Annika Porter
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
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
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 Calcat
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,…
Hsuan Chen
Hsuan Chen is an emerging violinist based in Chicago, performing both as a chamber musician and an orchestral member. An avid advocate of early music and contemporary sounds, Chen has performed with the Oberlin Baroque Ensemble regularly. Chen has also performed at the Carnegie Hall as the assistant principal with the Oberlin Orchestra. Graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory, Chen is…
Raquel Navarro
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…