Blake Armstrong, violin, is an undergraduate student of Olga Kaler at the Cleveland Institute of music.
View BioAna Vera Backscheider began studying violin as part of her compulsory kindergarten curriculum at Redlands in Sydney, Australia in 2012. Ana is currently an honors Sophomore at Walnut Hills High School.
View BioCharlotte Balaze is a 15 year old from Orange County, California. She began her cello studies as a four year old Suzuki student at the Cleveland Institute of Music and now currently studies with Sarah Koo.
View BioAsher Blackburn is a 3rd year Bachelor of Music at Cleveland Insitute of Music studying under Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler. He also is a member of the Canton Symphony Orchestra where he has been a section 1st violin since 2022.
View BioNinah is 15 yrs old and will be a 10th grader in the fall. She started playing the cello at the age of 3 yrs old under Jim Lee and currently is studying under Ana Maria Maldonado.
View BioPei Wu Derek Chen is a violinist with the Nosremé Quartet. He started playing violin at the age of 8. In 2013, he appeared as a soloist for the first time, performing Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto with the Changhua Philharmonic at the age of 11.
View BioBrynn Cogger is a violist from Tacoma, Washington. She is a student of Joyce Ramee at the University of Puget Sound through their Community Music Program. This fall, Brynn will begin studying Viola Performance with violist Masumi Per Rostad at the Eastman School of Music.
View BioDylan Cohen is from Chesapeake, VA and is attending New England Conservatory studying with Mai Motobuchi as a freshman this fall majoring in Viola Performance!
View BioBorn into a musical family, Summer has been exposed to beautiful music from a very young age. Beginning her cello studies at the age of 7, she has quickly progressed and has blossomed into a serious young artist.
View BioKeira is fourteen years old and began studying cello at age 3 with Laura Shaw at the Preucil School of Music in Iowa City, IA. In addition to cello, she also studies piano and flute at Preucil.
View BioLucas Das is a 16-year old high school junior who plays cello. Lucas has been playing cello for 12 years - since he was 4. Lucas studies with Henry Stubbs at the Levine School of Music, where he’s also a member of the Honors program.
View BioJiles Defosse is a 13 year old violinist. He took up an interest in the instrument when he was 4.5 years old, when an after-school violin program was starting at his school.
View BioLorelai Gartside is a Junior at William Mason High School. She is an honor roll student and has been a member of the Honors Symphony Orchestra since her freshman year of high school.
View BioAndrew Gretzinger is a violist, composer, and teacher currently in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. He has experience working in many aspects of viola performance including orchestral, opera, musical, film, and chamber music.
View BioBorn in Zhanjiang, China, Sophia stared taking lessons at the age of 5, and continues to study with Ms. Rose Reidmiller-Gowda. Having just finished the 2022 - 2023 season with the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra she is looking forward to auditioning for next season.
View BioCellist, Ryan Han, is currently pursuing a dual degree in Cello Performance and Physics at DePaul University. For the past 3 years, his studies in cello have been under the tutelage of Stephen Balderston, the former assistant principal of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
View BioSeventeen year-old violinist Lizzy (Elizabeth) Huang, who has just graduated from Shaker Heights High School and the Young Artists’ Program at CIM, began playing violin at age six.
View BioMika Inoue, 14, began playing the violin at the age of 6. She is an active member of the DC Youth Orchestra and Young Virtuosi Chamber music group.
View BioSydney Jenkins is an 18 year old violist. Sydney currently takes lessons with Satoko Rickenbacker, Assistant Principal Viola in the Virginia Symphony Orchestra.
View BioViolinist Jillian Johnson is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy (IAA) and received her B.M. in Violin Performance from the University of Texas at Austin with Brian Lewis and the Miró Quartet under full scholarship.
View BioAinsley Jones, a rising junior at the Baltimore School for the Arts, is a cellist from Baltimore, Maryland.
View BioEmma, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, is currently a junior at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, pursuing a bachelor’s degree in violin performance.
View BioJoshua Kang is 14 years old and lives in Williamsburg, VA. He began playing cello at the age of six with Mrs. Susan Hines and currently studies with Mr. Michael Daniels.
View BioIranian cellist Niki Khabbazvahed has performed many solo, chamber, and orchestra concerts in her home country Iran, winning first prizes in a number of national competitions including Fair Music Festival Cello Competition, Iran National Youth Music Festival Competition, and Music School of Tehran String Competition.
