Hamilton Berry, cello (Nashville, Tn.), has performed with the Macon Symphony Orchestra. As a participant in Carnegie Hall’s Porous Borders of Music workshop, he performed Edgar Meyer’s Cello-Bass Duo with the composer in Zankel Hall. A former member of the Cumberland Trio, in 2004 he won First Prize at the Columbia University Bach Society Concerto Competition. Festival appearances have included Killington, Sarasota, and Sewanee. B.A., Columbia. Recipient, 2007 Victoria Roth Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn. Past participant (2004, 2005)[close]

Claire Bryant, cello (Camden, S.C.), has appeared as guest soloist with orchestras including the Kuopion Orchestieri of Finland, the National Symphony of Honduras, and the South Carolina Philharmonic. She is a founding member of the Tetras String Quartet and the founder, producer, and artistic director of With Strings Attached. She recently toured the U.S. and Japan with tap-dancer Savion Glover and performed in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall as part of the Meredith Monk Workshop. Festival appearances have included Meadowmount and Spoleto, USA. B.M., San Francisco Conservatory; M.M., Juilliard. Recipient, 2007 George and Laura Heller Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn. Past participant (2001-2004, 2006) [close]

Anna Burden, cello (Chicago, Ill.), was principal cellist of the New York String Orchestra Seminar in 2007 and has appeared as soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra, Northwestern University Orchestra, and Oak Park Symphony Orchestra. She is a winner of the Juilliard and Northwestern University Concerto Competitions and has been awarded prizes at the Stulberg International Strings Competition and WAMSC Young Artist Competition. Festival and workshop appearances have included Meadowmount, Music Academy of the West, National Arts Center Young Artists Program, and the Piatigorsky Seminar. B.M., Northwestern; M.M (in progress), Juilliard.[close]

Jonathan Chu, violin (Niskayuna, N.Y.), is a member of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. A former member of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, he is also an alternate for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He is a past recipient of the C. V. Starr and Jerome C. Green scholarships at Juilliard. He received a three-year fellowship to the Aspen Music Festival and won the Saunderson Prize in 2004. B.M., Vanderbilt; M.M., Juilliard. Recipient, 2007 Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2006)[close]

Raquel Cortinas, violin (Valencia, Spain), is a member of the Orquesta de la Comunidad Valenciana and a former member of the Orquesta de Eustadi, Solisti di Praga, Cuarteto Haydn de Fundación Altadis, Quinteto Scarlatti de la Casa de la Moneda, and Cuarteto Cortinas. She is a past winner of the Fundación Carolina, Fundación Albeniz, Duft-Thorner Shiftung, Kanton Schwyz, Kiefer Hablitzel, and BrinoSchuler scholarships. Festival appearances have included Cursos de Veranoen, Krochlendorf & Lichtenberg, Meadowmount, Meisterkurse, Prag-Wien-Budapest, Santander, Schleswig-Holstein, and Sommeracademie. Teaching Diploma, Musikhochschule Zurich; Performing Diploma, Conservatory Prague; Performing Diploma, Escuela Sup. de Música.[close]

Jennifer Curtis, violin (Chapel Hill, N.C.), has performed with several New York-based ensembles including Continuum, the Argento Chamber Ensemble, the Momenta quartet, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. She is a former concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra and founder of the J Quartet. She debuted in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in May 2006 and recently appeared as soloist with the Simón Bolivar Orchestra in Caracas, Venezuela. She is a past winner of the Astral Artistic Services International Competition, the Milka/Astral Grand Prize, as well as both the UC Berkeley and Juilliard Concerto Competitions. Her compositions have been performed at Juilliard, the Spoleto Festival in Italy and the Verbier Festival de Musique. B.A., Mills College; M.M., Juilliard. Recipient, 2007 Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2005, 2006)[close]

Sarah Darling, viola (Carlisle, Mass.), is a member of the Rosetta Trio and the Laurel Quartet, as well as the director of the Arcturus Chamber Ensemble. She is a former member of the Amaryllis Quartet and currently serves as a coach with the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra. She is a past recipient of a Beebe Grant and DAAD Fellowship. Sarah has performed Schnittke’s Viola Concerto with the New England Conservatory Philharmonia. Festival appearances have included Lucerne, Norfolk, Ravinia, Sarasota, Saito-Kinen, and Verbier. B.M., Harvard; B.M., Conservatorium van Amsterdam; Artist Diploma, Musikhochschule Freiburg; M.M. (in progress), New England Conservatory. Recipient, 2007 Peter Michael Sussman Memorial Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn. Past participant (2001, 2002, 2004)[close]

