Sheryl Lee, Piano/Artistic Director Canadian pianist, collaborator, and producer Sheryl Lee has shown exceptional musical talent from an early age. She began her piano studies at the age of four and made her orchestral debut with Utah Symphony under the baton of Joseph Silverstein at age twelve. Two years later, Ms. Lee moved to New York to attend The Juilliard School. Ms. Lee gave her New York debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital and has garnered international acclaim for her solo and orchestral performances across Asia, Europe, Canada and the United States. An avid chamber musician and a champion of exploring new music, she has been an active performer at Maverick Chamber Music Festival (USA), Centre d’Arts Orford (Canada), Sarasota (Florida), Casalmaggiore (Italy), Wintergreen (USA), The Banff Centre (Canada) and Aspen Music Festivals. She has also worked with members of the Tokyo, Brentano and Emerson String Quartets. Ms. Lee received her education at New York University, University of Southern California and Yale University where she was a full scholarship recipient of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund. Her teachers have included John Perry, Peter Frankl, Marc Durand, Eduardus Halim, Hamish Milne and Christopher Elton. She was formerly the marketing director at Carl Fischer Music Publishing, and has served as an Adjunct Instructor of Piano at New York University. Currently, Ms. Lee is the faculty at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York and New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program. She is the founder and artistic director of Matrix Music Collaborators, a New York-based mixed ensemble dedicated to the exploration of interdisciplinary collaborations and preserving the tradition of live performances. In 2008, Ms. Lee will further pursue her career development in the Music & Sound Winter Residency Program at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada.
	Yoon Kwon, Violin Violinist Yoon Kwon began her professional career in 1993 as a thirteen-year-old, joining the roster of IMG Artists, alongside such artists as Itzhak Perlman and Joshua Bell. In addition to her solo appearances, she is currently the youngest first violinist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, a member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society Two, and the lead violinist of the jazz ensemble, Emergence, appearing regularly in New York City's jazz clubs. Yoon has concertized extensively as soloist in four continents; her US appearances include performances with symphonies such as Cincinnati, Chicago, Colorado, Greenville, Houston, Honolulu, Phoenix, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, St. Louis, and Wichita, to name a few. Yoon Kwon released her debut CD on the BMG/RCA Red Seal label in Korea in 1997 to critical acclaim, becoming the first Korean artist to record for the label. She has also recorded a duo album titled You and Me, Anthony Newman's Sonata for Violin and Piano with the composer at the piano, and with her jazz band on the album Phoenix on the Songlines label. Her recital credits include Ravinia Rising Stars Series, St. Louis Great Artist Series, La Jolla Discovery Series, Aspen Winter Series, and under the auspices of Columbia Artists Community Concerts, she toured over 120 cities in recitals and master classes across the US. Yoon Kwon is also a frequent performer at summer festivals, including Marlboro, Aspen, Santa Fe, La Jolla, Tanglewood, Vancouver, Rome, (Italy), Kuhmo (Finland), and, Verbier (Switzerland). A native of Seoul, Korea, Yoon Kwon started the violin at the age of six, and two years later was accepted into the Juilliard School, where she studied with the late Dorothy DeLay. In 1997, at the age of the 17, she made her New York debut in Avery Fisher Hall. Ms. Kwon received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees as well as the prestigious Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School where she studied with Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Cho-Liang Lin, and Donald Weilerstein. She was the recipient of the Avery Fisher Stradivarius on loan from The Juilliard School and Sennhouser Guarnerius del Gesu on loan from the Stradivari Society. She also enjoys teaching, and has taught at Columbia University's Young Musicians Program, Kuhmo International Music Course in Finland, and as assistant to Cho-Liang Lin, at The Juilliard School.
