Introduced to the piano in her kindergarten music class in South Korea, Chaeyoung Park displayed her talent early. After immigrating to the U.S. at 10, she grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, and studied piano with Jack Winerock of the University of Kansas, whom she credits with much of her musical foundation. She won her first international competition at 13 and went on to victories in other competitions, including the 2022 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Juilliard, where she was a Gina Bachauer Scholar, a Kovner fellow and recipient of the Arthur Rubinstein Prize. She completed her artist’s diploma under Robert McDonald and was awarded the Norman Benzaquen Career Advancement Grant.

Ziggy and Miles Johnston are brothers who grew up in Australia, studied at Juilliard - where they were the first guitarists ever awarded artists’ diplomas - and have established themselves among the world’s leading classical guitarists. Touring and recording as “Ziggy & Miles”, they’ve won praise for their charismatic stage presence, instrumental virtuosity and imaginative programming. Their recent album “Sidekick” was featured as one of New York classical radio station WQXR’s “Best Classical Albums of 2023.” The won the 2023 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, becoming the first guitar duo and second guitarists to receive the award.

Claire Wells grew up in Plano, Texas, where she started learning the violin and piano at the age of three. She studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England. After that, she moved to Germany to study with the Romanian virtuoso and teacher Mihaela Martin at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik und Tanz and the Kronberg Academy. She is the Mendelssohn-Prize 1st Prize and Commission Prize winner at the 2021 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition, the 2nd Prize winner at the 2023 Michael Hill International Violin Competition and the 2023 violin scholarship winner of the Mozart Gesellschaft Dortmund. She has performed with major orchestras, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, Jalisco Philharmonic and Shen Zhen Symphony Orchestra.