Kristin Lee is a violinist of remarkable versatility and impeccable technique who enjoys a vibrant career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, and artistic director. “Her technique is flawless, and she has a sense of melodic shaping that reflects an artistic maturity,” writes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and The Strad reports, “She seems entirely comfortable with stylistic diversity, which is one criterion that separates the run-of-the-mill instrumentalists from true artists.”

As a soloist, Lee has appeared with leading orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Hawai’i Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Ural Philharmonic of Russia, Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Guiyang Symphony Orchestra of China, and Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional of Dominican Republic. She has performed on the world’s finest concert stages, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Kennedy Center, Kimmel Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ravinia Festival, the Louvre Museum, the Phillips Collection, and Korea’s Kumho Art Gallery. An accomplished chamber musician, Kristin Lee became a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center after winning The Bowers Program audition and completing the program's three-year residency. In addition to her prolific performance career, Lee is  a devoted educator. She is on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as an Assistant Professor of Violin. Lee is also the founding artistic director of Emerald City Music (ECM), a chamber music series that presents authentically unique concert experiences and bridges the divide between the highest caliber classical music and the many diverse communities of the Puget Sound region of Washington State.

Kristin Lee’s honors include an Avery Fisher Career Grant, top prizes in the Walter W. Naumburg Competition and the Astral Artists National Auditions, and awards from the Trondheim Chamber Music Competition, Trio di Trieste Premio International Competition, the SYLFF Fellowship, Dorothy DeLay Scholarship, the Aspen Music Festival’s Violin Competition, the New Jersey Young Artists’ Competition, and the Salon de Virtuosi Scholarship Foundation.

Born in Seoul, Lee moved to the United States and studied under prestigious teachers including Sonja Foster, Catherine Cho, Dorothy DeLay, Donald Weilerstein, and Itzhak Perlman. Lee holds a Master’s degree from The Juilliard School. Lee’s violin was crafted in Naples, Italy in 1759 by Gennaro Gagliano and is generously loaned to her by Paul & Linda Gridley.

Michael Stephen Brown is among today's leading performer-composers, pursuing a career that moves seamlessly between the concert stage and the composer's desk. Hailed by The New York Times as "one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers," Brown is admired for bringing the imagination of a composer to every performance and the instincts of a performer to every score. A recipient of the 2026 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, Lincoln Center's Emerging Artist Award, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, he has also been a MacDowell Fellow and Yaddo Artist.
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Brown performs internationally as recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician. Recent concerto highlights include appearances with the American Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Poland's NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, and The Orchestra Now. His recitals have been presented by Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Louvre, and Beethoven-Haus Bonn. A longtime artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he tours internationally with longtime duo partner Nicholas Canellakis, collaborates regularly with artists including Pinchas Zukerman, Amanda Forsyth, Arnaud Sussmann, Kristin Lee, Adam Golka, and Orion Weiss, and presents masterclasses and lectures throughout the United States and abroad.
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His music invites listeners into vividly imagined worlds, drawing on the expressive power of the classical tradition while speaking in a distinctly contemporary voice. Brown has received commissions from organizations and artists including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Gilmore and Bridgehampton Festivals, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä and Erin Keefe, Anne-Marie McDermott, Jerome Lowenthal, Ursula Oppens, Orion Weiss, Adam Golka, Roman Rabinovich, Susanna Phillips, and Nicholas Canellakis. His latest work, The Carnival of Endangered Wonders: A Zoological Fantasy, a large-scale chamber work co-commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, CMS Palm Beach, La Musica (Sarasota), Music@Menlo, Friends of Chamber Music (Kansas City), and Premiere Performances of Hong Kong, premieres in 2026. Brown previously served as Composer and Artist-in-Residence of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, received the Copland House Residency Award, and is currently composing the score for filmmaker Angeline Gragasin's feature film Look But Don't Touch. His orchestral work American Diaries interweaves texts by Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes with excerpts from his grandfather's World War II diary.
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A prolific recording artist, Brown's first album devoted entirely to his own music, Twelve Blocks, was released in 2026 to widespread critical acclaim. Gramophone praised it as "a series of engaging, moving encounters, memories and emotional states," while A Closer Listen described it as "like a book of short stories in musical form." A second album, featuring his Concerto for Piano and Strings and Vortex for cello and strings with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, follows later in 2026.
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Brown earned bachelor's and master's degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal, Robert McDonald, and Samuel Adler and received the Petschek Piano Award. His artistic development has been shaped by mentors George Perle, Richard Goode, and András Schiff, whose invitation to join an international recital tour early in Brown's career led to debut performances at Zurich's Tonhalle and New York's 92nd Street Y. His earliest musical mentors were Adam Kent and Herbert Rothgarber. Brown lives in New York City with two nineteenth-century Steinway pianos, Octavia and Daria.

