Violinist Maria Ioudenitch has won first prizes in the Ysaye International Music Competition, the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition, and the Joachim International Competition, and the Warner Classics prize.

Violinist Anna Black was recently named Assistant Concertmaster of the North Carolina Symphony, a position she will assume in the spring of 2023.

Cellist Lidanys Graterol began her studies as a part of José Antonio Abreu’s System of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Venezuela, “El Sistema.” She has performed as a soloist with orchestras throughout Venezuela, including the prestigious Simon Bolivar Orchestra. Lidanys is a student at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

Violinist Clarissa Bevilacqua is known to enchant audiences with her dazzling technical skills and deeply inspiring musicality. Music director and conductor Terry Lowry described her as having “that rare star quality that is difficult to describe, but impossible to miss.”

New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis has won numerous accolades and forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry.