Jonathan Miller (Artistic Director, cello) studied literature at the University of California at Berkeley. After attending a Pablo Casals master class, he dropped out of school to study the cello. Two years later was accepted as a scholarship student at Juilliard School, and then became a pupil of Bernard Greenhouse. Mr. Miller has performed as soloist with the Hartford Symphony; The Boston Pops; The Cape Ann Symphony, North Shore Philharmonic, Newton Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra of Boston. Miller won the Jeunesses Musicales auditions, twice toured the US with the New York String Sextet, and appeared as a member of the Fine Arts Quartet. He performed as a featured soloist at the American Cello Congress in the spring of 1990 at the invitation of Rostropovitch, and also a soloist at the 1996 Congress. Miller has over the years collaborated in many chamber music concerts with distinguished musicians including: violinists Renaud Capucon, Eugene Drucker, Hillary Hahn, Daniel Phillips, Gil Shaham and Joel Smirnoff; violists Yuri Bashment, Roberto Diaz, Paul Doktor, James Dunham, and Kim Kashkashian; and pianists Emanuel Ax and Garrick Ohlson. He is a member of the Gramercy Trio, which has twice received glowing reviews in the New York Times for its New York City performances. The Gramercy Trio has recorded for Naxos, Navona, and Newport Classics labels. Miller has recorded the complete Beethoven Sonatas with Randall Hodgkinson for the Centaur label. He performs on the ex-Pagannini-Piatti Goffriller cello which was made in Venice in 1700 and a bow by Boston maker Beniot Rolland.

Jessica Bodner is the violist and a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet. In 2014 she joined the faculty of Harvard University’s Department of Music in conjunction with the Parker Quartet’s appointment as the Blodgett Quartet-in-Residence. She has appeared at the International Viola Congress, as a guest of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and been a finalist for a Pro Musicis Award. With the Parker Quartet, Ms. Bodner has recently appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Seoul Arts Center, and at festivals including Caramoor, Yellow Barn, Perigord Noir in France, and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. A native of Houston, Jessica Bodner began her musical studies on the violin at the age of two, switching to the viola at age twelve because of her love of the deeper sonority. She holds degrees from New England Conservatory, where her primary teachers were Kim Kashkashian and Martha Strongin Katz.

Daniel Chong is the founding first violinist of the Parker Quartet, which has garnered wide recognition for performances in such venues as Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Vienna’s Musikverein, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and London’s Wigmore Hall. The quartet is currently the Blodgett Quartet-in-Residence at Harvard University, where they serve on the faculty of the Department of Music. In addition, Chong is a member of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra and Ensemble DITTO, and has received several awards, among them the 2009-2011 Cleveland Quartet Award and top prizes at the Concert Artists Guild Competition, Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition. He studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, and the New England Conservatory of Music. His teachers were Robert Lipsett, Donald Weilerstein, and Kim Kashkashian.

Born and raised in New York, Tatiana Dimitriades earned her bachelor's and master's degrees, and an Artist Diploma, from the Indiana University School of Music, where she was awarded the Performer's Certificate in recognition of outstanding musical performance. A recipient of the Lili Boulanger Memorial Award, Ms. Dimitriades has also won the Guido Chigi Saracini Prize, and the Mischa Pelz Prize. Ms. Dimitriades joined the BSO in 1987. She teaches at the Boston Conservatory of Music, and is the concertmaster of the New Philharmonia Orchestra. Her solo performances have included a Carnegie Recital Hall appearance sponsored by the Associated Music Teachers of New York and an appearance as soloist in the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at the Grand Teton Music Festival.

Rebecca Gitter began violin studies at the age of seven and viola studies at thirteen. In May 2001 she received her bachelor of music degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music where she was a student of Robert Vernon. While at CIM, she was the recipient of The Institute’s Annual Viola Prize and the Robert Vernon Prize in Viola. Among other honors, she was the 2000 recipient of Toronto’s Ben Steinberg Jewish Musical Legacy Award. Rebecca joined the viola section of The BSO in August 2001.

Boston native Julia Glenn has recently joined the Lydian Quartet after teaching for three years at the Tianjin Juilliard School, where she served as violin faculty and was a member of the Tianjin Juilliard Ensemble. Ms. Glenn has appeared at  Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Sanders Theatre, Jordan Hall, the Beijing Recital Hall, Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts, and Shanghai Concert Hall. She has recently performed with the Shanghai Camerata, New York New Music Ensemble, ACRONYM, Cantata Profana, members of the Juilliard String Quartet, and Soloists of New England. In January of 2016 she gave the world premiere of Milton Babbitt’s violin concerto to critical acclaim.  As the recipient of Juilliard’s 2019 John Erksine Faculty Prize, she is currently working with Chen Yi on a video project to commission and film dance choreography for Chen’s Memory. This past summer she recorded a solo album of new and recent music by Chinese and Chinese-speaking composers. She is a 2018 graduate of Juilliard’s C.V. Starr doctoral program and obtained her master’s from New England Conservatory.

