Adria Ye, pianist
https://www.adriaye.com/

Chinese-American pianist Adria Ye has been driven from a young age by a hopeless fascination with music. Described by cellist David Finckel as having a “naturally beautiful sound and lyric instinct,” and by the Boston Musical Intelligencer as possessing “micro control of articulation, dynamics color, and rubato, all to convincing musical effect,” Adria has performed as soloist with ensembles including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Smith Square, the Beaufort Symphony Orchestra, and the Aspen Concert Orchestra. Most recently, they were a prizewinner at the 2026 Hastings International Piano Competition, and the 2026 New Orleans International Piano Competition. They were the recipient of the Paul Streit Special Prize at the 2022 Concours de Genéve.

An avid chamber musician, Adria has also participated in and performed at festivals including the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival’s Spring Workshop, the Innsbrook Institute, and the David Finckel-Wu Han Chamber Music Studio at the Aspen Music Festival and School. They frequently collaborate with and perform with cellist Leland Ko.

Adria earned their Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at the Juilliard School with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin, and a Graduate Diploma at the New England Conservatory with Wha-Kyung Byun.

Clara Neubauer, violin
https://www.clara-neubauer.com/

"Her countenance and artistry possess a rare grace that identify her as someone who might take delight in fairies dancing between drops of dew on brightly petaled flowers or the delicate filigree on the finest porcelain." -CLASSICAL VOICE NORTH AMERICA

"lovely, heart-tugging sound distinguished by sylvan highs." - CLASSICAL VOICE NORTH AMERICA

Praised for her "seductive artistry" and "rare grace" (Classical Voice North America), violinist Clara Neubauer is establishing herself as a deeply expressive and authentic artist. She is winner of the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music from The Juilliard School and the Ana Chumachenco Award from the Kronberg Academy. Clara received her Bachelor’s and Master’s from The Juilliard School as a student of Li Lin, Catherine Cho, and Itzhak Perlman, and was a recipient of the Kovner Fellowship. Beginning this fall, she will attend the Kronberg Academy as a student of Mihaela Martin in the Professional Studies Program.

Clara has appeared at festivals internationally including the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia Festival, Kronberg Chamber Music Connects the World, Taos, Four Seasons, Music From Angel Fire, Perlman Music Program, Music@Menlo, Prussia Cove Masterclasses and Open Chamber Music, and Olympic Music Festival. She has performed on tour with Musicians from Marlboro and Taos on Tour and collaborated with artists including Mitsuko Uchida, Steven Isserlis, Itzhak Perlman, Peter Wiley, Donald Weilerstein, Ani Kavafian, and Gary Hoffman. Clara joins the Bowers Program at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for the 2027-2030 seasons.

Next season, Clara will appear with the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the Phoenix Chamber Music Society, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Chamber Music Society, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and Jordan Hall in Boston. She will also return to Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music and make her German recital debut at the Kronberg Academy.

Winner of the National YoungArts competition, Clara has appeared as soloist with the Symphony of Westchester, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn (play-conducting), the New York Concerti Sinfonietta, the Little Orchestra Society, Ensemble 212, and the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra. She has additionally won top prizes at the Adelphi Competition, the Symphony of Westchester Young Artist Competition, Ensemble 212 Young Artist Competition, and the Young Musicians Competition at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Clara was a Musical Ambassador for the Doublestop Foundation as winner of their Artist in You Competition and was featured on WQXR as part of their Young Musicians Showcase with her brother, Oliver. She was a Young Performer at the Music@Menlo Chamber Music Institute for five years and was chosen as one of five young artists featured at the chamber music fellowship program of the Olympic Music Festival. She served as concertmaster of the Juilliard Orchestra, including a recent performance with Maestro Gustavo Dudamel at David Geffen Hall, and performs as part of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Growing up in a family of professional musicians, Clara’s love for music began from a very early age. Her first experience with chamber music was playing duos with her older brother at the ages of 5 and 7, something which they have joyfully continued for the following 20 years (and hopefully many more to come!). She is part of the Neubauer/McDermott Family Quartet, composed of herself, her brother Oliver, and her parents, Kerry McDermott and Paul Neubauer.

Clara is also a founding member of the Tobias Quartet along with Oliver Neubauer, Samuel Rosenthal, and Sterling Elliott. The Tobias Quartet was the ensemble in residence at Music From Angel Fire for two summers, where they traveled around northern New Mexico presenting educational programs to K-12 students and sharing musical topics in a fun and accessible way.

Born on 9/11/2001, Clara can be heard as the voice of the audio guide at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum along with Robert deNiro, available as a free app for download at the App Store. Her writing has been published in "Faces of Hope: Babies Born on 9/11", and she has been the feature of interviews on TV Globo and CBS Sports, speaking and playing violin. She recently performed at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in remembrance of the victims and legacy of 9/11 on its 25th anniversary. 

Leland Ko, cellist
https://www.lelandko.com/about
 
Cellist Leland Philip Ko (b. 1998) is the kind of person who is always asking “why” — American-born but of Chinese-Canadian descent, schooled at both university and conservatory, and extremely thorough in any number of activities ranging from competitive tennis and distance-running to home-baking and origami, he wants to find the similarities between seemingly disparate things, and in doing so hopefully find something human in everything.  Above all, Leland does his best to remember advice once given to him that music is about life, not the other way around.

Nicknamed “the storyteller” and “a daring prince” by the media during his time at the Queen Elisabeth Competition, and described as “one of those artists who defy analysis, because words simply cannot describe the powerful emotions they evoke” (RTBF), Leland is a first prize winner of the Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition, an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, and a third prize winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition.

Highlights for Leland’s 2026-2027 season include concerto appearances at home with the Kendall Square Orchestra and the Apollo Ensemble of Boston, a recital at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and chamber music at Shriver Hall in Baltimore, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Newport Classical Festival, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and Wigmore Hall in London.  Past engagements have included a sold out debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, performances at Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center, Boston’s Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall, and concerto appearances with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Orchestre Symphonique de Sherbrooke, the DuPage Symphony, the Roswell Symphony Orchestra, and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic.

Despite growing up a part of Boston’s strong youth orchestra culture, Leland feels that chamber music is central to his being, having had formative years at Yellowbarn, Ravinia's Steans Music Institute, Four Seasons Chamber Music Workshop, and the Perlman Music Program’s Summer Music School and its Chamber Music Workshop.  Leland’s love for chamber music has also led him to be a former Artist in Residence of New York Piano Society (NYPS), and former Music Director of Opus 21, a student-run chamber music collective at Princeton.  He is the cellist of Trio Rai, the OAK Trio, the Phaidros Quartet, and also a frequent member of the International Sejong Soloists.

Leland was a long-time student of Kirsten Peltz, Ronald Lowry, and Paul Katz before attending Princeton University, where he graduated with an A.B. in German Literature.  He went on to complete an M.M. at The Juilliard School under the teaching of Minhye Clara Kim, Timothy Eddy, and Natasha Brofsky, and then earned an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory under guidance of Laurence Lesser, Yeesun Kim, and Donald Weilerstein.  Leland performs on a cello by Pietro Guarneri of Venice, c. 1728-30, and a bow by Dominique Peccatte, both of which are on generous loan to him from Canimex Inc.  He resides in Boston, with his 14-year-old cat, Ham.