James Michael Deitz, percussion (Lamoka Harbor, N.J.), is a member of the Yale Percussion Group and a former member of the Haddonfield Symphony and the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra. Since 2004 he has taught undergraduate majors and non-majors at the Yale School of Music. He is a past recipient of the Presser Award and the Yale School of Music Dean’s Prize. Last October he appeared at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall with composer Steve Reich. Festival appearances have included Acanthes, Bowdoin, Manitoba, Norfolk, and Princeton. B.M., Curtis; M.M., Artist Diploma, Yale.[close]

Keats Dieffenbach, violin (Wilmington, N.C.), is a founding member of the Tetras Quartet, which recently performed in Zankel Hall as part of Carnegie Hall’s Steve Reich at 70 series. She is a member of the Second Instrumental Unit and the American Contemporary Music Ensemble. A past concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, Keats has also appeared as soloist with the Lake Placid Sinfonietta and was the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra’s 2006-2007 artist-in-residence. Festival appearances have included BargeMusic, the FOCUS! Festival at Lincoln Center, Sarasota, and Taos. Earlier this summer Keats served as an assistant faculty member in Yellow Barn’s Young Artists Program. B.M., M.M., Juilliard; Graduate Diploma (in progress), New England Conservatory. Recipient, 2007 Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2004, 2005)[close]

Song-Ie Do, cello (Seoul, Korea), is a member of the Laurel String Quartet and the New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared as soloist with the Seoul Symphony and Millennium Chamber Orchestras. She is a former recipient of a Piatigorsky Presidential Scholarship and winner of the Best Bach Performance at the Corpus Christi Competition. Festival appearances have included Gunther Schuller, Musicorda, and the Perlman Music Program. B.M., New England Conservatory.Past participant (2005, 2006)[close]

Margaret Dyer, viola (Fresno, Calif.), is a member of the New England Conservatory Chamber Orchestra and New Hampshire Symphony, and former principal violist of the Fresno (Calif.) Philharmonic. A founding member of the Chabrier Quartet, she appeared as soloist with the Brockton Symphony in 2006. She is a past recipient of the Theodore Presser Scholarship and winner of the Minich Scholarship Competition. Festival and workshop appearances have included Kneisel Hall, Lake Tahoe with the Miro Quartet, Menuhin Seminar, Takács Quartet Seminar, and others. Earlier this summer Margaret served as an assistant faculty member in Yellow Barn’s Young Artists Program. B.M., San Francisco Conservatory; M.M., New England Conservatory.Past participant (2005)[close]

Jeannette H. Fang, piano (Bridgewater, N.J.), has performed on the “Rising Stars” concert series at the Silvermine School of Music, on the BargeMusic series, at New York’s Trinity Church, and at Alice Tully Hall. She has also appeared on the nationally syndicated radio show “From the Top.” Jeannette is a former winner of the Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Competition. She was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts and is a past winner of the Chiang-Weh International Young Artists and Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competitions. Festival and workshop appearances have included Northern Lights, PianoFest, and the Van Cliburn Institute. B.M., Juilliard.Past participant (2006)[close]

Jason Fisher, viola (Shoreline, Wash.), is a founding member of the Riverdell String Quartet. As a Carnegie Hall Fellow, he toured Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic, and as a Peabody Singapore Fellow, he appeared as soloist with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. He is also a founding member of A Far Cry, a new collectively directed, conductorless chamber orchestra based in Boston. Jason has received a Peabody Merit Scholarship, the Sidney Friedberg Prize for Excellence in Chamber Music, and the Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Scholarship. Festival and workshop appearances have included Domaine Forget, Miro Quartet Seminar, Norfolk, and Prussia Cove. B.M., Peabody Conservatory; M.M. (in progress), Longy. Recipient, 2007 David C. Oswald Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2005, 2006)[close]

Tony Flynt, double bass (Alexandria, Va.), is principal bassist with Opera Pacific and the Colburn Conservatory Orchestra and has performed with the Houston and San Diego Symphonies. Festival appearances have included Music Academy of the West, Sarasota, Verbier, Domaine Forget, and Youth Orchestra of the Americas. B.A., B.M., Rice; Professional Studies Certificate, Colburn.Past participant (2001)[close]

