Michael Stephen Brown
Michael Stephen Brown has been described as “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers” (New York Times). Winner of a 2018 Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center and a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, he makes regular appearances with orchestras such as the National Philharmonic, the Seattle, Phoenix, Grand Rapids, North Carolina, and Albany symphonies and recently toured his own Concerto for Piano and Strings (2020) around the US and Poland with several orchestras.
Erin Burkholder
Erin Burkholder grew up in the mountains of British Columbia, where her first violin teacher was her grandmother. She attended McGill University for her bachelor of music in performance, studying under Denise Lupien and Axel Strauss. She was the winner of the 2013 McGill Chamber Competition with her string quartet, the Vitus Quartet, and won a residency at the Summer Academy Mozarteum in Salzburg.
