Laura Liu, a native of Miami, Florida, currently lives in New York City studying with Cynthia Phelps and Misha Amory. Liu, hailed by Classical Voice America as a “standout” with “sound deep, warm, and consistently musical,” last summer participated in the Verbier Festival Academy, where she won the Edwin Caplin Foundation Award, debuted at Sunkiss’d Mozart Summerfest, and performed at Kronberg’s “Chamber Music Connects the World.” Her ardent love of collaboration led her to participate in Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach’s “Rising Artist” Program, Olympic Music Festival’s Fellowship, Music@Menlo’s International Performer’s Program, Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Workshop, Taos School of Music, Kneisel Hall, and Heifetz International Music Institute. This season she will make her debut with Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players and Bargemusic, reappear at CMS Lincoln Center’s “Inside Chamber Music” and Music@Menlo for an alumni concert. This summer, after participating in the 6th Tokyo International Viola Competition, Liu will participate as a Junior Artist at Marlboro Music Festival. She recently earned her Bachelor of Music, and her Master of Music as a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship at The Juilliard School. In the fall, she will begin her Artist Diploma at Juilliard.

Hailed by The Washington Post for his “poised and imaginative playing,” Filipino-American pianist Victor Santiago Asuncion has appeared in concert halls in Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Spain, Turkey and the USA, as a recitalist and concerto soloist. He played his orchestral debut at the age of 18 with the Manila Chamber Orchestra, and his New York recital debut in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in 1999. In addition, he has worked with conductors including Sergio Esmilla, Enrique Batiz, Mei Ann Chen, Zeev Dorman, Arthur Weisberg, Corrick Brown, David Loebel, Leon Fleisher, Michael Stern, Jordan Tang, and Bobby McFerrin.

A chamber music enthusiast, he has performed with artists such as Lynn Harrell, Zuill Bailey, Andres Diaz, James Dunham, Antonio Meneses, Joshua Roman, Cho-Liang Lin, Giora Schmidt, the Dover, Emerson, Serafin, Sao Paulo, and Vega String Quartets. He was on the chamber music faculty of the Aspen Music Festival, and the Garth Newel Summer Music Festival. He was also the pianist for the Garth Newel Piano Quartet for three seasons. Festival appearances include the Amelia Island, Highland-Cashiers, Music in the Vineyards, and Santa Fe.