New York City’s outstanding young chamber orchestra, the New York Classical Players is an ensemble dedicated to the highest standards of artistry, collaboration, and virtuosity. Under the leadership of music director Dongmin Kim, the group performs across the United States, in South America and in Asia.  Dongmin Kim is quickly establishing himself as one of the most inspiring and versatile conductors. His recent and upcoming engagements on the world's prestigious stages include Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, Herbst Theatre, Faulkner Performing Arts Center, Seoul Arts Center, and the Lotte Concert Hall, to name a few.

Since founding NYCP in 2010, Mr. Kim has led the group in over 200 concerts including a US tour with superstar soprano Sumi Jo and a host of prominent artists have appeared with the orchestra including Miriam Fried, Donald Weilerstein, Kim Kashkashian, Cho-Liang Lin, Pamela Frank, Charles Neidich, Peter Wiley, Carol Wincenc, Chee-Yun, Stefan Jackiw, Jasmine Choi, and Richard O'Neill.

Dongmin Kim is the Music Director of the celebrated chamber orchestra New York Classical Players. Since founding NYCP in 2010, he has conducted hundreds of concerts for New Yorkers, three international tours from Asia to South America, and throughout the US. Most recently, he led a series of concerts with NYCP for the last minute stepping in to fill the English Chamber Orchestra's US tour.

Dongmin has conducted various prestigious ensembles, including the National Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Arts Center Festival Orchestra, Round Top Festival Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Jacksonville, and Winnipeg. He was awarded the Herbert von Karajan Fellowship by the Vienna Philharmonic, which led to a residency at the Salzburg Music Festival. As the Indianapolis Symphony's Schmidt Conducting Fellow, Dongmin worked alongside Mario Venzago and Raymond Leppard.

He has recorded chamber orchestra pieces by renowned composer Samuel Adler for Toccata Classics, which received praise from Luxembourg's Pizzicato Magazine. Additionally, he recorded Korean Art Songs with Haeran Hong for Warner Classics. As a violist, Dongmin has performed in various countries, including the United States, South America, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and has been a principal violist for the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra under MTT.

Born in Seoul, Dongmin studied Orchestral Conducting and Viola at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His distinguished mentors include Kurt Masur, Janos Starker, Leonard Slatkin, Imre Pallo, and David Effron.

Gold medallist of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo has been hailed for his “unfailingly consistent excellence” (International Piano) and celebrated as “a pianist who commands a comprehensive technical arsenal that allows him to thunder without breaking a sweat” (Chicago Tribune). A powerful and virtuosic performer, he also, in his own words, “strives to reach for the truth and pure beauty in music”.

The first Korean to win Cliburn Gold, Yekwon’s 2019–2020 season includes appearances with Fort Worth and Tuscon Symphonies and the Bucheon Philharmonic and debuts with Washington Chamber Orchestra, Royal Danish Orchestra and Danish Radio Orchestra amongst others as well as a debut appearance at the Vail Festival with Dallas Symphony. Recital highlights include Four Season Arts, San Antonio Arts and the Stadttheater Aschaffenburg. 2020–2021 will see Yekwon make his debut with Orchestra Chambre de Paris and Tugan Sokhiev and return to KBS Symphony with Jaap Van Zweden.

In previous seasons, he has performed as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Marin Alsop, Houston Symphony, National Orchestra of Belgium, Sendai Philharmonic and Royal Scottish National Orchestra amongst others. Recital appearances include Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Salle Cortot and Kumho Art Hall.

An avid chamber musician, Yekwon’s collaborators include Benjamin Beilman, Linus Roth, Andrei Ioniță, Sebastian Bohren, Isang Enders, Tobias Feldmann, Gary Hoffman, Anne-Marie McDermott and the Jerusalem and Brentano Quartets. He has also toured Costa Rica, Guatemala and Panama with the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation, performed at Chamber Music of Lincoln Center’s Inside Chamber Music Lectures and been invited to the Summit Music, Bowdoin International and Toronto Summer Music Festivals.

In addition to the Cliburn Gold Medal, Yekwon won first prizes at the 2015 International German Piano Award, the 2014 Vendome Prize held at the Verbier Festival, the 2013 Sendai International Music Competition and the 2012 William Kapell International Piano Competiton.

Born in Anyang, South Korea, Yekwon began learning the piano at the age of 8 and made his recital and orchestral debuts in Seoul at 15. His teachers include Seymour Lipkin, Robert McDonald, Richard Goode and Bernd Goetzke.

In 2017, Decca Gold released Cliburn Gold 2017 two weeks after Yekwon was awarded the Gold Medal and includes his award-winning performances of Ravel’s La Valse and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Sonata.

A self-proclaimed foodie, Yekwon enjoys finding Pho in each city he visits and takes pride in his own homemade Korean soups.

Violinist Kate Arndt, from Boston, is pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts degree under Ani Kavafian. With master's degrees from Yale and undergraduate studies at New England Conservatory, she has performed as a soloist at venues like Boston’s Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall. Active in Europe, Kate participated in the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Kronberg Master Classes, and IMS Prussia Cove Masterclasses. In the US, she attended Music@Menlo, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Perlman Music Program, and Sarasota Music Festival. In 2021, she won first prize at the CSU Bakersfield Competition.

As a chamber musician, Kate has performed at Carnegie Hall, with her current group, the Vera Quartet, and participated in the Mellon Music Festival. She worked with artists like Robert McDonald, Ida Kavafian, and Colin Carr at the Four Seasons Winter Workshop. Kate's former group, the Isolde Quartet, received an honorable mention at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and collaborated with ensembles like Calidore, Callisto, and Kodak String Quartets. Focusing on women's contributions to classical music, she plans to feature female composers in future performances.

Samuel DeCaprio is a graduate of The Juilliard School's C.V. Starr Doctoral Program and a winner of the 2018 Aldo Parisot Prize from the Yale School of Music. As an innovative artist, he has performed worldwide, from Bali's jungles to Carnegie Hall, and works to uplift modern audiences through classical music. DeCaprio is currently on the Center for Musical Excellence Artist roster.

His recent highlights include a Lincoln Center concerto debut, featuring the US premiere of Grażyna Bacewicz’s Cello Concerto No. 2, and solo performances across North America and Europe. As a passionate chamber musician, he has appeared in various festivals and collaborated with many esteemed musicians. DeCaprio actively promotes contemporary music, collaborating with living composers, exploring diverse styles, and recording an album with Cuban-jazz composer David Virelles. He is also the founder of Project Mx2, which commissions and performs new cello works while promoting underrepresented compositions.

DeCaprio holds degrees from the University of Connecticut, Eastman School of Music, Mannes School of Music, and Yale School of Music. He has studied under notable musicians like Joel Krosnick, Aldo Parisot, Marcy Rosen, Steven Doane, and Kangho Lee. He currently serves as a Teaching Assistant to Joel Krosnick at Juilliard.