Gregory Rowland Evans is a composer and cellist whose work explores narrativity, memory, and abstract structuralism. His music is influenced by systems of writing, esoteric texts, mathematics, and cinematic forms of time, creating layered sonic experiences grounded in formal precision and expressive intensity.Evans’ music has been performed across North America and Europe, with premieres planned in the UK, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. He has been featured at festivals including Cortona Sessions, SICPP, MIXTUR, and New Music on the Point. Notable collaborators include JACK Quartet, Ensemble Dal Niente, Frost Saxophone Ensemble, Tony Arnold, and Ex-Sentia. He is currently composer-in-residence with the Antigone Music Collective. He holds a PhD in music composition from the University of Iowa.Guided by the act of decipherment and transformation, his scores function as symbolic frameworks for performers and audiences alike. Evans aims to create music that invites shared acts of interpretation, moving listeners through unpredictable landscapes of sound, memory, and meaning.

John Stulz is a member of the Paris-based new music group Ensemble Intercontemporain and co-artistic director of VIVO Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio. Recent career highlights include a recording of György Ligeti's Viola Sonata as part of the Ensemble Intercontemporain's critically acclaimed double disk honoring the centenary of the composer, performances at Paris Fashion Week and the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, as well as the publication of his 20 Études for solo viola by Éditions Henry Lemoine. In addition to an international performing career, John is an active and devoted pedagogue, having served as professor of Viola at the Conservatoire national supérieur in Lyon since 2021. He has taught around the world at institutions like the Tokyo College of Music, the Conservatorio di Milano "Giuseppe Verdi", Fondazione Stauffer in Cremona, the Écoles d'Art Américaines de Fontainebleau, the Juilliard School, the 2026 International Viola Congress and Academy Ravel. 

Violinist Aki Tsai maintains a vibrant career performing throughout France and internationally. She regularly performs with orchestras and ensembles such as the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre National de France, Orchestre National d'Ile de France, Ensemble Intercontemporain, as well as the San Diego and Baltimore Symphonies. As a chamber musician, recent highlights include performances of Steve Reich's Different Trains and Violin Phase at Festival POTE in Besançon, France and Bach's Goldberg Variations interpolated with György Kurtág's Signes, Games and Messages in celebration of Kurág's 100th birthday.

Cellist Alice Yoo has warmly been hailed for her sensitive musicianship, expressive nuance, and passionate commitment to chamber music and teaching. Yoo is the Co-Artistic director of the Denver Chamber Music Festival; the festival features the world’s most celebrated chamber musicians in world-class chamber music summer concerts all around the city. Festival appearances include the Marlboro/Musicians from Marlboro Tours, Ravinia, Yellow Barn, Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, VIVO, Olympic, IMS Prussia Cove, and Moab Music Festivals. A sought after chamber musician, Yoo has collaborated with artists such as James Ehnes, Itzhak Perlman, Mitsuko Uchida, Kim Kashkashian, Midori Goto, Jonathan Biss, and members of the Cleveland, Guarneri, Takács, and Juilliard Quartets. She has worked closely with composers Sophia Gubaidulina, Jennifer Higdon, Andy Akiho, Samuel Carl Adams, and Tessa Lark. Previous teaching positions include cello and chamber music faculty at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music, Bard Conservatory’s Preparatory Division, and guest cello professor at Colorado State University and CU-Boulder College of Music. Yoo is currently on the string faculty of the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Northern Lights Chamber Music Institute, and Boulder Cello Festival. She is a member of the celebrated Colorado Cello Quartet. Yoo holds degrees from New England Conservatory, Royal Northern College of Music, and University of Southern California. She currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin, and plays on a cello made for her in 2018 by Ryan Soltis.

Ethan Cavanac (b. 2003) is a composer, performer, and improviser from Charlton, Massachusetts. He is currently a senior at Harvard College, where he concentrates in Music and Philosophy.

He has studied composition with Chaya Czernowin, Michael Gandolfi, John Harbison, and Julian Anderson, and violin and viola with Joel Smirnoff, Malcolm Lowe, and Genevieve Strosser. 

Recent and upcoming projects include the premiere of his commissioned orchestral work cloud of unknowing with the Apollo Ensemble of Boston; new works for loadbang at Divergent Studio and the United States premiere of his Blodgett Composition Prize–winning string quartet MIXED SIGNALS— by the Parker Quartet in October 2026. He will also be featured at Bang on a Can at MASS MoCA this summer and will be in residence as a fellow at TAK LAB in New York City with the TAK Ensemble.

Cavanac has attended the Valencia International Music Festival and the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, where he studied with Georges Aperghis and Genevieve Strosser and performed in Tyshawn Sorey’s Autoschediasms improvisation orchestra. 

His honors include the 2026 Louis Sudler Award, the 2025 Robert Levin Award—Harvard’s highest honor for an undergraduate musician— and first prize in the Bach Society Orchestra Composition Competition. Additional distinctions include the Bohemians Club Award for Composition, the Davison Fellowship for Travel in Music, and recognition from the American Viola Society and National YoungArts.

Cavanac has appeared as a performer across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Recent highlights include Hans Tutschku’s einst mit dir at the Goethe-Institut Boston with soprano Tony Arnold and performances at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse. He is also active as an improviser, often performing on instruments of his own construction, including CAN.space (2025) for four amplified Diet Dr. Pepper cans.

Violist James Kang is a founding member of the Abeo Quartet which was formed at Juilliard in 2018, featured at Alice Tully Hall and The Kennedy Center, and received an Anderson Career Development Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. James is currently pursuing his DMA studies at Northwestern University as the Teaching Assistant to Prof. Helen Callus, and is a graduate of the Juilliard School as a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship.

As a soloist, James won the American Opera Society of Chicago Centennial Award ($15,000 prize), 2nd prize in the American Viola Society Solo Competition, and competed in the 2025 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. In 2023, he performed Hindemith’s Der Schwanendreher Viola Concerto with the University of Delaware Symphony Orchestra. James performs with orchestras such as ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and Chicago Philharmonic, and has served as Principal Violist for the Juilliard and Symphony in C orchestras. As an avid chamber musician, James has collaborated with musicians such as Itzhak Perlman, Donald Weilerstein, KAIA String Quartet, and Dover Quartet. 

James is devoted to teaching and is currently on the Violin/Viola and Chamber Music Faculty of Music Institute of Chicago. He has also participated in engagement concerts with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Meet the Music!, “If Music Be the Food…,” and United Nations Chamber Music Society. His festival appearances include Music@Menlo, Perlman Music Program, Aspen Music Festival, NYO-USA, Yellow Barn YAP, and La Jolla SummerFest.