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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...
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...
I-hao Cheng started his violin lessons with Lo Shi Su and Wang Ching-hsien in Taiwan. In January 2012, I-hao began to study with Mikhail Kopelman at the Eastman School of Music. In 2014, he was offered a full scholarship to study violin with Victor Danchenko and Barry Shiffman at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. In 2016,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Serin is a sixth year student at Juilliard Pre-College studying with Catherine Cho. Born in NYC, she began her violin studies at the age of five with Solim Shin. Solo appearances include performances with Allentown Symphony Orchestra with conductor Diane Wittry and Park Avenue Chamber Symphony with conductor D. Bernard and A. Wen. As...
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...
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...
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,...
