• Maria Beltavski
  Has served as both Principal Second Violin and Concertmaster of the CIM Orchestra, concertmaster of the NOI Orchestra (National Orchestra Institute), and concertmaster of the Kent/Blossom Chamber Orchestra. Mrs. Monday is currently a member of the Firelands Symphony and Cleveland POPS Orchestra, Principal Second Violin of the Mansfield Symphony and an associate musician with the Columbus Symphony.  

• Emily Bosenius
  Recorded for Linn Records with the Royal Academy Symphony Orchestra, held principal positions in the Symphony, Chamber, and Opera Orchestras 

• Letian Cheng 
  Premiered a string quartet, DreamS, and a string sextet, Silver Bells & Golden Sand, at the AAPI Montclair Lantern Festival and Morris Museum. Both programs feature underrepresented living composers while exploring inclusiveness. In addition to teaching at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege, Letian has led classes on species counterpoint and post-tonal theory at the New England Conservatory, where he also tutors at the Music Theory Learning Center.  

• Yip-Wai Chow 
  Has served as a guest principal player in the Ohio Valley Symphony, Hong Kong String Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Orchestra of Hong Kong, CØDA Ensemble

• Will Crock 

• Danielle Greene
  First violin section of the Calgary Philharmonic. 

• Eloise Hodges 

• Russel Iceberg
  Won the Golden Violin Competition, the Peter Mendell award, and top prizes at the Allentown Symphony Orchestra’s Schadt String Competition, including the audience award. 

• Petros Karapetyan
  Violinist at Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

• Anna Leunis 
  Member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Sarasota Opera Orchestra, and a substitute for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. 

• Julia Mirzoev
  Featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Center’s “Top 30 Classical Musicians Under 30”, CBC radio 94.1, and classical 96.3 FM. Her awards include top prizes including the prize for the commissioned work at both Michael Hill and the Irving M. Klein international competition, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal competition, grand prize at the Canadian Music Competition, and first prizes at the Crescendo International competition and Cremona music festival competitions.  

• Camille Poirier-Lachance 
  Radio Filarmonisch Orkest, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Theresia Orchestra, Arion Orchestre Baroque, Les Violons du Roy, l’Orchestre symphonique de Québec, the Schaffhausen Sinfonietta and Ensemble Kabinet. Additionally, she has performed with l’Orchestre Philharmonique de la Relève, l’Orchestre de l’Agora and was invited as concertmaster for a program with l’Orchestre symphonique de la Côte-Nord in November 2022.   

• Abigail Tsai 
  Artistic Director of Sonder Classical, performed with orchestras across the US, Austria, and Germany, including the San Diego Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, and Neue Philharmonic Berlin. She has also soloed with the San Fernando Valley Symphony, the Pazardzhik Symphony, the Thousand Oaks Philharmonic, and the Ventura College Symphony.

• Rebecca Weger
  Performed as Concertmaster of the McGill Symphony Orchestra. Her string quartet recently placed first in the McGill Chamber Music Competition. Ms. Weger was a member of the Regina Symphony Orchestra for four seasons

• Sohyun Ahn
  Joined the Colorado Symphony at the beginning of the 2023/24 season, previously worked with St Louis Symphony 

• Yip Wai Chow  

• Thomas Cooper
  A three-time winner of New England Conservatory’s Entrepreneurial Musicianship award, Cooper is the founder and Artistic Director of Fermata Chamber Soloists 

• Katelyn Emery
  Substitute violinist with the Montreal and Toronto Symphony Orchestras

• Jennifer Gersten
  Her feature reporting, essays, and music criticism appear in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post, among other publications, on subjects that include experimental music designed for a fjord-side pool, “ugly” Nordic architecture, and smashing violins to smithereens.

• Danielle Greene  

• Russell Iceberg  

• Benjamin Kronk
  Founded and serves as the chief executive officer for the SouthEastern Young Artists Inc. and participated in projects including the 2017 GRAMMY-nominated album “American Classics” with the National Orchestra Institute 

• Anna Leunis  

• Julia Mirzoev  

• Sarah Overcash
  Performed with California Young Artists Symphony, American Youth Symphony  

• William Thain
  Lansing Symphony Orchestra as concertmaster for their 2023-2024 season. He also holds section violin positions with the Jackson and Adrian Symphonies and was co-concertmaster of the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, CO for their Summer 2023 Season. 

• Abigail Tsai  

• Alyssa Wang
  Co-Founder, Artistic Director, and Principal Conductor of the Boston Festival Orchestra
  

• Jonathan Chern
  Lead violinist of the Dallas Candlelight Concert Series

• YipWai Chow  

• Tobias Elser
  Formed the Dior Quartet that has won prizes at several competitions, including the Concert Artists Guild Competition, Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and Plowman National Chamber Competition. 

• Jennifer Gersten  

• Akane Hinamoto  

• Sooah Jung  

• Charles Lee  

• Gloria Lee
  Adjunct Faculty at New York University teaching Violin to undergraduate students while maintaining studies under Concertmaster of New York City Ballet, Kurt Nikkanen and international soloist, Giora Schmidt. 

