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.

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.

Violinist Lucia Lin enjoys a multifaceted career performing as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player throughout the United States and internationally. Her expansive creative footprint also includes dedicated teaching as well as innovative, interdisciplinary collaborations across the visual and performing arts. Ms. Lin made her debut at age eleven with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, going on to win prizes at numerous prestigious competitions, including the International Tchaikovsky Competition. She has been described by the Indianapolis Star as a soloist of “virtuosity and insight” whose playing is “passionate and graceful.” Solo highlights include appearances with orchestras across Europe and a recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.

At age 22, Ms. Lin won a position with the Boston Symphony Orchestra before spending two years as concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra. As concertmaster of the LSO, she spearheaded numerous high-profile recordings and international tours throughout Japan, Italy, Scotland, and Spain. In 1995 she returned to the BSO, subsequently expanding her artistic focus toward chamber music. She co-founded the Boston Trio and, in 1998, joined the Muir String Quartet. whose rigorous educational mission helped foster her own passion for mentorship. She currently serves as a Professor of Music at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.

Driven by a lifelong desire to connect creative mediums, Ms. Lin’s penchant for unique projects led to her acclaimed 2007 collaboration with the dance company Snappy Dance Theater for the world premiere of String Beings. Seamlessly integrating live violin performance with demanding dance choreography and technology, her performance at Boston’s Wimberley Theater earned praise from Dance Magazine for proving she was “as fearless and fine a dancer as musician.” Continuing her deep commitment to expanding the classical canon, she also founded “In Tandem,” a nonprofit initiative that commissioned ten emerging composers to bring vital new voices to the concert stage.

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Violinist Peter Zazofsky has performed in twenty-three countries on five continents. He has appeared as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, as well as with the Berlin Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, and Danish Radio Orchestra. 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 of Music in Philadelphia, with Galamian, Jaime Laredo, and Arnold Steinhardt, and at the Marlboro Summer Festival, where his mentors included Rudolf Serkin, Felix Galimir, and Sándor Végh. He won the Grand Prize of the Montreal International Competition in 1979, 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 Boston University School of Music. He also teaches at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and in recent years has expanded his activities to include masterclasses in China, and online seminars for teachers in Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore.

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