Born in Jerusalem in 1980, Hochman’s musical foundation is laid in his teenage years. Claude Frank at the Curtis Institute of Music and Richard Goode at the Mannes School of Music prove defining influences. At the invitation of Mitsuko Uchida, he spends three formative summers at the Marlboro Music Festival. At 24, Hochman debuts as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall conducted by Pinchas Zukerman. Orchestral appearances follow with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago and Pittsburgh Symphonies, and Prague Philharmonia under conductors including Gianandrea Noseda, Trevor Pinnock, David Robertson, and John Storgårds. A winner of Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Career Grant, Hochman performs at venues and festivals across the globe, including the Philharmonie in Berlin, Vienna Konzerthaus, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Germany’s Klavierfestival Ruhr, and Lucerne and Verbier festivals in Switzerland.

Violist Wenting Kang appeared as an “excellent violist” who “possesses a dark glowing sound” in the New York Timesafter her performance at Carnegie Hall. Her debut CD recording with pianist Sergei Kvitko “Mosaic” received many positive reviews, among which the Gramophone Magazine noted “Part of the allure is her golden and glowing tone but the subtlety of her shading is just as transfixing.” It has won the gold medal as recommended CD on the Melómano Magazine in Spain. Ms. Kang appeared as soloist collaborating with major orchestras such as Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra, Nagoya Philhamonic Orchestra. Ms. Kang has been appointed as Viola Faculty at the New England Conservatory in Boston from September 2024. Since 2016, Kang has been active as assistant professor alongside the renowned Nobuko Imai at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid. In recent years, Kang has taught masterclasses for viola and chamber music in prestigious institutions such as Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Franz Liszt Academy of Music.

Acclaimed as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher, cellist Yeesun Kim is a founding member of the Borromeo String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at the New England Conservatory, with which she has performed in prestigious concert halls and festivals worldwide. In addition to the quartet’s many honors, Ms. Kim has also garnered numerous awards individually, including winner of the Ewha and Jungagng national competitions in Korea, and the Seoul Young Artists Award for achievement in music and academics. With the Borromeo Quartet, she has been extensively involved with NPR's "Performance Today," the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Library of Congress. Ms. Kim currently serves on the faculty of the New England Conservatory in the cello and chamber music departments, and teaches each summer at the Taos School of Music and the Heifetz Institute. Yeesun Kim is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. Her mentors include Lawrence Lesser, David Soyer, Peter Wiley, Hyungwon Chang, and Minja Hyun.

Violist Danny Kim joined the BSO in 2016 and was appointed 3rd chair of the viola section during the 2017-2018 season. He earned his master of music degree in viola performance from Juilliard, studying with Samuel Rhodes. Mr. Kim completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied with Sally Chisholm, receiving a B.A. in viola performance and a certificate in East Asian Studies. An alumnus of the Tanglewood Music Center, where he won the Maurice Schwartz Prize, he has participated in such festivals as the Pacific Music Festival, Lucerne, Aspen, and Marlboro and has toured with Musicians from Marlboro. Mr. Kim appeared on Sesame Street with conductor Alan Gilbert and participates in the BSO’s Concerts for Very Young People at Boston Children’s Museum. As an avid chamber musician, he has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Concordia Chamber Players, and Pro Arte Quartet.  

Julianne Lee joined the Dover Quartet, the quartet-in-residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, as its violist in September 2023. She has forged a remarkable career as both violinist and violist, frequently appearing as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. She is assistant principal second violinist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of the BSO violin section since 2006, serving as acting assistant concertmaster from 2013 to 2015. From 2017 to 2019, she was also the principal second violinist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Lee has toured nationally and internationally with the BSO, the Marlboro Music Festival, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, where she held the title of guest principal violist. She also served as second violinist of the Johannes String Quartet, an ensemble that performed commissioned works by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Derek Bermel, and William Bolcom. Throughout her illustrious career, she has performed as a soloist with orchestras in Germany, the United States, and South Korea and as a chamber musician at numerous music festivals, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music at the Banff Centre, Aspen Music Festival, and the Marlboro Music Festival. She received her bachelor’s from Curtis in 2005, having studied both violin and viola, and a master’s degree from the New England Conservatory, where she double majored in violin and viola.

Lucia Lin currently enjoys a multi-faceted career of solo engagements, chamber music performances, orchestral concerts with the BSO, and teaching at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. Ms. Lin made her debut at age eleven, performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Chicago Symphony, then went on to be a prizewinner of numerous competitions, including the prestigious International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. She joined the BSO at the age of 22, and has also held positions as acting concertmaster with the Milwaukee Symphony and for two years, concertmaster with the London Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Lin is a founder of the Boston Trio and a member of the Muir String Quartet. A passion for the other arts has prompted her to look into creating projects that make connections across the arts, most recently “In Tandem,” an initiative dedicated to bringing new voices to classical music through commissions from ten composers.  

Andrus Madsen is an active performer on the organ, harpsichord clavichord and fortepiano. He is the founding director of Newton Baroque and also plays with Exsultemus. He spearheaded a project combining the forces of Newton Baroque and Exsultemus to perform the entire Harmonischer Gottesdienst cantata cycle of Georg Phillip Telemann during the year of 2011. Madsen is also known for his eloquent Baroque style improvisation. He strives to play written repertoire as if he is improvising, while his improvisations often sound as if they had been notated. His recording of keyboard music by Pachelbel, has received significant critical acclaim. “Superb recordings of superb instruments by a musician who deserves to be better-known.” (Michael Barone of pipedreams) This album, played on organ, harpsichord and clavichord is available on Raven CD Recordings.

Ayano Ninomiya is a winner of numerous prizes including the Walter Naumburg International Competition, Tibor Varga International Competition, Astral Artists National Auditions, Young Performers Career Advancement, and Lili Boulanger awards. She has performed with orchestras across the U.S., Switzerland, Bulgaria, and most recently in Carnegie Hall, as well as at Marlboro, Ravinia, Moab, Bowdoin, Kingston, Adams (New Zealand), Canberra, and Prussia Cove (England) festivals.  Ms. Ninomiya has been featured on Musicians from Marlboro tours in the U.S. and France, and gave a TEDx talk in 2012 at the University of Tokyo.  She was first violinist of the Ying Quartet and was Associate Professor at the Eastman School of Music until 2015 when she joined the violin faculty at NEC.  As a recipient of the Beebe Fellowship, Ayano studied in Budapest, Hungary, at the Liszt Academy after graduating from Harvard University and The Juilliard School

Born in Korea, violinist Kina Park made her debut with the Kiev National Chamber Orchestra at age 14. She has won prizes at numerous competitions, including the Strad Magazine Competition, American Fine Arts Festival Golden Era of Romantic Music Competition, Nanpa (Sung-Jung) Competition, Kyemyung University Competition, Busan Music Education Committee Competition, Korea Herald Music Competition, and Korea Music Newspaper Competition. As a soloist, she has performed with the Virtuoso Ensemble, the Haffner Sinfonietta, the InKorean Orchestra, the Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, and most recently with the Plymouth Philharmonic for a concert that was broadcast on public television by Harbor Media. She has also been featured as concertmaster of the Haffner Sinfonietta and the Hwaum Boston Chamber Orchestra. She plays regularly with the BSO. Ms. Park received her bachelor’s degree from Seoul National University, her master’s degree from the New England Conservatory, and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University. She is on the adjunct faculty of Phillips Exeter Academy as an instructor in music and has taught at the Concord Conservatory of Music and the South Shore Conservatory.

Composer Scott Wheeler’s operas have been commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, Washington National Opera. the Guggenheim Foundation and White Snake Projects. His music has been performed by violinist Gil Shaham, conductor Kent Nagano, and singers Renee Fleming, Sanford Sylvan, and Susanna Phillips. Scott’s music has been performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,  Boston Artists Ensemble, Washington National Opera, violinist Gil Shaham, conductor Kent Nagano and many others. Recent premieres include works for pianists Eliza Garth and Maxim Lando as well as sopranos Laura Strickling and Kristina Bachrach. In 2023 Scott appeared as pianist at Merkin Concert Hall, Bargemusic, Guarneri Hall in Chicago, the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy.

Scott’s commission for the Boston Artists Ensemble "Songs without Words" is featured on "Songs for a New Century" from Parma records, released in May, 2025. Other instrumental and vocal music can be heard on Bridge, Naxos, New World and BMOP Sound.

Scott Wheeler was born in Washington DC, grew up various cities in the American midwest and east, then studied at Amherst College, New England Conservatory, Brandeis and Tanglewood. He teaches songwriting at Emerson College in Boston. scottwheeler.org.

Cellist Owen Young joined the BSO in August 1991. He has appeared in the Aspen, Tanglewood, Banff, Davos, Sunflower, Gateway, Brevard, and St. Barth’s music festivals. As soloist he has appeared with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Boston Pops, Salisbury Symphony, Racine Symphony, and San Antonio Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Young is on the faculties of Boston Conservatory, New England Conservatory Extension Division, and Longy. He began playing cello at six; his teachers included Eleanor Osborn, Michael Grebanier, Anne Martindale Williams, and Aldo Parisot. A cum laude graduate of Yale University, he served as principal cellist with the Yale Symphony.