• Liam Mansfield
  Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, also plays electronic music as a DJ and has his own show on the online community radio station IDA. 

• Marin Osawa
  Substitute violinist for the St. Louis Symphony.

• Yefim Romanov
  First Assistant Concertmaster of the Florida Orchestra. Previously, he was rotating concertmaster of the New World Symphony from 2018-2021.

• Pei-Wen Sue  

• Alyssa Wang  

• Rebecca Weger  

• Joseph Christianson
  Active as a session violinist and teacher in Nashville, Tennessee. For seven years he was a member of Quartet San Francisco. The quartet’s album Raymond Scott Reimagined received a 2024 Grammy nomination.

• John Heffernan
  Concertmaster of West Michigan Symphony

• Sofia Kim
  Doctoral candidate at Indiana University

• Yerim Lee   

• Nathan Lowman
  Member of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, and also performs with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, New Britain Symphony Orchestra, and Waterbury Symphony Orchestra.

• Nathan Lowry
  St. Louis Symphony

• Joseph Ohkubo
  Began his first season as an acting member of the Indianapolis Symphony’s violin section in 2017. Prior to moving to Indianapolis, he served as Associate Concertmaster of the Terre Haute Symphony and performed regularly with the Louisville Orchestra, Evansville Philharmonic, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Owensboro Symphony and others

• Angel Rhodes  

• Yefim Romanov  

• Elizabeth Stewart
  Principal second violin of the Turku Philharmonic.

• Sophie Verhaeghe
  Co-founder of Austin Camerata. 

• Alyssa Wang  

• Robyn Quinnett
  Founded The Montserrat Music Festival

• Clara Shannon  

• Elizabeth Wright
  Co-founder of the Luminae Trio, which was a recipient of the 2021 City Artist Corps Grant and a prize winner of the 2021 Lancaster Chamber Music Competition

• Jiayi Zheng
  Teaches violin, switched to tech and spearheads customer success at Aloa

• Helen Wong  

• Zheyang Xiong 
  Upon joining the Thornton Symphony Orchestra, he has been selected as one of the rotating concertmasters.  

 2016:  

• Henry Allison
  Co-founded and acts as an Artistic Director of Issara 

• Kallen Bierly
  Akron Symphony Orchestra since 2015

• Hosanna Carella  

• Mark Chien
  Concertmaster of the Sarasota Opera Orchestra and the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra. Mark is also a member of both the Verbier Festival Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, as well as a substitute musician with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

• John Heffernan  

• Yeseul Kim  

• Artem Kolesov
  In early 2017, Kolesov came out as gay in a powerful video published on Facebook just days after his 23rd birthday. Titled “Why coming out is so hard in Russia,” the video offers a tearful confessional of his personal journey coming to the United States via Canada, and his journey learning to love himself. Since, the video has received over 75,000 views and was also shared by BuzzFeed and NPR. He was honored at the 2017 Logo TV Trailblazer Awards for courageously sharing his story with the world, and for his commitment to helping others secure safety and citizenship.

• Giancarlo Latta
  Performs regularly as a guest with many ensembles, including Contemporaneous, Frisson, the New York Classical Players, InfraSound, S.E.M. Ensemble, and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra. He is also a co-founder and core member of the Houston-based conductorless ensemble Kinetic.

• Nathan Lowry  

• Hao Miao  

• Boye Piao  

• Cara Schlecker
  Performer and teacher in the Chicagoland area and the current concertmaster of the West Suburban Symphony Orchestra. Formerly, she was the concertmaster and soloist for the Star Gate Orchestra and a Member of The Civic Orchestra of Chicago.

• Danica Smith
  Violin teacher

• Sarah Velasco
  Performed as a soloist with The CSU Philharmonic, The Georgia Philharmonic, The Toronto Sinfonietta, The Toronto Cultural Orchestra, Orchestra London, L’Orchestre OS-M, The Kindred Spirits Orchestra, and L’Orchestre du Coeur. She is a multiple competition winner and has been awarded the Springboard Prize, the London Rose Bowl Prize, and twice the Sid Oue Memorial Prize. 

• Chloe Chabanole
  She plays regularly with the Orchestre Métropolitain, I Musici de Montréal, and the Montréal Symphony Orchestra and is a member of chamber groups collectif9 and Warhol Dervish. She also serves as concertmaster of the Orchestre de l’Agora under conductor Nicolas Ellis. 

• Mark Chien  

• Thomas Cooper  

• William Foy  

• Lislie Heinzen
  Owner, Developer of Wildberry Software Services

• Alice Hong
  Alice’s compositions have been praised as "beautifully cinematic" and "stunning" (EarRelevant) and have been played by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Niagara Symphony, Georgian Bay Symphony, Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra, Ludwig Symphony Orchestra, Amersfoort Youth Orchestra, and more. As a violinist, Alice has performed in 28 countries and frequently joins orchestras across the USA and Canada as a guest violinist including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra, among others.

