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Hagner, Hsin-Yun Huang, Richard O’Neill, Steven
Tenenbom, and Jason Vieaux. He has been invited
to perform at festivals including the Music@Menlo
International Program, Chamber Music Northwest,
Krzyzowa-Music Festival, Gstaad Academy,
Perlman Music Program, Rheingau Musik Festival,
and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. He was
also invited to participate in the inaugural Chamber
Music Encounters of the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center in 2016. Mr. Garbot’s performances
have been featured on APM’s Performance Today
and WHYY’s On Stage at Curtis. Brandon Garbot
studies with violinists Ida Kavafian and Arnold
Steinhardt at the Curtis Institute of Music and
has previously studied with Catherine Cho, Itzhak
Perlman, and William Preucil.
Christopher Goodpasture
, piano
Charlotte and Stanton Hadley
Fellowship
Praised by the
Washington
Post
for his “sparkling, highly
musical” playing, Christopher
Goodpasture has established
himself as a musician of refined style. He has
performed recitals in concert venues throughout
North America, including the Kennedy Center
(Washington D.C.), Benaroya Hall (Seattle), Koerner
Hall (Toronto), Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill
Recital Hall (New York), Bing Concert Hall (San
Francisco), and the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art. He has appeared at the music festivals of
Sarasota, Kneisel Hall, Aspen, Banff, the Holland
Music Sessions, Port Townsend, and the Music
Academy of the West, and has worked throughout his
studies with Leon Fleisher, Jeremy Denk, Seymour
Lipkin, Joseph Kalichstein, Robert Levin, and
Claude Frank. Christopher is a top-prize winner of
the Washington International, Seattle International,
Iowa International and Dallas International Piano
Competitions. He holds graduate degrees from Yale
University and The Juilliard School, where his
teachers included Hung-Kuan Chen, Peter Frankl,
Jerome Lowenthal and Christopher Elton. Born
in Los Angeles, California, his formative training
was under Stewart Gordon and John Perry at the
University of Southern California and the Royal
Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
Natania Hoffman
, cello
St. Margaret’s College and Schools
Foundation Fellowship from Mr.
Tadashi Enami, Josephine and
Newton N.Minow Fellowship*,
Kovler Family Fellowship* from
the Blum-Kovler Foundation
Natania Hoffman completed her bachelor’s degree
in 2014 with the highest honors, studying with
Troels Svane in Lübeck and Gustav Rivinius
in Saarbrücken. She completed her master’s
degree at the Brussels Conservatory with Jeroen
Reuling, and currently studies at the Chapelle
Musicale Reine Elisabeth with Gary Hoffman.
As a soloist, Natania has performed with the
Orchestre Royale de Chambre de la Wallonie, the
Namur Chamber Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra,
and Lakeland Civic Orchestra, among others.
Alongside Benjamin Hoffman, she premiered Joel
Hoffman’s “sizzle” at the NCPA in Beijing, China
with the Beijing Bamboo Flute Orchestra. Second
prize winner of the Luigi Nono chamber music
competition in 2017, she was awarded first prizes
in 2016 include “Giovani Musicisti, Città di Paola,”
and “Città di Cremona.” Natania participated in
festivals such as IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber
Music, the Schleswig- Holstein Music Festival, the
Music Academy of the West, and the Kronberg cello
masterclasses, studying with Janos Starker, David
Geringas, Ralph Kirshbaum, Frans Helmerson,
and Natalia Gutman, among others. As a chamber
musician, Natania toured Europe, the USA, China,
India, and New Zealand. Natania was additionally
a member of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
Haeji Kim
, viola
Bruce K. Goodman, Jr.
Fellowship* from Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce K. Goodman,
Oyama Charitable Foundation
Fellowship
Haeji Kim (‘97), fromBloomfield
Hills, MI, began her musical journey with piano at
age 5 and soon switched primarily to the violin. It
wasn’t until about 8 years later, though, that she
encountered the viola. She fell in love right away
with the mellow tones of the instrument and the
unique voice she felt she could share with it, which
prompted her to switch a few years later, at age 16.