View BioChristina is a 17-year-old homeschooled senior from Walton, KY. Christina has been playing the Viola since 2017. For the last three years, Christina has been a member of Immanuel School of Music's Youth Sinfonia in Lakeside Park, KY.
View BioCellist Matthew Lei was born in Michigan and raised in Colorado. He began his musical journey on the piano at the age of four before transitioning his focus to playing the cello when he was ten years old.
View BioCellist Abigail Leidy is from Virginia studying under Professor Alan Rafferty at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. In support of her undergraduate studies, Abigail is the recipient of several music scholarships, including the Conservatory Honors Scholar Award, Vaughn Hedrick Music Scholarship, Epperson Music Award Fund, and 3Arts Scholarship Fund.
View BioI am Li KanYun, 18 years old. My middle school and High school are Central Conservatory of Music School.
View BioYuchen (Vincent) Li was born in Beijing, China, and began studying piano when he was five. He moved to Toronto, Canada at the age of eleven.
View BioViolet Lorish, 17, started her music experience at age 9. She currently studies with Lee Taylor, violinist of the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra and Tallahassee Symphony. She has participated in masterclasses under Dr. Shannon Thomas, Assistant Professor of Violin at Florida State University.
View BioAnna Macintosh, from Columbus, Ohio, began her cello studies in 2004 with Alice Ann O’Neil and then joined the studio of Jill Wright Crist in 2005. In 2016, she began her studies with Dr. Melissa Kraut at the Cleveland Institute of Music where she acquired a degree in cello performance and a minor in Suzuki Pedagogy.
View BioViolinist and vocalist Madeline Marshall is a Cincinnati-based artist and rising scholar passionate about filling the world with beautiful music. Hailing from New Orleans, her heritage values artistic self-expression above all else.
View BioCarter Medina is a 17 year old cellist from Kansas City, MO. He is the co-principal of the Youth Symphony of Kansas City and the Missouri All State Orchestra.
View BioMarco Melendez is a professional cellist and music educator. He currently attends Jacksonville University where he has held principal positions in the University Orchestra.
View BioPhoenix Mercier is a rising junior at the Eastman School of Music, under the instruction of Masumi Per Rostad.
View BioSonya Moomaw is a seventh grader at The School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCPA). She was inspired to play cello at a young age.
View BioViolinist Sarah Munson, a native of Bowling Green, Ohio, is a rising senior violin performance major at Bowling Green State University, currently studying with Dr. Caroline Chin.
View BioReilly has been playing the violin since the age of 6, making music a focal point of her life. She lives outside Akron, Ohio, and is currently a student of Dr. Olga Kaler. In her free time, Reilly composes and makes art.
View BioGiven recitals throughout Asia, North America and Europe, Ms. Pan’s most recent performance was her solo debut as the winner of Marbury Competition, where she was invited to perform the Tchaikovsky violin concerto.
View BioChristine Park was born in Sacramento, California, and grew up in South Korea. When her family returned to the US, moving to Raleigh in 2017, she continued to participate in musical activities as the concertmaster of her middle and high school orchestra, as a member of the Triangle Youth Symphony and the Triangle Youth Philharmonic, and as a member of the NC Eastern Regional, All-State and NC Honors Orchestra.
View BioKatherine Park began her journey as a violist at the St. Petersburg special school of music in Russia where she studied under Anna Vainshtein.
View BioAlicia Pucci is a violist from Buffalo, NY. She started viola in 4th grade as a part of her school’s orchestra. Currently, she is studying with Masumi Per Rostad at Eastman.
View BioEvan Pyne, from Toronto, Ontario, began studying the violin at age 6. He attended the Royal Conservatory’s Taylor Academy under Barry Shiffman and Marie Bérard, and currently studies with Ilya Kaler at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
View BioViolinist Kiran Rajamani, a native of Penfield, New York, has performed in the New York State Ballet, Butler Philharmonic Orchestra, Ad Hoc Music Ensemble, and Cordancia Chamber Orchestra.
View BioLucas Ralston lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and has been playing cello since the age of five.
View BioAddison Randall began her cello studies at the age of eight with Luke Cook, an instructor at the Crescendo Academy of Music in Kalamazoo, and currently studies with Western Michigan University cello professor Bruce Uchimura since Spring of 2019.
View BioLila Reeser is a violist and composer from Parrish, Florida. She began playing at the age of 9 and was heavily involved in multiple ensembles around the area.