• Mary Grace Johnson
  Concertmaster of the West Virginia Symphony 

• Ye-Rim Lee  

• Madeleine Manasse  

• Ann Mills  

• Keanu Mitanga  

• William Overcash
  Gave American premiere of Helmut Lachenmann’s dystopic opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern as part of the solo octet.

• Julia Suh
  Member of Quartet121

• Kallen Bierly
  Akron Symphony Orchestra

• Antonio Cevallos
  San Antonio Symphony and also performs locally with the Austin Symphony and Austin Lyric Opera. Additionally, in 2022 he joined the San Diego Symphony as substitute musician.

• Chloe Chabanole  

• Mark Chien  

• Rosina Curren  

• Eva Dove
  Performed with Arizona MusicFest under the direction of Robert Moody and with the Strings Festival Orchestra in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Recently she was invited to serve as concertmaster for San Diego’s summer opera workshop OperaNeo and for the 2022 IDRS Convention in Boulder, Colorado. 

• Ingang Han
  Acting Associate Concertmaster of Jacksonville Symphony 

• Mary Grace Johnson  

• Petros Karapetyan  

• William Overcash 

• Robyn Quinnett  

• Clara Shannon  

• Elizabeth Wright  

• Jiayi Zheng  

• Alyssa Marie Blackstone  

• Michael Chien
  Co-found Greenwich Music Tutors and perform with orchestras including the St. Louis Symphony, Columbus Symphony, and several others across the U.S.

• Emily Field  

• Ingang Han  

• Alice Hong  

• Dianna Rose Joiner  

• Michelle Kim
  Performed at various festivals including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, Strings in the Mountain, and Bravo! Vail. Kim has also served as the first violinist of the Rossetti String Quartet

• Laura Longman
  TSO's violin section in 2015. She has also performed with the Ann Arbor Symphony, Lansing Symphony, and Flint Symphony Orchestras.

• Mary Abigail Shiman
  Founding member of the Amaranth Quartet. The ensemble toured, performed, recorded, led workshops, and collaborated with composers for five transformative years. Amaranth Quartet was featured on the Kronos Quartet Festival 2017 at SF Jazz, was in residence at the Banff Centre, and collaborated with young composers to bring countless new works to life.

• Katelin Smathers  

• Bryant So  

• Rachel White  

• Danielle Wilson  

• Patrick Yim
  Assistant Professor of Violin in the Department of Music, Faculty Fellow at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, and Faculty Fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame.

• Noah Baum
  1st violin section of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra as well as a member of the 1st violin section of the York Symphony Orchestra. Private teacher in Princeton, NJ

• Katrina Bobbs Savitski  

• Ran Cheng

• Minhye Helena Choi
  Joined the Kansas City Symphony in 2014. In summer of 2017, Ms. Choi joined the faculty of the ENCORE chamber music in Cleveland where she regularly performs chamber music and teaches young talents.

• Lauren Densinger
  Second violinist of the Cezanne Quartet, the ensemble-in-residence at Southern Methodist University and recipients of the Peak Scholarship. Before her recent appointment with Cezanne, she was completing a three-year fellowship with the New World Symphony, in Miami Beach.

• Kazato Inouye
  Second violin with Kansas City Symphony

• Ha-Young Kim
  Violin 1 at Harrisburg Symphony

• Hangyul Kim
  Two-year recipient of the orchestral fellowship at the Aspen Summer Music Festival, and has also performed overseas as a member of the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra in Germany and in the first violin section with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in Australia.

• Seo Hee Min
  Concertmaster of Luxembourg Philharmonic

• Emilie-Anne Neeland
  Longtime member of the Momenta Quartet

• Derek Powell
  National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in 2020, appointed by Music Director Gianandrea Noseda. Each summer since 2018, Powell has performed in the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra in Jackson, Wyoming and has previously performed in the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra in Verbier, Switzerland.

• Wyatt Underhill
  Acting Associate Concertmaster, San Francisco Symphony Foundation Chair

• Inyoung Chung  

• Katherine Floriano
  Member of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Formerly, she played with the Quad Cities Symphony and served as Assistant Principal 2nd violin of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra. During the summers Katherine has performed with the Finger Lakes Opera Company and is currently on the teaching faculty at HIMA USA Festival in Lakeside Chautauqua, Ohio. 

• Mariana Hernandez Gonzalez  

• Kate Goldstein
  Performs regularly with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, and Cape Ann Symphony.  

• Jihye Kee  

• Barbora Kolarova
  In addition to touring internationally as a soloist, Barbora was as a visiting performing artist of the Czech Philharmonic (2013-2016), visiting concertmaster of the Orquestra Filarmônica de Minas Gerais in Brazil (2017-2018) and a Lincoln Center Stage artist (2016-2019). She was also a regular substitute co-principal second violinist of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra (2015-2020) and held a concertmaster position with the PKF Prague Philharmonia (2024-2025). 

