Patrick Jee
cello

Cellist Patrick Jee is hailed as a "gifted virtuoso" with "...lustrous suavity and a satin-smooth bowing and singing line" (Harris Goldsmith/New York Concert Review) . He has garnered top prizes in many competitions including the Andre Navarra Cello Competition, the Holland-America Music Society Cello Competition and the Irving Klein International String Competition.

As a soloist, Mr. Jee's performances include the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Toulouse, the National Orchestra of Toulouse and the Orchestra de Chambre Regional D'Ile-de-France. His recital and chamber music engagements have taken him across the country to venues such as the Banff Centre for the Arts, Carnegie Hall, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and La Jolla's Summerfest. He has also participated in the Caramoor Music Festival's "Virtuosi" and "Rising Stars" series where he collaborated with Leon Fleisher, and Ani and Ida Kavafian.

Mr. Jee has worked with members of the Emerson, Orion, Tokyo, and Vermeer Quartets along with other distinguished artists such as Emanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Lynn Harrell, David Shifrin, Janos Starker, and Isaac Stern. He can be heard on the Albany Records label premiering a work by Ezra Laderman and has had radio broadcasts over WFMT Chicago and WXXI Rochester.

In May of 1999, Mr. Jee received his Masters of Music degree from the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Aldo Parisot with whom he continues to study at the Juilliard School.

Warren Jones
piano

Warren Jones frequently performs with many of today's best-known artists, including Barbara Bonney, Ruth Ann Swenson, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Denyce Graves, Stephanie Blythe, Hakan Hagegard, Samuel Ramey, James Morris, John Relyea, and Joseph Alessi. In the past he has partnered such great singers as Marilyn Horne, Kathleen Battle, Carol Vaness, Tatiana Troyanos and Martti Talvela. Mr. Jones has been featured in an interview with Eugenia Zukerman on CBS Sunday Morning . He has often been a guest artist at Carnegie Hall and in Lincoln Center 's Great Performers Series, as well as the festivals of Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Caramoor. His international travels have taken him to recitals throughout Europe and the Far East . Mr. Jones has been invited three times to the White House by American presidents to perform at concerts honoring the President of Russia , and Prime Ministers of Italy and Canada . As a guest at the Library of Congress, Mr. Jones has appeared with the Juilliard Quartet. He was featured in the United Nations memorial concert and tribute to Ms. Audrey Hepburn, telecast worldwide. Recent seasons have included his debut with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, performances with the Brentano Quartet, and an invitation to teach a master class at The Juilliard School under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation. Mr. Jones has recordings on BMG/RCA Red Seal, the Samsung Classics label, NPR Classics, EMI and Sony Classical. Mr. Jones is on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music in New York City . Each summer he teaches and performs at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara , California . Warren Jones grew up in North Carolina and graduated with honors from the New England Conservatory of Music?where he was recently honored with the Conservatory's Outstanding Alumni Award. A resident of New York City , Mr. Jones enjoys cooking, exercise, historical novels, and lively political discussion. [www.warrenjones.com]

Judy Kang
violin

Julliard graduate Soprano Yunah Lee made her European Opera debut as the title role in Madama Butterfly in Bern, Switzerland. She has sung with New York City Opera, Cleveland Opera, Minnesota Opera, New Jersey State Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Sao Paulo Opera, Orlando Opera, El Paso Opera, Taiwan Opera, Virginia Opera, Toledo Opera, Roanoke Opera, Virginia Opera, Tampa Opera, Long View Opera, Intermoutain Opera and San Antonio Opera. As an active concert singer, she has appeared with New York Oratorio Society, National Choral, Tokyo City Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony, Hiroshima Symphony, Beijing National Symphony and Orchesta di P. Picasso in Spain. Her solo recital credits at Carnegie Hall in New York, Ho-Am Art Hall in Seoul, Shanghai Concert Hall and Sao Pedro Teatro in Sao Paulo. She can be heard on Arcadia recording of I Musici's "Four Seaons in Korea"
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Richard O'Neill is quickly rising to international prominence as one of the finest violists
of his generation. With frequent performances throughout North America , Europe , and Asia , he has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles and Eurasian Philharmonics, and has an exclusive solo recording contract with Universal Music. His first album release for Universal, with pianist Warren Jones, was the top selling classical music album in Korea . Mr. O'Neill has collaborated with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Mendelssohn and Orion String Quartets, Ensemble Wien-Berlin, Gil Shaham, Cho-Liang Lin, Joshua Bell, Gary Hoffmann, Edgar Meyer and Steven Isserlis, among others. He has toured with the Chamber Music Society as well as with Musicians from Marlboro. He is also a member of the International Sejong Soloists, a string ensemble without conductor. A Universal Music Artist, he has recorded for Naxos , Centaur, and Tzadik. The first and only violist to receive the prestigious Artist Diploma at Juilliard, he has studied with Paul Neubauer and Donald McInnes. Mr. O'Neill performs on a viola made by Gasparo da Salo, Brescia Italy , circa 1590, most generously loaned to him by the Samsung Foundation of Culture.