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Zachary Brandon studies with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn Conservatory of Music. He is a prizewinner of numerous international competitions including the International Stradivarius Violin Competition, the Cooper International Competition and the International Stulberg Competition. Zachary has collaborated with lauded musicians such...
Indian-American violinist Maya Anjali Buchanan is a top medalist of the Washington, Stulberg, Stradivarius and Johansen International Competitions. She has performed in Europe, China and with orchestras throughout the United States, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as the winner of the 2017 CSO Young Artist Competition....
Hana Chang began playing the violin at four years old and studies with Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute of Music. She has won top prizes at numerous competitions including the Stradivarius, Prague Spring, Louis Spohr, and Beethoven Hradec International Violin Competitions and has recently performed as a soloist with the Prague...
Hankyoung Chang began playing the violin at four years old. At eight years old, she was admitted to the Pre-College division of the Julliard School, where she studies with Professor Hyo Kang. Her awards include the 2018 Arkady Fomin Scholarship, and the 2019 Sejong Soloists Young Artist Merit Scholarship. In 2018, she became the...
Eric Charles Chen, born in Princeton, New Jersey, began his violin studies at four years old. He currently studies with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory and is also mentored by Stefan Jackiw. At nine years old, he had his first solo performance with the Livingston Orchestra and was accepted to Juilliard Pre-College...
Maria began her violin studies at the age of six in Vladivostok, Russia. She has won prizes at numerous national and international competitions including 1st Prize at the All-Russian Competition of Arts: Young Talents of Russia in 2012, 1st Prize at the tenth International M. Erdenko Violin Competition in 2016 and 3rd Prize at the...
Karisa Chiu has won top prizes from numerous competitions such as the Leopold Mozart International Violin Competition, the Stulberg International String Competition, the Irving M. Klein International String Competition and the Cooper International Competition. In addition to these awards, Karisa has performed on the Dame Myra Hess...
Corina Deng began playing the violin at the age of three and currently studies with Jaime Laredo and Jan Sloman at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She previously studied with Nicholas Wright in the Vancouver Academy of Music. Corina won 1st place in the Canadian National Music Competition in 2014 and 2017. She made her orchestral...
Born in Spain, María Dueñas studies with Boris Kuschnir at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and MUK in Vienna. She has won top prizes at international competitions, including 1st Prize at the Zhuhai Mozart International Competition and the Vladimir Spivakov International Competition. Since making her debut at 15 at...
Twenty-year-old violinist Matthew Hakkarainen currently attends the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studies with Pamela Frank. Previous teachers include Charles Castleman, Mauricio Fuks, Borislava Iltcheva, Huifang Chen, and Maree Sawhney. He has won a number of prizes at international competitions, including the Lipizer...
Born in Shandong, China, Molin began her violin studies at the age of four. She currently studies at the Royal College of Music, London, having previously studied at Chetham’s School of Music with Professor Jan Repko. Molin made her debut solo concert in 2016 at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, and has performed at many...
Kento Hong began his violin studies when he was six with Aimee Kreston and her teachers, Almita and Roland Vamos. He is a recipient of the David Weiss Scholarship from the Young Musicians Foundation. He made his orchestral debut when he was eight years old in Los Angeles. Since then, he has performed at a number of prestigious...
Serving as the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concertmaster, Joseph is a freshman at Harvard University and studies with Donald Weilerstein. Winning numerous awards and honors, Joseph has performed at prestigious venues in the US and Europe. Since his debut with Westminster Orchestra at age eight, he has been featured by orchestras,...
Yixuan Jiang studies with Professor Chenxing Huang at the Music Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Top prizes she has received include the 2020 National Junior Violin Concerto Competition, 2019 Brussels Grand Prize Virtuoso Music Competition and 2019 Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti....
Born in 2005, Mei Kaneko started playing the violin with Ms. Hitomi Isayama when she was four years old. Mei is currently a student at The Music School for Children by Toho School of Music in Tokyo, Japan, where she has been studying with Ms. Mami Teshigawara since 2016. Mei has participated in competitions and won numerous prizes,...
