First prize winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2001, Julia Bruskin is a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and is also the cellist of the critically acclaimed Claremont Trio, inaugural winner of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Award founded by the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. The Claremont Trio tours extensively, including concerts this past year for the Library of Congress, New York’s Lincoln Center and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. A frequent guest at summer music festivals, Ms. Bruskin has performed at La Jolla Summerfest, Mostly Mozart, Caramoor, Saratoga, Bard and Norfolk, and has toured with the Musicians from Ravinia.

Praised for his bold interpretations and communicative sensitivity, pianist Aaron Wunsch appears regularly on concert stages throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has performed in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and Duke’s Hall in London, and at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. A ten-city solo recital tour of China garnered critical acclaim and enthusiastic audience responses. Lauded for his “masterful” chamber music performances (Hartford Courant), he has appeared at the Norfolk, Bowdoin, Sarasota and Great Lakes chamber music festivals, collaborating in performance with cellist Lynn Harrell, clarinetist Charles Neidich, and the New York Woodwind Quintet.

Mr. Wunsch is a full-time faculty member at the Juilliard School and serves as Artistic Director of New York’s Music Mondays chamber series.

Julia Bruskin and Aaron Wunsch reside in New York City and serve as Artistic Directors of the Skaneateles Festival in upstate New York.