• Dechopol Kowintaweewat  

• Emilie-Anne Neeland  

• Zachary Peterson
  Teacher in Beloit, two year membership with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago

• Derek Powell  

• Abby Swidler
  Violinist, violist, vocalist, and passionate collaborator, Abby is a founding member of Diaphanous Ensemble, a genre-bending composer, improvisor, performer collective started with Che Buford & Aimée Niemann. 

• Elizabeth Wright  

• Jennifer Berg
  Private violin teacher

• Anthony Bracewell
  Acting principal violist of Ithaca’s Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, having previously acted as the principal second violinist.

• HeeChan Chang  

• Chloe Fedor
  Recurring guest concertmaster/soloist roles with Amor Artis, Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, Ensemble Altera, Lyra Baroque Orchestra, New York Baroque Incorporated, The American Classical Orchestra, as well as principal roles in Early Music New York, Mercury Chamber Orchestra, Oklahoma Bach Choir, Oregon Bach Festival, The Sebastians, and Trinity Wall Street Baroque Orchestra

• Kate Goldstein  

• Marina Han  

• Brittany Henry
  Founder of the online music school, Music Teachers Institute, offering courses for private studio music teachers nationwide. Before moving to Minnesota, she was violin and viola faculty and chamber coordinator at the Northwestern University Music Academy

• Nahung Kim  

• Dechopol Kowintaweewat  

• Allison Lint
  “I am a professional musician in northeast Ohio, where I teach private lessons at two independent music schools, perform in the Akron Symphony Orchestra and freelance in the Cleveland/Akron area. In my spare time, I travel the country raising awareness for the nonprofit project Violin for Vasculitis (V4V), which has brought a story of hope and inspiration to hundreds of music lovers and vasculitis patients nationwide.” 

• Kevin Tompkins
  Assistant Principal Second Violin, Omaha Symphony 

• Erica Tursi
  Co-founded the Omer Quartet, which ignited her passion for the string quartet repertoire. The group went on to win international competitions including the Young Concert Artists International Audition, Premio Paolo Borciani Competition, and Trondheim International Chamber a music Competition, as well as holding residencies at the New England Conservatory, Yale University and University of Maryland.

• Maria Bessmeltseva
  Frequent prizewinner in competitions, including the International Mazur Youth Chamber Music Competition, Elizabeth Harper Vaughn Concerto Competition, Eighth Annual Hellam Young Artists' Competition, Tuesday Scholarship Musical Competition, Firelands Symphony Concerto Competition, Lima Young Artists Competition, and Joan and Daniel Rutenberg International Chamber Music Competition.

• Alexander Chaleff  

• Dooran Kim  

• Yookyoung Kim  

• Scot Moore
  Assistant principal viola, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, assistant principal viola, Santa Cruz Symphony, and section viola, Symphony San Jose. 

• Kristin Pfeifer
  Registered Suzuki teacher and received her Suzuki teacher training at the University of Louisville, the Atlanta Suzuki Institute, and the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. She received her training from notable Suzuki teachers such as Hiroko Driver-Lippman, Ed Kreitman, Nancy Lokken, Susan Baer, and Teri Einfeldt. Dr. Yu has also worked as a teaching assistant and Master Teacher at the University of Kentucky String Project. Her experience with the Suzuki Method and Paul Rolland’s String Project, allowed Dr. Yu to take the initiative in starting the Character Center String Academy, an afterschool enrichment program for grade school students in Tallahassee, FL. In 2012, Dr. Yu helped start an outreach chamber music program for the Okaloosa and Walton County Schools.

• Caleb Polashek
  Austin Symphony Orchestra in 2012 and quickly earned tenure, becoming the then-youngest tenured member of the orchestra. He later performed with the principal string players of ASO and regularly appeared with Artisan Quartet in and around Austin, TX. Caleb Hans Polashek's first original string quartet composition, titled "The Drive", was debuted with AQ at BMW of Austin in the fall of 2019.  

• Janis Sakai
  Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra as an acting member for the 2024.25 season, Sakai is also a regular substitute violinist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and Colorado Symphony Orchestra, in addition to her role as Associate Principal Second Violin of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra. 

• Noah Strick
  As a baroque violinist, Mr. Strick most frequently performs with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and often serves as concertmaster for California Bach Society and Chora Nova. Equally comfortable on modern violin, he is a member of the California Symphony, and formerly served as Associate Concertmaster for Berkeley Symphony. 

• Sabrina Tabby
  She is a founding member of the genre-defying string quartet ATLYS with whom she represented NYC’s Lincoln Center performing on Holland America cruises at sea (including a private performance for Oprah!) and has released four original albums with over 17 million streams. She is also a founding member of the NYC-based new music ensemble Contemporaneous whose debut at Disney Hall last year was listed as “the best classical music performances” by the New York Times. In addition to her position with the Owensboro Symphony, Sabrina is the Concertmaster of the Mankato Symphony (MN) and the acting Principal Second Violin of the Quad City Symphony (IA/IL).  

