...Mr. Díaz has already had a significant impact on American musical life and will continue to do so in his dual roles as performer and educator. Some of Mr. Díaz's recent and upcoming performances include the Kansas City Symphony with Michael Stern, New World Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas, Netherlands Philharmonic with Yakov Kreizberg, Philadelphia Orchestra with Gilbert Varga and the Bilbao Symphony with Juanjo Mena. In May 2007, Roberto Díaz will perform the Penderecki concerto at Carnegie Hall with Christoph Eschenbach and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. An active chamber musician, Roberto Díaz has performed with artists such as the Emerson String Quartet, Emanuel Ax, Yefim Bronfman, Christoph Eschenbach, Yo-Yo Ma, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Isaac Stern and as a member of the Díaz Trio, with violinist Andrés Cárdenes and cellist Andrés Díaz. Mr. Díaz’s recording of transcriptions by William Primrose with Robert Koenig (Naxos) has been nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance Without Orchestra. Also for the Naxos label, he has recorded works for viola and piano by Henri Vieuxtemps (2004). New World Records has released a critically acclaimed live recording of the Jacob Druckman Viola Concerto with Mr. Díaz and The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch. Roberto Díaz was principal violist of the National Symphony under Mstislav Rostropovich, a member of the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa, and a member of the Minnesota Orchestra under Sir Neville Marriner.
 

… Performing extensively as featured soloist and chamber musician, he has been concertizing throughout the United States, Austria, Belgium, England, Germany, South Korea, Lithuania, Russia, and his native France. Mr. Fluchaire was invited to solo with the Camerata Lysy Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony, Hunter Symphony, New York Repertory Orchestra, Manhattanville College Orchestra, The Orchestra of the Bronx, The French Philharmonia Orchestra, Bachanalia Orchestra, Arctic Chamber Orchestra, University of Alaska-Anchorage Sinfonia Orchestra and the Affetti Chamber Orchestra. His most recent concerto tour, performing the Mendelssohn violin concerto throughout Alaska, was reviewed as "a world-class performance […] technical and artistic perfection."

Olivier Fluchaire was fortunate to perform on many occasions alongside his mentor, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, notably in J.S. Bach’s concerto for two violins and with members of the Guarneri, American, and Emerson string quartets. He has recorded for VOX label and his performances were broadcasted on France 3 Television, Bronxnet Television, the BBC Television, National Educational Television, Radio France, MDR Leipzig, "The Listening Room with Robert Sherman" WQXR-FM and National Public Radio.

Highlights for Mr. Fluchaire's 2012-13 season include performances of the Sibelius, Mendelssohn and Beethoven violin concerti as well as Bill Whelan’s double concerto for violin and fiddle. He will also perform chamber music on numerous concert series and record for MSR Classics label.

As an avid teacher, Olivier Fluchaire serves on the violin, viola and chamber music faculty at Hunter College, CUNY (New York, NY), Manhattanville College (Purchase, NY) and the College of Staten Island, CUNY (Staten Island, NY). During the summer, he teaches and performs at Summit Music Festival (Purchase, NY), Saverne Music Festival (France) and the Affetti Festival (Anchorage, AK) where he also serves as Associate Music Director.

Olivier Fluchaire studied with Daniel Phillips, Patinka Kopec, Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Guen En Shen and Jacques Ghesthem. He is graduate of the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School in London UK, completed his Bachelor’s and Masters’ degrees, on a merit scholarship, at the Manhattan School of Music and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree, as a recipient of a New York Times Fellowship, at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center.

Olivier Fluchaire performs on a rare violin by Andreas Gisalberti made circa 1720 in Parma, Italy.

...Ms. Gallagher has taught in the summers at Chautauqua Institution, Affinis Festival in Japan, as well as at Summit Music Festival. She is a member of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Principal Violist of the Orchestra of St. Luke's, as well as Co-Principal Violist of the Mito Chamber Orchestra, with Seiji Ozawa as music director. Her chamber music participation includes Artistic Coordinator of concerts at Dorot in New York City. She received a Grammy in 2001 for Stravinsky's chamber music with members of Orpheus, and a nomination for a Grammy in 2004 for the Oboe Quartet of Elliott Carter.

Recently he performed as a soloist with Miami Symphony and Boca Symphonia. Michael Klotz is the violist of the Amernet String Quartet. An avid performer of the chamber music repertoire, recent appearances on violin and viola include concerts in New York at venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Weill Hall, Merkin Hall, Steinway Hall, Museum of Modern Art and the Kosciuzsko Foundation, which included a live broadcast on WQXR-FM. Additionally, he has been heard in prestigious halls in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego, Rochester, and Mexico. Michael Klotz has performed at leading festivals such as Caramoor, Newport, Skaneateles, Music Mountain, Sarasota Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, where he was a faculty member from 2005-2008. He prizes his association with the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall. In December of 2003 he was invited by Maestro Jaime Laredo to perform with distinguished alumni of the Seminar in Carnegie Hall. Some of Michael Klotz teachers include Zvi Zeitlin, Lewis Kaplan and Toby Appel. In 2002, Michael Klotz became one of the few individuals to complete the Master of Music degree in both Violin and Viola Performance from The Juilliard School, where he was a recipient of the Maxwell Gluck Fellowship and the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship. HIs students are currently attending the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute of Music, Cleveland Instiute of Music, Indiana University, and Yale. They are winners of national and international competitions. One recently won a position in the Atlanta Symphony. Klotz performs on a 1619 Anonio and Hierinymus Amati viola graciously on loan from Peter Kamnitzer of the LaSalle Quartet.
 