Japanese-British violinist Hiroki Kasai started playing the violin at the age of five and he is currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London under the tutelage of Rodney Friend. He has performed concerts across Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States, performing at important venues such as Carnegie Hall, the...
Dawid Kasprzak is a 15-year-old violinist from Poland, who started playing the violin at the age of three. He was a student at the Music School in Łódź until this year, when he became a scholar at Wells Cathedral School. He currently studies with Dr. Catherine Lord. In recent years, Dawid has won a number of prestigious violin...
Fiona studies studies with Professor Li Lin and Kenneth Renshaw at the Juilliard Pre-College division, and has performed with the Mitteleuropa Orchestra in Italy and the Musica Mundi Orchestra in Belgium. She has received prizes including 1st Prize at the Grumiaux International Violin Competition, 1st Prize at the Osaka...
Kayleigh Kim began studying with Catherine Cho and Francesca dePasquale in the Juilliard Pre-College program in the Fall of 2019. Prior to enrollment, she studied with Ko Sugiyama. She is also a National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellow. Kayleigh joined the Heifetz International Music Institute on their Holiday Homecoming Tour in...
Born in 2008, Seohyun Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea and began playing the violin at the age of five. A multi prize winner at numerous national competitions, Seohyun has performed as a soloist with orchestras and chamber ensembles at the age of eight. She is currently studying with Sunny Lee in Seoul Central Conservatory and...
Born in 2007, Sooeon Kim started playing the violin at the age of four. Since 2016, she has studied with Sunny Lee at the Seoul Central Conservatory and has won first prizes at numerous Korean competitions. At the age of nine, she made her performance debut at the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall with renowned violinist Daniel Hope and...
Na Hyun Kyun is a young violinist studying at Yewon Arts School and the Korea National University of Arts in Seoul. She began studying the violin at seven years old and one year later enrolled at Peabody Preparatory, before later going on to study at the Peabody Performance Academy. She has won a number of prizes at competitions,...
Tianyu Liu is a scholarship student at the College of Charleston, where he studies with Professor Lee-Chin Siow. He has won prizes at numerous international competitions, including 1st Prize and the Best Paganini Prize at the Cremona International Competition for Strings in Italy in 2016, and the Grand Prize at the 2018 Ronald Sachs...
Bohdan Luts was born in Lviv, Ukraine and began playing the violin at the age of six in the class of Yaroslava Kataryna. He previously studied at the S. Krushelnytska Boarding School in Lviv, with Mariya Futorska, and at the M. Lysenko Boarding School in Kiev, with Olga Korinets. He currently studies at the International Menuhin...
Shannon Ma started playing violin when she was three years old and is a Pre-College student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under Mrs. Zhao Wei. Shannon is a multiple-time first prize winner of the Pacific Musical Society Competition and the US International Music Competition, and she was concertmaster of the 2019...
Emma Meinrenken is a Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Annual Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studies with Ida Kavafian. Emma has won many awards, including 1st place at the Stradivarius International Violin Competition and the Silver Medal at the Stulberg International Competition. She was the 2019 Prix Ravel...
Boha Moon was born in South Korea in 2006. Since 2017, she has studied at the Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts with Professor Nam-Yun Kim, having previously studied at the MSM Pre-College division with Professor Anat Malkin Almani. She has won 1st Prize at many competitions including Sungjung 2014, MusicChunchu 2015,...
Natsuho Murata began her violin studies when she was three years old. She has won prizes including 1st prize in the International Nutcracker Television Competition for Young Musician in Moscow and 1st prize in Il Piccolo Violino Magico International Competition in San Vito al Tagliamento. Her performances include the AADGT 25th...
Born in 2006, Raphael Nussbaumer began playing the violin at four years old. At the age of six, he began to study with Philip A. Draganov and since has won prestigious prizes at competitions including Schweizerischer Jugendmusikwettbewerb (SJMW), the Zurich Music Competition, the Andrea Postacchini Competition and the Louis Spohr...
