Pianist Andrew Armstrong has performed across Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the United States, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic. Armstrong’s orchestral engagements have seen him perform more than 50 concertos with orchestra. He has appeared in solo recitals and in chamber music concerts with the Elias, Alexander, American, and Manhattan String Quartets, and also as a member of the Caramoor Virtuosi, Boston Chamber Music Society, and the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players. He has released several award winning recordings with his longtime recital partner, James Ehnes. He is devoted to outreach programs and playing for children. Armstrong was recently appointed Artistic Director of Chamber Music on Main at the Columbia Museum in Columbia, SC.

Pianist Alessio Bax—a First Prize winner at both the Leeds and Hamamatsu International Piano Competitions, and the recipient of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant—has appeared with more than 100 orchestras, including the London, Royal, and St. Petersburg Philharmonics; Japan’s NHK Symphony; and the Boston, Dallas, Cincinnati, and City of Birmingham Symphonies. Since summer 2017 he has served as Artistic Director of Tuscany’s Incontri in Terra di Siena festival, having also appeared at such international festivals as Music@Menlo, Santa Fe Chamber Music, Verbier, Risor, Ruhr Piano, Beethovenfest, Aldeburgh, Bath, and the International Piano Series. As a chamber musician, he regularly collaborates with his wife, pianist Lucille Chung, violinists Joshua Bell and Daishin Kashimoto, flutist Emmanuel Pahud, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. May 2018 saw him release Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto with the Southbank Sinfonia. His discography also features solo albums of Mussorgsky and Scriabin, Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” and “Moonlight” Sonatas, Brahms’s piano music, Bach transcriptions, and Rachmaninov’s Preludes and Melodies. At 14, Bax graduated with top honors from the conservatory of Bari, his hometown in Italy, and after further studies in Europe, he moved to the U.S. in 1994. He joins the teaching faculty of New England Conservatory in fall 2019.

Amy Schwartz Moretti has a distinguished musical career of broad versatility. Since 2007, she has been Director of the McDuffie Center for Strings and has developed the Fabian Concert Series; she also holds the Caroline Paul King Chair, teaching in the Mercer University Townsend School of Music. A performing artist with an affinity for chamber music, she enjoys touring with the Ehnes Quartet and maintains an active schedule of solo, chamber and concertmaster appearances. Recent performances include the 2019 premiere of Schmitz’s Violin Concerto written for her. Her other festival appearances this summer include Bridgehampton, ChamberFest Cleveland, La Jolla, Meadowmount, and Manchester Music Festival. Moretti is former concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony and Florida Orchestra. She has served as guest concertmaster for the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Houston, Pittsburgh; the New York Pops and Hawaii Pops; and the festival orchestras of Brevard, Colorado and Grand Teton. The Cleveland Institute of Music has recognized her with an Alumni Achievement Award and she is the 2014 San Francisco Conservatory of Music Fanfare Honoree. In December 2018, Moretti was selected as one of Musical America’s “Top 30 Professionals of the Year.”

Rising star of the cello Jonathan Swensen is the recipient of the 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant and was recently featured as both Musical America’s ‘New Artist of the Month’ and ‘One to Watch’ in Gramophone Magazine. Jonathan first fell in love with the cello upon hearing the Elgar Concerto at the age of six, and ultimately made his concerto debut performing that very piece with Portugal’s Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música. Jonathan will join the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 2024.  He has captured First Prizes at the 2019 Windsor International String Competition, 2018 Khachaturian International Cello Competition, and the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions.  A graduate of the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Jonathan continued his studies with Torleif Thedéen at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, and Laurence Lesser at the New England Conservatory, where he received his Artist Diploma in May 2023.

Paul Watkins enjoys a remarkably varied and distinguished career as soloist, chamber musician and conductor. He regularly appears as a soloist with orchestras worldwide and has made eight concerto appearances at the BBC Proms. Recent concerto appearances include the European Union Youth Orchestra with Bernard Haitink, and the BBC Symphony with Sir Andrew Davis. A much sought-after chamber musician, Watkins was a member of the Nash Ensemble from 1997 until 2013, when he joined the Emerson String Quartet. He performs regularly at chamber music festivals globally and is the Artistic Director of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. He was the first Music Director of the English Chamber Orchestra, and served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Ulster Orchestra from 2009 to 2012. Since winning the 2002 Leeds Conducting Competition he has conducted many major orchestras throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia. Recent highlights include conducting debuts with the Kristiansand and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, with an upcoming debut with the Minnesota Orchestra. Paul’s releases with Chandos Records include Britten’s Cello Symphony, and the Finzi, Walton, Delius, Elgar and Lutosławski concertos. As a conductor his recordings feature a GRAMMY nominated pairing of the Berg and Britten violin concertos with Daniel Hope.

Pianist Orion Weiss has performed with the major orchestras of Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and others around the world. The past season saw performances at the Lucerne Festival, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and Minnesota Orchestra. Named the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year in 2010, Weiss made his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood the following year. In recent seasons, he has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. As a recitalist and chamber musician, Weiss has appeared across the U.S. at venues and festivals including Lincoln Center, the Ravinia Festival, Sheldon Concert Hall, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, Chamber Music Northwest, the Bard Music Festival, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, the Kennedy Center, and Spivey Hall. He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Emanuel Ax. His most recent album Presentiment was released in 2018. A sequel (part of a planned trilogy) containing works by Shostakovich, Ravel and Brahms, will be released in 2019.

A “jaw-dropping pianist who steals the show…with effortless finesse” (Washington Post), pianist Amy Yang aspires to affirm connections between the arts and our inner humanity through her committed expressions of music and leadership on and off stage. In Spring of 2023, she joined forces with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra under Osmo Vänskä playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto at Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center. Additionally, she gave the world premiere of Richard Danielpour’s “Four Portraits” for solo piano at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she is the Associate Dean of Piano Studies and Artistic Initiatives. 2023 summer brings her to Chamberfest Cleveland, Texas Music Festival, Curtis on Tour, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Kingston Chamber Music Festival, and Perelman Music Festival. Her recent appearances include solo and chamber recitals for Hawaii Concert Society, Coastal Concerts (DE), Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Santa Fe Music Festival, Wigmore Hall, Gardner Museum, Cal Performances, Rockport Music Festival, and to the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Series.