• Yan Tong
  Claimed first prize at the International Music Competition of Union Francaise des Artistes Musiciens in Paris, International Violin Competition in Kazakhstan, International Chinese Violin Competition in New York, and string winner at the Gisborne International Orchestral Instruments Competition in New Zealand. She has also placed in the top three at the Andrea Postacchini International Violin Competition in Italy and the Brahms International Violin Competition in Austria. 

• Diane Zelickman
  Tucson Symphony, Knoxville Symphony and currently the Memphis Symphony 

• Samantha Bounkeua  

• Madeline Capistran
  Member of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony

• Ewald Cheung
  Performed as soloist with orchestras around Canada, including the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec. He has also performed in recital series in Trois-Rivieres, CAMMAC, Edmonton and Muzewest with pianists Philip Chiu, Henry Mokken, and Michael Massey. In 2015, Ewald and pianist Philip Chiu were featured in a 34-concert tour with Jeunesses Musicales Canada and also recorded their album, “A Tribute to Fritz Kreisler.” He is currently a member of the first violin section of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra.  

• Alexandra Early
  Performed in orchestras including the Minnesota Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, New World Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, and Charleston Symphony. She was also a member of the inaugural YouTube Symphony in 2009.

• Chloe Fedor  

• Eric Fujita
  In 2019, he joined the Toronto Messiaen Ensemble, performing works by composers Gideon Kim and Ofer Ben-Amots.

• Christopher Jones
  Founding member of the Gildas Quartet, lauded by The Strad for their “exquisite playing”. Over its decade-long history, the quartet has played all over the UK and Europe, and recently toured China and Australia. A keen proponent of the music of living composers, Christopher also often plays with the acclaimed Ligeti Quartet.

• Elina Lev
  Newly-appointed Isaac Stern chair of the San Francisco Symphony, violinist Elina Lev joined the orchestra in 2014. Her previous positions include section first violin and acting assistant concertmaster with the Utah Symphony and associate concertmaster with the Charlotte Symphony.

• Scot Moore  

• Charlotte Nicolas
  Roured Cuba as concertmaster of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and most recently was a member of the Chamber Symphony at Aspen Music Festival.

• Rachel Ringeisen
  Head orchestra director at Cedar Ridge High School, faculty member at Monarch Suzuki Academy, as well as maintaining a successful private studio.  Rachel recently completed her Music and Human Learning degree (M.M) as a Sarah and Ernest Butler Excellence scholar, where she was the Preschool Coordinator for the University of Texas String Project and taught in a pilot string program at UT Elementary School.

• Eva Walsh 

• Vivek Jayaraman
  Acting assistant concertmaster of The Florida Orchestra for the 2020-2021 season and has played with several major orchestras in the United States, including The Cleveland Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

• Sigrid Karlstorm
  Orchestra director at Jackson and Cleveland Middle Schools in Albuquerque, Sigrid is also an active individual instructor, and especially enjoys working with young Suzuki students and motivated older violists. Her 15 years of teaching experience include lessons for children, teens, and adults through her own studio in Albuquerque as well as the Neighborhood Music School (New Haven, CT), Suzuki School of Westport (CT), Eugene Youth Symphony Program (OR), and University of New Mexico Lab School. 

• Chia-Fei Lin
  Kansas City Symphony in 2014 and she served as the Acting Assistant Concertmaster 2018-2023.

• Cosima Luther
  In addition to her role as associate conductor for the Denver Philharmonic, Cosima is the assistant conductor of the University of Denver Lamont School of Music Symphony Orchestra

• Emily Claire Mattson  

• Glen McDaniel
  Has been able to work with such renowned artists as Vadim Gluzman, John Kimura Parker, William Preucil, Philippe Quint, Kenneth Slowik, and Arnold Steinhardt, as well as the Ying and ENSO Quartets. Most notably, Glen was privileged to perform under the baton of the illustrious violinist, Itzhak Perlman, in a gala concert presented to benefit students of music in the city of Houston, Texas. Recently, Glen has enjoyed an eclectic performance schedule as an orchestral musician as well as a touring musician with the Grammy-nominated artist Janelle Monáe.

• Roberta Mezo Arruda  

• Ramiro Miranda
  Music faculty at his alma mater Pittsburg State University starting this Fall 2023, teaching upper strings, conducting, and leading the Southeast Kansas Symphony Orchestra.

• Jennifer Morgan
  Currently serves as Principal Second for the Toccoa Symphony Orchestra (GA) and plays with the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra (GA). She has soloed with the Plainview Symphony Orchestra (TX), and has played for Brightstone Productions (GA), Opera in the Ozarks (AR), Panama City Pops Orchestra (FL), Lubbock Symphony Orchestra (TX), and Plainview Symphony Orchestra (TX). She is a founding member of the Truett McConnell University Faculty Piano Trio. 

• Veronica Pigeon
  Received Suzuki certification under James Maurer (2003-2007), and has a private studio year-round.  Teaching highlights include coaching chamber music and orchestra for Boulder Suzuki Strings, coaching at Fort Hays State University (FHSU)’s High Plains Music Camp, and coaching chamber ensembles for University of Illinois’ Academy.   

• Bijan Sepanji
  Performs violin-piano recitals as part of Rogue Duo, with composer/pianist Saman Shahi. In November 2023, the duo took part in a multi-city tour performing a number of newly commissioned pieces by living composers based in Iran, Ukraine, and Canada.

• Eva Walsh  

• Klara Wojtkowska
  Founder and director of Mhondoro Dreams Ceremony Productions and School, which directed and produced the Polish-Zimbabwean movie Nzara – Hunger in 2020. It was screened at Poland's prestigious Festiwal Filmów Fabularnych in Gdynia in 2021.

• Gulrukh Abdikadirova  

• Jennifer Ahn
  Served as concertmaster for MSM’s Philharmonia and Chamber Orchestra and was most recently featured as a soloist with the String Orchestra. She joins NYYS as Orchestra Manager starting in 2021.

• Vivek Jayaraman  

• Long Long Kang
  First violin section of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra.  In the past, he has also been a member of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra and Rockefeller Quartet in Little Rock, AR, during the 2005~2006 season. In addition, he has performed with numerous orchestras and chamber ensembles in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including performances at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York City. Dr. Kang has won many awards and scholarships, including prizes at the Taipei City Violin Competition (Gold Medal) and Taiwan National Violin Competition, a Yamaha Academic Scholarship, a graduate assistantship at the University of Memphis, and was the winner of the concerto competition at the University of Memphis in 2007.  

• Agnieszka Kozlowska  

• Agnieszka Laskus
  Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra executive director  

• Melody Lee
  Appearances as soloist include those with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Colburn Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra. She has been Concertmaster of the Colburn Orchestra as well as being Associate Concertmaster at the YMF Debut Orchestra in Los Angeles

• Kristin Pfeifer  

• Heidi Schaul-Yoder
  Psychotherapist

• Jung-Min Shin
  Principal Second Violin audition in May 2022 after previously serving as Acting Principal Second Violin. She has been in the Section Second Violin of the Nashville Symphony since 2016. Prior to joining the Nashville Symphony, she was a violinist of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra from 2012 to 2015. She served as the Associate Concertmaster of the Evansville Philharmonic and the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra from 2008 to 2012. During her tenure with the Evansville Philharmonic, Ms. Shin was an Artist in Residence at the University of Evansville as a member of the Eykamp String Quartet.  

• Thomas Yee
  Founded the boutique violin shop Bay Fine Strings in San Jose and represent master workshop, antique, & contemporary violin family instruments & bows, along with instrument rentals, and their accessories

• Yanbo Zhao  

• Jennifer Ahn  

• Megan M. Atchley
  Artistic Director for the Firey Strings Company and member of new music/jazz/hip-hop collective ShoutHouse, as well as a frequent performer with various new music ensembles including Wordless Music Orchestra

• Laura Bellhouse  

• Lai Kheng Chan  

• Seth Freeman
  Bridgeland Orchestra Director

• Daniel Gilbert
  Collaborated with the Twin Cities Film Festival, CAP Agency, Hennepin Arts, Rudy's Kids Foundation, MN Bride Awards,  Champagne Ivy Events, Metlen Energy & Metals, The Omicron Boule Foundation, Coldwell Banker Realtor, Make-A-Wish Foundation of Minnesota, Sickle Cell Foundation of Minnesota, Hope Chest Breast Cancer Foundation, The Museum of Russian Art, Big Ten Women's and Men's Basketball Tournaments, Bloomington Symphony Orchestra, MEDA, GenNow Entertainment, Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Vikings and Minnesota Lynx, Edina Realty, Minnesota Zoo, Como Zoo, Haus of Sonder, and MN Fashion Week. 

• Anita Hiradhar  

• Vivek Jayaraman  

• Agnieszka Laskus  

• Sorah Lena Myung
  Faculty member at Irvine Valley College, Vanguard University and Chamber Music OC Pre-College while she plays frequently with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in Orange County, Southern California.

• Andrea Oh
  Nexus String Quartet as 2nd violinist. Soon after joining the quartet, Nexus was anointed Graduate Quartet-in-Residence at Kent State University under the Miami String Quartet. During their residency, the quartet won Grand Prize of the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, were Semi-Finalists of the prestigious Concert Artist Guild and also became Quartet-in-Residence at both the Banff Music Festival and Aspen Music Festival. Following her career with the Nexus String Quartet, Andrea continued pursuing her orchestral career and became acting Assistant Principal 2nd Violin of the Berkeley Symphony and shortly thereafter joined the 1st violin section of the Kansas City Symphony under Michael Stern

• Tony Song  

• Madeline Capistran  

• Ann Fink
  St Louis Symphony, A certified Suzuki Violin teacher, Ann Fink has worked as violin faculty at the Preparatory Center at Brooklyn College, Lucy Moses School, and the Music Institute of Long Island.

• Anita Hiradhar  

• Jeannette Jang
  Jang joined the Richmond Symphony in the fall of 2012, and was appointed Associate Principal Second Violin in the fall of 2024; prior to her move to Virginia, she was a Fellow with New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL. She served as concertmaster under such conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Slatkin, David Robertson and James Conlon, and she soloed with the orchestra as a winner of their concerto showcase.

• William Kang
  Played with the Louisiana Philharmonic and the Florida Orchestra when the injury that sidelined him for a few months made him wonder what he would ever do if he found out he couldn’t play anymore. Instead of using his hands to make music, he decided to use them to heal, enrolling in medical school in 2009 and  started the UCF chapter of the American Medical Student Association

• Shaw Pong Liu
  Founding member of Play for Justice, a network of musicians and artists in Boston supporting social justice causes. Her compositions have been commissioned by Silkroad Ensemble for the Freer-Sackler Museum, Anikaya Dance Theatre, A Far Cry, Lorelei Ensemble, and pianist Sarah Bob. As a violinist she performs with groups including Silk Road Ensemble, MIT’s Gamelan GalakTika, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Ludovico Ensemble, and Castle of Our Skins. She has worked as a teaching artist with Yo-Yo Ma's Youth Music Culture Guangzhou, the New England Conservatory of Music, the Urbano Project, Celebrity Series, Cantata Singers, Young Audiences, and Cuerdas Oaxaca strings chamber music festival in Mexico.

• Emma R. Lundgren  

• Margo Meyer  

• Geronimo Oyenard
  ASO's music librarian, as well as a member of the String Academy faculty.  

• Misako Sotozaki  

• Andrea Springer  

• Heather Wittels
  A member of the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra first violin section where she was the co-Acting Assistant Concertmaster for the 2021-23 seasons. She is the Director of Chamber Music at the University of Chicago, and Artist Faculty at Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts. Since 2022, Heather spends her summers serving as Concertmaster of the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria.

• Janis Bales  

• Jun-Yuan Lambert Chen
  Chen is currently a member of the Sela Trio and the Voxpopuli Quartet. He has been invited as a chamber musician by various series and festivals in America and Europe. He is the recipient of the McGill University Gold Violin Award and the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award, and has been a prizewinner in the New England Conservatory Competition and the MSO Competition, as well as a finalist in the prestigious Primrose International Viola Competition.

• Noelia Cruz Vazquez  

• Liana Gadeliya
  Founding member of the Gourdjia- Coppey- Laul piano trio. The trio has been invited the perform in many prestigious venues including the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the West Cork festival

• Heather Goodchild  

• Katie Joy Heise  

• Sherry Hong
  Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra first violin section since 2007, and as Acting Associate Principal Second Violin since February 2022. During her tenure, she has been a featured soloist in Yuletide Celebration, subscription Pops Series concerts, Symphony on the Prairie, and has collaborated on numerous chamber music outreach programs

• Tori Lindsay  

• Emily Claire Mattson  

• Andrea Oh  

• Grace Yang  

• Enen Yu
  Enen Yu, co-concertmaster of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra, is also the concertmaster for Mobile Opera, Pensacola Opera, and the Northwest Florida Ballet.

• Annie Aderman  

• Isaac Allen
  Artist Faculty at San Diego State University

• Aroussiak Baltaian
  Currently serves on the faculty of the Music Department at the Master’s College. She is also a member of the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. 

• Liana Berube
  Co-founder and for 13 years violinist of the Delphi Trio. Concerto performances include appearances with Thirteen Strings Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonia Toronto, Bear Valley Music Festival Orchestra, the Oakland Symphony, the Eureka Symphony, the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. She has been broadcast on NPR, CBC, VH1, WFMT Chicago, and Dutch Radio 4

• Christine Choi
  A recipient of numerous awards including the Menuhin-Dowling Young Musicians Award, top prizewinner & recipient of the Lawrence Bedini Scholarship at the Stewart Brady Competition, the Janet Spoor Achievement Award Fellowship, and top honors at the Union City Young Artist Competition, Lillian Fuchs Chamber Music Competition, and Duxbury Music Festival Competitions. 

• Gabriel Giles  

• Charlotte Lalita Gopinath  

• Min-Jeong Koh
  As first violinist of the Cecilia String Quartet, Ms. Koh won First Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition, 2nd Prize at the Osaka International Music Competition, and the Prix de la Sacem at the Bordeaux String Quartet Competition. Their latest recording was chosen as Gramophone Magazine’s “Editor’s Choice”, “Top 10 Mendelssohn Recordings” and was nominated for a JUNO Award for Best Classical Album.  

• Tori Lindsay  

• Amy Yong Kyung Park  

• Andrea Springer  

• Hannah Yu  

• Grant Austin Boyd Gilman  

• Ned Horner
  Private studio teacher

• Elizabeth Huffman
  Assistant Concertmaster with the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, section violin with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, and section violin with the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra.

• Sarah T. Jacques  

• Drew Jurecka
  Drew plays and tours regularly with several groups, Venuti String Quartet, Payadora, Schmaltz & Pepper, and the Drew Jurecka Trio 

• Charlie Rickenbacker  

• Kathleen Sloan
  Has recorded hundreds of films scores from John William's Star Wars to record dates with Sir Paul McCartney, Madonna and Beyonce. 

