Yun Lee, born in 2001, is a prominent Taiwanese violinist currently pursuing a Master’s of Music degree at The Juilliard School with Joel Smirnoff. She graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying under Jaime Laredo and Malcolm Lowe with a full Starling Foundation scholarship.

Yun has garnered numerous accolades, including 1st place in the 2023 Vienna Mozart Competition and Cleveland Institute of Music Annual Milhaud Competition, and 2nd place in the 2021 New York International Artists Competition. She also won the top prize in the 2013 Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition and the 2015 National Taiwan Student Music Competition.

A passionate chamber musician, Yun has performed with artists like Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson, and has won awards with the Kyklos Quartet. She has participated in prestigious festivals such as the Sarasota Music Festival and Taipei Music Academy, serving in roles like associate concertmaster.

Sara Schlumberger-Ruiz, born in 2001, began her Bachelor's degree at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart with Prof Anke Dill and is continuing her studies in Nora Chastain's class at the Berlin University of the Arts. She is a scholarship holder of the Cusanuswerk and the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation. Sara has won 1st and 2nd prizes in various national and international competitions and scholarship programmes.

She has gained soloistic experience in collaboration with various orchestras including the Stuttgart Young Chamber Orchestra, the Metzingen Chamber Orchestra, the Southwest German Philharmonic Orchestra Constance and the Christophorus Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart.

Important impulses from Prof. Ingolf Turban, Prof. Yair and Eyal Kless, Adelina Oprean and Marianne Piketty enrich her musical development. She plays on an instrument by "Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, Paris around 1874", which was made available to her by the Baden-Württemberg State Collection of String Instruments.

Hailed by Washington Classical Review for her “melodious” and “soaring” tone, Bulgarian-Japanese violinist Julia Angelov recently had a recital debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall presented by Bulgarian Concert Evenings in New York. She has appeared with orchestras such as the National Philharmonic at Strathmore, the U.S. Army Orchestra, and has performed at Merkin Concert Hall, the John F. Kennedy Center, Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters.

She has been awarded with the Milka Violin Prize at the Pablo Casals Festival, the Verao Classico Award at the Verao Classico Festival, and competitions won include the Music Teachers National Association’s (MTNA) National Strings Competition. She has taken part in the Kronberg Academy Violin Masterclasses, Carl Flesch Akademie in Baden-Baden, and Heifetz International Music Institute, where she has been an artist on off-season tours and residencies.

Angelov currently studies with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles.

Jieun Son, born in South Korea in 1998, earned her bachelor's degree at Seoul National University under Prof. Kyung Sun Lee. She pursued her master's degree with Prof. Sebastian Schmidt at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater and has been continuing her Konzertexamen since October 2023.

As a soloist, Jieun won the Elise Meyer Foundation competition and the Siberia International competition. She has performed with the Bulgarian Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra of Teleradio-Moldova, the Daegu Symphony Orchestra, and others. Her chamber music projects include touring South Korea as guest second violin with the Arete String Quartet and participating in festivals such as the Gustav Mahler Academy and the Villars Music Academy Festival. She also took part in the Bregenz Orchestra Festival in 2022.

Jieun has gained further artistic inspiration through master classes with renowned musicians such as Prof. Midori Goto, Mihaela Martin, Ik-Hwan Bae, Kolja Blacher, Nora Chastain, and Christoph Poppen.

Sara Dragan, born in 1999, is an award-winning concert violinist who began playing the violin at age 7 under the guidance of her parents. She is currently studying with Zakhar Bron at ESMRS in Madrid and performs on a G.B. Guadagnini violin, generously loaned by Florian Leonhard Fine Violins.

Sara has won first prize in around 60 violin competitions, including the Oistrakh, Novosibirsk, NYIAA, Telemann, and K. Lipinski & H. Wieniawski International Violin Competitions. She has performed at prestigious venues such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall in LA, Konzerthaus Berlin, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Rachmaninoff Concert Hall in Moscow, NFM Wroclaw, NOSPR Katowice, and the Polish Royal Palace in Warsaw.

