Violin

Annika Porter

Violin, Viola

Annika Porter is a distinguished violinist and violist based in Chicago, with extensive training in both Broadway and classical styles. Over the past three years, she has performed nationally and internationally as the violinist and violist on the Broadway National Tour of The Book of Mormon. Annika has studied violin and viola for 18 years and graduated from the University…

Christine Lee Fatt

Violin, Piano

Christine Lee Fatt is a violinist and educator in the Chicagoland area. Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, she came to the US at 16 years old and completed her bachelor’s degree in music at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. While in college, she had the opportunity to tour with the St. Olaf College Orchestra all over the States and got to…

Carlysta Tran Smiling and Holding Her Violin

Carlysta Tran

Piano, Violin

Carlysta Tran is an Oklahoma City native and has been involved in music since she was three years old, where she first started taking piano lessons. At the age of 8, she started learning the violin and by the end of that same year, she debuted her first recorded solo violin performance with the Oklahoma City University Symphony. Since then,…

Jesse showing his instruments

Jesse Calcat

Piano, Cello, Violin, Viola

Detroit native Jesse Calcat is a versatile multi-instrumentalist with over 20 years of professional teaching and performance experience across diverse musical settings. Having begun piano lessons at age 4 and strings in high school, Jesse began his college music studies focusing on both piano and viola performance. During his undergraduate studies, he studied viola with Glenn Mellow and Elizabeth Rowin,…

Raquel holding a violin, a piano behind her

Raquel Navarro

Violin, Piano

Raquel Navarro has been playing violin since the age of eight and has always loved teaching others to play. She has performed with ensembles such as the Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra, where she currently plays as concertmaster, and the Elgin Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2013, Raquel performed in the Fox Valley Music Festival as concertmaster and was a recipient of…