Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han are the founding Artistic Directors of Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley, and have served as Artistic Directors of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2004. One of only two wind players to have been awarded the Avery Fisher Prize since the award's inception in 1974, David Shifrin is in constant demand as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber music collaborator.

“When a pair of genuine artists explodes on the stage, exuding not only glamour and theatrical flair but also superb musical insight, the audience’s thrill is twofold.”
-- Chicago Sun-Times

The Johannes brings together the first American to win the Paganini Violin Competition in 24 years, Soovin Kim; a Concert Artists Guild Competition winner, Jessica Lee; the Principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, C.J. Chang; and the Principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Peter Stumpf.  Their collaboration was forged at Vermont's Marlboro Music Festival and shaped and mentored by the Guarneri String Quartet.

“The Johannes String Quartet, comprised of four impressively gifted instrumentalists in their own right, have come together to form one of the great chamber music groups of our time.  They play with technical polish, with deep musical understanding, and with uncommon inspiration.  The Johannes is all I could ever dream of in a string quartet.”
-- Arnold Steinhardt, Guarneri String Quartet

For almost 60 seasons, the New York Woodwind Quintet has maintained an active performance schedule in the United States and abroad while also teaching the next generation of woodwind performers.

“For more than half a century, this group has defined great wind playing in the United States.”
-- New Yorker Magazine

* Chamber Music Columbus gratefully acknowledges support for this concert from The Coe-Barrow Fund for Chamber Music Performance administered by The Columbus Foundation.

Trio Solisti has earned a reputation for soulful and passionate performances marked by soloistic virtuosity, electric energy, seamless ensemble playing, and thrilling abandon.

Violist Hsin-Yun Huang, recognized as one of the leading violists of her generation, came to international prominence in 1993 when she was winner of the top prize of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. In 1988, Ms. Huang was the youngest-ever Gold Medalist of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition on the Isle of Man.

“To my mind, Trio Solisti has now succeeded the Beaux Arts Trio as the outstanding chamber-music ensemble of its kind.”
-- Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal