Ten-year-old pianist Yidi Ding started his piano lessons at the age of 5. A prodigy, he was invited a year later to perform in a solo concert at the Shanghai Oriental Art Center. The China Record Corporation arranged for Yidi to release a personal CD album and perform at Carnegie Hall in New York and Golden Hall in Vienna. Yidi has won over 20 first prizes in numerous prestigious piano competitions at home and abroad. At age 7, Yidi was admitted to the Pre-college Division of the Juilliard School. He was selected as a Lang Lang International Music Foundation Young Scholar for 2020-22.  Gary Graffman, the prominent piano educator, has praised Yidi for his gift and tremendous talent as a pianist. Other renowned pedagogues have lauded Yidi for his prodigious musical development, and feel he is “a natural, with impressive emotional expression far exceeding his age.” They call him “a major musical talent … able to project his deeply felt ideas precisely and persuasively.”  

A native of Princeton, NJ, Evelyn Joung, age 14, was accepted into the Juilliard Pre-College Division when she was 11 as its youngest cello student. Evelyn has won top prizes as a soloist in numerous competitions, including the Vivo International Music Competition, New York International Music Competition, International Grande Music Competition, Camerata Artists International Concerto Competition, Lyra Music Youth Competition, and the Adelphi Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition. In March of this year, Evelyn was selected as the youngest semifinalist in the Johansen International Competition. This summer, she will be joining the prestigious Perlman Music Program. Evelyn is a founding member of the Tres Gracias Trio. The trio has won First Place in the New York Young Virtuoso Competition, First Prize at the IMM CONCORSO in Italy, First Prize and Judge’s Pick in the Vivo International Music Competition, Grand Prize in the Enkor Competition, and First Place in the Camerata Artists International Competition. Through her awards, Evelyn has performed at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and Lincoln Center.

Christopher Shin is a 16-year-old pianist from Cherry Hill, NJ, and attends Cherry Hill High School East as a rising senior. He is a student of Prof. Veda Zuponcic through the Rowan Community Music School. Christopher has been awarded prizes at numerous piano competitions, including 2nd place in the National MTNA Senior Competition, and he has won the 2019 NJ/MTNA Junior Performance Competition. Christopher has also received First Place in the NJMTA Young Musicians Competition for each of the past four years. Recently, he was the First Prize winner of the 2021 Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford, CT, and a semifinalist in the 2021 Gina Bachauer Junior International Piano Competition. Christopher won a full scholarship in the 2020 and 2021 National Chopin Foundation Scholarship Competitions, and he was a winner in the 2021 and 2022 National YoungArts Competitions. Christopher has performed with the Rowan University Orchestra, Northern Lights Music Festival Orchestra, and the GMP All-Star Orchestra in Carnegie Hall. He was also a finalist in the Philadelphia Orchestra Greenfield Concerto Competition.

Violinist Joshua Song, age 16, is in his fourth year in the Julliard School Pre-College Division, where he is studying with Dr. Ann Setzer. He has won first place in several competitions, including the New York YWCA of Queens Music Competition, International New Praise Festival, Camerata Youth Philharmonic Concerto Competition, and this year’s Bravura Philharmonic Young Artists Competition. He has also won the Grand Prize in the International Grande Music Competition. In 2022, he participated as a semi-finalist in the Johansen International Competition. His concert venues include Weill Recital Hall, Bruno Walter Auditorium, and the New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.