Born in 2005, Seohyeon Park started playing the violin at seven years old. Aged 11, he gave his debut at the Seoul Arts Center Recital Hall. He currently studies with Sunny Lee at the Seoul Central Conservatory. He has won 1st Prize at many competitions. In 2020, he won 1st Prize at the Korean Chamber Orchestra National Music...
Serin Isabelle Park has performed in prestigious venues throughout New York, Virginia, Philadelphia, Germany and Switzerland. She has made solo appearances with orchestras including the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Camerata, New York International Chamber Orchestra and Park Avenue Chamber Symphony. She has won top...
Emrik Revermann made his solo orchestral debut at the age of nine. He is currently a student of Conrad Chow at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and studies privately with Timothy Ying. In 2018, Emrik was named “Absolute Laureate” at the Kocian International Violin Competition in the Czech Republic. In 2019, he won the top...
Born in Brazil, Guido began his violin studies at the age of five with the help of his family, before studying with Marcia Uhlemann. He gave his orchestral solo debut aged seven, with the conductor Júlio Medaglia, and has since given solo recitals as well as orchestral and chamber music performances. He has been a participant of the...
Vikram Francesco Sedona was born in Treviso in 2000 and began his violin studies at the age of six with Selina Cremese, continuing his studies at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice with Professor Bruna Barutti. Since 2016, he has been studying with violinist Silvia Marcovici at the University of Music and Performing Arts...
Emily Shehi, a student of Ida Kavafian at the Curtis Institute of Music, made her debut as a guest soloist with the Liberty Symphony Orchestra at the age of eight and has since performed solos with orchestras such as the Kansas City Symphony. She won the Bronze medal at 2015 Irving M. Klein International String Competition and has...
Hannah Song started playing the violin at the age of six. She has won prizes in competitions such as the Mondavi Competition, Occidental College String Competition, Spotlight Music Awards and the Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition. She has been featured on NPR's From the Top and performed in the Walt Disney Concert Hall as a...
Admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music aged 12, Hannah Wan Ching Tam currently studies with Ida Kavafian. She previously studied with Michael Ma, Maria Jee and Chan Kwok Wai at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. She has won top prizes at international competitions including Kloster Schöntal in Germany and Andrea Postacchini...
Keila was born in Boston, MA and began playing the violin at the age of three. The late Mr. Joseph Silverstein accepted Keila as a student when she was six years old. She currently studies with Donald Weilerstein and Soovin Kim from the New England Conservatory of Music. Keila gave her first solo performance with an orchestra at nine...
Edward Walton has appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras internationally and given recitals throughout Europe. In 2019 Edward won the 1st Prize in the Il Piccolo Violin Magico Competition in Italy (and audience prize), the US Medallion International Concerto Competition, the London Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition and the...
Claire Wells, a passionate violinist and pianist since the age of three, was born in California in a musical family. After graduating from the Yehudi Menuhin School in 2020 as a student of Professor Lutsia Ibragimova, she now studies with Professor Mihaela Martin at the Hochschüle für Musik und Tanz Köln. 1st Prize winner at the Lynn...
Jinan Laurentia Woo is a 7th grader at Harvard-Westlake School and Honors Merit Scholarship fellow at the Colburn School, where she studies with Robert Lipsett and Fabiola Kim. She was admitted to the junior division of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts at four years old, where she studied with Michael Ma and Maria Jee. Jinan...
Violinist Dayoon You started playing the violin at the age of six and gave his debut at Seoul Arts Centre playing Haydn’s Violin Concerto No. 2 at the age of eight. He has won numerous competitions in South Korea, having most recently won 1st Prize at the Sungjung Competition. Dayoon was accepted into the Korea National Institute for...
Simon Zhu started playing the violin at six years old. He currently studies with Tomasz Tomaszewski and Ning Feng. He has also participated in masterclasses with Ana Chumachenco, Ingolf Turban, Paul Roczek, Boris Kushnir and Igor Ozim. Simon has won 1st Prize awards at many international competitions such as the Schöntal Competition,...
