Pianist Judith Gordon explores diverse repertoire in collaboration with an exceptionally wide range of solo artists and ensembles. She was a member of the percussion-based Essential Music, focusing on the American Experimental tradition, and has been soloist in works from Bach and Ravel to Cage and Boulez with groups including the Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Gordon has been a consulting director of Music from Salem, in Washington County, NY, and the Harvard, MA, Chamber Music Workshop, as well as a featured performer at the Apple Hill, Bard, Bennington, Charlottesville, Music Mountain, Rockport, Santa Fe Chamber Music, and Tanglewood festivals. An associate professor of music at Smith College from 2006-20, she is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where she recently received an Outstanding Alumni Award. Now based in New Mexico, she plays regularly with the musicians of ChatterABQ.

Praised for his “persuasively emphatic and engaging” performances (Boston Musical Intelligencer), violist John Batchelder has captivated audiences as a passionate chamber musician, educator and administrator deeply committed to the values of chamber music. He has performed as soloist with numerous ensembles such as the Los Colinas Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Arlington, Garland Symphony Orchestra and Worcester Bach Consort as well as participated in various summer festivals such as The McGill International String Quartet Academy, the Banff Centre Masterclasses, St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar and Music from Salem, in Salem NY. As a member of the award winning Julius Quartet, John has performed coast to coast in the country’s most esteemed venues such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Moss Arts Center, Shalin Liu Performance Center, and Bing Concert Hall. Beginning his musical education in Boston, John is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory where he studied with Lila Brown, and of the John J. Cali School of Music Graduate String Quartet in Residence program where he studied with Honggang Li of the celebrated Shanghai Quartet. In addition to his work as a performer and educator, John now serves as Executive Director of the Dallas Chamber Music Society, now celebrating its 80th season. John performs on a viola crafted by Michele Deconet (Venice, 1780) that was previously played by Boris Kroyt of the Budapest String Quartet, loaned to him in memory of Boris and Sonya Kroyt.

Composer-pianist David Feurzeig is currently in the middle of a 10-year project to play a free concert in every one of Vermont’s 252 towns, to celebrate local community and to call into question the normality of long-distance travel in the face of the climate crisis: www.PlayEveryTown.com or #playeverytownvt. He specializes in genre-defying recitals that bring together music of a variety of musical styles and traditions, from ancient and classical to jazz, avant-garde, and popular, creating ear-opening programs that change how audiences hear all kinds of music.
A CD of his chamber music, Lingua Franca, is available on AMR/Naxos and all streaming platforms. He is currently a professor of music at the University of Vermont, where he teaches composition and theory; in Vermont, he has been commissioned by groups including the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Central Vermont Philharmonic, the Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble, Counterpoint, and Bella Voce. While he is from away and thus will never be a “Vermonter”, he intends to grow old and die there.
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Violinist Hyun Jeong Helen, praised for her “superior [and] excellent” artistry (The Flint Journal), has mesmerized audiences throughout North America and Asia. As a soloist, she has performed with the Garland Symphony, Los Colinas Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Arlington, Chichibu Festival Orchestra, Royal Oak Symphony Orchestra, and The Boston Conservatory String Ensemble as winner of the String Ensemble Concerto Competition. As a first violinist of the award-winning Julius Quartet, Helen performs regularly across the country in addition to continuing the group’s commitment to engaging diverse communities through educational residencies and performance workshops. She is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory where she studied with Markus Placci and received an Artist Diploma from the John J. Cali School of Music Graduate Quartet Program at Montclair State University where she studied with Weigang Li of the celebrated Shanghai Quartet. Most recently, under the Peak Fellowship, Helen served as a Teaching Assistant and Assistant Chamber Music Coach at the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU. She is a regular performer at Music from Salem, in upstate NY.

Romanian-born cellist Mihai Marica has performed with orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of Chile, Xalapa Symphony in Mexico, the Hermitage State Orchestra of St. Petersburg in Russia, the Jardins Musicaux Festival Orchestra in Switzerland, the Louisville Orchestra, and the Santa Cruz Symphony in the US. A dedicated chamber musician, he has performed at the Chamber Music Northwest, Norfolk, and Aspen Music Festivals. He recently joined the acclaimed Apollo Trio. Marica studied with Gabriela Todor in his native Romania and with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music, where he was awarded Master’s and Artist Diploma degrees. He is an alum of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bowers Program.

