Violinist Jordan Curry freelances in a number of orchestras such as Indianapolis Symphony, Columbus Symphony, and Cincinnati symphony. He is currently Assistant Concertmaster of the Richmond Indiana Symphony as well as a section violinist in the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. Jordan has also advanced to the finals of the 2024 Sphinx Orchestral Partners Audition competition. During the summer, he plays in the Chatauqua Symphony Orchestra as a violin fellow. In 2019 he was the recipient of the CSO Diversity Fellowship. Through this fellowship, he performed regularly with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Jordan has participated in and won prizes in the Patricia Pates Eaton Memorial 2023 String Scholarship Competition and the 2023 National Association of Negro Musicians Scholarship Compeition. 

Jordan was raised in West Olive, Michigan. He began playing violin at the age of six using the Suzuki method. A graduate of West Ottawa High School in Holland, Michigan, Jordan continued to play violin and study music throughout his formative years. Jordan has participated in the Illinois Chamber Music Festival at Illinois Wesleyan University, the Michigan All-State Orchestra, and the Holland Area Youth Orchestra.  He furthered his studies with the professor of violin at Hope College, Mihai Craioveanu. Jordan received his bachelor’s degree in violin performance at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan under the instruction of Professor Renata Artman Knific. He also received his master’s degree at the University of Denver under Linda Wang. Jordan is currently a graduate assistant of former Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra concertmaster, Timothy Lees and is pursuing a DMA at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music.  Jordan plays a violin from famed maker Mario Miralles on loan from acclaimed violin soloist Tai Murray.  

Venezuelan violinist Diego Diaz is a 2021-22 Chicago Sinfonietta Project Inclusion Freeman Fellow in both the Orchestral and Ensemble programs. He currently serves as a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.   

Prior posts include serving as concertmaster of the Youth Lara State Symphony Orchestra in his home town. Mr. Diaz has performed with several orchestras in his home country and also participated in tours to Europe and Asia. Amongst the renowned conductors he has performed under are Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Simon Rattle, and Diego Matheuz  

A recent graduate of Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University’s Masters program, where he studied under Mrs. Almita Vamos and Dr. Roland Vamos, Mr. Diaz began his music studies at age 9 as part of the “El Sistema” program founded by Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu.  He received his Bachelor of Music Degree in Violin Performance at Venezuela’s Lisandro Alvarado Midwestern University. A 1st prize winner in the 2013 Juan Bautista Plaza Competition in the Emil Friedman School in Caracas, Venezuela, Mr. Diaz was also a student of the Latin American School of Violin, where he studied with school founder Maestro Jose Francisco del Castillo. Additionally, he has performed in masterclasses for violinists including Ilya Kaler, Rachel Barton Pine, Alexander Kerr, Jorja Fleezanis, Glenn Dicterow, Uto Ughi and Midori Goto.   

A native of Atlanta, Georgia, violinist Maalik Glover is an active orchestral musician and private teacher. He has received recognition at competitions such as winning Omega Psi Phi’s 2015 Talent Hunt, receiving an Honorable Mention at the 2018 Schwob School of Music Concerto Competition, as well being a winner of the 2021 CCM Violin Competition.

Glover has studied the violin since the age of 11. Glover’s first significant accomplishment was his acceptance into the Talent Development Program, an initiative launched by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra that targets gifted African-American and Latino music students to further develop their future careers as accomplished classical musicians. This has perpetuated his unyielding advocacy of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in classical music. Since then, he has held private studios of his own, collaborating with the Schwob Preparatory Division, LaGrange Symphony Orchestra’s Strings Attached, as well as Musicbuk.

Glover has performed in Italy, Canada and throughout the United States. He has spent two summers performing with the Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy in Powell River, British Columbia. During his graduate studies, Glover held a two-year fellowship with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He is a two-time fellowship recipient of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, as well as Spoleto Festival USA where he served as concertmaster. Glover has just completed a one-year appointment with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Rossen Milanov.

In 2019, Glover graduated summa cum laude from Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music. He later obtained his Master’s at University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music in 2022 upon completion of the CSO/CCM Diversity Fellowship. In his spare time, Glover loves exploring and traveling to new cities as well as composing film and video game music.

