Violinist Sunghae Anna Lim is a passionate chamber musician and educator.  She plays with diverse chamber ensembles and joined the Manhattan String Quartet in 2019.  A founding member of the Laurel Piano Trio, she won the  Concert Artists Guild and ProPiano Competitions and has performed extensively throughout the US.  As the violinist of the Naumburg Award-winning New Millennium Ensemble, she premiered and recorded the music of numerous 20th century composers, including Morton Feldman and John Cage, and continues to be involved with the music of the present time.  Anna also is also an avid baroque violinist and has played with many early music groups since her time as a student of Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Salzburg.  She teaches violin and chamber music at Princeton University and in the summers serves on the faculty of the Maine Chamber Music Seminar and the Composers Conference.  She appears regularly at Prussia Cove in the UK, the Weekend of Chamber Music in the Catskills, the Portland Chamber Music Festival and White Mountains Music Festival. Anna teaches violin pedagogy for the El-Sistema-inspired Trenton Youth Orchestra and recently founded a new chapter of MusicForFood in Princeton to combat food insecurity.  She received a BA from Harvard University in History and Literature and completed her Diplom at the Mozarteum under violinist Sandor Vegh.

A devoted collaborator and educator, cellist Kirsten Jermé enjoys an eclectic freelance life as a chamber and orchestral musician and has subbed on numerous Broadway shows, with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Orchestra, and at Radio City. She performs with ensembles including the Harlem Chamber Players, String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC), Bar Harbor Music Festival, and has appeared as guest cellist with the Cassatt String Quartet, Semplice Players at BargeMusic, and North Country Chamber Players. Formerly cellist of the Larchmere String Quartet, Kirsten performed internationally and served as Eykamp String Quartet Artist-in-Residence at the University of Evansville and Principal Cellist of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also served as cello faculty at North Carolina State University and collaborated with the Carolina Ballet. She is currently on faculty of the New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program and teaches cello students at Riverdale Country School. Kirsten holds degrees from Stony Brook and Eastman and is currently a D.M.A. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her primary teachers include Colin Carr, Steven Doane, and Marcy Rosen.

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