	Miho Saegusa , Violin Violinist Miho Saegusa has been appointed to a one-year position as Assistant Concertmaster of the Kansas City Symphony for the 2007-2008 season. She has performed as soloist with the New Jersey Symphony, Aspen Chamber Symphony, Aspen Concert Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra, and the Yale Symphony Orchestra, among others. An active chamber musician, Ms. Saegusa has collaborated with the Argento New Music Project, Quartet Accorda, and the Andsnes Project in Zankel Hall. In the summer of 2008 she will return for her third season at the Marlboro Music Festival, and will tour with Musicians from Marlboro in December 2008. In 2004 she was one of nine musicians selected for the International Workshop of Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival in California directed by Wu Han and David Finckel. Other highlights include the Kitakyushu International Music Festival at Hibiki Hall, a week-long string quartet residency for Music@Menlo, and recitals in Japan's Katsuyama Civic Center, Kita-Kyushu's Move Hall, and the Sanyo Shinpan Building of Fukuoka, as well as New York's Paul Hall. Ms. Saegusa has been a member of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra since 2001, and has held the Isaac Stern Concertmaster Chair on numerous occasions. She attended the Aspen Music Festival for thirteen summers, and was the assistant concertmaster of the Aspen Chamber Symphony for three seasons. As the first-ever recipient of the Aspen Music Festival and School's Dorothy DeLay Fellowship, Ms. Saegusa performed in the Festival's 2002 memorial tribute to Miss DeLay with the Aspen Chamber Symphony and conductor David Zinman. Additional honors include prizes at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Auditions, the Wieniawski-Lipinski International Competition, the Yehudi Menuhin International Competition, and Yale University's William Waite Competition. Born in Kitakyushu, Japan, Ms. Saegusa has played the violin since the age of five, and her principal teachers include Masao Kawasaki and the late Dorothy DeLay. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree at Yale University in 2001, and completed graduate work at The Juilliard School, earning her Master of Music in 2003 and Artist Diploma in 2005.
	Yuri Namkung , Violin Violinist Yuri Namkung was born in Seattle, Washington. Her concert debut came at the age of nine with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra. In 1995, she was invited by Gerard Schwarz to perform with the Seattle Symphony and was immediately re-engaged for a second performance in 1996. Since then, she has been performing throughout the United States and made her European debut with the Zürich-Tonhalle Orchestra in Switzerland under the direction and invitation of David Zinman in 2002. In 2004 she and violinist Cho-Liang Lin performed the Bach Double Concerto with the Seattle Symphony and again in 2005 with the Orchestra of St.Luke's at Alice Tully Hall under conductor Li Jian. This concert was presented by the Musicians Emergency Fund, of which Miss Namkung was awarded the MEF Junior Award. In 2007, she appeared in concert with Li Jian and Kyoko Takezawa at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall. Additional concerto appearances have been with the Greenville Symphony in South Carolina, Westchester Philharmonic, Wyoming Symphony, Olympia Symphony, Orchestra Seattle, Seattle Youth Symphony, Sarah Lawrence Orchestra, Yonkers Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, and Dubuque Symphony in Iowa. In April of 2008, she will appear with the Woodlands Symphony in Texas. In recital, Miss Namkung most recently appeared with pianist Gloria Chien and clarinetist Anthony McGill at Lee University's Squires Recital Series in Tennessee. She has appeared in Temple Emanu'el's Young Artists Recital Series, Young Artists Forum in Schenectady, the Bohemians Society Professional Music Club of New York, Merkin Hall, throughout Washington state, and extensively in the Aspen Music Festival. In 2004, she was invited to perform the Lou Harrison Concerto for Violin and Percussion in Phoenix, Arizona with Crossing 32nd Street, Phoenix's Premiere Contemporary and Experimental Music Ensemble. Last year, she appeared in recital with pianist Orion Weiss in Seattle and Naumburg winner Jorge Caballero at the Masonic Lodge of New York. Miss Namkung is the first place gold prize winner of the J.Stulberg