![]() She has appeared on stage at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and David Geffen Hall, and has performed as a soloist with the Binghamton Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, the 92Y School of Music Orchestra, and the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra. ![]() Katherine (Kit Ying) Cheng is a New York-based violinist and grand prize winner at the New York Artists International Competition. He completed his Undergraduate Degree in Music Industry from Syracuse University, where he served as concertmaster and won the 2020 Concerto Competition. Jordan holds Master’s degrees in both Violin Performance and Chamber Music from the University of Michigan. In the summer, he serves as Young Artist Faculty at ArtsAhimsa Chamber Music Festival, and in 2022 was named one of Garth Newel Music Center’s Emerging Artist Fellows, and in 2023 one of Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival’s esteemed fellows. He has recently participated in master classes and seminars with Ani Kavafian, Ryan Meehan, Sean Lee, Kirsten Doctor, and the Verona quartet. Achievements with the LCO have included an NPR debut at WQXR’s McGraw Hill Financial Young Artist Showcase with Robert Sherman, and collaboration/coaching with Invoke Quartet, Steven Ansell, Hausmann Quartet. Jordan has also been a part of the Lyrica Chamber Orchestra Citizen’s Artist Orchestra since 2016 under the mentorship of celebrated musicians Laura Bossert and Terry King, performing across the country. They have received coachings from Amy I-Lin Cheng, Martin Katz, Amir Eldan, Richard Aaron, Gregory Lee, and the Pacifica Quartet. They placed second in both the 20 Briggs Chamber music competition and a semi finalist in the 2023 Plowman Competition. The Trio have enjoyed performing across the Greater Detroit Metropolitan Area, giving full recitals at the East Bloomfield Public Library’s Chamber Series and the Scarab Club. An avid chamber musician, Jordan is a founding member of Trio Amabile, who have been dedicated to applying their rich sense of lyricism and musicality to a wide range of repertoire. Kaleigh coached chamber music for WYSO during 2021, led violin sectionals for UW’s Symphony Orchestra from 2017-19, acted as teaching assistant for Laura Bossert's violin and viola studios at Longy School of Music from 2012-15, mentored through El-Sistema-inspired string projects in the Boston area during 2013-15, and served on the Young Artist Faculty at Lyricafest Chamber Music Festival in Lincoln, MA from 2013-15.ĭescribed as playing with “delirious ecstasy” by Seen and Heard International, violinist Jordan Bartel is currently pursuing his Specialist in Violin Performance at the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Aaron Berofsky. Both programs seek to address financial and social barriers that inhibit access to youth music education. She has taught violin and viola privately for over a decade, and since 2021 is a faculty member at Madison Conservatory and Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras' Music Makers. As a teacher, Kaleigh aims to help her students cultivate trust in their own ability to tackle challenges, musical and otherwise. Her debut album of unaccompanied violin works, Twenty-First Century American Storytellers, is available to stream through Spotify. ![]() Notable chamber music collaborations include those with the Hausmann Quartet, cellist Michael Kannen, and Tchaikovsky International Gold Medalist Sergey Antonov. Kaleigh received Peabody’s 2016-17 Valerie Slingluff Violin Scholarship and debuted on WQXR’s McGraw Hill Financial Young Artist Showcase in March 2014, playing Schoenfeld's Souvenirs for Violin and Piano. ![]() Her previous teachers include Violaine Melancon and Laura Bossert. She also holds a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, as well as a Masters of Music and an Undergraduate Diploma from the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA. At UW, she was a student of Soh-Hyun Park Altino and a recipient of the esteemed Paul Collins Fellowship. Violinist Kaleigh Acord completed a Doctor of Musical Arts at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mead Witter School of Music in December 2020. ![]()
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