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 | David Cerone
David Cerone began his violin studies with his father continuing with Mischa Mischakoff. He studied at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music with the renowned pedagogue Ivan Galamian. In 1967, he made his New York recital debut at Town Hall. Prior to his appointment as President of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Cerone served on the faculty of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Chairman of the CIM String Department. He was a Director of the Meadowmount School of Music and member of its faculty for nineteen summers. In 1975, he joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music In the summer of 1985, Mr. Cerone and his wife, violinist Linda Cerone, founded the nationally acclaimed ENCORE School for Strings. He was violinist of the Canterbury Trio under Columbia Artists Management. He performs regularly and presents master classes around the world. He participates as a juror in many prominent national and international violin competitions such as the Indianapolis International Violin Competition and the Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award.
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 | Ronald Crutcher
Ronald A. Crutcher is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He began studying the cello at the age of fourteen with Elizabeth Potteiger and won the Cincinnati Symphony Young Artist Competition at age seventeen. Dr. Crutcher studied with Aldo Parisot at Yale University, later serving as one of his assistants and becoming the first cellist to receive the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale. Dr. Crutcher studied in West Germany with Siegfried Palm and Enrico Mainardi. Other teachers have included Janos Starker, Margaret Rowell and Gerhard Mantel. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in March, 1985. A former member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, he has performed numerous recitals in the United States, Europe and South America. He currently tours in this country and in Europe with the Klemperer Piano Trio. Dr. Crutcher also served as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Conservatory at The Cleveland Institute. He was the President of Chamber Music America and serves on the boards of the Fulbright Association, Musical Arts Association (Cleveland Orchestra), and the Cavani Quartet.
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 | Jesus Morales
Jesus A. Morales Matos, violoncello, currently holds the positions of Principal Cellist of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Puerto Rico and Professor of Cello at the Conservatorio de Musica de Puerto Rico. A favorite of local audiences, he is also an active recitalist and chamber musician as cellist of the San Juan String Quartet and the chamber group Concerto. Mr. Morales has been a prizewinner of the Camerata Solo Competition for Cello, the Eastern Connecticut Young Artist Competition and the Grace Vamos Cello Competition. He has appeared as soloist with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Puerto Rico, the Camerata Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Starling Chamber Orchestra and the Festival de Orquestas Sinfonica Juvenil de las Americas. He has participated in festivals including the Banff Center for the Arts, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Bowdoin Music Festival and Eastern Music Festival. Mr. Morales holds a bachelors degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music and has done post-graduate work at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His major teachers include Dr. Ronald Crutcher, Alan Harris, Helga Winold and chamber music with Peter Oundjian.
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 | Basil Vendryes
Basil Vendryes has been heard frequently as a soloist and chamber musician. He is the Principal Violist of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and is a former member of the San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic and Rochester Philharmonic. As violist with the Aurora String Quartet, Mr. Vendryes performed recitals in New York, London and Tokyo. He currently is on the faculties of the Lamont School of Music of the University of Denver, where he teaches both viola and chamber music, and California Summer Music at Pebble Beach. Mr. Vendryes has taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Summer Music West, among others. He received scholarships to the Manhattan School of Music and the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Sally O'Reilly, Francis Tursi and Heidi Castleman. Mr. Vendryes has won several awards, including American String Teachers Association and 1988 Bruno Giuranna Viola Competitions.
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 | Camilla Wicks
Camilla Wicks has been known among musicians and concert audiences for nearly three generations as a violinist of integrity and passionate artistry. Her playing has touched the hearts of listeners throughout the world. Educated at Juilliard as a student of Louis Persinger, she made her debut in New York's Town Hall at the age of thirteen. She has performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony and the New York Philharmonic. Having performed in 18 countries, she has also recorded for Capitol Records, Philips and HMV. She was invited to meet with the composer Jean Sibelius in his home after he heard the first of her many performances of his Violin Concerto in Helsinki. She worked closely with Ernest Bloch on his Concerto and other works and was especially active in studying the music of Nordic composers. She played the world premiere of the Saeverud and Klaus Egge Concerto with the New York Philharmonic in Carnegie Hall. Camilla Wicks has taught at the University of Michigan, Rice University and Eastman School. She currently holds the Isaac Stern Chair at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
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