Born into a musical family, Andrew first began his studies on the violin in Korea with his father, who was a choir and orchestra director. Since making his Carnegie Hall solo recital debut at age 10, he has appeared in concert halls throughout the United States, Canada, Germany, South Korea, and China.

In the past few years, Andrew has concertized in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall (New York), the US Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium (Washington DC), the Music Center at Strathmore (Washington DC), the Maison symphonique (Montreal), Meyerhoff Symphony Hall (Baltimore), Segerstrom Hall (Orange County), and the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, as well as its Eisenhower Theatre and the Millenium Stage (Washington DC).

He has performed as a soloist with the Pacific Philharmonic, Columbia Orchestra, the Landon Symphonette, youth orchestras in both Maryland and California, and as a guest musician with the National, San Diego, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras.

Also an avid chamber musician and violist, Andrew has concertized as violist of Ensemble Encanto, performing works for viola, harp, flute across the eastern United States. He currently appears regularly in the Candlelight Concerts by Fever as violinist of the Range Ensemble.

Andrew has studied with former BSO concertmaster Herbert Greenberg and has participated in masterclasses with Midori Goto, Joshua Bell, and Latica Honda-Rosenberg. He has studied chamber music with Janos Starker, Leon Fleisher, and the Emerson and Juilliard String Quartets. He was a recipient of the Sylvia Friedberg Nachlas Endowed Scholarship and the Melissa Tiller Memorial Prize in Violin at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

Andrew Kwon currently performs with the Santa Barbara Symphony, as guest principal in the Corona Symphony Orchestra, and as a freelance recording artist for the film and TV studios of Hollywood. His playing can be heard on Netflix and Disney+, as well as in albums released by Naxos, Audiomachine, and Sony Music.

Haesol Lee started playing the violin at the age of 4 in South Korea. Her family moved to the States when she turned 9 and started her study at The Colburn School almost immediately. She now has finished her master's degree at The Juilliard School with Li Lin and will begin studying with Bing Wang at USC in the fall. She received her bachelor's degree from Rice University where she studied with Paul Kantor on full scholarship.

While she actively teaches and performs in California and New York, she's also a co-founder of NEOM which raises awareness on fast fashion industry's impact on the environment through multidisciplinary performances.

She has worked with renowned artists including Paul Katz, Bing Wang, Clive Greensmith, Jupiter Quartet and Miró Quartet and has performed in venues including Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Hollywood Bowl.

Violist Drew Alexander Forde, known online as ThatViolaKid, has a reputation not only as an accomplished performer but also as one of classical music’s most recognizable online brands.

Profiled in outlets like Thrillist, WNYC, the Detroit Free Press, and Strings Magazine, he was named “one of the titans of Classical Music Instagram” by National Sawdust Log and was called “the future of our field” by Sphinx Organization president Afa Dworkin. As the co-host of the Faking Notes Podcast, alongside Juilliard friend Trevor Bumgarner, he interviews the next generation of up and coming artists with the hopes of growing a community of entrepreneurial artists around the world.

Also highly sought after in popular music, Forde has shared the stage with A-List stars like Adele, Alicia Keys, Ariana Grande, Camila Cabello, Giveon, JoJo, Kanye West, Moses Sumney, and Roddy Ricch, among others. While serving as a substitute violist in Lin Manuel Miranda’s masterwork “Hamilton” at the famed Pantages Theater in Hollywood, Forde also performed for Danny Elfman’s iconic performance at Coachella in 2022.

In addition to earning recording credits with the late Mac Miller on The Divine Feminine, Drew also recorded for John Legend’s Grammy-Award-winning album, Bigger Love, and Kota The Friend’s album, Everything. Drew has recorded for artists Paul McCartney, Sabrina Claudio, Moby, Susanna Hoffs, Adekunle Gold, and Vitamin String Quartet.

Drew’s viola playing has also appeared on several prominent soundtracks: “Coming 2 America,” performing as Principal with composer Jermaine Stegall, HBO’s popular horror-thriller, Lovecraft Country, and the hit Netflix comedy movie featuring Rebel Wilson, “Senior Year.” Other shows that Drew has recorded for include: Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Orville, and Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies.

Cellist Daniel Lim is a Los Angeles-based cellist with a versatile career in performance, music education, and production.

He is currently a member of Splntrd Wood, a project-focused cello ensemble whose mission is to “create fresh live music experiences that cross divides between musical genres by creating its own arrangements and presenting it anew through the inimitable and versatile sound of the cello”.

In 2020, Splntrd Wood released its first album: De Lá Pra Cá, celebrating the music of Latin America and was featured in ASCAP’s New Music Friday playlist; previous concert engagements include performances at Sundays Live at LACMA Bing Theater, and Massivemuse.

In addition to his performance schedule, Daniel is a passionate and dedicated educator who values the importance of music education. Having received official Pedagogy Certification in the Suzuki Method, his students have been admitted as cello performance majors at the CSULB Bob Cole Conservatory of Music and NYU Steinhardt School of Music, while also participating in programs throughout Los Angeles such as The Colburn Community School and Pasadena Youth Symphony Orhcestra.

Daniel is also a producer/content creator for The Faking Notes Podcast. Hosted by social media influencer ThatViolaKid and Trevor Bumgarner, the podcast features important conversations with artists and influencers and advice/suggestions for navigating the music industry; past guests include Kris Bowers, Anthony McGill, Aubrey Bergauer, Stephanie Matthews, and Wordsmith.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Daniel holds degrees from the New England Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music; his mentors include Joon Sung Jun, Yeesun Kim, Stephen Geber, and Robert DeMaine. He currently plays on a Antoniazzi Romeo from Cremona, dated 1920.