Gabrielle Monachino is a third-year Violin Fellow at the New World Symphony. Originally from Rochester, New York, she completed her undergraduate studies at the Eastman School of Music with Charles Castleman. She completed her graduate work at Carnegie Mellon University, where she served as Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Erie Symphony. In 2019 she was chosen to participate in the Concertmaster Track at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Alexander Barantschik, Concertmaster of the San Francisco Symphony. 

Gabrielle has previously performed with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and held principal positions at the Aspen Music Festival and School, Miami Music Festival and Prague Summer Nights Festival. 

As a soloist, Gabrielle has performed in esteemed venues such as the White House, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Dicapo Opera Theatre. She won second prize at the American Fine Arts Festival, and was a semi-finalist in the LISMA International Music Competition. As a teacher, she has held positions at the Eastern Music School and Noel Pointer Foundation, and also maintains a private studio. 

Gabrielle has collaborated in performance with Sarah Chang, Itzhak Perlman and Walter Seyfarth of the Berlin Philharmonic. Recent performance engagements include recordings with Broadway for Racial Justice and commercial recordings with Jon Batiste. 

Gabrielle is very grateful for her musical opportunities. Her most impactful teachers and mentors include William van der Sloot, Ian Swensen and Catherin van Hoesen. 

Violist, Camila Berg is originally from Havana, Cuba.

Ms. Berg is violist of The Florida Orchestra since September 2023, previously was a fellow in New World Symphony.

Ms. Berg was Principal Violist of the Costa Rican National Symphony Orchestra from 2018 to 2021, after spending a year in Japan as a fellow in Hyogo Performing Arts Center Program. She has attended international music festivals including the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, the Orchestra of the Americas, Academia de Frutillar in Chile and the Weimar Bach Festival In Germany.

Ms. Berg recently won the Second Place in Sphinx Orchestra Partners Auditions.

Pedro Mendez, is a violist and Violinist who was born in Venezuela, and began  his musical studies with  EL SISTEMA in Venezuela. He got his degree in Violin Performance Arts in Vicente Emilio Sojo Conservatory in 2015 and he also studied of Academia Latinoamericana de Violín, under the tutelage of Luis Miguel Gonzalez and José Francisco del Castillo. 

Pedro Mendez has served as Professor and Director of the Latin American Violin School professor at the Vicente Emilio Sojo Conservatory. During his last years in Venezuela, he was dedicated to teaching and he got the position as Professor and Director of the Latin American Violin School in his hometown and also obtained a position as professor at the Vicente Emilio Sojo Conservatory. He has played as a violin soloist with Pedro Leon Torres Youth Symphony Orchestra, Lara Symphony Orchestra and Youth Lara Symphony Orchestra. He has played with some orchestras in the Chicago Area as Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Philharmonic. Right now, he is also violist of the Soto String Quartet, he is the Assistant Principal Viola of Illinois Philharmonic, he is also 

Co-Principal Viola of the Chicago Civic Orchestra of Chicago and he is the viola fellow in Chicago Sinfonietta Symphony Orchestra as part of the project inclusion. 

Mr. Mendez  is currently a student at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University  in the studio of Almita and Roland Vamos and Li Kuo Chang. 

Keeon Guzman, of Anchorage, Alaska, recently completed his Master’s studies with high distinction at the Mozarteum University Salzburg, studying with Enrico Bronzi. Previously, Keeon obtained a Bachelor’s degree and a Performance Diploma at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the tutelage of Eric Kim and Brandon Vamos. He has furthered his studies at the Pacific Music Festival, Music Master Course Japan Yokohama, Domaine Forget Music Festival, and the National Repertory Orchestra. 

Wendell Rosa is a double bassist who aims to balance artistry and technique. He believes that knowing himself as a human being and learning about the connection between body and mind will allow him to achieve the heart of his audience.

Wendell is currently a Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Diversity Fellow since August 2023. His duties include numerous performances with the CSO in classical subscription, pops, film, educational, and outreach programs.

In the spring of 2023, Wendell had the honor of obtaining a Master’s Degree in Music Performance at The University of Southern Mississippi.

During the 2022-2023 season, Wendell was part of the bass section of the Meridian Symphony Orchestra and Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra and was the principal bass in the USM Symphony Orchestra.

In 2022, he won first place in the Mississippi MTNA solo competition. As a soloist, he performed Concerto No.2 for Double Bass by Giovanni Bottesini with the Esteio Municipal Orchestra in Brazil.

He has performed in master classes with Joel Quarrington, Alberto Botini, Petru Iuga, and Luiz Cabrera.