Praised by the New York Times for his “understated but unmistakable virtuosity” along with a “winning combination of gentleness and fluidity,” Svet Stoyanov is a driving force in modern percussion.

Winner of the prestigious Concert Artists Guild International Competition, Svet was also presented with the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Award. His career highlights feature solo concerto appearances with the Chicago, Seattle, and the American Symphony Orchestras, as well as solo performances in Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center and Taiwan National Concert Hall amongst many others worldwide. Some of the conductors he has performed with include Pierre Boulez, Marin Alsop, Cristian Macelaru, Gerard Schwarz, Oliver Knussen and James Conlon.

Svet Stoyanov has recorded for numerous labels, featuring Telarc, Naxos and Bridge Records. His albums Percussive Counterpoint, as well as Textures and Threads were broadcast internationally and applauded for their artistic integrity and virtuosic ingenuity.

A passionate advocate for contemporary music, Svet has commissioned a significant body of solo and chamber works. An upcoming highlight commission is a Double Percussion Concerto, written for Mr. Stoyanov by Pulitzer Prize and Grammy-winning composer Jennifer Higdon. The work will be premiered with Co-Soloist Matthew Strauss and the Houston Symphony Orchestra in 2022.

Recent highlight projects feature the commission and performances of Sideman: a percussion concerto written for Svet Stoyanov by Grammy-winning Composer Mason Bates. Sideman was performed in Miami, The Kennedy Center, Kansas City’s Kauffman Center and in Baltimore City. It was also recorded by Svet for an upcoming CD release.

Svet Stoyanov is a proud founding member of the groundbreaking project The Percussion Collective. This group features some of the finest percussionists in the world. With The Collective, Svet recently toured China and premiered Christopher Theofanidis’ Drum Circles Concerto with the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming engagements include concerto performances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Grant Park Orchestra, as well as a tour of Europe in 2022, visiting London, Munich, Vienna and Amsterdam.

An inspiring project of Svet’s features the release of multiple audio/video recordings, under the umbrella of Elemental Culture. This project embraces the cinematographic video capturing of actual musical recording sessions. It strives to deeply immerse the listener, by allowing them to also witness the intimate visual moments of musical creation. Among the featured titles is a special collaboration with European marimba virtuoso Katarzyna Mycka – a duo recording of Passacaglia by Anna Ignatowicz Glińska, as well as the percussion quintet Kyoto, by John Psathas – composer of music for the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.

Alongside his diverse performance career, Svet Stoyanov is the Director and Associate Professor of Percussion Studies at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami, where he has collaboratively built a most unique and innovative modern percussion program. Students of Svet Stoyanov hold positions in major orchestras, educational institutions, and have won numerous competition prizes worldwide. Svet endorses some of the finest percussion instruments and products today, namely Adams , Remo , Zildjian , Pearl and ProMark .

Svet Stoyanov has performed in more than one thousand recitals and has presented over two hundred masterclasses worldwide. His artistic mission is committed to the purity, quality and virtue of music.