Festival Artists 2025

Music@Menlo’s Chamber Music Institute provides students with direct and sustained contact with leading musicians and musicologists. Most artists on the festival’s elite roster of main-stage performers instruct and collaborate with students in coaching sessions, master classes, and other Institute activities.

Piano
Michael Stephen Brown
Gloria Chien
Wu Han
Sahun Sam Hong*
Gilbert Kalish
Hyeyeon Park
Chelsea Wang
Shai Wosner
Wu Han

Violin
Benjamin Beilman
Stella Chen
Chad Hoopes
Erin Keefe
Jessica Lee
Kristin Lee
Richard Lin
Julian Rhee*
Arnaud Sussmann

Viola
Aaron Boyd
Paul Neubauer
Masumi Rostad
James Thompson

Cello
Dmitri Atapine
Nicholas Canellakis
David Finckel
Clive Greensmith
Jonathan Swensen*

Viano String Quartet
Lucy Wang, violin
Hao Zhou, violin
Aiden Kane, viola
Tate Zawadiuk, cello

Woodwind
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
James Austin Smith, oboe
Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet
Sebastian Manz, clarinet*
David Shifrin, clarinet
Jake Thonis, bassoon

Brass
Kevin Rivard, horn

Voice
Tony Arnold, soprano*
Maire Therese Carmack, mezzo-soprano*
John Moore, baritone*

Encounter Leaders
Aaron Boyd
Ara Guzelimian
Nicholas Phan
James Austin Smith

* Music@Menlo debut

Faculty subject to change.