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"I was so enthusiastic about my viola my quartet partners had to pry the instrument from my hands....I just wanted to keep playing."

     - Molly Carr

     VF Scholar

Virtu Scholar Profiles

Abigail Fayette

Instrument: Violin
Abigail Fayette, 14, from Wading River, New York, is the youngest of four children in a musical family.  She began her musical studies at the age of 3 with Jo Schifter at North Shore Suzuki School, continued with Min-Young Kim of the Daedalus Quartet and ... View Full Profile

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Alicia Choi

Instrument: Violin
Alicia began studying the violin with Nicole DiCecco at the age of four. From 2001-2005, Alicia attended the Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School of Music, studying with Won-Bin Yim and Masao Kawasaki. In the spring of 2009, Alicia obtained her Bachelo... View Full Profile

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Amy Yetasook

Instrument: Cello
     Amy is a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, majoring in cello performance.  She plans on pursuing post-baccalaureate pre-medical studies.   Among her musical honors are: First Place National American St... View Full Profile

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Andrew D Larson

Instrument: Cello
Andrew received his Bachelor of Music Degree from the Eastman School of Music in the spring of 2008.  He was a student of David Ying.  While receiving invaluable musical guidance at Eastman, Andrew continued his studies during the summer at music fes... View Full Profile

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Ann Fontanella

Instrument: Violin
      Ann began the study of violin at the age of 6. Shortly after her 10th birthday, she debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of David Zinman and began private studies with the renowned artist, Erick Friedman. At th... View Full Profile

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Ben Odhner

Instrument: Violin
Ben Odhner was born in Boston and started his violin studies at age five in Michigan. He is currently a student of Paul Kantor at CIM and at the Aspen Music Festival and School. He has appeared as a soloist with the CIM Orchestra, the Warminster Symphony Orche... View Full Profile

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Boson Mo

Instrument: Violin
A native of Boston, Boson Mo was born to Chinese parents in May, 1990. Boson discovered the violin at the age of seven, and shortly began his studies in Montreal under the tutelage of Keqiang Li. As both a soloist and chamber musician, Boson has had lessons an... View Full Profile

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Brandon Keith Brown

Instrument: Violin
Brandon Keith Brown recently attended the 2009 American Academy of Conducting at Aspen with David Zinman.  He performed four concerts with the academy orchestra, conducted The Aspen Opera Theater, and recorded new music.  For the 2008 season, he serv... View Full Profile

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Brittany Sklar

Instrument: Violin
Brittany Sklar, violin, is 19 and a resident of Garfield, New Jersey. She began her studies at age four with Nancy Feiner and in 1998 she was accepted to the PreCollege Division of the Juilliard School. While studying there, she won their 1999 Chamber Orchestr... View Full Profile

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Brooke Mahanes

Instrument: Violin
Brooke has been playing violin since she was 11 years old, when she became an orchestra student in the Virgnia Beach City Public Schools.  Her violin teachers have included Betty Gross, Dr. Janet Orenstein, and Dr. John Fadial.  Her undergraduate deg... View Full Profile

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Caleb van der Swaagh

Instrument: Cello
Caleb van der Swaagh is currently a Senior in the Columbia University – Juilliard Joint Program. He studies with Bonnie Hampton at The Juilliard School, and he studies Classics and Medieval & Renaissance Studies at Columbia University. He also studie... View Full Profile

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Cameron Collins

Instrument: Cello
Cameron Jamison (CJ) Collins, a 12th-grade student at Northwest High School in Greensboro, NC, began his cello studies at the age of 3.
 
