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Katie Liu is a Master of Musical Arts student at the Yale School of Music in the studio of Ettore Causa. She received her Master of Music degree at the Colburn School and her undergraduate degree from Princeton University, concentrating in Operations Research and Financial Engineering with minors in Musical Performance and Computer Science. Katie […]

Sumin Kim began playing the violin at age eight and made her solo debut at the Seoul Arts Center at age 11. Since then, she has performed many recitals and has won top prizes in several major national competitions including the Chunchu and Yewon Music Competitions (South Korea). She attended Yewon School and graduated with […]

Claire Wells is the Mendelssohn-Prize First Prize and Commission Prize winner at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition (2021). She was also a prizewinner at the Indianapolis and Mirecourt International Competitions, among others. Now studying at the Kronberg Academy with Mihaela Martin, Claire previously studied privately with Brian Lewis, Sandy Yamamoto and Emanuel Borok. In 2017, […]

Mira Foron made her debut at age 14 at the Tonhalle Zürich, performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. She went on to represent Germany at the Eurovision Young Musicians competition in Edinburgh where she collaborated with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Dausgaard in the Finals. Mira has given recitals at the Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommerna and Copenhagen […]

Ilva Eigus started playing violin at age four with Liana Tretiakova at the Zakhar Bron School of Music in Zurich. She made her orchestral debut at age eight performing the Kabalevsky Violin Concerto. Since then, she has played as a soloist with Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Moscow Philharmonic and Novosibirsk Philharmonic, among others. She […]

Canadian violinist Gabrielle Després has garnered numerous awards, most recently winning First Prizes at the Juilliard Concerto Competition (2022) and the Irving M. Klein International String Competition (2020). She also earned Second Prize in the 2023 Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition, and the 2022 Washington International String Competition. As a soloist, Gabrielle has performed with […]

Hana Chang gave her first solo performance at the age seven with the New England Conservatory Baroque Chamber Orchestra and has recently appeared as a soloist with the Prague Radio Symphony, Czech Virtuosi, Hunan Symphony and Utah Symphony. She has performed at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Deer Valley Music Festival, Vevey Spring Classic Festival, […]

In addition to winning First Prize and the Audience Award at the 2019 International Violin Competition of Leopold Mozart (Augsburg, Germany), Second Prize and Audience Award at the Cooper International Violin Competition (USA), and Gold Medals at both Fischoff and M-Prize Chamber Music Competitions (USA), Joshua Brown was a prizewinner at the 2022 International Violin […]

Bangladeshi-American violinist Ayaan Ahmad began the violin at age four with Daniela Rubenstein. He has continued his studies with the late Jan Sloman at Cleveland Institute of Music, Ryan Meehan of the Calidore String Quartet, Donald Weilerstein and Li Lin. In 2021, Ayaan was accepted to the Perlman Music Program where he performed and worked […]

In 2022, Hans Christian Aavik was awarded First Prize at the Carl Nielsen International Competition and was recipient of the Usedom Prize (Usedom Festival, Germany). Following his success at the Carl Nielsen, he was invited to record his first orchestral album with Orchid Classics. Earlier this year, he was also featured together with pianist Karolina […]