Meet the 2025 Faculty

Tanya Bannister
Founder & Co-Artistic Director
Piano

Lauded by The Washington Post for playing “. . .with intelligence, poetry and proportion,” pianist Tanya Bannister has made a versatile career that is steeped in old-world pianism and traditions, balanced with an entrepreneurial spirit that seeks to create projects that inspire genuine connections between music and the world we live in.

Claudia Ajmone-Marsan
Founder & Co-Artistic Director
Violin

Born of Italian and Danish parentage, the violinist Claudia Ajmone-Marsan is a member of Ensemble 360. She is a regular guest with Camerata Bern, Camerata Nordica and Ensemble Modern. She served as co-principal second violin of the Philharmonia Orchestra in London under C. von Dohnanyi, principal second of the European Union Chamber Orchestra and the Kammerphilharmonie Amade, Germany.

Chad Burrow

Clarinet

Chad Burrow is recognized as one of the premiere clarinetists of his generation. He has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in concert halls across the globe. The European press has said that Chad performs with “brilliant technique and tonal beauty mixed with an expressive ferocity.” Danish critic, Henrik Svane, went on to describe a performance as filled with "virtuosity, energy, and power without compromise." The New York Times recently called a Carnegie Hall appearance in Poulenc’s, Sonata, as giving a “strong impression” and being a “bright and genial account.”

Joachim Müller-Crépon

Cello

Joachim Müller-Crépon born 1988, hailing from Zurich. He studied with Prof. Thomas Grossenbacher, Cobus Swanepoel and finished at the Zurich University oft he Arts with a Bachelor degree under Prof. Roel Dieltiens. After having completed his studies from 2009-2012 at the Stellenbosch University (South Africa), he was accepted into the class of Thomas Demenga at the Basel Academy of Music and finished his studies with a Masters degree in solo performance with distinction.

Solomiya Ivakhiv

Violin | Viola

Violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv is praised for her “crystal clear and noble sound” (Culture and Life, Ukraine) and acclaimed for her “distinctive charm and subtle profundity” (Daily Freeman, New York).

She is celebrated as a soloist, recitalist and chamber music collaborator, as a champion of new music and as a dedicated educator.Solomiya Ivakhiv is Professor of Violin and Viola and Head of Strings at the University of Connecticut and Professor of Violin at Longy School of Music of Bard College. A dedicated educator, she has led master classes and coached chamber music at Yale, Columbia, Penn State, University of Hartford Hartt School of Music, Boston Conservatory, Curtis Summer Fest, and more.

YooJin Jang

Violin

Applauded by The Strad for her “fiery virtuosity” and “consummate performances,” violinist YooJin Jang is a winner of the 2017 Concert Artists Guild Competition and is also First Prize winner of the 2016 Sendai International Music Competition in Japan. These two victories have resulted in a busy itinerary of international recital and concerto engagements and the release of two new recordings, including a CD of her prize-winning Sendai concerto performances.

Sam Armstrong
Piano

Hailed as 'a major new talent' International Piano and a ‘pianist of splendid individuality’ Arts Desk English pianist Sam Armstrong made solo debut recitals at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York as well as at the Wigmore Hall in London, and as concerto soloist with the National Symphony of Ecuador.

Emi Ohi Resnick
Violin | Viola

A native of New York City, Emi Ohi Resnick made her debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of fifteen and has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Japan since then. Emi is a founding member of the unique collective Splendor and co-initiator of the strikingly successful String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam .

Emi currently divides her time between the United States and Europe, where she was concertmaster of the North Netherlands Orchestra and of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra and is Professor of Violin at the Conservatoire Royal of Brussels.

Jesús Morales

Cello

Jesús A. Morales Matos was born into a prominent musical family and is an active soloist, recording artist, and chamber musician. As a member of the Dalí Quartet, Jesus is on faculty at West Chester University as part of the quartet's residency. His students have been accepted into esteemed music schools such as the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University, and Temple University.

As a concert artist, Fanfare Magazine wrote, “not since DuPre’s or Starker’s performances of the Saint-Saëns Concerto have I heard such miraculous playing: clean as a whistle, impassioned, technically adept, and exhibiting extraordinary control.” The Salt Lake Tribune added, “his sound has an assertive, gorgeous quality, from the cello’s brusque low notes to its sweet upper range.” The New York Concert Review hailed him as a soloist “in a category above many cellists of today … inspired and captivating.” The Caribbean Business declared, “…he is already talked about as a soloist of potential international stature.”