David Kaplan, pianist, has been praised for his “grace and fire” by the  Boston Globe , and by  The New York Times  for “striking imagination and creativity.” He has appeared as a guest soloist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and performed with Itzhak Perlman. A veteran of many distinguished chamber music festivals and series, he has appeared at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music Northwest, Barge Music, Ravinia’s RSMI, Tanglewood, Bard, and the Mostly Mozart Festival. 

Caroline Adelaide Shaw is a New York-based musician appearing in many different guises. Trained primarily as a violinist from an early age, she is a Grammy-winning singer in Roomful of Teeth and in 2013 became the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Her enigmatic composition  Partita for 8 Voices  was also nominated for a Grammy for Best Classical Composition. She will make her solo violin debut in 2015 with the Cincinnati Symphony, is the inaugural musician in residence at Dunbarton Oaks, and composer in residence through 2016 with Vancouver's Music on Main.