Rane Moore (clarinet) is well-regarded for her thoughtful, provocative interpretations of standard and cutting-edge contemporary repertoire. Fiercely devoted to the new music communities of the East Coast and beyond, Moore is a founding member of the New York based Talea Ensemble which regularly gives premieres of new works at major venues and festivals around the world. Ms. Moore has recently joined the award winning wind quintet, The City of Tomorrow, and is also a member of Boston’s Callithumpian Consort and Sound Icon. Recent projects with legendary saxophonist Steve Coleman have yielded recordings and performances at The Village Vanguard, Newport Jazz Festival, Saalfelden Jazz Festival, and Jazz à la Villette in Paris. Moore is also a regularly invited collaborator with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Bang on a Can All-Stars, New York New Music Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, Emmanuel Music, A Far Cry, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Boston Ballet Orchestra and is the principal clarinetist for the Boston Philharmonic. Ms. Moore’s latest festival and series performances include high profile national and international events and festivals such as Tanglewood Music Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, and Wien Modern, Warsaw in Autumn. Ms. Moore is on the faculty of the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice at New England Conservatory and has served in the ensemble-in-residence and guest teacher for advanced students in composition and clarinet at many universities and conservatories around the world. Ms. Moore is the co-artistic director of Winsor Music and has recordings on over a dozen labels. Critics have praised her “enthralling,” “tour-de-force,” and “phenomenal” performances.

Violinist Todd Phillips made his solo debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony at the age of thirteen. He has appeared with many orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan since that time, including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, of which he has been a member for more than forty years. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1982 with the New York String Orchestra, and solo performances in Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and Boston’s Symphony Hall soon followed. Mr. Phillips is a founding member of the legendary Orion String Quartet, which has been the Quartet-in-Residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Mannes College of Music, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Their performances and recordings of the complete Beethoven string quartets have been universally praised for their insightful and uncompromising interpretations. His other extensive chamber music activities have included performances of the Marlboro, Spoleto, Santa Fe, Aspen, Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, and Lockenhaus Festivals, the 92nd Street Y, and he has participated in several tours with Musicians From Marlboro. Mr. Phillips is a faculty member at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Cleveland Institute of Music where he is Artistic Director of the chamber music intensive program CMI@CIM as well as the CIM Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra.

Praised for having “magnificent personality, a superb energy, a total command and extremely convincing taste” (La Libre Belgique), Markus Placci (violin) has performed throughout Europe, the United States, South America, and Asia. Since his solo debut at age 13 with the Bologna Symphony, Placci has appeared regularly with major symphony orchestras including the Barcelona Symphony, the Radio Television Orchestra of Spain, Baden-Baden Philarmonie, Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra Milan, Teatro San Carlo of Napoli Symphony, the St. Petersburg State Philharmonic, and the Annapolis Symphony, among others. He has been heard live on BBC Radio, Bartok Radio Hungary, RaiRadio, RTV Espana, and is the winner of international prizes such as the “Brahms Preis” in Germany and the prestigious “XXVI Vittorio Veneto Biannual Competition” in Italy. Placci earned degrees from the Bologna Conservatory and Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and studied extensively with both Zakhar Bron and Mela Tenenbaum. In 2005, Placci premiered the Violin Concerto by Spanish composer J. Cervelló, to great acclaim, and in 2008 he was appointed to the Boston Conservatory at Berklee faculty. He plays on an 1871 J.B. Vuillaume violin, a copy of the “Alard” Stradivari.

Kari Ravnan (cello) was born in Nebraska, studied at the Juilliard School, graduating from the Eastman School of Music with Performer’s Certificate. She later studied with Pierre Fournier in Geneva, William Pleeth in London and Sandor Vegh in Salzburg. In addition to many recital tours with her father, pianist Audun Ravnan, of the Mid-West, USA, and solo recitals in Washington, D. C. and at the Bergen International Festival, she has appeared as soloist with several European and American orchestras, including the Aspen Philharmonia, Aldeburgh Festival Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. She was chosen the winner of the 1985 Washington International Competition in Cello and made her solo debut in Washington, D. C. As a passionate chamber musician, Kari has been a member of the Zennor String Trio and Prometheus Ensemble in London and Borealis Ensemble in Oslo. Her many festival appearances include Marlboro Music, Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society, Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove, Leicester International Music Festival and Oslo Chamber Music Festival. Ravnan is the founder and artistic director of the Horten Chamber Music Festival. Kari has been teaching at the “Talent Program” at the Barratt Due Institute of Music since 2008 and has a special interest in teaching chamber music. Her students have won many competitions, including “Musician of the Year” of the Norwegian Music Competition for Youth, “Æresprisen” of the Sparre Olsen Competition and first prize of the Lincoln Chamber Music Youth Competition in the USA. Kari Ravnan has been the principal cellist of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Norwegian Opera Orchestra and is presently a member of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra

Canadian violinist Jessica Tong has garnered international acclaim as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, having been described as an “outstanding talent” (Performing Arts in Canada) with “keen sensitivity and receptivity” (Bloomington Herald Times) , who “allow[s] us to savour her sense of ardour and intensity, but never at the detriment of her tonal beauty.” (ClassiqueInfo France). She has been a top prizewinner at the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition, the Toronto Symphony, Canadian Music and Yellow Springs International Chamber Music Competitions and has served as first violinist of both the Vinca and Larchmere String Quartets, during which time she was Artist-in-Residence for the Perlman Music Program in Florida, the ProQuartet Odyssée Program in France and at the University of Evansville in Indiana. She is currently the Violin Professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Chamber Music Director of the Composers Conference, and Co-Artistic Director of Avaloch Farm Music Institute.

