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Hiroki Kasai has performed across Europe, Asia, Australia, and the United States, with appearances at the Marlboro, Beethovenfest, Pablo Casals, Schleswig-Holstein, and Gstaad Menuhin Festivals. After graduating with first-class honours in violin from the Royal Academy of Music, he began studying viola on the recommendation of Nobuko Imai, with whom he now studies at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía. In 2024, he won First Prize at the International Johannes Brahms Competition. As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras in Europe, Asia, and America under the baton of conductors such as Ton Koopman. An active chamber musician, he has collaborated with artists including Midori, Lawrence Power, Thomas Riebl, Ivan Monighetti, and Christoph Richter. In 2025, he will tour the US and Canada as part of ‘Marlboro on Tour’.
Zofia Groblewska is a student at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. She is a prizewinner of multiple viola, violin, and chamber music competitions, including the Grand Prix at the Centre for Art Education Music Competition in Poland and the viola and double bass competition in Gdańsk, as well as prizes at the Josef Micka Competition in Prague and the International Bohdan Warchal Competition in Slovakia. In 2023, she made her solo debut with the Jerzy Semkow Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra, performing Bruch’s Romance, and returned in 2024 for a second appearance. In 2022, she joined Concertgebouworkest Young, performing under Gustavo Gimeno and collaborating with Isabelle Faust. Since 2024, she has been a member of the Penderecki Youth Orchestra in Lusławice.
Vincenzo Calcagno is in his senior year at The Juilliard School, where he studies with Heidi Castleman and Misha Amory as a recipient of the Irene Diamond and E&J Brenner Scholarships. Before Juilliard, he studied with Helen Callus. This fall he will begin graduate studies with Ettore Causa at Yale University on full scholarship. Vincenzo’s recent performances include recitals featuring works by British composers, and with guitar, works by Schubert, Piazzolla, and Fauré, He also served as principal violist in the Juilliard Orchestra’s performance of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht. With his quartet, he participated in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Master Class Series with the Calidore Quartet and performed at Carnegie Hall in “A Celebration of Meredith Monk.” Previous summer fellowships include the Taos School of Music, the Perlman Music Program, and the Music Academy of the West, where he studied intensively with the Takács Quartet.
Sophia Werner studies at The Juilliard School with Laurie Smukler as a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellow. In 2024, she won the Juilliard Concerto Competition and appeared as soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra. She has also performed with Juilliard’s AXIOM ensemble, the Adelphi Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. In 2023, she received the Bach Prize at the Stulberg International String Competition, and the previous year, won the Adelphi Young Artist Competition.
An avid chamber musician, Sophia has attended The Perlman Music Program and Kneisel Hall, and made her New York City debut at Alice Tully Hall with her piano trio. She has collaborated with members of the Brentano and Mendelssohn quartets, and participated in masterclasses with members of the Juilliard, Shanghai and Brentano quartets; Hilary Hahn; and Donald Weilerstein.
She performs on an 1864 J.B. Vuillaume violin and a James Tubbs bow, both on loan from Juilliard.
Christina Nam has performed internationally as a soloist and recitalist, appearing with orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall under Jahja Ling, and the Jakarta Simfonia Orchestra with Maestra Rebecca Tong. At age 14, she won second prize at the Cooper International Violin Competition. She has collaborated with conductors including Louis Langrée, Robert Trevino, and Cristian Măcelaru. A passionate chamber musician, she is a founding member of the Amara Trio, formed at Kneisel Hall in 2023 and gold medalists of the Chesapeake International Chamber Competition. Christina currently studies at The Juilliard School in New York under Catherine Cho and Donald Weilerstein, as a Greene Foundation Fellow on full scholarship. Her chamber music mentors include Laurie Smukler, Joel Krosnick, and Robert McDonald.
Maria Lundina began violin studies at the age of four in Moscow. She graduated with honours from the Gnessin Moscow Special School of Music in 2017 and, in 2023, completed her studies at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory with distinction, where she was named Best Graduate of the Year. She has performed in cities across Russia and Europe, and has participated in numerous festivals, competitions, and masterclasses with teachers including Pierre Amoyal, Dora Schwarzberg, Albert Markov, and Vadim Repin. In 2024, she completed a course with Boris Kuschnir at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität in Vienna. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the Moscow State Conservatory with Vladimir Ivanov.
Roa Lee was admitted with the highest distinction to Yewon School in 2023, where she has been awarded the Excellence in Performance Prize and Academic Honors Scholarship. She is also a recipient of the Doam Scholarship, awarded to exceptionally promising young musicians.
In March 2023 she performed in the Kumho Prodigy Concert Series. That same year, she gave a violin recital at the Lincoln Center, presented by the New York Young Artist Foundation. She was also invited to perform at Carnegie Hall for the New York Rising Stars Concert.
She won several prizes including Grand Prizes at the New York Virtuoso International Competition, New York International Music Concours and Chosun Ilbo Music Competition and second Prize at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition. She is a member of The Arrieta Trio, which was awarded the Gold Medal with an Honorary Mention at the 2023 Manhattan International Music Competition.
Theodor Kaskiv was born in Bern, Switzerland in 2006 and began playing the violin at the age of four under the guidance of his father, Oleg Kaskiv. In 2015, he received a scholarship to attend Institut Le Rosey. He has performed as a soloist with the Lviv Virtuosos Chamber Orchestra, the Menuhin Academy Soloists, and the Symphony Orchestra of Rosey. A laureate of several international competitions, he received second prize at the Concours Grumiaux in Brussels and first prize at the Lvivskyy Virtuoz Competition. Theodor has taken part in masterclasses with Anna Chumachenko and Tetiana Zolozova Le Menestral. He continues to study with his father at the International Menuhin Music Academy and performs regularly with the Menuhin Academy Soloists.
Born in 2008 Raphael Gisbertz is currently studying with Leonid Kerbel at the Musica Mundi Schoold in Waterloo, Belgium. He made his solo debut at the age of nine with Vivaldi’s Spring alongside the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker. Since then he has performed on major stages including Konzerthaus Wien, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Palais de Beaux-Arts Brussels and Kölner Philarmonie. In 2023, he won several first prizes in national and international competitions such as the Concours Grumiaux in Brussels. Earlier that year at the German Musical Instrument Fund Competition, his impressive performance won him the loan of a 1700 C.G. Testore violin, and his interpretation of Bach was broadcast on Deutschlandfunk. As a regular participant in Belgium’s renowned Musica Mundi Festival and Course and the youngest attendee of the Gstaad String Academy, Raphael has gained extensive chamber music experience at the highest international level. A scholarship holder at the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein, he actively participates in its intensive programs and activities.
Emmanuel Coppey is a French violinist and Artist in Residence at the Fondation Singer-Polignac in Paris. He is also a City Music Foundation artist, a member of the Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt, and an Artiste en Résidence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. Emmanuel has performed as soloist and chamber musician alongside Jérémie Rhorer, Vahan Mardirossian, Rachel Podger, Alexei Ogrintchouk, and Christopher Warren-Green, and has collaborated with Nelson Goerner, Augustin Dumay, and Bertrand Chamayou at major chamber music festivals. His repertoire spans from Bach to contemporary works, with a particular focus on composers such as Beethoven, Bartók, Brahms, Ravel, and Debussy. He performs on a 1735 Guarnerius violin, generously loaned by the Guttman Collection.