International String Competition in 2000 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. As chamber musician, she has collaborated with artists Atar Arad, Miriam Fried, and Frans Helmerson at Ravinia Music Festival's Steans Institute for Young Artists in 2002 and 2003. She also appeared at the Gardner Museum's Open Air Concert Series in Boston and Indiana University's Summer Chamber Music Series. In 2004 she was invited to La Jolla Chamber Music Society's SummerFest where she performed with Ralph Kirshbaum, Paul Neubauer, Heidi Grant-Murphy, and Jeffrey Kahane. Her string trio has been set to appear at John Zorn's new venue, The Stone, performing the Schoenberg, Charles Wuorinen and John Zorn String Trios. Additionally, the trio was recently asked to premier composer Mario Davidovsky's Quartet No.4 for Clarinet and String Trio. She also performed with the Avalon Quartet and clarinetist Alex Fiterstein in Hartford, Connecticut and at the Music Mountain Festival. Lyric Chamber Music Society continues to regularly present Miss Namkung in concert since 2005 clarinetist Igor Begelman, members of the New York Philharmonic, and others. Since 2004 she has also made regular appearances at Barge Music in Brooklyn. She has also performed with the Claremont Trio at the 92nd Street Y and has made other appearances throughout New York at the Kaplan Penthouse, Merkin Hall, Miller theatre, Tenri Institute, at MoMA's SummerGarden Series 2005, and at the Kosciuszko Foundation as chamber musician and soloist. Her piano trio made their official debut as the Moët Trio last summer where they were artists-in-residence at the National Arts Centre Young Artists Program in Ottawa and at Music@Menlo where they have been invited to the festival's Winter Residency 2007. They have been awarded a two-year residency at the New England Conservatory for their Professional Piano Trio Program, which begins in the fall of 2007. Performances with the trio include the Kennedy Center and Jordan Hall in 2008. She was also recently invited to participate in a recording led by Robert Craft, for the Naxos label where she was joined by artists such as Todd Phillips of the Orion String Quartet, Fred Sherry, Jennifer Frautschi, Timothy Cobb, and others. Miss Namkung has also appeared with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Argento Chamber Ensemble and Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra. She graduated from Columbia University in 2005 with an undergraduate degree in Psychology and received her Masters degree at Juilliard in 2006 where she worked with Cho-Liang Lin and Donald Weilerstein. She currently studies with Donald Weilerstein and Miriam Fried in the Graduate Diploma Program at the New England Conservatory of Music.
	Wendy Law, Cello Cellist Wendy Law has appeared as soloist with renowned orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Russian Philharmonic, and Juilliard Orchestra. Ms. Law has performed throughout North America, appearing in such venues as General Assembly at the United Nations, Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the J.F. Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C., and Jordan Hall, Boston. An active chamber musician, she has collaborated with the Borromeo String Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma and Pamela Frank among others. A proponent of the interdisciplinary arts, Ms. Law collaborates with artists from other genres. Past collaborations of note include performances of the Bach Cello Suites with the Juilliard Dance Ensemble choreographed by Igal Perry, Mark Morris Dance Group, VisionIntoArt, and performances in the thematic interdisciplinary series "Voyage To The Exotics" (a series created and founded by Ms. Law in 2002). One of the programs "Voyage-a Folk Tale", has been featured in Japan's NHK TV documentary series "New York Streets," which was broadcast nationwide. Concerts will take her across the country this upcoming season including performances in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Chicago, and an east coast tour with "Musicians From Marlboro." In addition to her active performance schedule, Ms. Law is a Teaching Artist at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and a founder of "Classical Jam Inc.", an organization that advocates for the art of Classical Music. Ms. Law received her Master of Music and the prestigious Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School.
