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.

 

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.

Julianne Lee performs on both violin and viola, appearing as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. A member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s violin section since 2006, she is the BSO’s assistant principal second violinist and from 2013 to 2015 served as its acting assistant concertmaster. From 2023 to 2025 she was violist of the Dover Quartet, the quartet-in-residence at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She was principal second violin of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra from 2017 to 2019, has been guest principal violist of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and was second violinist of the Johannes String Quartet, which performed commissioned works by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Derek Bermel, and William Bolcom. She has performed as soloist with orchestras in Germany, the United States, and South Korea, and as chamber musician with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music at the Banff Center, Aspen Music Festival, and Marlboro Music Festival, also touring with Music From Marlboro. She holds a bachelor’s degree in violin and viola performance from Curtis, 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.

 

Peter Zazofsky, violinist, has performed in twenty-three countries on five continents. He has appeared as soloist with the BSO at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony. Born and raised in Boston, Mr. Zazofsky studied violin with Joseph Silverstein before attending the Juilliard Pre-College under Dorothy Delay and Ivan Galamian. He then studied at the Curtis Institute, with Galamian, Jaime Laredo and Arnold Steinhardt. In 1979, he won the Grand Prize of the Montreal International Competition, then the Second Prize of the 1980 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. He also received the 1985 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Mr.  Zazofsky is a member of the Muir Quartet and Professor of Violin and Coordinator of String Chamber Music at the BU School of Music.