In the words of the renowned piano authority and former New York Times critic Harold Schonberg, pianist Sang Mi Chung has everything: technique, temperament, and personality. These qualities shine through in all of her performances and enable her to penetrate the mysteries of idiom to an exceptional degree. In her playing, "Haydn is Haydn, Mendelssohn is Mendelssohn, and Chopin is Chopin," according to piano authority David Dubal. Born in Seoul, Korea, Ms. Chung has since the age of fourteen performed extensively in the US, Europe, and Asia, and in such important venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Salzburg Music Festival. She has appeared as guest soloist with the New Jersey Symphony, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, and Seoul Philharmonic, among other noted ensembles. Her performances have been aired on New York’s WQXR and on Colorado Public Television. Since 1999 Ms. Chung has recorded exclusively for Centaur Records, with four CDs to her credit. She is a founding member of the Arista Trio who she toured with for many years with great success. Ms. Chung was cited by Musical America as one of the "Young Artists of 1990." She is a past winner of the Gina Bachauer International Competition and has been awarded the William Petschek Scholarship several times, the Jerome L. Green Scholarship, and the Lado Inc. Scholarship at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Adele Marcus, David Dubal and Martin Canin, earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.

Praised as “passionate and elegant” by The New York Times, cellist Amy Sue Barston has performed as a soloist and chamber musician on stages all over the world, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Ravinia, Bargemusic, and Caramoor. At age seventeen, she appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on live television, and was the Grand Prize winner in the Society of American Musicians’ Competition. Beginning at age three, Ms. Barston studied with Nell Novak at the Music Institute of Chicago, Eleonore Schoenfeld at USC, and Joel Krosnick at Juilliard. She has also worked with Yo Yo Ma and Tim Eddy. Ms. Barston has performed as soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, the Prometheus Chamber Orchestra, the Rockford Symphony, the USC Symphony, the Westchester Symphony, among many others. She made her first solo appearance with orchestra in Guelph, Canada when she was twelve. Ms. Barston is the cellist of The Corigliano Quartet, which has been hailed by Strad Magazine as having "abundant commitment and mastery," and whose recent Naxos CD was named one of the top two recordings of the year by both the New Yorker and Gramophone Magazine. She also performs regularly in duos with the world's most celebrated fiddler, Mark O'connor. Amy has performed sonatas and chamber music with many of the world’s leading musicians, including Leon Fleisher, Jon Kimura Parker, Arnold Steinhardt, Bernard Greenhouse, and Ani Kavafian. Ms. Barston is also a devoted teacher: in her home, at the NY School for Strings, as an guest at Juilliard, and at many summer music festivals. Ms. Barston’s upcoming schedule includes solo and chamber music performances in England, Sydney, New Zealand, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Salt Lake, Wisconsin, Rochester, Denver, Chicago, and Germany.

French-born violinist Bruno Eicher is the Assistant Concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, which he joined in 2001, after serving for four years as Associate Concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony and the previous four years as Assistant Concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. His wide-ranging orchestral experience includes playing for the Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, among others. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Eicher has performed extensively throughout Europe and the U.S., as well as in South Korea. In New York, he is a member of the MET Chamber Ensemble which performs regularly at Carnegie Hall. He is a violin coach for the Verbier Festival Orchestra since 2009. A native of Dijon, France, Mr. Eicher is a graduate of the Paris Conservatoire where he studied with Pierre Amoyal and Jean Hubeau. In the United States, he was a student of Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang at the Juilliard School, from which he holds both bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1992, he was the 2nd prize winner of the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. Mr Eicher lives in Manhattan, with his wife, cellist Kari Docter, and their young son.