	Paul Wiancko, Cello/Arranger Acclaimed cellist Paul Wiancko made his Los Angeles solo debut at age 16, performing at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. He has since been a featured performer at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Irvine Barclay Theater, Thorne Hall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Walt Disney Concert Hall, among others. Last year, Paul received the grand prize at the Pasadena Showcase Competition. Shortly after, he became the only American to be invited to compete in the Lutoslawski International Cello Competition in Poland, where he was awarded 2nd Prize. Paul has won prizes at numerous other competitions, including John Walker, ASTA, and Debut. A recipient of the Los Angeles Spotlight Award, Paul has also received scholarship awards from the Los Angeles Violoncello Society and the Philharmonic Society of Orange County. Paul is currently the principal cellist of the Colburn Orchestra in Los Angeles and has held the principal cello position in the Disney Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra, the Colburn Chamber Orchestra, and, while pursuing a bachelor of music degree at the University of Southern California, in the USC Thornton Symphony. As an orchestral cellist, Paul has accompanied a wide array of performers, including Yo-Yo Ma, Joseph Silverstein, Joshua Bell, and Christopher Parkening. A polished chamber musician as well, Paul has performed alongside Midori Goto, Paul Coletti, Ronald Leonard, Martin Chalifour, Henry Gronnier, Ricardo Castro, and members of the Ysaye String Quartet. His past chamber music coaches include Itzhak Perlman, Samuel Rhodes, Joel Smirnoff, Donald Weillerstein, and Norman Krieger. Aside from classical performance, Paul has also garnered respect as an accomplished studio musician, composer, and producer. Capable of weaving his cello into any genre, Paul has produced and recorded many independent projects, including one of his own compositions; the highly anticipated “Hip-Hop Cello Concerto No. 1” is scheduled to be released later this year. During the summer of 2006, Paul founded LiveStringTheory, a recording studio devoted to the production of live strings in non-classical music; he has collaborated with producers from around the country and has written and recorded string parts for numerous albums, films, and commercials. Producer Andrew Bojanic of the Wizardz of Oz (Avril Lavigne, Liz Phair) says: "Paul has an amazing pop sensibility that not many classical musicians have." In March of 2007, Paul made his European solo debut, performing the Lutoslawki Cello Concerto with the Polish Radio Symphony at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. Paul is pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles, where he studies with Ronald Leonard.
	Bronwyn Banerdt, Cello Cellist Bronwyn Banerdt has appeared in concert throughout the United States, Europe, Russia, and southern Africa. She made her Los Angeles Philharmonic solo debut in 2002, and next season she will perform Barber's Cello Concerto with the New Jersey Symphony. Other notable solo appearances include performances with the New West Symphony, Symphony in C (formerly Haddonfield Symphony), the Long Beach Mozart Festival Orchestra, and the New England Symphonic Ensemble, as well as the world premiere of Poem by Michael Kamen with the YMF Debut Orchestra. She has appeared at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., and noted composer John Rutter personally invited her to play the cello solo from his Requiem in Carnegie Hall. Ms. Banerdt was awarded Grand Prize at the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Bronislaw Kaper Awards. She has also captured top prizes at the Kingsville Music Competition, the Pasadena Instrumental Competition, Young Artists Peninsula Music Festival, Discovery Artists, and the Long Beach Mozart Festival Concerto Competition, as well as being a two-time prizewinner at the YMF Debut Competition. Last spring Ms. Banerdt served as cellist in the Naumberg Award-winning Biava Quartet. She frequently collaborates with renowned artists such as Midori, Soovin Kim, James Buswell, Steven Tenenbom, Barbara Westphal, and Jeremy Denk. She has participated in numerous festivals including the Taos School of Music, the Perlman Music Program, the Sarasota Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West. She is currently a member of the New York-based Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and Matrix Music Collaborators. Ms. Banerdt has performed as a substitute with the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2005. She has held principal positions with Symphony in C, YMF Debut Orchestra, American Youth Symphony, the New York String Orchestra, and the Curtis Opera Orchestra. She has also played in the New World Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. A native of Los Angeles, Ms. Banerdt earned her Bachelor's Degree at age 19 from the USC Thornton School of Music, where she studied with Ronald Leonard, and this year she completes her Artist's Diploma as a student of David Soyer at The Curtis Institute of Music. Ms. Banerdt plays a 1996 Mario Miralles cello on a Montanagna model, which is on generous loan from The Maestro Foundation.
	Sarah Schram, Oboe Sarah Schram, oboist, maintains an active orchestral and chamber music career. She has performed with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Long Island Philharmonic, and the New Haven Symphony. In addition, her Broadway credits include Les Miserables and Wicked. Equally at home with contemporary music, she has performed with the American Modern Ensemble, June in Buffalo, the Next Wave Festival, and at the Miller Theater in the Composer Potraits series. She has performed at various festivals, including Sarasota, Spoleto USA, Roundtop, Banff, AIMS in Graz, and the Amherst Early Music Festival. Ms. Schram studied at the Eastman School of Music (B.M.) and Yale University (M.M.) with Richard Killmer. She is on the faculty of the Diller-Quaile School of Music and the Calhoun School.
