Pianist Jeewon Park is rapidly garnering the attention of audiences for her dazzling technique, poetic lyricism and artistic versatility. She is sought after both as a recitalist and a chamber musician. Jeeown appeared as a soloist at Caramoor, Weill Recital Hall, Norfolk Music Festival, and Steinway Hall. She performed chamber music at the Spoleto USA Festival, Bridgehampton, Beethoven Festival (New York), Emilia-Romagna Festival (Italy), Taos (New Me
xico), Music Alp in Courchevel (France), and Kusatsu Summer Music Festival (Japan). In addition, Jeewon appeared in concerts at Caramoor’s Rising Stars, Bargemusic, Alice Tully Hall, 92nd Street Y, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Kravis Center (Florida), San Antonio Chamber Music Society, Rubin Museum (New York City), and the Bronxville Chamber Music Series. Jeewon holds degrees from the Juilliard School and Yale University, where she was awarded the Dean Horatio Parker Prize. Her teachers include Herbert Stessin, Claude Frank and Gilbert Kalish.
Cellist Edward Arron is recognized worldwide for his elegant musicianship, impassioned performances, and creative programming. A native of Cincin
nati, Ohio, Ed made his New York recital debut in 2000 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Earlier that year, he performed Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Cellos with Yo-Yo Ma and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the Opening Night Gala of the Caramoor International Festival. Ed appears regularly as a soloist with orchestra, and as a chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. Ed is in his sixth season as the artistic coordinator of the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, a chamber ensemble created in 2003 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Museum’s prestigious Concerts and Lectures series. He is also the artistic director of the Caramoor Virtuosi and of the Alpenglow Chamber Music Festival in Summit County, Colorado. Ed performs regularly at Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully and Avery Fisher Halls, New York’s Town Hall, and the 92nd Street Y, and is a frequent performer at Bargemusic. He began his studies on the cello at age seven in Cincinnati and, at age ten, moved to New York to continue his studies. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School.
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omposer David Ludwig’s music is performed by today’s leading musicians in some of the world's most prestigious venues. His music has been called “wonderfully satisfying,” and that it “promises to speak for the sorrows of this generation,” by the Philadelphia Inquirer. The New York Times recognizes it for its “expressive directness” and the Baltimore Sun notes its “yearning, poetic quality.” His works have been performed in such venues in the United States as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Library of Congress, and have been heard on PBS and NPR's Weekend Edition.
Ludwig has received commissions from many prominent artists and ensembles, including groups like the Grammy Award-winning “eighth blackbird” ensemble, soloists like violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Jonathan Biss, and orchestras including the Minnesota, Vermont, and Richmond Symphony. Ludwig has won numerous awards and participated in many residencies with orchestras, summer music festivals, and artist colonies. He holds degrees from Oberlin, The Manhattan School, The Curtis Institute, Juilliard and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Ludwig joined the faculty of Curtis in 2002 where he serves on the composition faculty, as the acting chair of musical studies, and as the artistic director of the 20/21 Contemporary Music Ensemble.
Clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois is presently a 
fellow of The Academy-A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute. According to MusicalAmerica.com, her playing has “impressive poise and polish “and is deemed as “extraordinary… a formidable clarinetist...” (New York Times.) Ms. de Guise-Langlois recently won first prize in the Woolsey Hall Competition at Yale University, where she also received the Nyfenger Memorial Prize for excellence in woodwind playing. In 2007, she received the Silver Medal at Fischoff National Chamber Music Association, with Sospiro Winds, a NYC based chamber ensemble for which she is a member since 2004. In 2006, she recorded a recital program broadcasted on Radio-Canada's Jeunes Artistes d'Espace Musique, and gave recitals and master classes in China. She was also the first-prize winner of McGill University Classical Concerto Competition and received the Canadian Broadcasting Company award in 2003. Born in Montreal, she received her Bachelor of Music degree from McGill University in Montreal, her Master of Music degree, supported by the Canada Council of Arts, and her Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music.
Violinist Soovin Kim is the founder and Artistic Director
of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival. He is increasingly sought after for the character, nuance, and excitement of his performances as concerto soloist, chamber musician and recitalist, both in the U.S. and abroad. Particularly known for his breadth of repertoire, Soovin typically takes on everything from solo Bach and Paganini to the big romantic concertos to new commissions. Highlights of the 2008-09 season were his Russia debut with the Moscow Symphony conducted by Ignat Solzhenitsyn, an octet tour with his own Johannes Quartet and the Guarneri Quartet performing newly-commisioned works by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Derek Bermel, and William Bolcom, and a tour of Europe with pianist Mitsuko Uchida.
Soovin released his second recording with Azica Records in the summer of 2008, a French album of Fauré and Chausson with Jeremy Denk and the Jupiter Quartet. His first CD with Azica Records, Niccolò Paganini's demanding 24 Caprices for solo violin, was released in February 2006 and was named Classic FM magazine’s Instrumental Disc of the Month.
Soovin grew up for much of his childhood in the Champlain Valley in Plattsburgh, NY. He joined the Vermont Youth Orchestra as its then-youngest member at age 10, and later served as its concertmaster for three years. He is often heard in the Champlain Valley through his performances with the VYO, the Vermont Symphony, on the Lane Series at the University of Vermont, at Middlebury College, and on Vermont Public Radio. He plays the 1709 ex-Kempner Stradivarius.