Canadian violinist Timothy Chooi is regarded as one of Canada’s most promising and exciting young artists. Described as “the miracle” by Montreal’s La Presse, Chooi won a top medalist at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand. He won the Verbier Festival Academy’s Yves Paternot Award, the Academy’s highest honor bestowed on the most accomplished Verbier Academy musician, and most recently was awarded first prize in the 2018 Joseph Joachim Violin Competition Hanover. 2018-19 season highlights include performances of Mendelssohn, Schubert, Mozart, and Piazzolla at the Montreal Symphony Classic Spree, a Morning Musicales Recital at the Philadelphia Ethical Society, a performance at Impromptu Classical Concerts at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Key West. and soloist performances of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with the North State Symphony, Korngold’s Violin Concerto with the Regina Symphony Orchestra, Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26 with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, and Heinz Moehn’s Violin Concerto with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra.

American soprano Christina Pier has been hailed by Opera News for her “big, gleaming soprano and impressive coloratura,” and has received great critical and audience acclaim for her work on opera and concert stages. Her 2018-19 season highlights include a performance of Carmen co-produced Opera Carolina and the Toledo Opera and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Tallahassee Symphony. In the 2017-18 season Christina Pier was a soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in a return to the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and performed Handel’s Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem with Back Bay Chorale, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 (“Resurrection”) and Richard Strauss’ Trio from Der Rosenkavalier in a return to the Winston-Salem Symphony. She has also performed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Roberto Abbado, and recitals under the auspices of the George London Foundation. She appears as a soloist on a recording of Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem, with David Hill and the BBC Singers on the Naxos label.  

Austrian conductor Christoph Campestrini maintains an active international schedule encompassing a wide spectrum of symphonic and operatic repertoire. In 2016 Campestrini was appointed Kapellmeister at Vienna’s historic Hofmusikkapelle, tasked with leading the Vienna Philharmonic, Vienna Boys’ Choir and Male Choir of the Vienna State Opera in several programs, annually, of sacred music. He is Music Director of the International Late Summer Music Festival Dubrovnik, conducting a variety of symphonic programs annually. In addition, he is also Music Director of the Oper Klosterneuburg Festival Vienna, for which his next upcoming production will be La Traviata. His 2017-18 guest season includes Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra (China), Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, a return to Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, Symphony Nova Scotia, L’Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, a Viennese New Year’s Concert in Vancouver, and the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra. His 2016 guest engagements included L’Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Texas Festival Orchestra Round Top, a Viennese New Year’s Concert in Toronto, and conducting the Warsaw Radio Symphony Orchestra.  

Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel is an artist of extraordinary versatility and originality. He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, and winner of the Naumburg and Geneva competitions. Vonsattel made his Boston Symphony (Tanglewood) and San Francisco Symphony debuts, and subsequently performed recitals and chamber music at Ravinia, Tokyo’s Musashino Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bravo! Vail, Music@Menlo, the Gilmore Festival, the Lucerne Festival, and the Munich Gasteig. His New York solo recital was hailed as “tightly conceived and passionately performed…a study in intensity” by The New York Times. Recent projects include Bernstsein’s “Age of Anxiety” with the Munich Philharmonic and Kent Nagano, Berg’s Kammerkonzert with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, a tour with Jörg Widmann and the Irish Chamber Orchestra, Mozart concerti with the Vancouver Symphony and Florida Orchestra, and performances at Seoul's LG Arts Centre and at the Beijing Modern Music Festival.

Bringing together the gifts of three internationally recognized artists, Trio Valtorna formed in 2011. After performing together at “Music from Angel Fire” Chamber Music Festival, renowned violinist Ida Kavafian and French horn player extraordinaire David Jolley decided to continue in collaboration, adding the young pianist Gilles Vonsattel to complete the ensemble. Fred Kirshnit, writing in the New York Sun, called Ms. Kavafian’s artistry “meaningful and affecting”, while the New Yorker has praised Mr. Jolley’s “richly melancholy horn solos”, and David Weininger in the Boston Globe observed the “clarity and light touch” of Gilles Vonsattel. The ensemble promises to offer chamber music par excellence to audiences across the United States.