Clayton Penrose-Whitmore, Violin

Clayton Penrose-Whitmore, Violin

Clayton Penrose-Whitmore was the inaugural recipient of the Chase Isaac Stern Award for Musical Talent and Artistry in 2008. That same year he won First Place in the Sphinx Competition Junior Division. In 2014 he took Second Place in the Senior Division. He has...
Jeanne Mallow, Violin and Viola

Jeanne Mallow, Violin and Viola

Jeanne Mallow, violist and violinist, comes from a long line of distinguished musicians; her grandmother was Lillian Fuchs, her uncle, Joseph Fuchs. The New York Times calls Mallow “a worthy successor to this tradition, playing with dusky aristocratic tone,...
Tanya Kalmanovitch, Viola

Tanya Kalmanovitch, Viola

Tanya Kalmanovitch, Jazz violist and violinist, has been named “Best New Talent” by All About Jazz. Her 2007 recording “Heart Mountain” won the prestigious Choc award from French magazine Jazzman. Kalmanovitch teaches at the New England Conservatory, the...
Alfonso Lopez, Violin

Alfonso Lopez, Violin

Alfonso Lopez, violinist, composer, & conductor, is concertmaster of the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra (OSV), Professor of Violin at the Emil Friedman School, and founding member of the Friedman String Quartet. His orchestral work, Caribe Pirana, was premiered in...
Kam-Lung Cheng, Violin

Kam-Lung Cheng, Violin

Kam-Lung Cheng’s solo appearances include the Tchaikovsky concerto for Dutch Television, and the Beethovan and Brahms with the Philharmonia Moldova, with whom he recorded the Brahms. Born in Beijing China, Cheng began violin lessons with his father when playing...
Nicholas Crosa, Violin

Nicholas Crosa, Violin

Nicholas Crosa won the gold medal at the 1998 Stulberg International String Competition and was first prize winner in the 1997 Nakamichi Foundation Paganini violin concerto competition. A student of Carol Sindell in Portland, Oregon, and Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard...