Violinist Joshua Brown has been praised by audiences and critics worldwide for his “richness of sound, elegance of reading…commitment of every moment at the service of the work…” (La Libre). Joshua was awarded a 2025 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and gained international attention after winning the 2nd Prize and both Audience Awards at the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Other international competition successes include 1st Prizes at both the inaugural 2023 Global Music Education International Violin Competition in Beijing, China, as well as the 2019 International Violin Competition of Leopold Mozart in Augsburg, Germany.

Joshua was first recognized for his debut performance with the Cleveland Orchestra and has gone on to perform regularly with orchestras around the world, including the Munich Radio Orchestra, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Civic Orchestra, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege, among others, continually garnering praise from critics. A passionate recitalist and chamber musician, Joshua has also appeared regularly in series such as Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Festival Musiq3 in Brussels, the Tchaikovsky Festival in Moscow, the ProMusica series in Mexico, the Matinée Musicale series in Cincinnati, the Jupiter Chamber Players series in New York City, and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Chicago.

Leland Ko, a cellist of Chinese-Canadian descent, recently took home First Prize at the prestigious 2024 Naumburg International Cello Competition. In 2023, he won First Prize, the J.S. Bach Special Prize, and the Orchestra of the Americas Prize at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) Competition, leading to his concerto debut with the orchestra this past season. That same year, he was named a Young Artist in Residence for American Public Media’s Performance Today. Highlights of Leland’s 2025–2026 season include debuts with the Orchestre Symphonique de Sherbrooke and the DuPage Symphony, as well as performances at Carnegie Hall, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall.

Multi-award-winning pianist Evren Ozel recently won the Bronze Medal and Mozart Concerto Prize at the 2025 Cliburn Competition, Second Prize and the Baroque Prize at the 2024 Cleveland International Piano Competition, and was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2023. Recent & forthcoming concerto appearances include performances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, and The Orchestra NOW. His debut album of Mozart concertos Nos. 9 & 12 with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Howard Griffiths was selected as a “Concerto Choice” by the BBC Music Magazine. Highlights of his 2025–26 season include solo recitals for Portland Piano International, the Chopin Society of Minnesota, and Chamber Music Detroit. He has previously appeared with the Harvard Musical Association, La Jolla Music Society, Cal Performances, and The Gilmore.