Kate Haynes, cello (Belmont, Mass.), is a member of the Rosetta Trio, the Arcturus Chamber Ensemble, Boston Hausmusik, Clarion Music Society, Arcadia Ensemble, and the Handel & Haydn Society. She has acted as chamber music coach at Apple Hill, sectional coach for the Spencer Brook Youth Orchestra, and assistant coach for the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra. In 2002 she appeared as soloist with Bobby McFerrin and the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances have included Kneisel Hall, Musicorda, Norfolk, Sarasota, and Taos, among others. A.B., Harvard; M.M., New England Conservatory; Baroque Cello Performance, Royal Conservatory of the Hague.Past participant (2001, 2002)[close]

Kuan-Chen Huang, viola (Pingtung, Taiwan), has appeared several times as soloist with the Taiwan National Orchestra and has performed with several members of the SUNY Stony Brook faculty in their chamber music recitals. She is a past winner of the National Taiwan Viola Competition and the Elite Music Competition. Festival appearances have included Académie Internationale d’Été de Nice (France), Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Italy), and Sarasota. B.M., National Taiwan Normal University; M.M., Juilliard; D.M.A., SUNY Stony Brook.[close]

Yvonne Lam, violin (Los Angeles, Calif.), has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Auckland (New Zealand) Philharmonia, St. Petersburg (Russia) Orchestra, and Pacific Symphony. She has given solo recitals throughout the U.S. as well as in Russia and Israel. Yvonne has taken second prize in the Michael Hill World Violin Competition, Holland-America Music Society Competition, and Liana Issakadze International Violin Competition. Festival appearances have included Music from Angel Fire, Ravinia, Verbier, and Taos. B.M., Curtis; M.M., Juilliard. Recipient, 2007 Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2006)[close]

Alicia Lee, clarinet (Lutherville, Md.), is a member of the Santa Barbara Symphony and has performed with the Colburn Chamber Music Society. In 2005 and 2006, she appeared in Carnegie Hall workshops with David Robertson and John Adams. Festival appearances have included Lucerne, New York String Orchestra Seminar, Norfolk, and Spoleto, Italy. Earlier this summer Alicia served as an assistant faculty member in Yellow Barn’s Young Artists Program. B.A., Columbia; M.M., USC Thornton School of Music; Professional Studies Certificate (in progress), Colburn.[close]

Rachel Lee, violin (Scarsdale, N.Y.), has performed with the Saint Louis Symphony and the Colorado Springs and Rochester Philarmonic Orchestras. She has appeared with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, on the “Stars of Tomorrow” series. Internationally, she has appeared in Korea with the KBS Symphony and the Seoul Philharmonic, as well as with Staatskapelle Berlin and the State Symphony Cappella of Russia. Festival and workshop appearances have included Aspen and the Perlman Music Program. Undergraduate, Harvard.[close]

Jonathan Lewis, cello (Georgetown, Ky.), has appeared as soloist with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra. He performed in Carnegie’s Zankel Hall with John Adams and Leila Josefowicz, and in 2006 gave a solo recital in Cornwall, England. He has served as a teaching assistant to Hans Jensen at the Meadowmount School of Music. Jonathan won third prize at the Holland-America Music Society Competition and has been recognized for outstanding musical achievement by the Kentucky State Senate. Festival appearances have included Aspen, Kent-Blossom, Kneisel Hall, Meadowmount, and Ravinia. B.M., Northwestern; M.M., D.M.A. (in progress), New England Conservatory.[close]

Conor Nelson, flute (Caledon, Canada), is a member of the Conor and Ayano Duo and was formerly the flutist for Intrada Winds. He has appeared as soloist with the Toronto Symphony and Banff Festival Orchestras. In 2006 he performed with Claude Frank in the Schneider Series. He is a former winner of the Fischoff and Coleman National Competitions, among others. Festival appearances have included Aspen, Banff, Brevard, OK Mozart, and Norfolk. B.M., Manhattan School of Music; M.M., Yale; D.M.A., SUNY Stony Brook.[close]

