Twenty-five-year-old Chinese pianist Ying Li was the First Prize winner ofthe 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. She has received top awards in  numerous national and
international competitions, including winning the inaugural PremioInter nazionale Antonio Mormone in Italy and first prizes at the Sarasota Artist  Series Piano Competition, Brevard Music Festival solo and
concerto competitions, International  Liszt Piano Competition for YoungPianists, and third prize at Minnesota Orchestra’s Young  ArtistCompetition.

Ying made her European orchestral debut tour in Germany and Italy in fall2021 with Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie and their chief conductor Jonathon Heyward. She has also performed with orchestras and
conductors at venues including Teatro La Scala in Milan with L’Accademia Orchestra del La Scala and Maestro Toshiyuki Kamioka, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Maestra Lina Gonzalez-Granados, New Jersey Performing Arts Center with New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Maestra Xian Zhang, Brevard Music

Festival Orchestra with Maestro Ken Lam, and Longwood SymphonyOrchestra with Maestro Ronald Feldman. An avid chamber musician, Ying has appeared at prestigious festivals around the world including Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland, Ravinia’s Steans Institute in Chicago, La Jolla Music  Society in San Diego, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Detroit, and Norfolk Chamber  Music Festival in Connecticut. She is also a founding member of the AYA Trio.

Highlights of her 22-23 season includes a debut album release onUniversal x Decca label, and recital debuts at Zankel Hall of Carnegie,Kennedy Center in D.C., and Konzerthaus Berlin. She will collaborate
concerto performances with Maestros Gabriel Feltz and Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Dan Ettinger and Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Radu Paponiu and Southwest Florida Symphony, Eric Jacobsen and Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra. After starting piano lessons at age five in China, Ying was a student at the Elementary School division of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, then she moved to Philadelphia in 2012, at age fourteen, to study at the Curtis Institute of Music with Jonathan Biss and Seymour Lipkin.

After receiving the Bachelor of Music degree at Curtis Institute in 2019,she received her Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School in New York with Robert McDonald in 2021, and currently is an Artist Diploma candidate at Juilliard.

Praised for her “very special charisma, made of natural sensibility and high level control of sound… achieves to bring all her skills into a global expression which expresses a variety of colors and a great diversity of characters” (Emmanuel Hondré), Chinese violinist Angela Sin Ying Chan has found success both as a soloist and a chamber musician. Top prize winner of the Singapore International Violin Competition, Louis Spohr, Shanghai Issac Stern, Harbin, Nomea, and Michael Hill International Competitions, and founder of the AYA piano trio, she is fast emerging as one of the most unique and polished violinists of her generation.

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As a soloist, Angela has appeared with numerous orchestras including The Staatskapelle Weimar Orchestra of Germany, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, EOS Orchestra of Beijing, and the Hong Kong Symphonia. In 2016, Ms. Chan was selected as a soloist to a tour around the states with The Curtis Chamber Orchestra. She has also played in 9 concerts with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in their “2017 Europe Tour”. Ms. Chan has held many recitals in various cities such as Philadelphia, Hong Kong, Beijing, Xiamen, and Guizhou. As an active chamber musician, Angela has collaborated with world famous artists such as Nobuko Imai, Peter Wiley, Tien-Tsin Cindy Wu, Gary Hoffman, etc. As the violinist of the AYA piano trio, the trio has won first prize of the WDAV Chamber Music Competition and Yellow Spring Chamber Competition. AYA piano trio is currently represented by Jean Schreiber Management.

Angela’s festival appearances as a soloist and chamber musician include Hefeitz Institute of Music as Artist-in-Residence, Verbier Festival Academy, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Born in Hong Kong, Angela started playing the violin at the age of 3 under her
mother. She continued her violin studies with Michael James Ma, Vera WeiLing Tsu in China, and Shmuel Ashkenasi, Pamela Frank, and Aaron Rosand at the Curtis Institute of Music. With full scholarship granted, she is currently studying with Donald Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory of Music. She is also scholarship recipient of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance fund and the Lin Yao Ji Foundation.

Cellist Andrés Sanchez, born in Allentown PA, USA, began his cello studies at the age of eight years old under the wing of current Puerto Rico symphony cello principle Miguel Rojas. After two years he began his studies with cellist Jesus Morales, member of the Dali Quartet and ex-principal of the Puerto Rico Symphony. At 10 years of age, Andrés made his first solo debuts in the Midwest Clinic of Chicago and the Ocean City Pops orchestra. Three years later, he made his Carnegie Hall debut alongside the Arconet chamber orchestra. At age sixteen, Andrés was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music in 2013 where he
studied with cellists Peter Wiley and Carter Brey. Andrés graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2020 and is continuing his studies at the New England Conservatory under the guidance of Paul Katz.

Andrés has appeared as soloist with the Arconet Chamber Orchestra on several occasions since joining Curtis and has also performed as a soloist with the Kutztown University Chamber Orchestra. In 2019 Andres made solo appearances with the Kennet Square Symphony, the Central Jersey Symphony, the Summit Symphony, and PA Sinfonia. He made his Beethoven Triple Concerto debut this past year with the
Waterbury Symphony as part of the AYA Trio.

An avid chamber musician, Andrés has performed in over 30 chamber music concerts in the Curtis Student Recital Series. As cellist of the AYA Trio, he has performed across the country in esteemed series including Concerts International in Memphis TN, and The Mannes School Schneider Concert series in New York City. This year, the trio will be making debuts in the Brevard Music Center and New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall.

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Andrés participated in the 2015 Banff Center Master Class Program where he studied with cellists Andres Díaz, Raphael Walfisch, and Denis Brott, and he has also participated in the 2016 Music From Angel Fire Festival where he performed side by side with artists such as Ida Kavafian, Peter Wiley, Steven Tenenbom,
and Ani Kavafian. In the summer of 2018, Andrés attended the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival where he played with and was coached by the esteemed artists of the Emerson Quartet including Philip Setzer and Paul Watkins. Andrés has also participated in the Heifetz Institute, where he performed several chamber and solo recital works and took part in several master classes with cellists such as Franz Helmerson and Yeesun Kim. In summer of 2022, Andrés will be a participant of Ravinia Steans Music Institute.