Canadian/American violinist, Christina Bouey, is hailed by the New York Times for playing “beautifully,” the New York Post, “When violinist Christina Bouey spun out that shimmering tune, I thought I died and went to heaven,” and by Opera News, for playing “with exquisite, quivering beauty.” She is praised by Seen and Heard International, “Bouey responded with the kind of beguiling poetry that technical brilliance alone cannot liberate.” Christina most recently won 1st prize at the Waldo Mayo Violin Competition which resulted in her concerto debut at Carnegie Hall. Other prizes include the Grand Prize at the Vietnam International Chamber Competition, 1st Prize at the Schoenfeld International String Competition in the chamber division, Grand Prize at the Fischoff Competition, 1st place in the American Prize, and 2nd prize at the Osaka International Chamber Competition. Among her other top awards include the “Rooted to the Island Award” from Music PEI, Hugo Kortchak Award for outstanding achievement in chamber music, Heida Hermann International, Canadian National Music Festival, Queens Concerto Competition, and the Balsam Duo Competition. In addition, her ensemble, the Ulysses Quartet were Lisa Arnhold Fellows at the Juilliard School, serving as the School’s Graduate Resident String Quartet, from 2019-22 as well as Quartet-In-Residence at WGBH from 2023-25. Christina made her solo debut in Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium playing Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Senior Concert Orchestra of NY in the fall of 2022 under the baton of Maestro David Gilbert. She has performed as soloist with the Sinfonia Toronto, Greenwich Symphony, Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Salina Symphony, River Cities Symphony, Symphony of the Mountains, Tonkünstler Ensemble, Metro Chamber Orchestra, Bergen Symphony, Prince Edward Island Symphony, Cornell Chamber Orchestra, Ithaca College Orchestra and the Banff Orchestra to name a few. Her solo and chamber highlights in the United States include Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Gilder Lehrman Hall, Schneider Series, Rockefeller Tri Noon Series, Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, Merkin Concert Hall, Phillips Collection, National Gallery of Art in DC, Jordan Hall, Dame Myra Hess series, La Jolla SummerFest, Chamber Music San Francisco, Key West Impromptu, Chamber Music Concerts in Ashland, Sitka Music Festival, Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg, William & Mary Presents!, Feldman Chamber Music Society, Kneisel Hall Festival, Highlands-Cashiers Music Festival, Music Mountain, Chamber Music Maryland, Chautauqua Institution, Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, Friends of Chamber Music Kansas City, Rhode Island Chamber Music Concerts, Red Bank Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Society of Bethlehem, Eastman School of Music, Westchester Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Troy, Mayfest at Cornell University, and the Kansas International Music Festival. Christina has also been invited to perform internationally in the Esterházy Palace in Austria, Taiwan National Recital Hall, Harbin Grand Theatre, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Premiere Performances Hong Kong, Wigmore Hall, Fundacion Juan March in Madrid, Sociedad Filarmonica de Bilbao, Ciclo De Camara y Solistas in Salamanca, Sociedad Filarmonica de Vigo, Picasso Museum in Malaga, Vietnam Connection Music Festival, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall in Yokohama, Emilia Romagna Festival in Italy, Teatro Mayor Julio Santo Domingo in Bogota, Sala Nezahualcoyotl in Mexico City, Campos do Jordão Winter Festival in São Paulo, Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall in Istanbul, Winnipeg Virtuosi Concerts, the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Cecilia Concerts in Halifax, Montreal Chamber Festival, Kelowna Community Concert Association and the Under The Spire Music Festival. She toured as a soloist for Prairie Debut during the 2021-22 season and Debut Atlantic during the 2017-18 season with pianist Pierre-Andre Doucet. Christina has collaborated with artists such as Zuill Bailey, Molly Carr, David Chan, Jeremy Denk, Lynn Chang, Robert DeMaine, Simone Dinnerstein, Steven Doane, Emerson Quartet, Clive Greensmith, Marc-André Hamelin, Olga Kern, Chee-Yun Kim, Yura Lee, Max Levinson, Cho-Liang Lin, Paul Neubauer, Bright Sheng, Fred Sherry, Lara St. John, Ben Verdery and Orion Weiss. Christina graduated from Manhattan School of Music (2013) with a Professional Studies Certificate in Orchestral Performance, studying with Glenn Dicterow and Lisa Kim as a full scholarship student, (2012) with a Professional Studies Certificate, studying with Laurie Smukler, and in 2011 she received a Master of Music, while studying with Nicholas Mann. Her Bachelor of Music (Magna cum laude) is from The Boston Conservatory; where she studied with Irina Muresanu as a full-scholarship student. As well as being a professional violinist, Christina is also a coloratura soprano and composer. In June 2014, as part of the 150 year celebrations on PEI, Christina was commissioned to compose a solo violin piece for professional dancers from Ballet Jazz de Montreal and performed her own work for all eight performances while being intertwined with the choreography. Christina was recently appointed concertmaster of the Albany Symphony, is currently serving as concertmaster of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, plays as guest concertmaster of the American Composers Orchestra and is a member/founder of the Ulysses Quartet. In addition, Christina serves as Assistant Professor of Violin at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, having previously held the same position at Ithaca College from 2022 to 2025. She plays a 1790 Storioni violin on generous loan from a private donor. Christina is very excited to announce her debut album being released later this year including the premiere of her own composition “Orpheus Romps Through The Underworld.” To keep up to date with Christina, you can follow her website www.christinabouey.com.

Violinist Rhiannon Banerdt made her solo debut at age 14 with the New England Symphonic Ensemble in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has since made solo and chamber music appearances at Philadelphia's Kimmel Center, New York's Weill Hall at Carnegie, and Boston's Jordan Hall, among others, with performances hailed by Edith Eisler of Strings Magazine as “real music- making–concentrated and deeply felt.” Ms. Banerdt is a founding member of the Ulysses String Quartet, winners of the First Prize at the 2018 Schoenfeld International Chamber Music Competition, Grand Prize at the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, First Prize at the 2017 American Prize Chamber Ensemble, and Silver Medal at the 2017 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. The quartet has served as the first ever quartet-in- residence at GBH music in Boston from 2023–2025, and the Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the Juilliard School for 2019-2022 academic years.

A recipient of the 2012 Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award, Ms. Banerdt was invited to perform with the quartet in Jordan Hall. Other collaborations have included performances with the Emerson Quartet, the Chiara Quartet, Kim Kashkashian, Paul Biss, and Frans Helmerson. Ms. Banerdt has participated in numerous eminent chamber music festivals including La Jolla Summerfest, Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, and the Castleman Quartet Program.

Ms. Banerdt holds the position of Assistant Concertmaster with the Cape Symphony, and is serving as Interim Concertmaster for the Greater Newburgh Symphony Orchestra for the 2026–2027 season. Ms. Banerdt is currently a member of the violin and chamber music faculty at the Bloomingdale School of Music on New York City’s Upper West Side. In the fall of 2024, she served as visiting professor of violin at Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music. Previously she was a Graduate Teaching Fellow at Brooklyn College 2016-2019 and a fellow at the flagship music education organization Community MusicWorks in Providence, RI from 2013-2015.

A native of Los Angeles, Ms. Banerdt attended the New England Conservatory, where she received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees with honors as a student of Lucy Chapman and Paul Biss, and the CUNY Graduate Center, where she studied with Mark Steinberg.