As a soloist, Sara has played with numerous orchestras, including the Prague Chamber Orchestra, Novosibirsk Philharmonic, Wroclaw Philharmonic, Armenian State Symphony, Royal Chamber Orchestra, Martinu Philharmonic, Slovak Sinfonietta, and the Polish Wieniawski Philharmonic Orchestra.

Inga Våga Gaustad is a dedicated chamber musician based in Copenhagen and The Hague. Since 2020, she has been the primarius of the award-winning Dutch string quartet Animato Kwartet.

Born in Kirkenes, Norway, in 1998, Inga began playing the violin at age seven in her hometown of Nesodden. She studied at the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Oslo under Eileen Siegel, Geir Inge Lotsberg, and Henning Kraggerud. In July 2022, she completed her bachelor's degree at the Hochschule für Musik ‘Hanns Eisler’ under Prof. Kolja Blacher and Ning Feng, and began her master’s degree at HKB in Bern with Corina Belcea in September 2022. In 2023, she continued her studies in Copenhagen with Peter Herresthal, where she is currently enrolled.

At age 17, Inga reached the finals of the Norwegian Broadcasting Company’s ‘Virtuoso’ competition, performing with the Norwegian Radio Symphony Orchestra. She has also performed with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, and Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, among others.

In 2023, the Animato Kwartet was awarded the prestigious Kersjesprijs, a €50,000 cash prize for career development. Inga plays a Tommasso Eberle built in Naples in 1776 on generous loan from Dextra Musica.

Sungmin Cho, a graduate of Seoul Arts High School, is currently studying with Prof. Ronald Copes and Prof. Joseph Lin at The Juilliard School. Born in 2001, he made his solo concert debut at age 13 under the auspices of the Kumho Prodigy Concert Series for gifted youth.

Sungmin has accumulated extensive solo experience in South Korea, winning prestigious national music competitions such as the 38th Music Association of Korea Competition, the 26th Sung Jung Music Competition, the 27th KBS KEPCO Music Competition, the 58th Dong-A Music Competition, and the Seoul Youth Chamber Music Competition.

He has performed as a soloist in various concert halls, including Seoul Arts Center, Kumho Art Hall, and Samsung Electronics Art Hall. Sungmin has also gained valuable musical insights through violin masterclasses with renowned musicians such as Rodney Friend, György Pauk, Pavel Vernikov, Cho-Liang Lin, and Koichiro Harada, as well as through chamber music projects.

Emrik Revermann (born 2008) has been a soloist with several orchestras including the Orchestre de l'Agora in Montreal, the I Musici de Montreal orchestra, the Canada’s National Academy Orchestra, Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, the Euro SFK symphony, the Kammersinfonie Oldenburg, and the Canadian Sinfonietta.

In 2023, Emrik came in 2nd place (out of 42 participants) in the Johannes Brahms International Competition in Austria. Six weeks later, he was a semi-finalist in the Mirecourt International Violin Competition in France. Also in 2023, Emrik received the Arkady Fomin Scholarship, which allowed him to take masterclasses with soloist Vadim Gluzman in Vienna.

Emrik’s other accomplishments include 1st prize in the Allegra International Competition in Bulgaria (2022), International Menuhin Competition participant at the age of 12 (2021), Gold Medal in the European Competition for String Instruments in Luxembourg (2021). 1st prize in the Vienna International Music Competition (2019) and “Absolute Laureate” of the Kocian International Violin Competition in the Czech Republic (2018).

Emrik was named in 2018 by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as one of “30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30.” He plays on a ca.1824 Nicolas Lupot violin on generous loan from Canimex Inc., from Drummondville, Quebec.

Jiayi Chen, born in 1996, won first prize in the 10th Chinese Golden Bell Awards for Music Violin Competition, along with the Chinese Composition Performance Award. She also earned third prize in the 7th Yampolsky International Violin Competition and fourth prize in the 2nd Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition.

From 2017 to 2021, Jiayi served as the associate principal of second violin in the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. She completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music under the tutelage of Lina Yu. Currently, she is pursuing violin studies with Ulf Wallin at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin and chamber music studies with Johannes Meissl and Avedis Kouyoumdjian at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.