas Zukerman for their opening three weeks and for their tour of Canada.

Felicia Moye was recently professor of violin at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music, having come from the University of Oklahoma, where she was concertmaster of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. She represented the United States as an adjudicator for the inaugural "Tchaikovsky's Homeland" International Competition held in Vitensk, Russia. She has also served as adjudicator for Concert Artists Guild in New York.

Ms. Moye has collaborated with Masters Music Publications in publishing editions of works by Vieuxtemps and Alkan. She is a frequent guest artist and coach for New World Symphony and has served on the faculty of the International Festival-Institute at Round Top. The New York Times has acknowledged her for her "rich, precisely balanced sound, a broad coloristic palette...and seemingly unflagging energy."
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Ann Setzer has appeared as soloist and in recital throughout the United States, and has given extensive chamber music performances in the US and Europe. Her teachers have included Sally Thomas and Roman Totenberg, as well as Josef Gingold, Earl Carlyss, Gilbert Kalish and Timothy Eddy for chamber music studies. She received her masters degree from the Juilliard School and her doctorate at SUNY-Stony Brook, where she was granted a quartet fellowship.

Ann Setzer served as a teaching assistant to Ivan Galamian at the Meadowmount School and in New York City. She is currently on the faculties of the Julliard School Pre-College Division, the Mannes College of Music, the Meadowmount School, and is an Artist Faculty member at the Third Street Music School in New York. A highly sought-after teacher, she gives frequent workshops and master classes across the Northeastern United States.

Violinist Carolyn Stuart has been acclaimed as a performer of "astonishing effectiveness, radiant inspiration, deep sensitivity, and colossal temperament" (Musical Horizons, Sofia). She is heard regularly as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in prominent North American and European centers, including her recent appearances in New York, Washington DC, Toronto, Paris, Sofia, Athens, and Zurich. Carolyn Stuart has performed on national radio and television broadcasts in the Netherlands and Bulgaria, as well as NPR stations throughout the United States. A member of the acclaimed new music group Quorum, she also maintains an active concert schedule as a member of the Stuart-Ivanov Duo, established in 1997 with pianist Svetozar Ivanov. She records for Gega and Albany labels.

Carolyn Stuart is a frequent performer at various festivals including those at Chautauqua, Interlochen, Killington, Hot Springs, Pine Mountain, and Fox River, and abroad in the Netherlands (Peter de Groote), Bulgaria (Salon des Artes, Sofia), and France (Association Philomuses, Paris). An eloquent interpreter of modern music, Ms. Stuart avidly collaborates with current composers, and has accepted invitations as guest artist for the Cleveland Composers' Guild, the American New Arts Music Festival, and the International Alliance of Women in Music. Selected concerts for the 2006/07 season include appearances at the Robert Helps Festival (New York City), University of Toronto Guest Artist Series, University of Wisconsin Chamber Arts Series, Fox River Chamber Music Festival (Wisconsin), Steinway Artists Series (St. Petersburg, Florida) as well as concert engagements in Italy and the Netherlands.

Carolyn Stuart currently serves as Associate Professor of Music at the University of South Florida. She has presented master classes at the Universities of Michigan, Florida, New Mexico, Eastern Michigan, and Akron; at Interlochen Arts Academy, Ohio University, Arizona State University, and Pennsylvania State University; and abroad at the North Netherlands Conservatorium, the International Youth Music Festival (Bulgaria), and the Vicenza Conservatory.

Carolyn Stuart holds degrees from the Juilliard School, the University of Michigan, and from SUNY Stonybrook (DMA). Her principal teachers have included Mitchell Stern, Paul Kantor, Stephen Clapp, Margaret Pardee, Mark Rush, and Kevin Lawrence.
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Violinist Janet Sung enjoys an acclaimed international career as a virtuoso soloist, praised for her exquisite tone and impassioned, bravura performances.

Janet Sung has been guest soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Chamber Symphony, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, as well as the orchestras of Adrian, Boise, Bozeman, Corpus Christi, Delaware, Dubuque, Fargo-Moorhead, Hartford, Owensboro, Richmond (Indiana), Springfield (Massachusetts & Ohio), Traverse City, Wheeling and Wyoming. Abroad, she has been heard with South Korea's Pusan Philharmonic Orchestra, Germany's Stelzen Festival Orchestra and Russia's Omsk Philharmonic Orchestra and National Symphonic Orchestra of Bashkortostan. Her solo performances have frequently been aired on radio and television, nationally and internationally, including multiple broadcasts of her performance of Korngold's Violin Concerto on NPR's "Performance Today." Acclaimed for her compelling performances of traditional works from Bach to Berg, she also reveals her repertoire's diversity by presenting works of the 20th and 21st century and regularly touring with fiddler Mark O'Connor's American String Celebration. In 2009, she performed the world premiere of Kenneth Fuchs' American Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra.

As a recitalist, Janet Sung has been presented in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Louisville, New York City and Pittsburgh, as well as in Odense, Denmark, Lausanne, Switzerland and Queenstown, New Zealand. She is a frequently heard soloist at distinguished music festivals, including: Aspen Music Festival, Britt Festival, Hot Springs Music Festival, Sewanee Summer Music Festival and Switzerland's Lucerne Festival. An equally passionate chamber musician, Ms. Sung is also a regular guest at numerous festivals and with the American Chamber Players, touring nationally.

Janet Sung was chosen by Leonard Slatkin as the recipient of the Passamaneck Award, for which she performed at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Music Hall for the Y Music Society Concert Series. A winner of the Aspen Music Festival's Nakamichi Violin Competition, she has also been awarded other top prizes and grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, National Federation of Music Clubs Competition and Cho Chang Tsung Foundation.

Born in New York City, Janet Sung began violin studies at the age of seven. At age nine, she made her orchestral debut, performing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. The following year, she began a decade of private studies with renowned violinist, Josef Gingold, a period that overlapped with her attendance at Harvard University, from which she graduated with honors with a double degree in anthropology and music. Subsequently, Ms. Sung was invited to study on full scholarship with the esteemed teacher, Dorothy DeLay, at The Juilliard School. She also studied extensively with Masao Kawasaki, David Cerone, Eugene Phillips and the Juilliard String Quartet.

She has conducted masterclasses at conservatories throughout the country, including the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, The Hartt School of the University of Hartford, Harvard University and the Juilliard School. She has also served as faculty at the Juilliard School (initially as the Starling/DeLay Institute Fellow), State University of New York at Fredonia, and the Mark O'Connor Fiddle Camp. During the 2003-2004 season, Ms. Sung returned to Harvard University as the Clifton Visiting Artist for the "Learning from Performers" program, whose previous guests included Isaac Stern, James Galway, Mark Morris and Quincy Jones. In 2010, she was appointed Associate Professor of Violin at the DePaul University School of Music in Chicago.

Janet Sung plays a Maggini violin, crafted at the beginning of the 17th century in Brescia, Italy.
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