	Romie Deguise-Langlois, Clarinet Born in Montreal, clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois just completed the Artist Diploma Program at Yale School of Music, where she recently won first prize in the Woolsey Hall Competition and obtained the Nyfenger Memorial Prize for excellence in woodwind playing. Having completed a Bachelor of Music at McGill University in Montreal, studying with Michael Dumouchel, she holds a Master of Music from Yale School of Music under David Shifrin. She was pursuing her studies at Yale on grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. Ms. de Guise-Langlois won first place at the McGill University Classical Concerto Competition and received the Canadian Broadcasting Company award in 2003. In 2006, Ms.de Guise-Langlois recorded a recital program for Radio-Canada, les Jeunes Artistes d’Espace Musique and gave recitals and master classes in China. Romie has participated in many summer festivals, studying with André Moisan, Karl Leister, James Cambell, Robert Riseling, Fan Lei, Charles Niedich and Franklin Cohen. She has appeared at the Banff Festival of Music, the Orford Arts Centre and Marlboro Music Festival as well as in Marlboro tours. She is presently a fellow of The Academy-A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Julliard School, and The Weill Music Institute.
	Justin Berrie, Flute Flutist Justin Berrie enjoys performing classical music in intimate as well as traditional concert hall settings. In 2004, Mr. Berrie joined the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini (Parma, Italy) as principal flute at the invitation of Music Director, Lorin Maazel. With that ensemble he has performed throughout Italy, as well as on tours to Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, USA, China and Japan. Additionally, Mr. Berrie performs with the Sinfonietta Porta Ferrado in St. Feliu de Guixols, Spain. An extreme lover of orchestral music, he has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, New Haven Symphony, Springfield (MA) Symphony, New World Symphony and most recently as guest Assistant Principal Flute with the Saint Louis Symphony. Mr. Berrie earned a Master of Music Degree from the Juilliard School in 2004 as a student of Robert Langevin and Sandra Church, and a Bachelor of Music Degree and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music as a student of Bonita Boyd. He also holds a degree in Economics from the University of Rochester. His summer time activities have included five wonderful years at the Aspen Music Festival, as well as the Sarasota Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California.
	Caia Lacour, French Horn Caia LaCour began her Masters degree at Yale in 2003 with horn professor William Purvis, and has recently completed the last year of her Artist diploma. She has attended the Sarasota Music Festival, the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, and the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival. In the Summer of 2002 she traveled to Lahti Finland to perform as a guest artist in the International Horn workshop. She has performed on numerous occasions with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and the Harrisburg Symphony. Recently, she participated in two chamber music series with the United States Coast Guard Band in New London. Caia is originally from Austin Texas where she was actively involved with the Austin Chamber Music society. She then went on to receive her Bachelor's Degree from the Eastman School of Music in 2002 where she studied with Peter Kurau. In 2000, she was asked to return home to Texas to participate as a clinician in the Texas Music Educator’s Association.
	Adrian Morejon, Bassoon Originally from Miami, Florida, Adrian Morejon completed his studies at the Yale School of Music, receiving both a Master in Music and an Artist Diploma while studying with Frank Morelli. Prior to this, he was a student of bassoonist Bernard Garfield and harpsichordist Lionel Party at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he received his Bachelor of Music in Bassoon and a Diploma in Harpsichord. Adrian has been co-principal bassoonist of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra since 2002. Since 2004, Adrian has been a founding member of Sospiro Winds, an award-winning wind quintet who recently won the Silver Prize at Fischoff. Since moving to New York in 2006, he has joined the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, the Second Instrumental Unit, the Matrix Music Collaborators, and Eupraxia. Adrian has performed with such orchestras as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the Haddonfield Symphony and the Taipei Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, he was a recipient of a Theodore Presser Foundation Grant and a prize winner of the Fox-Gillet International Competition in Melbourne, Australia. During the past summers, Adrian has participated in many festivals including the Monadnock Music Festival, the NJO Academy in the Netherlands, the Chamber Music Institute, Spoleto USA, the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Banff Centre, National Orchestral Institute, Music Academy of the West, the Verbier Festival and FOSJA in Puerto Rico.