Violinist Katherine Winterstein is the concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony, the associate concertmaster of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, and she is co-concertmaster of the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. In recent seasons she has performed as concertmaster of the Palm Beach Opera, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Toledo Symphony, and also performs regularly with the Handel and Haydn Society, the Boston Ballet Orchestra, and A Far Cry. She was a member of the Hartt String Quartet, the Providence-based Aurea Ensemble, and the summer of 2026 is her 25th with the Craftsbury Chamber Players of Vermont. She has also performed with Boston-based Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Radius Ensemble, and Dinosaur Annex, as well as with members of the Lydian and Ciompi String Quartets, at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas, and as faculty at Point Counterpoint. She has appeared as soloist with several orchestras including the Vermont Symphony, the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, the Charlottesville Symphony, the Champlain Philharmonic, and the Boston Virtuosi. She served on the performance faculty of Middlebury College in Vermont from 2002-2015, joined the faculty of the Hartt School of Music in September of 2011, and began teaching at Brown University in September of 2015.

Born in Chile and a mexican citizen by adoption, violinist Arón Bitrán studied at the National Conservatory in México under Luz Vernova and at Indiana University (USA) under Yuval Yaron and Joseph Gimgold.
Arón Bitrán has been a soloist with the main orchestras in Latin America, such as the Sinfónica Nacional de Argentina, Orquesta del SODRE in Uruguay, Orquesta Simón Bolívar in Venezuela, Sinfónica del El Salvador, Oruqesta de Cámara de Chile, Orquesta Sinfónica de Costa Rica and all the orchestras in México, as well
as the Dallas, San Antonio, Los Angeles and Seattle orchestras in the USA and the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada.. Mr. Bitrán gave the mexican premier of Chain 2 by Witlod Lutoslawsky with the National University Philharmonic (OFUNAM) in México.
Arón Bitrán has been a full time professor at the National Conservatory and the Nacional University in México City. He has taught master classes in many universities in the USA and Latin America and several of his former students are principal players in México´s main orchestras and chamber music groups.
Mr. Bitrán has edited two books for the learning of theviolin, based on mexican traditional music, published by the National Center for Music Research in México City (CENIDIM).
Arón Bitrán is a founding member, since 1981 of Cuarteto Latinoamericano, a string quartet with a very succesful international career. Cuarteto Latinoamericano is an authoritative voice in Latin American classical music. The three Bitran brothers, Saul and Aron, violinists and Alvaro cellist, together with Javier Montiel, violist, have become international ambassadors of their repertoire, touring extensively in Europe, North, Central and South America, as well as New Zealand and Israel.

Álvaro Bitrán (cello) started playing the cello at the age of seven, and concluded his formal studies at Indiana University under the guidance of world-renowned cellist Janos Starker.
In 1982 he founded the Cuarteto Latinoamericano, a string quartet that now enjoys world-wide recognition. In addition to frequent tours of both North and South America, the quartet also tours Europe, Israel, Japan, China and New Zealand.
Recent performances have included New York’s Carnegie Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center and Milan’s Teatro Alla Scala.
His recordings (more than 100 in all) have appeared in various labels such as Dorian, New Albion and Urtext and have received several prizes, including the Diapason D’Or and two Latin Grammy Awards.
Álvaro Bitrán is regularly invited to play as soloist with some of the major orchestras in our continent: Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina and Venezuela symphony orchestras, Dallas Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle and San Antonio Symphony in the U.S. and Ottawa’s National Arts Center Orchestra in Canada, among others.
Álvaro Bitrán is firmly committed to the creation of new music for his instrument and has premiered and recorded many new works dedicated to him He has released five solo CD’s featuring new music by Latin American composers, as well as traditional repertoire.
He has devoted much of his energy to teaching and is responsible for the development of an entire generation of cellists in Mexico.
Currently he is a faculty member at the National Conservatory, UNAM, and Ollin Yolitzli, all in Mexico City.
Additionally, he offers seminars and master classes in many universities in the US and Latin America, and plays in a cello built in 1817 by Martin Stoss in Vienna.