Umi Garrett is a highly accomplished solo and chamber pianist, having performed numerous recitals in the United States and internationally. Most recently, she performed Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with principal members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra including Danny Jin, John Sharp, and Stephen Williamson at the University of Chicago, and performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in collaboration with double bassist Nina Bernat. She has performed regularly through presenters such as the Clark Art Institute, the Dame Myra Hess Series, and the Chopin Foundation of the United States. Umi has performed and toured with orchestras such as the Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony and Pops, Symphony Boca Raton, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Wuhan Symphony Orchestra, and the New Mexico Philharmonic. Umi was awarded first prize at The Juilliard School's Concerto Competition, fourth prize at the 2020 National Chopin Piano Competition, and awarded the John Newmark Prize for Best Collaborative Pianist for her performances with finalist Nathan Meltzer at the 2023 Montreal International Violin Competition. She has also collaborated with prize-winners at renowned competitions such as the Queen Elisabeth Competition for Violin, Primrose International Viola Competition, the Naumburg International Cello Competition, and the Sphinx Competition. During the summers, Umi is a Staff Collaborative Pianist for the Program for Piano and Strings at the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, under the leadership of Artistic Director Midori. Umi has released three solo albums and released her debut chamber album in 2024 of the complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas under PARMA Recordings. Umi has received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Piano Performance at the Juilliard School where she was a recipient of the Kovner Fellowship, and previously served as a Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Yale School of Music. She is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School with Hung-Kuan Chen and Shai Wosner. Umi is a Young Steinway Artist.

Winner of the 2023 Concert Artist Guild Competition, major prize winner at the 2022 Sibelius and Singapore International Violin Competitions, recipient of the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and youngest ever to win the Windsor Festival Competition, violinist Nathan Meltzer is establishing a holistic and multi-faceted career as both a soloist and chamber musician, with passions for both standard and contemporary repertoire. Nathan has performed as a soloist with major orchestras around the world. He has performed with the Orchestre national d'Île-de-France, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the Finnish RSO, the Helsinki Philharmonic, and the Aalborg, Charlotte, Concepción, Indianapolis, Medellín, Montréal, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, among others, performing across Europe and North and South America. As a recitalist and chamber musician, Nathan has performed at celebrated series including the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, the Dresden Musikfestspiele, the Hawaii Concert Society, Heidelberger Frühling, the Honolulu Chamber Music Series, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Kallos Chamber Music Series, Parlance Chamber Concerts, Princeton Sound Kitchen, Midori’s Partners in Performance, and the Terezin Music Foundation, and at festivals including ChamberFest Cleveland, IMS Prussia Cove, Krzyzowa Music, the Montreal and Moritzburg Chamber Music Festivals, Music@Menlo’s International Program, the Ravinia Festival Institute, the Perlman Music Program, Verbier’s Festival Academy, and Yellow Barn. He is also the co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Green Room Ensemble, an non-profit chamber music organization dedicated to new music and historically unexplored works by composers from a variety of backgrounds and heritages. Nathan is a graduate from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman. He plays on a violin by Lorenzo Storioni on generous loan from the Rin Collection.

Suni Norman, a violinist from Tooele, Utah, is a laureate of multiple competitions, including the Stradivarius Competition. She was awarded Utah’s Best of State Instrumentalist in both 2014 and 2021. She has performed as a soloist and chamber musician across the U.S. and has appeared at festivals such as the New York String Orchestra, Music Academy of the West, Colorado College Festival, Heifetz, and Kneisel Hall. Norman has collaborated with distinguished artists including Ben Beilman, Robert McDonald, Marcy Rosen, and Shai Wosner, as well as renowned quartets such as the Borromeo, Miro, Takács, and Fry Street. Currently, Norman is a supernumerary with the San Francisco and Utah Symphony orchestras. She is also featured in the PBS series Now Hear This (Copland: Dean of American Music).