• Ashoka Thiagarajan
  Has been a part of countless scoring sessions including Straight Outta Compton, Oblivion, Aloha, Ride Along 2, Rio 2, Baywatch, and live performances with composers such as John Williams and Jeff Beal.

• Gerardo Ubaghs
  Frontier Medicines’ Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Frontier Medicines, Gerardo was a Managing Director in the Global Healthcare Investment Banking Group at Bank of America Securities. He brings over 10 years of advisory and capital markets experience in biopharma and computationally enabled drug discovery, having executed over $12 billion in equity and equity-linked financings and over $100 billion in M&A and strategic transactions. Prior to his investment banking career, Gerardo was a professional solo classical violinist and chamber musician, performing across the United States, Europe, South Africa and Asia. 

• Rebekah Wolkstein
  Founder and leader of Payadora Tango Ensemble, co-founder of Schmaltz & Pepper and first violinist of the Venuti String Quartet. 

• Beth Youngblood
  Two-time Arizona State fiddle champion and an Arizona State Twin Fiddle champion. In addition to her varied solo engagements, Beth is Concertmaster of the Symphony of the Southwest, and performs as a member of string ensembles Urban Electra and The Covergirls Violin Show.

• Zara Zaharieva
  Has performed with the band Chicago, Los Hacheros, shared the stage with Jennifer Hudson, performed numerous times at Carnegie Hall, a Deepak Chopra convention, shared the stage with famous Latin Rock Group Mana as well as Lowen and Navarro, Kygo, Sharay Reed, Ernie Adams, Orbert Davis Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Jazz phenom Eldar Djangirov, Gospel Legend Donald Lawrence, Cover Girls Violin Show, Guitarra Azul, Joshua Ramos, Victor Garcia, Makaya McCraven, Darwin Hobbs, Hutch Hutchinson, Yolanda Adams, Arturo Sandoval at Hollywood Bowl with Henry Mancini festival orchestra, Ray Chew, Lawrence Brownlee, Shirley Caesar, Kurt Carr, Olen Cesari, Donnie McClurkin, Richard Smallwood, Bebe Winans, Ledisi, Dionne Warwick, New Faith Church choir from Cape Town, South Africa, Avery Sunshine and many more.

• Annie Aderman  

• Jose Francisco Bastardes
  His career extends from the Baroque and Classical periods to the contemporary repertoire championing the works by such composers as Kirk Miller and Jens Joneleit. Formerly a faculty member at the Madison School of Music he has also performed and taught at the University of Wisconsin Madison and at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

• Marc Benzekri  

• Joan Espina Dea  

• Elizabeth Huffman  

• Sarah Pace LeFevre  

• Evgeny Moryatov  

• Felipe Rodriguez  

• Ashoka Thiagarajan  

• Kristopher Tong
  Co-chair of strings, New England Conservatory

• Melissa Tong
  Has worked with Post Malone and many Broadway shows

• Rebekah Wolkstein 

• Lauren Basney
  Has performed with members of the Tokyo, Juilliard, Shanghai, Colorado, Maia, and Daedalus String Quartets, and has appeared in masterclass for the Guarneri, Emerson, Takacs, and Ying Quartets. She has performed as a member of the Latett Duo, the Aristos Quartet, the New York Piano Trio, New York‘s Shuffle Ensemble, Classical Revolution Madison, and the Live Music Project. Between 2009-2022, she appeared with the California-based Orvieto Piano Trio, with appearances in southern California, Vancouver (British Columbia), and western Michigan, and since 2022, she has given regular performances as violinist of the Redwood Trio.

• Julia Cser  

• Sarah Cullen
  Suzuki violin teacher

• Thomas Hagerman
  Denver based musician, arranger, educator and composer best known for his multi-instrumentalist role in the Grammy nominated rock band, Devotchka.  He has written, recorded or arranged music for many artists and arts organizations including Eric Bachman, Calexico, Neko Case, Sage Francis, Al Green, She and Him, Gregory Alan Isakov, Bettye Lavette,  Amos Lee, Lettuce, The Flaming Lips, The Lumineers, Ingrid Michaelson, Opiuo, Pretty Lights, Nathaniel Rateliff, The Colorado Symphony, The Tucson Symphony, The Wyoming Symphony, Trampled By Turtles, M. Ward, Wonderbound, and The Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

• Catherine Jang  

• Wayne Yi-Wen Lin  

• Sarah Pratt
  New York City Ballet Orchestra. She also performs regularly as a substitute with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic, with whom she has traveled on tours across the United States, Europe and Asia.  She is a member of the New York City Opera Orchestra, a position she has held since 2006. Sarah has served as guest concertmaster of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Hartford Symphony Orchestra, and others. 

• TawnaLyn Noyes
  Suzuki violin teacher

• Felipe Rodriguez  

• Jie Tao  

• Kristopher Tong
• Melissa Tong