For the past 10 years, Li-Ling Wang has worked at some of the country’s leading performing arts institutions, including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., The Juilliard School, Bravo! Chamber Music, and Lyric Chamber Music Society. She has managed projects for numerous special events, such as Juilliard’s centennial press conference, Rolling Stone’s press conference, Christopher Reeve’s memorial event, Sir Elton John’s benefit concert at Radio City Music Hall, and Juilliard’s benefit gala Classified Jazz. She also has worked closely with both American and international journalists and film crews on documentaries and featured articles that appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, 20/20, 60 Minutes, Strad, and Vogue, to name a few. A classically trained musician, Ms. Wang holds a master and a bachelor of music degrees in cello performance from The Juilliard School where she was a pupil of the late cello master Harvey Shapiro. She performs chamber music regularly with her peers and has given solo recitals in Japan, Taiwan, and New York.

Tiffany Kuo is Professor of Music at Mt. San Antonio College.  Trained in piano performance and musicology, Professor Kuo specializes in post-World War Two avant-garde music of the West. She has taught a range of classes including 20th-century music history survey, 19th-century music manuscript studies, elements of music, aural and analytical skills, as well as keyboard skills.  She has presented papers in Europe and in the United States, and has contributed to the Mitteilungen der Paul Sacher Stiftung, The Juilliard Journal, Washington Square Contemporary Music Society’s program notes, and the Journal of the American Liszt Society in print.  As a pianist, she performs chamber music regularly and promotes new music of her peers. Prior to Mt. San Antonio College, she taught at Yale School of Music, Fordham University, and NYC’s P.S.166. Professor Kuo is a graduate of Stanford University, The Juilliard School, and New York University.

Emily Ondracek graduated from The Juilliard School in 2006 where she received both her bachelor and master of music degrees in violin performance and is currently a doctoral candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University. At 16, Ms. Ondracek gave her solo debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing Vivaldi’s Four Seasons Concertos and has since performed throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Ondracek is the first violinist of the Voxare String Quartet, an emerging ensemble of young Juilliard graduates. As a teacher, Ms. Ondracek is a registered Suzuki violin instructor, and currently teaches at Teachers College Columbia University and Resurrection Episcopal Day School while also maintaining private teaching studios in both New York City and Connecticut. Ms. Ondracek has taught in the New York public school system as a resident teaching artist and recipient of the Morse Fellowship, at the Diller Quaile School of Music, the Greenwich Suzuki Academy, and C.W. Post University in Long Island.