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Founder of The Woodlawn Ensemble. Originally from Phoenix, she now resides in Jamaica Plain where she enjoys a long walk and a good album.

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Originally from Arizona, Tiffany Chang began playing the violin at the age of three and soon discovered a passion for sharing and playing music with others. Chamber festival appearances include the Marlboro Chamber Music Festival, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Perlman Music Program, Taos School of Music and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Tiffany has worked with members of the Brentano, Miro, Emerson, and Borromeo quartets and has performed alongside distinguished musicians such as Miriam Fried and Donald Weilerstein among others.

In addition to small ensemble playing, Tiffany regularly performs with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Palaver Strings, The Knights, and Delirium Musicum.

Tiffany received her B.M. and M.M. at the New England Conservatory. She is currently a doctoral fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, studying with Mark Steinberg.

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Praised by The Boston Musical Intelligencer for his “sonorous, sweet tone and masterful phrasing,” Armenian-American violinist Samuel Andonian is a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and is on faculty at the NEC Preparatory School.

As a chamber musician, Andonian has participated in the Marlboro Music Festival, the Perlman Music Program, Kneisel Hall, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals, and has performed with artists including Kim Kashkashian, Jonathan Biss, and members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, and Brentano string quartets.

Andonian is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and The Juilliard School. 

New to JP, some of his favorite activities so far are running at the Pond and meeting a friend at Jadu or Galway House.

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JP-dwelling violist Cara Pogossian is an avid chamber musician having performed at numerous festivals, including Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Ravinia, Tippet Rise, and the Taos School of Music. She has toured with the Curtis Institute on multiple occasions, and will take part in her second Musicians from Marlboro tour later this season. Cara is the principal violist of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, and enjoys performing with various ensembles in the Boston area.

Cara received her B.M. from the Curtis Institute of Music, and completed her graduate studies with Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory.

A perfect day in JP for Cara consists of: a London Fog from Cafe Siete, an Arboretum walk, striking gold at Goodwill, and perhaps a quick visit to the library (if she happens to be feeling motivated).

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Corley Friesen-Johnson is an engaging and excitable performer based in Boston, MA. She has created a multi-disciplinary career in Boston and beyond playing chamber music as in many contexts as possible, and is a member of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the DuBois Symphony, and is currently serving as principal in the Kendal Square Orchestra. She loves collaborating with her singer-songwriting inspirations most of all, appearing on stage with great friends Ellie MacPhee and Kat Wallace. An avid chamber performer and collaborator, Corley has appeared on stage with many of her heroes including Judy Collins, Aoife O’Donovan, Gabriella Diaz, Milan Milisavljević, and Sarah Chang. Corley has studied chamber music with members of the Borromeo, Verona, Cavani, American, and Pacifica quartets. She holds a master's degree from New England Conservatory and received her undergraduate degree in Viola Performance and History from Oberlin Conservatory and College as part of their Dual Degree program. 

Corley loves the smell of fresh baked bread, old English madrigals, badly playing the banjo, and the color yellow. 

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“I am an artist interested in exploration, curiosity, play, and resistance through interdisciplinary and cross-genre practice. I continue to use music, writing, and visual art in intertwined ways as a method of articulation and expression—these mediums are modes of processing the world, and living in it. As a collaborator, I am always searching to fill a collective pool of energy, and to show up in a way that asks us to hold one another. As a facilitator, I hope that my engagement with students is one that instructs more an embodied approach and holistic practice that I pass along from mentors at the New England Conservatory, and those that nurtured me outside of the institution. I hope that you and I might work together soon, and that our collaborative creation would facilitate something more urgent and more nourishing for us both at the moment our paths intersect, musical and otherwise.”

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Alexander Davis-Pegis, originally from Dallas, TX, comes from a family of cellists. He studied at the Eastman School of Music, the University of North Texas, and recently completed his Masters degree at the New England Conservatory of Music. He has performed as soloist with the Plano Symphony Orchestra, the Laredo Philharmonic, and as a Rising Young Artist for the Basically Beethoven Festival. In the summer, he has attended Colorado Music Festival, Chautauqua Music Festival, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. Alex has also participated in the Kronberg Academy Cello Festival and the Bach and Beyond Festival as a visiting artist. Significant teachers include Alan Harris, Eugene Osadchy, and Yeesun Kim.

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Born in New York City, Macintyre Taback began his cello studies at the age of 11 as a part of his school’s strings program.

Mac is the founder of the Bennetts Point Cello Seminar in Charleston, SC, which held its first festival in January of this year. In addition, he has recently performed at IMS Prussia Cove, the Perlman Music Program, and Yellow Barn, and will take part in the Kronberg Academy’s ‘Chamber Music Connects the World’ in May 2024.

Mac has worked closely with musicians such as Steven Isserlis, Gary Hoffman, and the Brentano Quartet, and has recently collaborated with Erich Höbarth, Alasdair Beatson, and the Emerson,Borromeo, and St. Lawrence String Quartets.

A graduate of Eastman School and New England Conservatory, he is currently pursuing his DMA at the NEC under Laurence Lesser, Donald Weilerstein, and Vivian Weilerstein.