Chamber Music Concert 4

Kailan Fournier was generously supported by the Helen Graham Artist Award

Kailan Fournier is a freelance clarinetist based in Toronto. As an orchestral freelancer, Kailan has performed with ensembles such as Les Violons du Roy, the Ontario Philharmonic, Hamilton Philharmonic, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and various others. Kailan completed his Bachelors degree at The Glenn Gould School with Joaquin Valdepeñas, a Graduate degree at McGill University with Todd Cope and recently finished his Advanced Diploma in Performance at the Eastman School of Music with Michael Wayne. Kailan started his musical education on bass clarinet, which is quite uncommon, and loves to get a chance to explore contemporary music and the unique sounds possible on bass clarinet. In his spare time, Kailan also manages a cafe in Yorkville and enjoys rock climbing.

Each Zhang was generously supported by the Frederick Louis Crosby Memorial Endowment

Yichi Zhang is in his honours (fourth) year of studying with Lyndon Watts at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He has played with the Melbourne Youth Orchestra and the University of Melbourne’s Philharmonic Orchestra, Wind Symphony and Symphony Orchestra. Highlights include concerts in Geelong, Sydney and Brisbane with the Wind Symphony, and the Symphony Orchestra’s 2023 international tour of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, where he played in Gustav Mahler’s first symphony, and premiered Hun Tur by Melody Eötvös, Senior Lecturer of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.

Yichi is an enthusiastic chamber musician, having been a member of multiple wind quintets during his time at the Conservatorium, performing works such as György Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles for wind quintet and Samuel Barber’s Summer Music. Him alongside his wind quintet were selected to participate in the Portillo International Festival and Academy in Chile for 2025, where they performed Wind Quintet no.1 by Jean Françaix.

He is also a passionate pianist and conductor, and has conducted Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Gran Partita with ensembles of his own making, as well as conducted compositions by his fellow students at the university.

Stamp Netthai was generously supported by the Barbara and John Poole Memorial Endowment

Thai trumpeter Jid-anan Netthai, known as Stamp, is a fellow at The Orchestra Now at Bard College. He began playing the trumpet at nine and has a passion for sharing music. Stamp has collaborated with international ensembles, including the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra in China and the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra in Singapore. He co-founded the Brassisimo Brass Quintet and attended the American Brass Quintet Seminar at the Aspen Music Festival in 2019.

His versatility spans classical, jazz, and pop, enabling him to connect with diverse audiences. He served as the lead trumpet for the Ruam Smai Big Band during an international tour across Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Japan. Beyond performing, Stamp conducts masterclasses in Thailand to nurture young talent and composes and arranges music to expand traditional brass boundaries. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from the Tianjin Juilliard School.

Each Zhang was generously supported by the Frederick Louis Crosby Memorial Endowment

Yichi Zhang is in his honours (fourth) year of studying with Lyndon Watts at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. He has played with the Melbourne Youth Orchestra and the University of Melbourne’s Philharmonic Orchestra, Wind Symphony and Symphony Orchestra. Highlights include concerts in Geelong, Sydney and Brisbane with the Wind Symphony, and the Symphony Orchestra’s 2023 international tour of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, where he played in Gustav Mahler’s first symphony, and premiered Hun Tur by Melody Eötvös, Senior Lecturer of Music at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.

Yichi is an enthusiastic chamber musician, having been a member of multiple wind quintets during his time at the Conservatorium, performing works such as György Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles for wind quintet and Samuel Barber’s Summer Music. Him alongside his wind quintet were selected to participate in the Portillo International Festival and Academy in Chile for 2025, where they performed Wind Quintet no.1 by Jean Françaix.

He is also a passionate pianist and conductor, and has conducted Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Gran Partita with ensembles of his own making, as well as conducted compositions by his fellow students at the university.

Stamp Netthai was generously supported by the Barbara and John Poole Memorial Endowment

Thai trumpeter Jid-anan Netthai, known as Stamp, is a fellow at The Orchestra Now at Bard College. He began playing the trumpet at nine and has a passion for sharing music. Stamp has collaborated with international ensembles, including the Hangzhou Philharmonic Orchestra in China and the Metropolitan Festival Orchestra in Singapore. He co-founded the Brassisimo Brass Quintet and attended the American Brass Quintet Seminar at the Aspen Music Festival in 2019.

His versatility spans classical, jazz, and pop, enabling him to connect with diverse audiences. He served as the lead trumpet for the Ruam Smai Big Band during an international tour across Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Japan. Beyond performing, Stamp conducts masterclasses in Thailand to nurture young talent and composes and arranges music to expand traditional brass boundaries. He holds a Bachelor of Music from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music from the Tianjin Juilliard School.

Enzo Kok was generously supported by the Maria Francisca Josepha Brouwer Fund for Dutch Artists

Enzo Kok (14th of August, 2002) born and raised in Kerkrade, The Netherlands, got his first violin lesson at the age of 6. With guidance of his teachers Ilya Grubert and Eliot Lawson he finished his bachelor studies in 2023 at the Conservatory of Amsterdam with the highest score. From October 2023-2025, Enzo continued his studies at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Professor Ulf Wallin. Since October 2025 he’s studying at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover with Liza Ferschtman.

In 2018 he was one of the three finalists of the Dutch Violin Competition ‘Davina van Wely’. In 2019 he received the 1st prize during the national finals of the Prinses Christina Concours. In 2024 Enzo won the 3rd prize as well as the audience prize at the Dutch Violin Competition “Oskar Back Prijs” during the finals. Enzo performed on multiple occasions in concert halls such as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Tivoli Vredenburg Utrecht. He gave concerts all across Europe as a soloist and chamber musician. As a soloist he appeared with orchestra’s such as the Residente Orchestra and the Hamburger Kamerata. Enzo performed with musicians as: Daniel Rowland, Lisa Jacobs, Iris Hond, Anna Federova and members of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Enzo plays a violin built by J.B. Vuillaume generously in loan from André Rieu.

Allie Su is an internationally recognized collaborative pianist and chamber musician whose performances and teaching engagements have taken her across the United States, Asia, and Europe. Acclaimed for her specialization in wind and brass repertoire, she has collaborated with leading artists including Christian Lindberg, Nitzan Haroz, Carol Jantsch, Charles Neidich, Carol Wincenc, Benjamin Kamins, and Alexa Still. Her festival appearances include the Perlman Music Program, Interlochen Center for the Arts, American Viola Society Festival, Cooper International Violin Competition, and the Meadowmount School of Music. In 2025, Su presented a lecture on the topic of “The Collaborative Piano Landscape in China” at the CollabFest, the leading festival dedicated to advancing the art of collaborative piano.

As an active chamber musician and educator, Su has performed and presented masterclasses at Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Texas at Austin, University of Denver, University of Colorado Boulder, Cleveland State University, Taipei University, Tunghai University, Sun Yat-sen University, Seoul National University, and Yonsei University. She is also a versatile vocal collaborator, having served as a coach and pianist for the Land of Enchantment Opera, Butler Opera Center, Franco-American Vocal Academy, ISING Festival in Suzhou, and Lingua e Canto in Italy.

Su is currently on the faculty of The Tianjin Juilliard School, where she teaches in the Graduate Studies program, coaches chamber ensembles, and coordinates the staff pianist area. She earned her DMA in Collaborative Piano from the University of Texas at Austin and her MM in Piano Performance from Arizona State University.