CJ has competed in competitions throughout the U.S.  In 2002, he was chosen from cellists around the country t... View Full Profile

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Carmen S. Flores

Instrument: Viola
            Originally from San Diego, California, Carmen Flores is Principal Viola of the Royal Ballet Sinfonia, having been appointed to the position in 2007.  She has enjoyed a career as a recitalist, chamb... View Full Profile

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Christophor Miroshnikov

Instrument: Cello
Christophor Miroshnikov (Russia), cello.  Praised for his “musical sensitivity and craftsmanship”, cellist Christophor Miroshnikov was named a 2004 ECHO “Rising Star”. As a part of ECHO (European Concert Hall Organization), he... View Full Profile

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Crista Kende

Instrument: Viola
Crista received her A.B. from Princeton University, a history major with a music pefformance certificate. At Princeton she performed numerous recitals with her sisters, Alexis (class of 2005) and Daniela (class of 2009) in addition to a Katrina benefit concert... View Full Profile

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Danbi Um

Instrument: Violin
Danbi Um started playing violin at age two and a half.  At age 7, she won the grand prize at the Korea National Journal Competition, and won a New York Music Foundation award. When she was eight years old she studied with James Keene in Edmonton, Canada.&... View Full Profile

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Daniel McDonough

Instrument: Cello
Dan spens most his musical time as a member of the Jupiter Quartet.  Formed in Cleveland in 2001, the Boston-based Jupiter Quartet has performed across the United States and abroad. In 2004, they received second prize at the Young Concert Artists Internat... View Full Profile

David Huckaby

Instrument: Cello
Cellist David Huckaby is currently pursuing a Masters Degree at The Juilliard School where he is a student of Joel Krosnick and Richard Aaron. David has performed as soloist with orchestras in Atlanta and Boston including a performance last year of Don Qu... View Full Profile

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Edith Hines

Instrument: Violin
Edith Hines, a native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, will receive her DMA in violin performance from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in May 2008. As a doctoral student she studied with David Perry; her former teachers include Donald Weilerstein and David Updegra... View Full Profile

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Elinor Frey

Instrument: Cello
Elinor Frey received a M.M. from the Juilliard School in May 2005 and B.M. from the Mannes College of Music in 2001. An advocate of new music, Elinor served as cellist of the Aspen Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble in 2004/5 and with the New Juilliard Ensem... View Full Profile

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Emily Autumn Deppa

Instrument: Violin
Emily Autumn  Deppa has received the following degrees: B.M. ,University of Minnesota, M.M., Southern Methodist University. She is currently working on her Professional Performance Certificate at Lynn University. Principal teachers are Sally O’Reill... View Full Profile

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Emily J. Taubl

Instrument: Cello
Emily Taubl was, quite literally, born into music.  As the eldest of seven children she, all of her siblings and her parents have been a part of the touring and performing Taubl family for years.  As each Taubl child became old enough to play an inst... View Full Profile

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Filip Fenrych

Instrument: Violin
Filip began playing the violin at the age of six in Poland.  His concerto debut at the age of fourteen took place in Germany.  Winner of numerous competitions, he has performed in France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland and the United States. ... View Full Profile

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Gabriel Platica

Instrument: Violin
Gabriel is currently a member of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra where he also teaches at the University.  He plays a violin by Oliver Radke. Gabriel began studying the violin at the age of 6 at the George Enesco school of music in Bucharest. At... View Full Profile

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Holgen Gjoni

Instrument: Cello
Official website: www.holgengjoni.com
B.M., National University of Music Bucharest, G.D., Boston Conservatory, M.M., Juilliard School. Studies with Bonnie Hampton, Andrew Mark, Marin Cazacu. Recordings on Romanian National Radio and TV, Albanian Radio and Te... View Full Profile

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Irina Chirkova

Instrument: Cello
BM, MM, Cello Performance, The Boston Conservatory/ Studied with Rhonda Rider and Andrew Mark/ Master classes with Tokyo String Quartet, Yo-Yo Ma, Norman Fischer, Timothy Eddy, Andor Toth, Bernard Greenhouse, and Aldo Parisot. Born In Bulgaria, Ms. Chirko... View Full Profile

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James Shaw

Instrument: Viola
James Maurice Shaw is currently in his second year as a violist in the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Mr. Shaw has recieved a bachelors degree in Music performance from the University of Denver where he studied with... View Full Profile

