Violin

Gita Srinivasan

Cello, Violin, Piano

Gita Srinivasan is a native of Maysville, Kentucky and teaches cello, piano and violin with House Call Music. Gita began her cello career at the age of 11 under the tutelage of Coralie Runyon Jones and Dr. Suanne Blair. Today, Gita is pursuing a post- master’s certificate of performance at DePaul University under the tutelage of Stephen Balderston. In the…

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,…

Hsuan Chen holding a violin

Hsuan Chen

Violin

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 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…