View BioAutumn Rinaldi is a fourteen-year-old cellist from Indian Hill, Ohio, and has been studying cello since age five. Originally from New York City, Autumn had an immediate emotional connection to the cello the first time she heard one being played and begged her parents for one of her own.
View BioYuwa Roten is a 19 year old violinist from Jefferson, NC, who currently studies with Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is an active member of CIM’s Black Student Union, and performs for BSU concerts and recitals. Yuwa is also on CIM’s student government executive board.
View BioMax Salzinger, a rising junior at The Hotchkiss School, has played the cello since the age of six. He was a member of the New World Youth Symphony Orchestra from 5th-8th grade, serving as principal cellist in 7th and 8th grades.
View BioMara Seppala is a 17 year old violinist from Fairfield, Ohio. She has been playing the violin for eight years and currently studies with Marion Peraza. She has been a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Philharmonic Orchestra for the past two years and has been Concertmaster of the Fairfield High School Orchestra throughout her high school career.
View BioNaseem Shakir-Muhammad's musical life started when he was just a very young child. His father noticed that he would hum various familiar tunes when he was around three to four years of age and thought that he might be musically gifted.
View BioA passionate and inspiring performer, Ava Shedd has developed into an accomplished violinist and musician who loves engaging with audiences and educating the next generation of young musicians.
View BioKealia Grace Smith, a cellist and pianist, is a freshman at the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science.
View BioDalloway Smith is a 14-year-old cellist from Salt Lake City, Utah, who loves performing both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Earlier this spring, Dalloway performed in Royal Albert Hall in London as a winner of the London Virtuoso International Music Competition.
View BioPianist Rachel Sohn’s past awards include first prize in the Sixth Annual Lyra Music Youth Competition, as well as sixth prize at the 2016 New York Piano Festival Competition, which granted her the opportunity to perform in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
View BioAlan Stoupel, 13, is a student of Christian Tremblay in Performance Academy Program at the Pre-College division of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
View BioMadison Tedder, age 17, is a homeschooled student from Jacksonville, FL. She studies under Dr. Nick Curry, cello professor at University of North Florida.
View Biosabella is currently a sophomore dual-enrollment student at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida.
View BioTaiwan native Chian-Yi Tsai was the 2nd place winner of the Academy of Taiwan String Violin competition in 2019, and 3rd place in the National Taiwan Violin competition.
View BioCellist Andrea Wang studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Dr. Melissa Kraut for her Bachelor’s in Music in Violoncello Performance. Prior to attending CIM, she gained several recognitions as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral cellist.
View BioJun-Ping Wang, born in Taiwan in 2005. Starting playing the violin at the age of five, he’s now attending the Kaohsiung Senior High School, Music Department, learning under Prof. Chun Hsin Lee.
View BioElliott Watras is an 18 year old cellist from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a recent graduate of St. Xavier High School, where he was a member of the National Honor Society.
View BioFlorence Wei, 14, is a freshman attending Saratoga High School. She is currently studying under Jonathan Koh and is a former student of Jihee Kim.
View BioViolet Weizer, 15, studies cello with Andrea Yun in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She started playing cello at the age of four and has played with the Papayas String Quartet and the Michigan Youth Symphony Orchestra.
View BioEva Cate Wesley is 12 years old and a rising 7th grader at Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, OH. She studies violin with Jacquie Fennell and has played for 7 years.
View BioGrace began playing cello at the age of 9, studying with Ellen Stephens in Northern Kentucky. She has been a member of the Northern KY Youth Orchestra and Youth Sinfonia, the Michigan Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra, the 2020 Michigan All-State Orchestra, and several chamber ensembles.
View BioLucy Wu, 14, is a Scholarship Fellow at the Music Institute of Chicago’s Academy, a training center for advanced pre-college musicians. She studies with Dr. Stefan Kartman.
View BioGrace Yu is 14, and an 9th grader at Indian Hill High School. She has been playing viola for 4 years with her teacher Joyce Grabell.
View BioYumiko Yumiba is a Japanese violinist born in Oita, Japan. She spent her childhood in Osaka and moved to Tokyo with her family. She started playing the violin and piano at the age of 3.
View BioAnne Ziegler is a pianist currently completing her masters in collaborative piano at The University of Cincinnati College – Conservatory of Music, where she is a graduate assistant in vocal accompanying.
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