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Tomoki Park

Tomoki Park is a Korean pianist born in Yokohama, Japan, and from age eleven studied at the Purcell School of Music, UK. He is a graduate of University of the Arts, Berlin, and Bard College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Peter Serkin. He was a member of the Ensemble Modern Academy, Frankfurt, and is currently based in Berlin.

Nathan Matsubara

Nathan Matsubara studied cello and mathematics at Bard Conservatory. He is now studying cello at the Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Indiana.

Yezu Woo

Yezu Woo performs worldwide as a violinist and is the Artistic Director of the New York in Chuncheon Music Festival and an Honorary Ambassador of the City of Chuncheon, Korea. Yezu is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in Germany and a graduate of Manhattan School of Music, The Juilliard School, the Bard College Conservatory of Music, and Stony Brook University, where she completed her Doctorate Degree.

Raman Ramakrishnan

Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan enjoys playing chamber music, old and new, around the world. He was the founding cellist of the Daedalus Quartet and the Horszowski Trio, and is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard and a Master’s from Juilliard, and is now on the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Frank Corliss

Frank Corliss is Director of the Bard College Conservatory of Music. Before coming to Bard, he was for 16 years a staff pianist for the Boston Symphony. He can be heard in recording on Yo-Yo Ma's Grammy-winning Sony disc Soul of the Tango, as well as the Koch International disc of music by Elliott Carter for chorus and piano with the John Oliver Chorale.

Emanuel Evans

Emanuel Evans is a cellist who studied at the Bard Conservatory (B. Music and B.A. in Political Studies) and then at the New England Conservatory. He is now Senior Software Engineer at Rainforest QA and continues to perform.

Luosha Fang

Luosha Fang is an international competition winner violinist/violist who studied at Bard (music and Russian Studies) and then at the Curtis Institute. She is now a member of the Pavel Haas String Quartet in Prague and concertizes world-wide.

Leah Gastler

Leah Gastler, a violist with degrees from Bard, Juilliard, and Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, created her own Visibility Coaching company, Leah Rose. "I take pride and joy in being a career coach for classical musicians..."

Gitta Marko

Gitta Marko is a violinist from Hungary whose liberal arts major at the Bard Conservatory was psychology, which she now pursues at the graduate level at Edinburgh University in Scotland.

Daniel Matei

Daniel Matei studied percussion at Bard along with Italian Studies. He is now in the Contermporary Performance Program of the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.

Elisabeth Fürniss

Cellist Elisabeth Fürniss teaches courses in music psychology as well as cello at the Musikhochschule Münster. She founded the Jugendakademie in Münster for gifted young musicians, ages 6 to 18, and is a leader in creating the Music+ program at the Musikhochschule Münster
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