Ms. Kopec completed her MM and BM at The Julliard and studied with Dorothy DeLay, Ivan Galamian, and William Lincer. She has performed at Aspen Music Festival, Carnegie Recital Hall, Town Hall, Down East Festival (NY), Killington Music Festival, and the Southern Vermont Festival. She was formerly artist in residence with the Andreas Quartet (viola) for 10 years and was on the faculties of Queens College, Interlochen Arts Academy, Sarah Lawrence College, SUNY Purchase, Thurnauer School of Music at the JCC of the Palisades (NJ), and Hoff-Barthelson Music School. She has given Master Classes in Tel Aviv, Prague, Shanghai, Miyazaki (Japan), Ottawa, and the US. Her students have placed in international competitions such as the Menuhin, Stolberg, and the Young Concert Artist and many of her students now hold teaching positions.

… in Germany, the National Arts Center in Ottawa and the Jerusalem Music Center, often collaborating with today's leading artists.

Currently a faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division, as well as the Thurnauer School of Music, Tali Kravitz has also been on the faculty at the Summit Music Festival in New York and the National Arts Center Orchestra Young Artists Program Precollege in Canada.

As a recognized emerging young artist, Tali Kravitz has been invited to the Steans Institute for Young Artists of the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Summer Music Institute of the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada the Perlman Music Program's chamber music workshop in Shelter Island in New York and the Keshet Eilon violin master-course in Israel; and, in 2010, was one of the participants of the Kronberg Academy'’s "Chamber Music Connects the World" in Germany, where she performed in chamber music and ensembles with Gidon Kremer and Franz Helmerson. Additional collaborations have included performances with Mikhail Kopelman, Timothy Eddy, Dmitri Berlinsky, Timothy Cobb, Boris Slutsky, Nicholas Mann, Daniel Epstein and David Geber, among others.

With a burgeoning schedule as a recitalist and a chamber musician, Ms. Kravitz has been presented on stages throughout the United States, Canada, Israel and Europe, including the Jazz at Lincoln Center, Trinity Church's Concert at One series, Yamaha Artists Services, the Liederkranz Club and the Calhoun Performing Arts Series in New York; the Bennett-Gordon Hall in Chicago; the Felicja Blumental Music Center in Tel Aviv and the Jerusalem Music Center in Israel - where her performances were nationally broadcasted on Israeli National Radio; and the Israel Embassies both in Washington D.C. and Ottawa, Canada. She has also appeared as soloist with the String Orchestra of the Rockies in Montana.

Throughout her career, Tali Kravitz has been a frequent recipient of prizes and awards, among which are the First Prize at the 5 Town Music & Art Foundation String Competition (Long Island, NY); First Prize at the String Orchestra of the Rockies Concerto Competition (Missoula, Montana); First Place at the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Instrumental Competition (NY); and was the winner of the Virtu Foundation Scholarship Competition. Ms. Kravitz is also a recipient of the Career Grant from the Rachel Elizabeth Barton Foundation and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarships for gifted musicians.

Tali Kravitz holds a BM and a MM from the Manhattan School of Music where she studied in the Pinchas Zukerman Performance Program, under the guidance of Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec. In master class settings, Ms. Kravitz has profited from the guidance of Itzhak Perlman, Michael Tree, Robert Mann, Kim Kashkashian, Atar Arad, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Ivry Gitlis and Pamela Frank. Among her chamber music coaches are Lawrence Dutton, Andre-Michel Schub, Sylvia Rosenberg, Isidore Cohen and Ruth Laredo.

Ms. Kravitz plays a 1767 Massaguer viola kindly loaned to her by the Ravinia Festival.

... He performed extensively around the country as the violist of the internationally award winning Amernet String quartet and was invited to collaborate with prominent ensembles, including the Tokyo String Quartet, Ying String Quartet, members of the Cleveland String Quartet, Ciompi String Quartet, and as a guest solo artist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Youngerman served on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Northern Kentucky University, and East Carolina University. In the latter, he was also director of the Chamber Music Program. More recently he spent a year teaching at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music in Israel, before returning to Chapel Hill. In 2005, Mr. Youngerman founded MYCO @ UNC Youth Chamber Orchestra, a project for advanced studies in Chamber music for talented pre-college musicians. recognised for excellence groups from MYCO competed in the Fischoff chmaber music competition, and the chamber orchestra invited to tour China in the summer of 2012, Yoram continues to serve as the conductor and Artistic Director of the organization, and its summer chamber music workshop at UNC. Mr. Youngerman is a regular participant at the Summit Music Festival in New York, where he also conducts the Festival Orchestra.