Sarah Song was generously supported by the Sylvia and Jack Chetner Endowment

Korean-American cellist Sarah Song has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in venues across North America, Europe, and Iceland. As a soloist she has appeared with the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Space and the Aaron Copland School of Music Orchestra. She has collaborated with artists like Kronos Quartet, Sæunn Thorsteinsdottir, the Metropolitan Opera, Itamar Zorman, Emannuel Ceysson, and Martha Graham Dance Company. Song is a founding member of the all-female Ondine Quartet, which received the Ensemble Forward Grant working with Todd Philips and Ayane Kozasa. She performs regularly in venues like Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, The LGBTQ Center, and Flushing Town Hall. Sarah holds degrees from Indiana University, The Eastman School of Music, and CUNY Queens College. She is pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at The CUNY Graduate Center with Marcy Rosen. Her research concerns musical hybridity in cello music by diasporic Korean composers. Song lives in Brooklyn where she heads her adult cello studio and teaches at Long Island University BK.

Hyunah Lee was generously supported by the Margaret (Peggie) Sampson Memorial Endowment

South Korean cellist Hyunah Lee is a versatile performer whose passion lies in chamber music and collaborative music-making. She has performed at notable festivals, including the Maine Chamber Music Seminar, Toronto Summer Music, the Tianjin International Chamber Music Festival, and the Tibor Varga Music Academy in Switzerland. Her collaborative highlights include performances with distinguished artists such as Weigang Li, Jinjoo Cho, Colin Carr, Tom Sauer, Jonathan Crow, Sharon Wei, Scott St. John, Alvin Zhu, and Philip Setzer. She is currently a member of the Arco Ensemble and the Velaris String Quartet, and studies at the Emerson String Quartet Institute at Stony Brook University.

Hyunah won First Prize at the Seoul Chamber Competition, Second Prize at the Music Association of Korea Competition, and Second Prize (with no First Prize awarded) at the Sung Jung Music Competition. In addition to her extensive chamber music activities, she regularly presents solo and chamber recitals throughout the United States and South Korea.

She received her Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University and her Master of Music in Chamber Music from The Tianjin Juilliard School, where she was awarded a full scholarship and a graduate fellowship. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Stony Brook University under the guidance of Colin Carr, where she also serves as a Graduate Teaching Assistant.

Ayoun Kim was generously supported by the Cyril and Elizabeth Challice Fund for Musicians

Cellist Ayoun Alexandra Kim, a prize-winning performer from Korea, has been recognized by the Yamaha Young Performing Artist Competition and has performed at leading festivals including Music@Menlo and Kneisel Hall. She has collaborated with the Telegraph Quartet and artists such as Shai Wosner and Inon Barnatan. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School and SFCM. Her primary mentors are Natasha Brofsky, Astrid Schween, Hans Jensen, and Jennifer Culp.

Maija Flood was generously supported by the Frederick Louis Crosby Memorial Endowment

Maija Flood is a clarinettist from Dja Dja Wurrung Country in Australia. Maija completed her Bachelor of Music (Hons.) at the Melbourne Conservatorium in 2025, learning under the tutelage of David Thomas and David Griffiths. Maija is an avid chamber musician, performing across Melbourne with her group ‘Auralis Ensemble’ and participating in the 2025 Portillo International Music Festival in Chile. In 2026, she is excited to continue progressing her musical identity through the Banff Chamber Music Residency and to travel to Europe for further development of her clarinet playing, including through the Voksenåsen Summer Academy. Maija has a particular interest in exploring the relationship between fine arts and music, which saw her receive a grant from the University of Melbourne in 2025. With this, she presented a curated chamber music concert in collaboration with Lennox St Gallery, responding to Jason Cordero’s surrealist landscape exhibit, ‘The Place of Concord.’

Aidan Garrison was generously supported by the Cyril and Elizabeth Challice Fund for Musicians

As avid chamber musician, Aidan Garrison has collaborated with members of the St. Lawrence string quartet, and Rosemary Elliot, and performed for artists such as Ani Kavafian, Dimitri Murrath, and Christian Colberg, as well as members of the Emerson, Shanghai, and Pacifica string quartets. He has attended the Aspen, Bowdoin, Blairsville, and Heifetz international music festivals, and was a fellow at the Napa Valley Blackburn academy.

Aidan is currently pursuing his Doctoral degree at Stony Brook University, studying with Lawrence Dutton and Matthew Lipman. While at Stony Brook his string quartet was awarded first prize in the school’s Ackermann chamber music competition. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the New England Conservatory, studying with Mai Motobuchi and Nicholas Cords.

While at NEC, his string quartet was chosen for the Community Performances and Partnerships Ensemble Fellowship, where they developed educational programs designed to bring chamber music to audiences beyond the scope of a formal concert setting. This has led to engagements across the US, including a teaching residency as part of the Virginia Arts Festival.

Beyond the scope of classical music, Aidan has collaborated with musicians from many different disciplines. He has performed with the Scottish fiddle duo Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas, took part in the premiere of Wayne Shorter’s opera Iphigenia (co-written by Esperanza Spaulding), and performed as part of the backup string quartet for Jazz/Pop artist Laufey.

Nina Wang was generously supported by the Cyril and Elizabeth Challice Fund for Musicians

Nina Wang is a classical pianist passionate about bringing communities together through music and storytelling. Through performance, collaboration, and the organization of concerts/outreach initiatives, she explores music’s ability to connect people across cultures and generations. Nina is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance at the University of British Columbia, studying with Dr. David Fung. She earned her ARCT Diploma in Piano Performance in 2019 and has since performed across North America as both a soloist and collaborative artist.

An active and versatile collaborator, Nina works regularly with instrumentalists, vocalists, and chamber ensembles. She has participated in the Orford Academy of Music and the Anchorage Chamber Music Festival and has performed in masterclasses for artists including Janina Fialkowska, Sara Davis Buechner, and Emely Phelps.

Her achievements include the Bronze Prize in the College & Adult Category of the Ambrose Matilda International Music Competition (2025), First Place in the Senior Canadian Composers Category at the Performing Arts BC Provincial Festival (2022), and the Vancouver WestCoast Music Society’s 2026 Tony Roper Award for Diversity in Programming. An enthusiastic chamber musician, she enjoys collaborating with fellow artists and composers to bring a wide range of repertoire to audiences.

Linda Ruan was generously supported by the Barbara and John Poole Memorial Endowment

Chinese-Canadian pianist Linda Ruan is passionate about sharing the potential of music to overcome boundaries across cultures. Since being introduced to the drums at the age of four and then the piano at age seven, music has remained a stabilizing force in her childhood from Tokyo, Shanghai to Vancouver. Her unconventional path from a young age broadened her horizons and cultivated a fascination for diverse cultures. Her curiosity guided her beyond her solo piano studies, expanding to pedagogy and community engagement, fortepiano, conducting and chamber music projects. 

Linda is a top prize winner in international piano competitions including the ARD International Music Competition 2021. She has performed in venues across the world, from Carnegie’s Weill Hall and Lincoln Center’s Rose Studio to a recital tour in China spanning Guangzhou to Shanghai. 

Linda received her Bachelor of Music with Honours and Master of Music degrees from The Glenn Gould School, The Juilliard School, and the Tianjin Juilliard School respectively. Her past teachers include James Anagnoson Hung-Kuan Chen, Corey Hamm, Xiao Li, Li Wang, and Xiaohan Wang. Currently, she is studying at the UBC School of Music with Dr. Corey Hamm.

Olivier Doise, is a french oboist. He is soloist at Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.
He studied in Douai, then became Maurice Bourgue and David Walter’s student at Paris CNSMDP. He then obtained oboe and music chamber first prices unanimously.

He is chosen by the very appreciated M-W Chung at the age of 23. He is nominated as Paris Opera soloist. In 2010, he obtains the same post at Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra.

He undertakes his orchestra activities with a chamber musician career together. With his colleague François Leleux, he is a member of Paris-Bastille wind octet, who receives a first price at Paris Interna-tional Competition. He gives worldwide performances.
Concerned by the development of new perspectives, he is involved in the making of several works dedicated to him: "Concerto Sacra" (Richard Dubugnon), "L’Ange double" (Laurent Cunio).

