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Sophia Werner studies at the Juilliard School with Laurie Smukler as the proud recipient of a Kovner fellowship.. In 2024, she won the Concerto Competition of Juilliard and performed as a soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra. She has also performed with the AXIOM ensemble of Juilliard, the Adelphi Orchestra, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and the Southern Finger Lakes Orchestra.. In 2023, she received the Bach Prize at the International Strings Competition of Stulberg, and the previous year, she won the Adelphi Young Artist competition.
A passionate chamber musician, Sophia attended the Perlman Music Program and Kneisel Hall, and made her New York City debut at Alice Tully Hall with her piano trio. She has collaborated with members of the Brentano and Mendelssohn Quartets, and participated in masterclasses with members of the Juilliard, Shanghai, and Brentano Quartets; Hilary Hahn; and Donald Weilerstein.
She performs on a J.B. violin Vuillaume from 1864 and a James Tubbs, both on loan from Juilliard.
Twenty-three-year-old violinist Christina Nam has performed internationally both as a recitalist and concerto soloist. Praised for her “gleaming tone” (Gramophone) and the “brilliance of her lyrical passages” (Classicamente), she has collaborated with leading conductors and orchestras.
At the age of fourteen she performed with Jahja Ling and the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall. She has since worked with conductors including Louis Langrée, Robert Trevino and Cristian Măcelaru, and appeared as soloist with the Jakarta Simfonia Orchestra under Rebecca Tong.
Christina was awarded the Prix Reyl for violinists at the Verbier Festival Academy in 2025 and is a member of the Amara Trio, gold medalists of the 2024 Chesapeake International Chamber Competition.
She studies at The Juilliard School with Catherine Cho and Donald Weilerstein and received the Peter Mennin Prize for outstanding achievement and leadership in music.
Maria Lundina began studying the violin at the age of four in Moscow. She graduated with honors from the Special Music School Gnessin in Moscow in 2017 and, in 2023, completed her studies at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory with distinction, where she was named the top graduate of the year. She has performed in cities across Russia and Europe, and has participated in numerous festivals, competitions, and masterclasses with professors such as Pierre Amoyal, Dora Schwarzberg, Albert Markov and Vadim Repin. In 2024, she took a course with Boris Kuschnir at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität in Vienna. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Moscow State Conservatory with Vladimir Ivanov.
Roa Lee was admitted with the highest distinction to Yewon School in 2023, where she has been awarded the Excellence in Performance Prize and Academic Honors Scholarship. She is also a recipient of the Doam Scholarship, awarded to exceptionally promising young musicians.
In March 2023 she performed in the Kumho Prodigy Concert Series. That same year, she gave a violin recital at the Lincoln Center, presented by the New York Young Artist Foundation. She was also invited to perform at Carnegie Hall for the New York Rising Stars Concert.
She won several prizes including Grand Prizes at the New York Virtuoso International Competition, New York International Music Concours and Chosun Ilbo Music Competition and second Prize at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition. She is a member of The Arrieta Trio, which was awarded the Gold Medal with an Honorary Mention at the 2023 Manhattan International Music Competition.
Roa Lee was admitted with the highest distinction to Yewon School in 2023, where she received the Performance Excellence Award and the Academic Honor Scholarship. She is also a recipient of the Doam Scholarship, awarded to exceptionally promising young musicians.
In March 2023, she performed as part of the Kumho Prodigy concert series. The same year, she gave a recital at Lincoln Center, presented by the New York Young Artist Foundation. She was also invited to perform at Carnegie Hall as part of the New York Rising Stars Concert.
She has won several awards, including grand prizes at the New York Virtuoso International Competition, the New York International Music Competition, and the Chosun Ilbo Music Competition, as well as second prize at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition. She is a member of the Arrieta Trio, which received the gold medal and an honorable mention at the Manhattan International Music Competition in 2023.
Theodor Kaskiv was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 2006 and began playing the violin at the age of four under the guidance of his father, Oleg Kaskiv. In 2015, he received a scholarship to join Le Rosey Institute. He has performed as a soloist with the Lviv Chamber Orchestra Virtuosos, the Menuhin Academy Soloists and the Rosey Symphony Orchestra. A laureate of several international competitions, he received second prize at the Grumiaux Competition in Brussels and first prize at the Lvivskyy Virtuoz. Theodor has participated in masterclasses with Anna Chumachenko and Tetiana Zolozova Le Menestral. He continues to study with his father at the Menuhin International Music Academy and regularly performs with the Menuhin Academy Soloists.
Born in 2008, Raphaël Gisbertz is currently studying with Leonid Kerbel at the Musica Mundi School in Waterloo, Belgium. He made his solo debut at the age of nine with The Spring by Vivaldi alongside the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker. Since then, he has performed on major stages, including the Konzerthaus Wien, the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, and the Kölner Philharmonie. In 2023, he won several first prizes in national and international competitions such as the Grumiaux Competition in Brussels. Earlier that year, at the German Musical Instrument Fund Competition, his impressive performance earned him the loan of a C.G. violin Testore from 1700, and his interpretation of Bach was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk. As a regular participant in the renowned festival and course Musica Mundi in Belgium and as the youngest participant of the Gstaad String Academy, Raphaël has gained extensive experience in chamber music at the highest international level. A scholarship holder of the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, he actively participates in its intensive programs and activities.
Emmanuel Coppey is a French violinist and artist-in-residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation in Paris. He is also a City Music Foundation, member of the Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt and an artist-in-residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. Emmanuel has performed as a soloist and chamber musician alongside Jérémie Rhorer, Vahan Mardirossian, Rachel Podger, Alexei Ogrintchouk and Christopher Warren-Green, and has collaborated with Nelson Goerner, Augustin Dumay and Bertrand Chamayou at major chamber music festivals. His repertoire spans from Bach to contemporary works, with a particular focus on composers such as Beethoven, Bartók, Brahms, Ravel, and Debussy.
He plays a 1735 Guarnerius violin, generously loaned by the Guttman Collection.
Nurie Chung was the second prize winner, at the age of 16, of the 56th Premio Paganini Competition held in 2021 in Genoa, Italy. He also received two other special awards, one for the best interpretation of a commissioned piece and the other for the youngest finalist. He currently studies with Boris Kuschnir in Vienna.
More recently, he was invited to perform for Maestro Vladimir Spivakov during a masterclass organized by the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. He has also given a recital at the Teatro Cucinelli (Perugia Musica Classica, Fondazione Brunello e Federica Cucinelli), for the Beautiful Thursday concert series at Kumho Art Hall in Seoul (broadcast by KBS), at the 70th-anniversary ceremony concert of the HanKookIlbo newspaper at the Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul, and for the MECMA concert series in Dubai.
Adam Znamirovský began playing the piano spontaneously at the age of four and studied with Markéta Cibulková in Jižní Město since the age of five. He received first prizes in national and international competitions, including the Béla Bartók Competition in Graz, the Chopin Competition for Young Pianists in Szafarnia and the César Franck Piano Competition in Belgium. Among his greatest achievements is his victory at the Concertino Praga competition, where he performed the Piano Concerto by Grieg with the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra. The following year, he was a finalist at the Eurovision Young Musicians in Bodø, Norway, where he performed the Piano Concerto by Saint-Saëns with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Adam regularly participates in masterclasses with Ivo Kahánek, Ivan Klánský and Daniel Blumenthal, and has performed at major festivals such as Prague Spring, Litomyšl Smetana’s and Santa Cecilia in Porto.