Violinist Catherine Cho is recognized for her remarkable virtuosity, combining technical mastery of her instrument with an extraordinary and distinctive musicality. Praised by The New York Times for her "sublime tone," she has appeared worldwide as soloist with many orchestras and chamber ensembles, as well as in recital.

She has performed with the Detroit and National Symphony orchestras, the Virginia Symphony, the Montreal, Edmonton, and National Arts Centre Orchestras in Canada, and with orchestras throughout Europe and Asia. Ms. Cho's concert performance of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the Buffalo Philharmonic wa broadcast nationwide on PBS Television in January 2002, and a live recording was released in June 2003. As a recitalist and chamber musician, Catherine Cho has performed with the Chamber Music Society at New York's Lincoln Center, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many other venues.

She has been a participant in the Marlboro Music Festival since 1993 and performed at festivals such as Chamber Music Northwest, Bridgehampton, Eastern Shore, Santa Fe, and Skaneateles. She is a founding member of the chamber ensemble, La Fenice, and was a member of the Johannes String Quartet from 2003-6.
Ms. Cho is a member of the violin faculty at the Juilliard School and teaches master classes worldwide. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Todd Phillips, and their son, Brandon Jeung Phillips.

Marc Goldberg is currently a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet and principal bassoonist of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. Previously with the New York  Philharmonic and New York City Opera he has also appeared across four continents with the Metropolitan Opera, the BSO, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Orpheus. He holds  Bachelor of  Music and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, studying there with Harold Goltzer. Mr. Goldberg is on the faculty of The Juilliard School, Mannes College, The Hartt School, Columbia University, SUNY Purchase, and the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Goldberg’s work as musician and educator has taken him throughout the country and around the world with a host of premiere ensembles. He is the newest member of the renowned New York Woodwind Quintet and the principal bassoonist of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestraf.

Solo appearances include performances with the Brandenburg Ensemble at Boston’s Symphony Hall and New Yorks City’s Avery Fisher, and performances throughout the US, in South America, and across the Pacific Rim .

Tara Helen O’Connor, a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning New Millennium Ensemble and a member of the virtuoso woodwind ensemble, Windscape, is flute soloist of the Bach Aria Group.

Ms. O’Connor was the first wind player to be chosen to participate in the Chamber Music Society of Two program for emerging artists. She performs regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Spoleto USA, and others.

Violinist Daniel Phillips enjoys a versatile career as an established chamber musician, solo artist and teacher. As a winner of the prestigious Young Concert Artists International Auditions, he performed recitals at New York's Alice Tully Hall and the 92nd Street "Y."  He has toured and recorded in a string quartet  ( for SONY) with Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, and Yo-Yo Ma.

Mr. Phillips is a cofounder of the 20-year-old Orion String Quartet. which serves as the resident quartet of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, which presented them in the complete quartets of Bartok in November 2004. They have recorded  string quartets written for them by jazz greats Wynton Marsalis and Chick Corea. Their recording of the middle Beethoven Quartets was released by Koch in the Spring of 2007. They have toured internationally in a unique collaboration with the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company. They also have ongoing residencies at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Mannes College of Music in New York.

Daniel Phillips is  professor of violin at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College (CUNY) and  lives with his wife, flutist Tara Helen O'Connor, in Manhattan.

Todd Phillips, a member of Orpheus since 1983, is also a member of the highly accalimed Orion String Quartet. He made his solo debut at age 13 with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and has since performed as guest artist with leading orchestras throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. Mr. Phillips has appeared at the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Santa Fe, and Spoleto music festivals, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York Philomusica, and the New York String Orchestra. He has collaborated with such renowned artists as Rudolf Serkin, Jaime Laredo, Richard Stolzman, Peter Serkin, and Pinchas Zukerman, and has participated in eighteen "Musicians from Marlboro" tours.

Todd Phillips began violin studies at age four with his father, Eugene Phillips, a composer and former violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony, and later with Sally Thomas at the Juilliard School and Sandor Vegh at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He serves on the violin and chamber music faculties of the Mannes College of Music and has been a teacher at the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall. He has recorded for the Arabesque, Delos, Deutsche Grammophon, Finlandia, Marlboro Recording Society, NY Philomusica, RCA Red Seal, and Sony Classical labels. Todd Phillips lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, violinist Catherine Cho, and is the father of Lia, Eliza, and Jason.

A founding member of the Zéphyros Winds, Patrick Pridemore is also a member of the Orchestra of St. Lukes. He has played with such notable musical organizations as the Metropolitan Opera, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Among his other chamber music performances, he has played with such ensembles as the Marlboro Music Festival, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Boston Chamber Music Society, the American Chamber Players, and the Absolute Ensemble. Mr. Pridemore has performed under the batons of James Levine, Kurt Masur, Sir Simon Rattle, Wolfgang Swallisch, Sir André Previn, and David Zinman. He has recorded with EMI. Mr. Pridemore studied at the Curtis Institute of Music under Myron Bloom and The Julliard School under William Purvis. A native of Evans, Georgia, he now makes his home in New York City.

Marcy Rosen has established herself as one of the most important and respected artists.. Los Angeles Times music critic Herbert Glass has called her “one of the intimate art’s abiding treasures.” She has performed in recital and with orchestra throughout Canada, England, France, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, and all fifty of the United States.

A consummate soloist, Ms. Rosen’s superb musicianship is enhanced by her many chamber music activities. A founding member of the world renowned Mendelssohn String Quartet, she was Artist-in-Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts and for nine years served as Blodgett-Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University. With the Mendelssohn String Quartet she tours annually throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. Ms. Rosen also performs with and is a founding member of the ensemble La Fenice.

She appears regularly at festivals both here and abroad and since1986 has been the co-artistic director of the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival. Another important association is with the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont.  Since first attending Marlboro in 1975, she has taken part in 17 of their “Musicians from Marlboro” tours and performed in concerts celebrating the 40th and 50th Anniversaries of the Festival.

Marcy Rosen was born in Phoenix, Arizona and her teachers have included Gordon Epperson, Orlando Cole, Marcus Adeney, Felix Galimir, Karen Tuttle and Sandor Vegh. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. Ms. Rosen is currently Associate Professor of Cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and serves on the Faculty at the Mannes College of Music in New York City.

This season Marcy collaborated with Festival Artists Frances Rowell and Lydia Artymiw on a new CD recording of the Sonata for Two cellos by Donald Francis Tovey,and the Sonatas for Cello and Piano by Ludwig Thuille and Ernst von Dohnanyi.

The CD will be released and available at the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival in 2008. Meanwhile, you can hear her performances on recordings from the BIS, Bridge, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical, CBS Masterworks, Musical Heritage Society, Phillips, Nonesuch, Pro Arte and Koch labels among others.

Diane Walsh regularly performs solo recitals, chamber music and concertos worldwide. Among many others, she has appeared with the radio symphonies of Munich, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Berlin, the San Francisco Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, toured with the Orpheus and the St. Luke’s orchestras and soloed with orchestras in Brazil, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Russia.

In great demand as a chamber musician, she has performed at many festivals including Marlboro, Santa Fe, Bard, Appalachian Summer, Music From Salem, and Eastern Shore. From 1999 to 2004 she was Artistic Director of the Skaneateles Festival, held annually in upstate New York.

Her many awards include the top prizes at the Munich ARD International Piano Competition and the Salzburg International Mozart Competition. She won the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, and was a prizewinner in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and won that competition’s chamber music award. 

In 2004, three of Ms. Walsh’s recordings were released by Bridge Records.  Sonatas and Preludes, which presents solo works by Barber, Bartók, Prokofiev and Frank Martin, was highly praised by Anthony Tommasini in the New York Sunday Times. Ms. Walsh’s other recordings can be heard on Newport Classic, Sony Classical, Nonesuch, Koch International, Biddulph, Stereophile, CRI and Book-of-the Month Records.