A renowned performer and teacher throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe, JOSEPH LIN is on the faculty of the Juilliard School where he teaches violin and chamber music. First violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet from 2011 to 2018, Lin’s special projects since then have included complete cycles of the Bach Sonatas and Partitas; period instrument performances of Beethoven, Schubert, and Bach; Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto; and Musicians from Marlboro tours on violin and viola.
As a professor at Cornell from 2007 to 2011, Joseph Lin organized the inaugural Chinese Musicians Residency and led a project with Cornell composers to create new music inspired by Bach. Lin’s recordings include the music of Korngold and Busoni; an album of Debussy, Franck, and Milhaud; and the complete unaccompanied works of Bach and Ysaÿe. His recording of Mozart’s A major Concerto with original cadenzas was released in 2017. With the Juilliard Quartet, Lin recorded Schubert’s Death and the Maiden, Carter’s Fifth Quartet, as well as the JSQ’s album of Beethoven, Davidovsky, and Bartók.
KERSON LEONG has been described as “not just one of Canada’s greatest violinists but one of the greatest violinists, period” (Toronto Star). Forging a unique path since his First Prize win at the International Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition in 2010, he continues to win over colleagues and audiences alike with “a mixture of spontaneity and mastery, elegance, fantasy, intensity that makes his sound recognizable from the first notes” (Le Monde). 
New Zealand-born violinist GENEVA LEWIS has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry whose performances speak from and to the heart and who has been lauded for the “remarkable mastery of her instrument” (CVNC) and hailed as “clearly one to watch” (Musical America). 
Taiwanese-American violinist YUN-TING LEE joined the second violin section of The Cleveland Orchestra in 2013. He received his Bachelor and Master degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where his principal teachers were David Cerone, William Preucil, and David Updegraff. He has also studied with Dr. Phyllis Skoldberg and Ming-De Zhang.
As soloist YURA LEE has appeared with The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Tokyo Philharmonic, among others. A member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Boston Chamber Music Society, she regularly takes part in the Marlboro, Salzburg Verbier, Kronberbg, Aspen, and Caramoor festivals, La Jolla SummerFest, and Seattle Chamber Music Festival. She has collaborated with Gidon Kremer, Andras Schiff, Leonidas Kavakos, Mitsuko Uchida, Miklós Perényi, Yuri Bashmet, Menahem Pressler, and Frans Helmerson. Ms. Lee was the only first prize winner awarded across four categories at the 2013 ARD Competition in Germany. She took first prize and audience prize at the 2006 Leopold Mozart Competition, and first prize at the 2010 UNISA International Competition and 2013 Yuri Bashmet International Competition. At twelve, she was the youngest artist ever to receive the Debut Artist of the Year prize at National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” awards. She is also the recipient of Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Career Grant. She was represented by Carnegie Hall for its ECHO (European Concert Hall Organization) series, giving recitals at Weill Recital Hall and major halls in Europe. Her recording with Reinhard Goebel and the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, Mozart in Paris, received the Diapason d’Or Award.
KRISTIN LEE 
Violinist ALEXI KENNEY
American-Russian violinist MARIA IOUDENITCH captured the attention of music lovers worldwide in 2021 when she received first prizes in three international violin competitions – the Ysaÿe, Tibor Varga and Joseph Joachim – as well as numerous special prizes at these competitions, including Joachim’s Chamber Music Award, the prize for Best Interpretation of a Commissioned Work and the Henle Urtext Prize. In 2023, she won the Opus Klassik Award in the category “Chamber Music Recording of the Year” for her debut album, Songbird, on Warner Classics. 
Described as “superb” by the Chicago Classical Review, violinist NJIOMA CHINYERE GREVIOUS is an emerging, passionate and versatile solo, chamber and orchestral musician and performer. She is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a winner of its John Erskine Prize for scholastic and artistic achievement. In 2023, Njioma won the Robert F. Smith First Prize and the Audience Choice awards in the Senior Division of the Sphinx Competition and joint selection in the CAG/YCAT artist auditions. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Chicago Philharmonic, Western Michigan Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and the Sphinx Virtuoso. As a chamber player, Njioma has performed in series including the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Rockport Chamber Music Festival and the Jupiter Chamber Players. She is a founding member of the award-winning Abeo Quartet, which has won prizes at Bad Tolz and Yellow Springs and was invited to participate in the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition. 
Canadian violinist JACQUES FORESTIER has delighted audiences in concert halls across North America, Europe, and Asia. Hailed by CBC Music as one of the “Top 30 Hot Classical Musicians Under 30”, Jacques began his studies at the age of two under the instruction of his mother and currently holds the Thomas D. Watkins Fellowship at the Curtis Institute of Music studying with Shmuel Ashkenasi and Pamela Frank as well as Itzhak Perlman at the Perlman Music Program. A top prize winner at the Stulberg International Strings Competition, the Irving M. Klein International Strings Competition, the Johansen International Competition, the Shean Strings Competition, and the OSM Manulife Competition, among others, Jacques made his solo début with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Bill Eddins at the age of 11 and has since gone on to perform with orchestras and ensembles internationally. Jacques is grateful for the support of many including the Anne Burrows & Edmonton Community Foundations for their generosity in supporting his education.