She enjoys playing in an orchestral setting, having
participated in the New York String Orchestra
Seminar, and finds another charm to solo playing,
most recently having participated in the 2018
Primrose International Viola Competition. However,
the art of collaboration has always held a special
place in her heart. Through Caramoor’s Evnin
Rising Stars weeklong residency and her summer
at the Ravinia Festival in 2016, she began to learn
more deeply about chamber music-making. Haeji
currently studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with
Roberto Díaz and Hsin-Yun Huang, and plays on a
viola by Joseph Grubaugh and Sigrun Seifert on a
generous loan from the Virtu Foundation.
Leland Ko
, cello
Judy and Bill Cottle Fellowship*,
Diane B. and Lowell S. Fixler
Fellowship*
Leland Ko is a 20-year-old cellist
from Weston, MA. He was most
recently a disciple of Cleveland
Quartet co-founder Paul Katz of the New England
Conservatory (NEC), and is now a sophomore at
Princeton University pursuing a Bachelor of Arts
degree. Prior to studying with Katz, Leland was
a long-time student of Ronald Lowry. In 2011,
Leland was admitted to the Perlman Music Program
(PMP), run by Itzhak Perlman and his wife, where
for many summers, Leland studied with Ronald
Leonard, among others, including Merry Peckham,
who helped cultivate in Leland an intense passion
for chamber music. From its founding in 2012
until leaving Boston, Leland was also co-principal
cellist of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
(BPYO) under the leadership of Benjamin Zander.
With the orchestra, he has toured all across Europe
– the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Germany,
Switzerland, and most recently Spain. The BPYO
has been an indispensable piece of the lives of
Leland and countless others, as it has opened his
eyes to new attitudes to both music and life.
Benjamin Lash
, cello
Merrill and Judy Blau Fellowship
Cellist Benjamin Lash was a top
prizewinner in the Washington
International Competition. Recent
concerto performances include
Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations
and Haydn’s C Major Cello Concerto with the
Colburn Orchestra, and Dvorak’s Cello Concerto
with the Brentwood Symphony Orchestra. An avid
chamber musician, Benjamin has participated in
summer festivals including Ravinia’s Steans Music
Institute, Sarasota Music Festival, Taos, Aspen,
Holland International Music Sessions, Fortissimo Fest
in Bulgaria, and Franco-American Chamber Music
Festival in Missillac, France. Benjamin is a member
of Sakura a cello quintet based in Los Angeles,
which recently performed concerts in Cleveland
and St. Louis, and the world premiere of Thomas
Mellan’s...
on transcendence...
with the University
of Southern California (USC) Thornton School of
Music. Benjamin began studying cello at the age
of six. In his early teens, as a first place winner of
multiple Chicago area competitions, he performed
concertos by Saint-Saens, Shostakovich, Hindemith,
and Haydn. Benjamin received his Bachelors of
Music from the Colburn Conservatory of Music
where he studied with Ronald Leonard. He completed
a Master of Music degree at the USC Thornton School
of Music and is currently pursuing a Doctorate degree
in cello performance. He is a recipient of the USC
Music Faculty Endowed Scholarship and studies with
Ralph Kirshbaum.
Anna Lee
, violin
Starling Foundation Fellowship
Born in South Korea, Anna Lee
began violin studies at the age of
four with Alexander Souptel and
debuted as soloist performing the
Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 a
year and a half later with maestro Lan Shui and the
Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Concert venues that
Ms. Lee has appeared in are the Carnegie, Wigmore,
Alice Tully, Avery Fisher, Victoria, and Esplanade
Concert Halls. She has claimed top prizes in the
2011 Sion-Valais, 2010 and 2012 Menuhin (Junior
and Senior Divisions, respectively), and Blount-
Slawson Young Artist Competitions. Ms. Lee has
been featured in music festivals around the world such
as the Gstaad Menuhin Festival and the Marlboro
Music Festival. She was also presented by Sir András
Schiff at the BeethovenFest in Bonn. As a soloist,
Ms. Lee made her New York Philharmonic debut in
April 2011, as well as her Frankfurt debut in 2016
with maestro Christoph Eschenbach and the Frankfurt
Radio Orchestra. Ms. Lee finished her studies with
Masao Kawasaki and Cho-Liang Lin and graduated
from the Juilliard School Pre-College Division and
the Dalton School in June 2013. In June 2017, she
graduated from the Kronberg Academy, where she
studied with Ana Chumachenco from 2014. Currently,
Anna Lee is studying privately with Miriam Fried
and Don Weilerstein while pursuing her Bachelor’s
Degree in Comparative Literature at Harvard College.
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