Violinist ALEEZA WADLER began her studies in New York and by the age of sixteen, gave her debut with the Brooklyn Philharmonic performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E Minor. She is an active chamber musician and has participated in music festivals around the world including the Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood, Kent Blossom and the New York String Orchestra Seminar. Dr. Wadler has performed with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, ALEA III in Boston and the International Symphony Orchetsra in Israel. She has served as concertmaster of the Boston University Orchestra and as assistant concertmaster of the Aspen Sinfonia Orchestra and the Jerusalem Rubin Academy Chamber Orchestra.
 Dr. Wadler was the recipient of both Duke University's Benenson Award in the Arts given to the top undergraduate in an Art field.  She used the award to attend the Aspen Music Festival.  She was also the recipient of the Vivian E. Smith Music Award to attend Boston University. She holds a Bachelor degree from the Indiana University School of Music and a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music where she studied with Sylvia Rosenberg. She completed her thesis, "Strings in the Shadows: A Portrait of Three Violinists in the Terezin Concentration Camp" as part of receiving a Doctorate in Musical Arts from Boston University.
 Dr. Wadler has presented papers at the College Music Society's National Conference, regional chapter meetings and international conferences focused on Music and the Holocaust.  Her articles and recordings can be found on ORT's Music of the Holocaust website.  Past teaching appointments include faculty positions at the United Nations International School, the Elisabeth Morrow School and the Saint Davids School.  Dr. Wadler resides on the Upper West Side with her husband and children.
Violinist JULIE ARTZT BECKER began her studies at the age of three in New York.  She has performed throughout the United States and Europe as soloist with orchestra, recitalist and with chamber ensembles. At the age of eleven, she debuted with the Young Artists Philharmonic in Connecticut performing the Haydn Violin Concerto No. 2. Since then she has won many competitions, including the Queens Symphony Orchestra Young Soloist Competition, the Bergen Philharmonic Competition and the Five Towns Music and Art Competition. Ms. Becker has performed in festivals in Aspen, Colorado, Italy and Israel, where she took master classes with Pinchas Zukerman. She also participated in the Perlman Music Program on Long Island as an assistant to her former teacher, Patinka Kopec. Also an active chamber musician, Ms. Becker has performed the Mendelssohn Octet with Itzhak Perlman at Weill Recital Hall and Avery Fisher Hall, and a duo recital with violist Jeanne Mallow at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie hall. 
 Ms. Becker studied at the Juilliard Pre-College Division and then graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Music degree and the Manhattan School of Music with a Master of Music degree. Presently, Ms. Becker is currently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music Preparatory Division.  Ms. Becker resides on Long Island with her husband and young children.
Violist ANOUSH SIMONIAN is originally from Armenia and began her musical training at a young age.  At the age of 16 she gave her solo debut with the Delaware Symphony performing the Walton viola concerto.  She has also received prizes from the Padesta competition, the Matinee Musical Club of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Orchestra.   She received a scholarship to attend the Temple University's Pre-College division for gifted young musicians and served as principal violist there and at the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra. 
Dr. Simonian received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School where she also serviced as principal violist of the Juilliard Symphony and the Juilliard Opera Orchestra.  At Juilliard Dr. Simonian was awarded the Gluck and Morse Fellowship Programs through which she taught music at P.S. 89 in New York City and performed in the city's hospitals. 
 As an active chamber musician Dr. Simonian has attended the Juilliard Quartet and Mendelssohn Quartet seminars, and the Encore and Musicorda music festivals.   She has also performed with the Lenape Chamber Ensemble.  As a teacher Dr. Simonian has served on the faculty of New York State University's pre-college division, the Juilliard pre-college division, The United Nations International School and the School for Strings in New York City.  Dr. Simonian recently completed her Doctorate degree at State University of New York.  She resides in Mahwah, NJ with her husband George and children Ani and Alexander. 
Cellist ELLEN ROSE SILVER, originally from St. Louis, Missouri, began her cello studies at the age of ten and made her solo debut performing Haydn Concerto in C Major with the Brentwood Symphony at age seventeen. Ms. Silver has been performing and teaching in New York City for the past thirteen years. She has recorded contemporary string quartets by Arnold Rosner and Max Schubel for the Opus One label and performed on WQXR's "Listening Room" program with Robert Sherman. Ms. Silver has performed with the Houston Symphony and toured with the New York City Opera National Company. She performed Strauss' Romanze for Cello and Orchestra with the New York Repertory Orchestra in May 2003. She performed Max Bruch's Kol Nidrei with the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York in March 2006 at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts.

Ms. Silver earned a double degree in Biology and Cello Performance from Oberlin College and Conservatory, and a Master of Music from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music. She completed a Professional Studies degree in May 2004 at Mannes College of Music as a student of Marcy Rosen. Her former teachers include Andor Toth Jr., Shirley Trepel and Desmond Hoebig. She has studied chamber music with David Krakauer, the Audubon String Quartet, Gregory Fulkerson and Norman Fischer.
Ms. Silver has taught at Diller-Quaile School of Music and St. David's School, as well as privately in her studio for the past sixteen years. She also currently teaches music at Chabad Early Learning Center and at the Weekday School in Manhattan. She is the Director of SilverMusic (www.SilverMusic.org), an exploratory program that introduces young children to beginning violin, cello, and piano as preparation for private instrumental study.  Ms. Silver lives in Manhattan with her husband Dan and sons Elias and Gabriel.