Since 2009, he is a professor at Boulogne-Billancourt High School of Music and he teaches at several international academies and gives masterclass around the world.

Daniel Chong, violin | Ken Hamao, violin | Jessica Bodner, viola | Kee-Hyun Kim, cello

Internationally recognized for their “fearless, yet probingly beautiful” (The Strad) performances, the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has rapidly distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation, dedicated purely to the sound and depth of their music. Inspired performances and exceptional musicianship are hallmarks of the Quartet, having appeared at the world’s most illustrious venues since its founding in 2002.

Recent seasons included performances around the United States and Europe, including Wigmore Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Music Toronto, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Strathmore, San Antonio Chamber Music Society, University of Chicago, the Schubert Club, and Kansas City’s Friends of Chamber Music.

This season the Quartet marks their 20th anniversary with The Beethoven Project, a multi-faceted initiative which includes performances of the complete cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets; the commissioning of six composers to write encores inspired by Beethoven’s quartets; the creation of a new video library spotlighting each Beethoven quartet; and bringing Beethoven’s music to non-traditional venues around the Quartet’s home base of Boston, including homeless shelters and youth programs.

The Quartet is committed to working with composers of today — recent commissions include works by Augusta Read Thomas, Felipe Lara, Jaehyuck Choi, and Zosha di Castri. Celebrating the process of creation, the Quartet recorded three new commissions by Kate Soper, Oscar Bettison, and Vijay Iyer as part of Miller Theatre’s Mission: Commission podcast.

Additionally, the Quartet regularly collaborates with a diverse range of artists, including pianists Menahem Pressler, Orion Weiss, Shai Wosner, Billy Childs, and Vijay Iyer; members of the Silk Road Ensemble; clarinetist and composer Jörg Widmann; clarinetists Anthony McGill and Charles Neidich; flutist Claire Chase; and violist Kim Kashkashian, featured on their recent Dvořák recording. The Quartet also continues to be a strong supporter of Kashkashian’s project Music for Food, participating in concerts throughout the United States for the benefit of various food banks and shelters.

Recording projects continue to be an important facet of the Quartet’s artistic output. Described by Gramophone Magazine as a ”string quartet defined by virtuosity so agile that it’s indistinguishable from the process of emotional expression,” their newest release for ECM Records features Dvořák's Viola Quintet as well as György Kurtág's Six Moments Musicaux and Officium breve in memoriam. The Strad also declared the album as “nothing short of astonishing.” Under the auspices of the Monte Carlo Festival Printemps des Arts, they recorded a disc of three Beethoven quartets, of which Diapason “admired the group’s fearlessness, exceptional control, and attention to detail.” The Quartet can also be heard playing Mendelssohn on Nimbus Records, Bartók on Zig-Zag Territoires, and the complete Ligeti Quartets on Naxos, for which they won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance.

The members of the Parker Quartet serve as Professors of the Practice and Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University’s Department of Music. The Quartet also holds a visiting residency at the University of South Carolina and spends its summers on faculty at the Banff Centre’s Evolution: Quartet program.

Founded and currently based in Boston, the Parker Quartet’s numerous honors include winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at France’s Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition, and Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award.

Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

Dasha Tereshchenko is a Canadian mezzo-soprano praised as “most impressive” by The New York Times and possessing “star quality to spare” by Blogcritics. She is a Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition Encouragement Award winner, a recipient of the Domaine Forget Prize at the 2025 Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal Competition, and an Opéra de Montréal National Auditions Finalist. Recent roles include Silvia Lombardi in the U.S. premiere of Korngold’s The Silent Serenade (Mannes Opera), Cherubino in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro (Music on Site), and the title role in Handel’s Silla (Chicago Summer Opera). She holds degrees from Mannes School of Music and the University of Toronto, and is pursuing a Graduate Diploma at The Juilliard School in the coming 26/27 academic year.