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Max Tan, violin; Julia Lee, cello; Elliot Wuu, piano 

Elliot Wuu, a Young Steinway Artist, was a 2018 Gilmore Young Artist and is a winner of the Salon de Virtuosi 2021 Career Grant. He has won numerous state, national and international competitions and performed across the globe. In 2015, Wuu won First Prize in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition for Young Artists; Second Prize and special Schubert Prize in the International e-Piano Junior Competition; Third Prize and special Mozart Prize in the Cleveland International Piano Competition for the Young Artists; and Second Prize and the Best Performance award of a composition by Russian Composers in the Bösendorfer and Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition. Wuu has performed in major venues in the U.S., France, Italy, Germany, United Kingdom, Poland, Romania and China. He has appeared as soloist with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Parnassus, and Arad State Philharmonic in Romania, among many others. 

Korean-American cellist Julia Lee is a first year Master’s student at The Juilliard School, where she studies with Joel Krosnick under a C.V. Starr Scholarship. She has served as Principal Cellist of The Juilliard Orchestra for the last three years and is currently a substitute cellist of The New World Symphony. Lee won First Prize at the Senior Concerto Competition at the FFMC in 2018 and has soloed with the Ocala Symphony and Alachua County Symphony with Elgar’s Cello Concerto. She has participated in Juilliard’s ChamberFest and has spent summers working with the Takács Quartet, Pacifica Quartet, and members of the Juilliard String Quartet at Kneisel Hall, Zukerman Young Artist Program, Aspen Music Festival, and Heifetz Institute. Lee currently plays a Charles JB Collin-Mézin 1884 cello.

Taiwanese American violinist Max Tan is a founding member of the Versoi Ensemble and the River Charles Ensemble at Harvard College. Tan is the recipient of the Richard F. French Award, the Sylff Fellowship, the Kovner Fellowship from The Juilliard School, and the Arthur Foote Prize from the Harvard Musical Association. He has appeared at festivals including Music@Menlo, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Pacific Music Festival, and the Perlman Music Program. Recent performances include recitals and chamber music in Taipei, Toronto, Los Angeles, and New York, where he gave the North American premiere of Phylogenie by Japanese composer Misato Mochizuki. Currently a tenured member of the Sarasota Orchestra, Tan previously served as concertmaster of the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra, and the Harvard–Radcliffe Orchestra, under illustrious conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Esa Pekka-Salonen, Valery Gergiev, Bramwell Tovey, Kent Nagano, and JoAnn Falletta. Tan performs on the ex-Franko 1701 Stradivarius on generous loan from the Megrue Family through The Juilliard School.