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Taiwanese born violist and erhuist (Chinese violin), Wei-Yang Andy Lin, is recognized as one of the most promising and the only active performers who specialized in both western and eastern instruments. Praised by The Strad “The great Molto adagio…..elicited some of the night’s most sensitive work, especially from Wei-Yang Andy Lin on viola.” and New York Times “Taiwanese-born violist Wei-Yang Andy Lin..…is also a virtuoso on the erhu, and he gave a brilliant performance.” He is the artistic director and co-founder of the New Asia Chamber Music Society.
Violinist Joanna Frankel joined the Columbus Symphony on appointment as concertmaster in September of 2016 for the 2016/17 season. She officially assumed the role of concertmaster for the start of the 2017/18 season. Born in Philadelphia in 1982, Ms. Frankel began studying the violin at age 3 with The Suzuki Method. She trained in New York at The Juilliard School and received the prestigious ‘William Schuman Prize’ upon graduation.
Hailed for her "sweeping and bristling" sound and “impassioned” playing by the New York Times, Tema Watstein is an active chamber musician, educator, and psychology student based in New York City. Formerly a violinist in ETHEL, New York's premier "downtown" string quartet, she took great pride in her mission as a cultural and musical “pollinator,” bringing collaborative discoveries to audiences through multi-dimensional musical repertoire and community engagement. Through her tenure, ETHEL served as Ensemble in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Denison University. Tema also composed and performed works for the world premiere of Documerica at BAM.
David Kaplan, pianist, has been called “excellent and adventurous” by The New York Times, and praised by the Boston Globe for “grace and fire” at the keyboard. He has appeared at London’s Barbican Centre, at Miami’s Arsht Center.
Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, cellist Estelle Choi has garnered top prizes as a soloist and as a chamber musician. She has gained international recognition as a founding member of the Calidore String Quartet, praised by the New York Times for its “deep reserves of virtuosity and irrepressible dramatic instinct.”
Praised for his “excellent” and “precisely attuned” performances by the New York Times, percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum has developed a musical breadth far beyond his years.
Michael Shekwoaga Ode is a student of the game. Forever. Starting at a young age behind the kit, he quickly excelled and eventually landed a scholarship to the Oberlin Observatory, where he studied under the legend Billy Hart. With focus on musicality and a dedication to serving the music, Ode has created quite the name for himself in the Jazz World and created quite the resume…
Aidan Lombard, trumpet, was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Chicago. He began playing trumpet at age 10. Lombard attended the University of Miami as a Stamps Scholar and received a Bachelor of Music degree. He later received his master’s degree from the Berklee College of Music, where he performed with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute…
Georgia Heers is a vocalist and composer residing in Harlem. She recently moved to New York City from Greenville, South Carolina, to pursue her graduate studies at The Juilliard School. She aims to dedicate her life exploring the depths of music spanning across the African Diaspora. Georgia believes deeply in the healing components of music and artistic creation to cultivate community and healing.
The Wire magazine places Sara in the "tiny club of bassoon pioneers" at work in contemporary music today and the New York Times has called her "riveting, mixing textural experiments with a big, confident sound.” Originally from California now a Brooklyn resident, Sara focuses on the intersections between texture, melody and the ever-expanding notion of what the bassoon is capable of in both notated and improvised music…
Chris Ryan Williams (https://www.chriswilliamssound.com) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based between NYC and LA and most at home collaborating with contemporary improvisers and experimentalists. He has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe. His work explores the dyad of ancestral trauma and power existing in all Black Americans. Investigating this has led to the creation of the modular piece I Ain’t Got No Spare (2019) which interweaves performance, homemade electronics, sound and projection; presented at Clockshop with a second installation iteration at Shatto Gallery through CultureHub. Selected recent and upcoming projects include: mehahn a theatrical meditation on grief and hereditary dissonance created alongside director Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, Sans Soleil a duo with Patrick Shiroishi out on Astral Spirits (2021), On The Platform (2020) a collaboration with percussionist Booker Stardrum and animator Miranda Javid which premiered in the Netherlands at West Den Haag. Williams has received grants and/or been in residence with BANFF Centre for the Arts, Foundation of Contemporary Arts, CultureHub, Atlantic Center for the Arts, WasteLAnd, and others. Williams has collaborated with creators Eyvind Kang, Joanna Mattrey, Miriam Parker, Patrick Shiroishi, Bennie Maupin, Nicole Mitchell, Fay Victor, Wendy Eisenberg, Luke Stewart, Amanda Beech, Marjani Forte-Saunders, Eric Revis.
Hailed as “A fiery alto saxophonist and prolific composer” by the Star Tribune (Minneapolis), Aakash Mittal is sculpting a dynamic voice that mines the intersection of improvisation, composition, sonified movement, and noise. Mittal’s work explores universal designs while being rooted in both South Asian and American musical traditions…
Ananya Ganesh is a pianist, improviser, and composer from Madras. They are currently based in Brooklyn and working to decolonize sound curating and material change-making.
Originally from Costa Rica, Kenneth Jimenez is a bass player and composer currently based in New York City. He’s performed with artists Francisco Mela, Michael Attias, Tom Rainey, Satoshi Takeishi, Angelica Sanchez, Gerald Cleaver, Ingrid Laubrock, Stephen Scott, Brian Lynch, Gary Campbell, Roxana Amed, Martin Bejerano, Jose Luis de la Paz and Emilio Solla.
Sam Wenc (b. 1990; Western Massachusetts) is a composer and interdisciplinary artist working with sound, text, and video. As a multi-instrumentalist, he utilizes guitar, pedal steel guitar, vibraphone, electronics, field recordings, and found objects to compose modal, process-based works that seek to challenge and blur concepts of what constitutes “folk music”…
Steven Crammer is a Brooklyn based freelance drummer performing in a wide range of improvised musical contexts. His distinct voice on the instrument stems from a deep love and study of music from straight-ahead to free improvisation, metal to Indian classical…
Mathias is a musician who has worked professionally for over a decade. Music has brought him around the world, and he has toured through most of Europe, Israel and the US, and he has grown to become a musician with an acute sensitivity, and presence. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, Mathias Højgaard Jensen got involved with music at the age of 9 when he taught himself to read sheet music at the piano...