Jessica Oudin, viola (Houston, Tex.), is principal violist of the Juilliard Orchestra and a former member of the Kashii String Quartet. This past March she appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She is currently teaching assistant to Heidi Castleman and has served on the chamber music faculty of the Innsbruck Music Festival. Jessica is a past winner of the Darius Milhaud Award and the Horace & Marie Arnold Award for Viola Performance. Festival and workshop appearances have included Aspen, Music@Menlo, Musicorda, and the Perlman Music Program. B.M., Cleveland Institute of Music; M.M. (in progress), Juilliard. Recipient, 2007 Jackie Melnick Memorial Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2006)[close]

Ilya Poletaev, piano (Toronto, Canada), has appeared as soloist with the Toronto and Hartford Symphony Orchestras. Between 2005 and 2007 he served on the faculty of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, and this fall he will begin serving as Lecturer in the Yale Department of Music. A former winner of the International Southeastern Historical Keyboard Society Competition, he has received the Ontario Chalmers Training Grant as a pianist and the Early Music America Scholarship for harpsichord. Festival and workshop appearances have included Banff, Caramoor, Moab, Norfolk, Orford, Sarasota, and Stratford. G.M., University of Toronto; M.M., D.M.A., Yale. Recipient, 2007 John Michael McKenzie Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2003)[close]

Annie Rabbat, violin (Mt. Prospect, Ill.), is a member of the Laurel String Quartet, an honors ensemble at New England Conservatory. She is concertmaster of the Gardner Museum Chamber Orchestra and performs with Walden Chamber Players. Annie toured with Musicians from Ravinia’s Steans Institute and recently performed at the Virginia Arts Festival, Concord Chamber Music Festival, and Caramoor Festival. A past winner of the Kuttner Quartet Award, she has participated in the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar and appeared at the Prussia Cove, Ravinia, Kneisel Hall, and Norfolk festivals. B.M., Indiana; M.M., Juilliard; Graduate Diploma (in progress), New England Conservatory. Recipient, 2007 Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2005, 2006)[close]

Itamar Ringel, viola (Jerusalem, Israel), has performed with the Verbier Orchestra and the Tel-Aviv Soloists Ensemble. He appeared at Tanglewood and Carnegie Hall with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. Itamar is a past winner of an America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship and the Accademia Chigiana Scholarship. Festival and workshop appearances have included the Perlman Music Program, Prussia Cove, Ravinia, and Verbier. B.M., Jerusalem Academy of Music; M.M., D.M.A. (in progress), New England Conservatory.[close]

Edward Robie, piano (Newport, N.C.), is a past recipient of the Gina Bachalrer Scholarship and Second Prize winner in the 1999 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. Festival appearances have included Music Academy of the West, PianoFest, and Taos. B.M., M.M., Juilliard; D.M.A. (in progress), SUNY Stony Brook.Past participant (2006)[close]

Elizabeth Jeanne Schumann, piano (Blacksburg, Va.), is a former member of Neo Camerata, a new music piano quintet, and has appeared as soloist with the Kalamazoo Symphony and the Colburn Orchestra. In 2005, she gave a recital in Ravinia’s “Rising Stars” series, and in 2006, she made her Carnegie Hall debut. She is a former winner of the Bösendorfer International Piano Competition, third prize winner of the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, and Baroque Prize winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition. Festival appearances have included Aspen and Music Academy of the West. B.M., M.M., Cleveland Institute of Music; Artist Diploma (in progress), Colburn. Recipient, 2007 Nathan Schwartz Memorial Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.[close]

Andrea Segar, violin (Davis, Calif.), is a former concertmaster of the New England Conservatory Sinfonietta. She has performed as soloist with the Desert Foothills Musicfest Festival Orchestra, Oakland East Bay Symphony, and others. She is a past winner of the ASTA Massachusetts State Solo Competition as well as the Pacific Musical Society and Sacramento Symphony League Competitions. Festival and workshop appearances have included the Borromeo String Quartet Bartok Seminar, Festival de San Miguel de Allende, Music Academy of the West, and Music@Menlo. Undergraduate, New England Conservatory. Recipient, 2007 Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2006)[close]

Megumi Stohs, violin (Portland, Or.), is a founding member of the award-winning Brando and Chabrier String Quartets and a member of Boston Modern Orchestra Project. She has appeared as soloist with the Brockton, Columbia, and Olympia Symphonies and the Sapporo (Japan) Philharmonic. Festival and workshop appearances have included Aspen, Kneisel Hall, Miro Quartet Seminar, Takács Quartet Seminar, and Taos. B.M., San Francisco Conservatory; M.M., Graduate Diploma, New England Conservatory. Recipient, 2007 Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2006)[close]

