Nurt Villani received her BA in Music from the University of Cauca in Popayán, Colombia. She went on to study choral conducting and Gregorian chant conducting at the Conservatoire de Paris, where she was awarded first prize. During that time, she served as the assistant conductor of...

Dr. Mark Churchill has had the privilege of a long career as cellist, conductor, educator, and innovative thinker. He is Dean Emeritus of New England Conservatory’s Department of Preparatory and Continuing Education (now Expanded Education), which he led for 31 years. Under his...

Sean Yung-Hsiang Wang is a native of Taiwan. American Record Guide has called him “a brilliant violinist” whose “quality [of] playing is exceedingly high.” He is currently Director of Academics at the Glenn Gould School and an Assistant Professor of Violin at the University of...

Ukrainian violinist, Andrii Isakov, has performed numerous solo and chamber music recitals in China, Italy, the United States, Poland, Croatia, and Ukraine. He has appeared as a featured soloist with the National Ukrainian Philharmonic Orchestra, Lviv Symphony Orchestra, Khmelnytskyi...

Mischa Lakirovich started playing the violin when he was four years old and played his first recital at the age of five, studying with his father, Mark Lakirovich, in his hometown of Brisbane, Australia. From the age of six, Mischa has performed and recorded throughout Europe,...

Nigel Bardsley is a graduate of the Stoliarsky School of Music Australia, where he studied with Jacob and Mark Lakirovich from 1983-1991. He continued violin studies with David Matthews and Harry Kirby at the University of Queensland. He was a participant in the Australian National...

Professor Mark Lakirovich is one of the most sought-after violin pedagogues today. He is a member of string faculty at Longy School of Music, Longy Conservatory and preparatory school of New England Conservatory in Boston, and Artist-Teacher at the Chicago College of Performing Arts...