Colin Jacobsen is a musician who draws on a range of influences. He is active as an Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning soloist and a member of Yo-Yo Ma’s famed Silkroad Ensemble. For his work as a founding member of two game-changing, audience-expanding ensembles Brooklyn Rider and The Knights, Jacobsen was recently selected from among the nation’s top artists to receive a prestigious United States Artists Fellowship. Jacobsen’s work as a composer was inspired by encounters with leading exponents of non-Western…

As cellist in the Juilliard String Quartet from 1974 to 2016, Joel Krosnick performed the great quartet literature around the world and recorded it for the Sony Classical, Wergo, and CRI labels. He is known as a international soloist and, with pianist Gilbert Kalish, his sonata partner of more than 40 years, he has performed cello literature throughout the U.S. and Europe. He is the recipient of the Chevalier du Violoncelle Award from the Eva Janzer Memorial Cello Center at…

Bart Feller is principal flute of the New Jersey Symphony, New York City Opera Orchestra, and Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bargemusic, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has also appeared as concerto soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Jupiter Symphony. A graduate of the Juilliard Pre-College Division, Feller holds a BM from the Curtis Institute of Music, where his teachers included Julius…