Cellist Will Chow joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the start of the 2022-23 season. An avid chamber musician, he has collaborated with Mitsuko Uchida, Yo-Yo Ma, Ida Kavafian, Roberto Díaz, and members of the Guarneri, Borromeo, Juilliard, and Cleveland string quartets. Festival appearances have included Marlboro Music, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the Perlman Music Program, Music from Angelfire, and Music@Menlo, and he has performed internationally as a recitalist at venues from Singapore to the Netherlands. Mr. Chow was principal cellist of Curtis’ 20/21 Ensemble on Cedille Records’ Grammy-nominated album Two x Four, as well as principal cellist of the Curtis Chamber Orchestra on Curtis on Tour. A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, he has won a number of prizes, including first place in the Mondavi National Young Artists Competition and the Lawrence Bedini scholarship in San Francisco. Before joining the BSO, he was appointed to the cello section of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra by Manfred Honeck in 2016, after completing his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of Carter Brey and Peter Wiley.
Violinist Nicholas Kitchen has performed throughout the world both as soloist and chamber musician, most significantly as founding member and first violinist of the Borromeo String Quartet for 30 years. In addition, he has extensively performed and worked on projects with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, and Performance Today, and has initiated many innovative collaborations, combining multiple forms of artistic expression with performance. A passionate educator, he often leads discussions enhanced by projections of handwritten manuscripts, investigating with the audience the creative process of the composer. He has lectured and given master classes across the globe, and has encouraged audiences and students of all ages to explore and listen to both traditional and contemporary repertoire in new ways. Teaching at the New England Conservatory of Music, he has pioneered the use of computers and page-turning pedals to make it possible for the Borromeo and students to always work from the complete score, which has allowed him to become involved in the serious study of composers’ manuscripts. He is Artistic Director of the Heifetz International Music Institute.
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.
Singaporean harpist Lishan Tan enjoys a multifaceted career as performer, arranger, writer, and teacher. As winner of the VI Mexico International Harp Competition, she made her debut with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional at Mexico City’s historical Palacio de Bellas Artes. Most recently, she appeared as a soloist alongside cellist Yo-Yo Ma with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2024 at the Tanglewood Music Festival. In October 2022 she performed two sold-out Opening Night concerts with the Vista Philharmonic Orchestra at the invitation of conductor Bruce Hangen. She has also shared the stage with such noteworthy groups as the Sarasota Orchestra, Borromeo String Quartet, and The Beach Boys. As a founding member and resident arranger of The Harp Quarterly, Singapore’s premier harp quartet, Lishan aims to push the boundaries of her instrument through her arrangements and workshops. Her arrangements range from Metallica to Debussy, and her music has garnered millions of views online. She conducts Writing for the Harp workshops for composers and further collaborates with them to premiere and record new harp works. In addition, she is currently a freelance writer for the international harp magazine HarpColumn. Lishan Tan holds a BMus from the Royal College of Music, an MM from Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts with BSO Principal Harpist Jessica Zhou at the New England Conservatory, where she is the first harpist to be admitted to the doctoral program. When not thinking about music, Lishan can be found sipping coffee, reading, or boxing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
