The Venezuelan violinist Allison Lovera has been recognized as a “versatile violinist whose performance is as a blast of emotions and colors combined with a sincere and honest approach to the music” (Joshua Dos Santos, conductor). Ms. Lovera had been awarded first prize at the Maurice Hasson Violin Competition and the Excellence Award from the … Continued

Violinist Ji-Yeon Lee most recently was a member of the Griffon String Quartet, resident quartet of Midsummer’s Music in northeast Wisconsin.  As an avid chamber musician, she has received numerous awards and has had opportunities to perform in Carnegie Weill Recital Hall and Seiji Ozawa Hall.  Her solo appearances include performances on the Millennium Stage … Continued

Margot Schwartz is a member of the First Violin section in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and violinist in Milwaukee’s esteemed Prometheus Trio. A native of Oakland, California, she has appeared as soloist with the Milwaukee, Berkeley, and Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestras. As a chamber … Continued

Lijia Phang began her study of music at the age of four on the violin in her native Singapore. She attended high school at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in the beautiful San Jacinto Mountains and San Bernardino National Forest, before earning both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degree at the Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music … Continued

Originally from Whitestone, NY, Yuka Kadota is a graduate of Indiana University with a Bachelor of Music and Performer Diploma in Violin Performance and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. Her major teachers were Henryk Kowalski and Franco Gulli. She completed graduate studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. Ms. Kadota … Continued

A native of Chicago, Dylana Leung joined the MSO in 2010. Prior to holding this position, she was the assistant concertmaster of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, section member of the late Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, and concertmaster of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Originally a double major candidate in Engineering and Violin Performance at the University … Continued