Meet the 2025 Artists

Soovin Kim

Soovin Kim enjoys a broad musical career regularly performing Bach sonatas and Paganini caprices for solo violin, sonatas for violin and piano ranging from Beethoven to Ives, Mozart, and Haydn concertos and symphonies as a conductor, and new world-premiere works almost every season.  When he was 20 years old, Mr. Kim received first prize at the Paganini International Violin Competition.  He immersed himself in the string quartet literature for 20 years as the 1st violinist of the Johannes Quartet.  Among his many commercial recordings are his “thrillingly triumphant” (Classic FM Magazine) disc of Paganini’s demanding 24 Caprices, and a two-disc set of Bach’s complete solo violin works to be released in 2024. Soovin Kim is the founder and artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival (LCCMF) in Burlington, Vermont.  In addition to its explorative programming and extensive work with living composers, LCCMF created the ONE Strings program through which all 3rd through 5th grade students of the Integrated Arts Academy in Burlington study violin.  The University of Vermont recognized Soovin Kim’s work by bestowing an honorary doctorate upon him in 2015. 

Violin

Gloria Chien

Taiwanese-born pianist Gloria Chien has one of the most diverse musical lives as a noted performer, concert presenter, and educator. She made her orchestral debut at the age of sixteen with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard, and she performed again with the BSO with Keith Lockhart. She was subsequently selected by the The Boston Globe as one of its Superior Pianists of the year, “who appears to excel in everything.” In recent seasons, she has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Phillips Collection, the Dresden Chamber Music Festival, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She performs frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. In 2009, she launched String Theory, a chamber music series in Chattanooga, Tennessee that has become one of the region’s premier classical music presenters.  The following year she was appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo, a position she held for the next decade. In 2017, she joined her husband, violinist Soovin Kim, as artistic director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont. The duo became artistic directors at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, OR in 2020. Most recently, she released two albums - her Gloria Chien LIVE from the Music@Menlo LIVE label and Here With You with acclaimed clarinetist Anthony McGill on Cedille Records.

Chien studied extensively at the New England Conservatory of Music with Wha Kyung Byun and Russell Sherman. She is Artist-in-Residence at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, and she is a Steinway Artist.

Piano

David Serkin Ludwig

David Serkin Ludwig’s first memory was singing Beatles songs with his sister; his second was hearing his grandfather perform at Carnegie Hall, foreshadowing a diverse career collaborating with many of today’s leading musicians, filmmakers, and writers. His choral work “The New Colossus,” opened the private prayer service for President Obama’s second inauguration. The next year NPR Music named him in the world’s “Top 100 Composers Under Forty.” He holds positions and residencies with nearly two dozen orchestras and music festivals in the US and abroad.

Ludwig has received commissions and notable performances from many of the most recognized artists and ensembles of our time, including the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Minnesota, and National Symphony Orchestras, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Dresden Music Festival, as well as Jonathan Biss, Jeremy Denk, Jennifer Koh, Jaime Laredo, David Shifrin, eighth blackbird, the Dover and Borromeo Quartets, Imani Winds, and the PRISM Saxophone Quartet.

He has received numerous honors, recently including the American Academy of Arts and Letters annual award in music, the Pew Center for the Arts Fellowship, and the Stoeger Prize from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is a two-time recipient of the Independence Foundation Fellowship, a Theodore Presser Foundation Career Grant, and awards from New Music USA, the American Composers Forum, American Music Center, Detroit Chamber Winds, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

In 2021 Ludwig was named a Steinway Artist. He served on the composition faculty of The Curtis Institute of Music for nearly two decades before being appointed Dean and Director of Music at the Juilliard School last year. He lives in New York City with his wife, acclaimed violinist Bella Hristova, and their four beloved cats.

Resident Composer

Jessica Lee

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Violin

Tai Murray

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Violin

Nicholas Cords

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Viola

Deborah Pae

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Cello

Peter Stumpf

Peter Stumpf is professor of cello at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Prior to his appointment, he was the principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 9 years following a 12-year tenure as Associate Principal Cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He received a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and an artist’s diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music. 

A dedicated chamber music musician, he is a member of the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio and has appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, in Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Cologne. He has performed with the chamber music societies of Boston and Philadelphia, and at numerous festivals including Marlboro, Santa Fe, Bridgehampton, Spoleto, and Aspen. He has toured with music from Marlboro, and with pianist Mitsuko Uchida in performances of the complete Mozart Piano Trios. As a member of the Johannes Quartet, he collaborated with the Guarneri String Quartet on a tour including premieres of works by Bolcom and Salonen.

Concerto appearances have included the Boston Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and at the Aspen Festival among others. Solo recitals have been at Jordan Hall in Boston, on the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society series, on the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series in Los Angeles and at the Philips and Corcoran Galleries in Washington D.C. His awards include first prize in the Washington International Competition.   

He has served on the cello faculties at the New England Conservatory and the University of Southern California.

Cello

Thomas Van Dyck

Thomas Van Dyck has been a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s double bass section since January 2013. An avid chamber musician, he became a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society (BCMS) in 2021 and has played chamber music at the Mostly Mozart Festival, New York City’s Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center among many others. Additionally, he is a member of the self-conducted East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) that compromises top solo, chamber, and orchestral string players from around the country. Van Dyck has played with the Borromeo, Ying, Lydian, and Parker string quartets and was a founding member of A Far Cry chamber orchestra. Van Dyck received his bachelor’s degree at Rice University studying with Paul Ellison and his master’s at Boston University with Ed Barker. In addition to enjoying a diverse performing career, Van Dyck enjoys and values teaching. He is on the string faculty of New England Conservatory and Boston University. In his spare time, he likes to ride bicycles and spend time in the mountains, but most of all loves spending time with his wife and two young boys 

Double Bass

Romie de Guise-Langlois

Praised as “extraordinary” and “a formidable clarinetist” by The New York Times, Romie de Guise-Langlois has appeared as soloist and chamber musician on major concert stages throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia. She has performed as soloist with the Houston Symphony, the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Connect, and at Festival Mozaic, Sarasota Music Festival, and Banff Center for the Arts. Ms. de Guise-Langlois is a winner of the Astral Artists’ National Auditions and a recipient of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation award. She was also awarded First Prize in the Ima Hogg Competition, the Woolsey Hall Competition at Yale University, the McGill University Classical Concerto Competition and the Canadian Music Competition. An avid chamber musician, she has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has appeared at numerous chamber music series, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, 92nd Street Y, the Kennedy Center, and Chamber Music Northwest. She has performed as principal clarinetist for the Orpheus and Saint-Paul Chamber Orchestras, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New Haven and Stamford Symphony Orchestras, NOVUS NY and The Knights Chamber Orchestra. A native of Montreal, Ms. de Guise-Langlois earned degrees from McGill University and the Yale School of Music, where she studied under David Shifrin. She is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and an alumnus of Ensemble Connect and The Bowers Program. Associate Professor of Clarinet at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, she previously served on the faculty of Montclair State University.

Clarinet

Roman Rabinovich

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Piano

Parker Quartet

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string Quartet

Yuchan Li

Yuchan Li, born in 2004 in Beijing, China, is a composer and pianist. In her compositions, she explores refinement and balance, expression and significance, as well as culture and spirit. Dr. Richard Danielpour described her as an artist with three essential qualities: curiosity, generosity, and compassion.

She is currently a Teaching Fellow in the Juilliard Ear Training Department and also teaches piano and theory at The Long Island Conservatory. She is studying composition at The Juilliard School with Dr. David Ludwig.

Young Composer

Amane Sakaguchi

Amane Sakaguchi is a Japanese composer and shamisen player (traditional Japanese three-stringed lute), dividing her time between Tokyo and Philadelphia. She completed her bachelor’s degree in shamisen performance at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2021. Currently, she is furthering her studies in composition at the Curtis Institute of Music since 2024.

Growing up in a family deeply rooted in Nagauta (traditional Japanese music), she has been surrounded by this art form from an early age. Her family has maintained the largest Nagauta school in Japan for over 200 years. She listened to her father and grandfather playing shamisen both at home and in Kabuki theaters, which fostered her familiarity with the music. In 2019, she took on the stage name "Kosaburo Kineya," under which she performs professionally as a shamisen player.

Her musical education also includes piano, which she began at the age of four. Through her piano studies, she has participated in various competitions, achieving first prize in some. These experiences include performing Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra at the Romanian Athenaeum and engaging in chamber music with members of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.

In her current work, she explores the integration of traditional Japanese musical elements into the framework of Western classical music. She has also been commissioned to compose works incorporating traditional Japanese instruments, including a collaborative piece by the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan and Kitakyushu City.

Young Composer

Elise Winkler

Elise Winkler (b. 2001) grew up on the western coast of Washington State. From a young age, she was drawn to the piano, and soon found her way to choir and composition. Her works tap into her passions and vulnerabilities, striving to connect audiences through shared experience. She especially loves to work on interdisciplinary projects, believing in the power of collaboration to cultivate creative problem-solving and compromise.

Elise has worked with many esteemed ensembles, including the Seattle Symphony, Symphony Tacoma, The Juilliard Orchestra, Trio Immersio, Seattle Opera, The Dolphins String Quartet, and the Talea Ensemble, as well as soloists Paul Demers and Efe Baltacigil. Her works have also been premiered at the Curtis Institute of Music's Young Artists' Summer Program, Atlantic Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.
As a pianist, she has championed contemporary music at large. She has performed as a soloist at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre and as a chamber musician with The NowBeat Project and The Juilliard Orchestra. She has also premiered her own works in Morse Recital Hall at The Juilliard School and Studzinski Recital Hall at Bowdoin College.


Elise completed her Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in Music at The Juilliard School. She studied with Melinda Wagner, David Ludwig, and Valerie Coleman.

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