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Jennifer J. Lee

Instrument: Violin
Violinist Jennifer J. Lee graduated summa cum laude at Northwestern University where she studied with world-renowned pedagogues Almita and Roland Vamos. She is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree in Violin Performance at the Manhattan School of Music... View Full Profile

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Jeremy Crosmer

Instrument: Cello
Jeremy Crosmer is entering his second year as a master's student at the University of Michigan, studying with Anthony Elliott.  He graduated from Hendrix College with honors and distinction at the age of nineteen, where he studied cello performance, compo... View Full Profile

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Joanna Morrison

Instrument: Cello
Joanna was one of the Virtu Foundation's first Scholars.  A student of Neal Cary at the Eastern Music Festival, she attended college in Florida.  Joanna is currently studying for a graduate degree at Yale. View Full Profile

John H. Littlejohn

Instrument: Violin
John "Adidam" Littlejohn is a violinist/producer/performer whose love and knowledge of different forms of music has given him a unique style and sound. A native of Lansing/Midland, Michigan, he began studying the violin at age 10 in a public school s... View Full Profile

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Joye Trimmell

Instrument: Cello
Joye plays on a cello by Karl Joseph Schneider which is a rather unusual, 7/8 size.  She attends the University of Nebrasks-Omaha, as a music scholarship student, and is studying as a cello performance major with David Low.  Past instr... View Full Profile

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Juan Sebastián Delgado

Instrument: Cello
Juan Sebastián was born in Mendoza, Argentina, where he started his cello`s studies at early age with Néstor Longo and at the Music School of his hometown. After receiving the Stimulus Prize, at the age of 14, he made his solo cello debut at the ... View Full Profile

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Leah Ilem

Instrument: Viola
Violist Leah Ilem joined the Oregon Symphony in April 2005. Leah studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music earning a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree. Her principal teachers were Robert Vernon, Jeffrey Irvine, and Lynne Ramsey.
Leah is a former memb... View Full Profile

Miao Li

Instrument: Violin
 MIAO LI, violin, began her violin studies at the age of seven in Nanjing, China and was the winner of numerous competitions in China.  She was the winner of the Starling Violin Scholarship Competition at University of Cincinnati, College-Conservator... View Full Profile

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Michael Way

Instrument: Cello
Michael is the assistant to cellist Zuill Bailey at The University of Texas at El Paso. A recent graduate of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, his former teacher Brooks Whitehouse.  He plays a cello made by Joseph Postel.  He ... View Full Profile

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Molly Carr

Instrument: Viola
Violist MOLLY CARR of Reno, Nevada, is a student of Heidi Castleman and Steve Tenenbom at the Juilliard School.  Her former teachers include Patinka Kopec and Pinchas Zukerman, at the Manhattan School of Music, and Virginia Blakeman Lenz, at the Universit... View Full Profile

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New Song Community Learning Center

Instrument: Violin
In 1991, New Song Community Learning Center opened its doors to address the educational dilemma of children and youth living in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of west Baltimore City, Maryland.  Although a community rich in cultural history, it faces... View Full Profile

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Nicholas DiEugenio

Instrument: Violin
Nicholas DiEugenio leads a versatile musical life as soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster, and teacher, and performs in these roles across the country and throughout the world. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of David Cerone, Li... View Full Profile

Norbert Lewandowski

Instrument: Cello




Norbert Lewandowski was born in Milwaukee, WI and began cello studies at the age of 13. He holds a Master’s degree in performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music and currently resides in Charleston, SC where he is the principal c... View Full Profile

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Philip Borter

Instrument: Cello
Cellist Philip Lawrence Borter is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree in Performance at the Eastman School of Music, where he studies with professor Steven Doane. He serves as a principal cellist in the Eastman Philharmonia and is enrolled in the Cath... View Full Profile

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Pyunghwa Peace Choi

Instrument: Violin
Pyunghwa Peace Choi, age 19, began her violin studies at the age of 4 in Seoul, South Korea. Seven years later, she moved to De Kalb, Illinois where she studied at the NIU Community School of Arts. She won a top prize at the 2002 NIU Community School of the Ar... View Full Profile