Svetoslav Stoyanov, percussion (Bulgaria), originally from Bulgaria, has performed as soloist in Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium and at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. As a co-soloist, he premiered the Philip Glass Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra. In 2003 he won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition. He has collaborated with Pierre Boulez, Oliver Knussen, James Conlon, John Adams, Robert van Sice, Leon Fleisher, and Donald Sutherland. Festival and workshop appearances have included Arizona Friends Chamber Music Festival, Carnegie Hall Professional Workshops, Emilia Romagna, Norfolk, and the Percussive Arts Society International Conventions. B.M., Peabody Conservatory; M.M., Yale.[close]

Arnaud Sussmann, violin (Nile, France), is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center II and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. He has appeared as soloist with the El Savador, Nice, Monaco, Tanglewood Music Center, and Pays de la Loire Orchestras. He has given recitals around the world, including at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. and the Louvre in Paris. He is currently a teaching assistant to Itzhak Perlman at Juilliard. Arnaud is a past recipient of a Salon de Virtuosi Fellowship Grant and the Daviol Gritz Violin Award at Tanglewood. Festival and workshop appearances have included the Perlman Music Program, Ravinia, Tanglewood, and the Virginia Arts Festival. B.M., M.M., Juilliard. Recipient, 2007 James S. Marcus Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.[close]

Young-Ah Tak (New York, N.Y.), made her New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall with the Juilliard Symphony and has performed with orchestras including the Filharmonia Pomorska (Poland), the Oltenia Philharmonic (Romania), and the Korean Symphony. She has won top prizes in the San Antonio, Valsesia-Musica, and Hilton Head Piano Competitions, among others. Her recording of Judith Zaimont’s Wizards (2003) was released by Albany Records in 2005. Festival appearances have included Ravinia, Aspen, Banff, Music@Menlo, and Sarasota. Earlier this summer Young-Ah served as an assistant faculty member in Yellow Barn’s Young Artists Program. B.M, Juilliard; M.M., Graduate Diploma, New England Conservatory; D.M.A. (in progress), Peabody Conservatory. Recipient, 2007 Theodore Banning Memorial Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.[close]

Danbi Um, violin (Philadelphia, Penn.), has appeared with the Dartmouth Symphony and toured with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. She was featured in the “Rising Stars” series in Korea, and she has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. Festival and workshop appearances have included Encore, the Perlman Music Program, and Aria. Undergraduate, Curtis Institute of Music.Past participant (2006)[close]

Erica Wise, cello (Saint Louis, Mo.), has performed with the Iris Chamber Orchestra and the New World Symphony and appeared as soloist with the Aspen Sinfonia, New England Conservatory Symphony Orchestra, and Hudson Valley Philharmonic. She is a past winner of the Nakamichi Cello Competition. Festival appearances have included Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Kneisel Hall, and Tanglewood. Earlier this summer Erica served as an assistant faculty member in Yellow Barn’s Young Artists Program. B.M., Peabody Conservatory; M.M., New England Conservatory. Recipient, 2007 Barry and Elsa Waxman Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2001, 2002)[close]

Ying Xue, violin (Beijing, China), is a member of the Laurel String Quartet and former concertmaster of the New England Conservatory Sinfonietta, China Youth Symphony, and China Youth Chamber Orchestras. She has taken Second Prize at the Hudson Valley Strings Competition and Third Prize at the China Violin and String Quartet Competitions. Festival appearances have included Morningside Music Bridge. Undergraduate, New England Conservatory. Recipient, 2007 Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship to attend Yellow Barn.Past participant (2006)[close]

Alice Yoo, cello (Bozeman, Mt.), is a former member of the Redwood String Quartet, a New England Conservatory Honors Quartet. She has appeared with the Bozeman and Billings Symphony Orchestras and the Cleveland Philharmonic. In 2005 Alice was the Third Prize winner of the Holland-America Music Society Competition; in 2004 the Second Prize winner of the Schadt Strings Competition; and in 2003 the First Prize winner of the Frieda-Schumacher Young Artist Competition. Festival and workshop appearances have included Banff, Bowdoin, Encore, Music Academy of the West, the Perlman Music Program, Ravinia, and Sarasota. B.M., New England Conservatory.[close]