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Robert Howard

Instrument: Cello
ROBERT HOWARD  began cello lessons at age twelve in Atlanta, Georgia. He completed his undergraduate study at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Graduate work was done at the San Francisco Conservatory, where he received an Artist Certificate in chamber m... View Full Profile

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Sachino Tsinadze

Instrument: Cello

Cellist SACHINO TSINADZE was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, where he began his studies at the Special Music Gymnasium for Gifted Children. Before finishing, he began taking lessons from Tamara Gabarashvili at the State Conservatory. He has played numerous recital... View Full Profile

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Sarah Kapustin

Instrument: Violin
Sarah's musical avtivities have taken her to North America, Europe and Australia, in performances as both soloist and chamber musician. Born in 1981 in Milwaukee, WI, she has performed with such orchestras as the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Indiana Univ... View Full Profile

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Sarah Carter

Instrument: Cello
Sarah Carter, cellist, enjoys tremendous versatility in her career as a performing artist. Her orchestral affiliations, including American Composers Orchestra, American Symphony, Westchester Philharmonic, Opera Orchestra of New York, Stamford Symphony Orchestr... View Full Profile

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Shannon Kiley

Instrument: Cello
Shannon began to play cello late in the game as a senior in high school, and despite being a newcomer to the world of cello, she entered the music department at Central Connecticut State University during her second semester. Now a senior, she is looking forwa... View Full Profile

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Sheryl Hwangbo

Instrument: Violin
Sheryl has studied violin with Paul Kantor at the University of Michigan and is currently a student at the Cleveland Institute of Music.  She plays on a German violin by Joann Blafius Weiggert. View Full Profile

Sonja Larson

Instrument: Violin
Sonja Larson holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Minnesota, where she was a student of Ms. Sally O'Reilly.  Sonja is now a free-lance musician in Boston and plays in the Longwood Symphony Orchestra and the Civic Symphony of Boston. ... View Full Profile

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Stanichka Dimitrova

Instrument: Violin
 A native of Varna, Bulgaria, Ms. Dimitrova began her violin studies at the age of five, and at the age of nine she entered Varna’s Dobri Hristov School of Arts as a student of Evgenia Paskova.  In 2002.she made her orchestra debut with th... View Full Profile

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Stefan Kende

Instrument: Bass
Stefan Kende, age 17, began his music studies at age 4 on violin, also studying cello and piano before switching to double bass at age 9. Stefan’s current bass was awarded to him as an instrument scholarship from the Virtu Foundation. At age 10, he was admit... View Full Profile

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Steven Miahky

Instrument: Violin
Steve Miahky has garnered acclaim for his performances as a recitalist and chamber musician. He is currently professor of violin at Cornell University. He has appeared at New York City's Steinway and Merkin Halls, Atlanta's ProMozart Society, the Princeton Cha... View Full Profile

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Su-Hsien Hsu

Instrument: Cello
Su Hsien Hsu is currently working for a Graduate Performance degree at the Boston Conservatory where she received her Masters Degree in 2008.  Su comes from Taiwan.  She is studing with Andrew Mork and plays on a contemporary french cello made by Rog... View Full Profile

Tali Kravitz

Instrument: Viola








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Tony Rymer

Instrument: Cello
Tony Rymer, 19, is from Boston and an undergraduate at the New England Conservatory where he is the recipient of the Laurence Lesser Presidential Scholarship as a student of Paul Katz.He has won prizes in several competitions including the NEC preparatory conc... View Full Profile

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Ying Jun Wei

Instrument: Cello
Ying Jun Wei began to play the cello at age of 10 and at age 12 entered the WuHan conservatory of Music in China with a full scholarship. At age 16 she won a scholarship and began to study at The Purcell school of Music in England. At age of 17, she entered ... View Full Profile

Yumi Man

Instrument: Violin
Yumi Man started playing violin at the age of five, and loves it even more today than she did when she was little. "I love the sound the violin makes," Yumi says, "and it can really affect my mood. If I'm playing a sad piece, my insides turn to ... View Full Profile

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