Recognized as one of Australia's outstanding violinists, Benjamin Breen made his New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.  He has since toured in Australia, Europe, the United States and Japan, receiving critical acclaim both as soloist with orchestra, in recital and as chamber musician. Breen has also premiered works dedicated to him by the eminent Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe. In Australia he has made television appearances on ABC-TV and the 9 Network and participated in radio broadcasts on ABC-FM, ABC Radio National, 2MBS-FM & 3MBS-FM.  His growing list of U.S. broadcast credits include performances on WNYC, WITF, and National Public Radio.Breen began studies at the age of 5 in Sydney.  At 11 he entered the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, where his teachers were John Harding and Janet Davies.  After pursuing studies in Germany, he returned to Australia, where he participated in master classes with Valery Klimov, Igor Ozim and Raphael Hillyer.  Participation in the Melbourne Summer Music Festival with Pinchas Zukerman led Mr. Breen to continue his studies in New York.  At The Juilliard School, Breen studied violin with Stephen Clapp and chamber music with Samuel Sanders and Paul Doktor.  He subsequently continued violin studies with violinist Harry Shub in New York, whose pedagogy influenced him greatly. As chamber musician he has appeared at the Aspen and Next Generation music festivals with pianist Awadagin Pratt. Performances with pianist Milton Kaye have led to the release of Breen's debut recording of the Brahms Sonatas on the Tall Poppies label available world-wide. Tall Poppies will release "Cafe Fiddle" in May 2009. Mr. Breen's violin is a Giuseppe Guarneri filius Andreae the "ex-Boyle" from 1712.

Arthur Cook has appeared as a chamber musician and soloist in summer festivals at Sandpoint, Meadowmount, Taos,Yale at Norfolk, Rutgers and Apple Hill. He has served as artistic director for Lyrica and Artists in the Hall as well as principal cellist and soloist for the Wayne Chamber Orchestra, the New Philharmonic and the New York Symphonic Ensemble on its Japan tour. Mr. Cook won First Prize in the New York Studio Club Awards as well as in competitions at the Metropolitan YMHA (NJ) and the Wayne YMHA (NJ), and he has appeared as soloist with orchestras at Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall. He holds degrees from Texas Tech University and the Mannes College of Music, where he was a recipient of the George Szell Award and the Graduate Performance Award. His teachers included Arthur Follows, David Geber, Felix Galimir, and Louis Krasner. He has been on the music faculties of both Seton Hall University and Smith College. Mr. Cook plays on a 1798 Josef Gagliano cello presented to him by the Gandolph Foundation.

Deborah Gilwood has appeared as a soloist, as well as a collaborator with orchestras and ensembles, including the Long Island Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonia, and Solisti New York. An active chamber musician, Ms. Gilwood has performed with Musical Elements, Infusion, the Eckert/Gilwood Piano Duo, Alliance for American Song, and Blue Door with cellist Arthur Cook. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Miller Theater in New York. Ms. Gilwood is the co-founder, Artistic Director and pianist of the Blue Door Chamber Music series at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in MA, now entering its 10th season. Her recording with Arthur Cook, entitled Censored by Hitler, was released in October 2002 on the Centaur label, garnering favorable reviews both here and abroad. Currently she is a member of the music faculty at Westfield State College, and has also been on the piano faculties at Smith College, The University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Seton Hall University. Ms. Gilwood studied at Mannes College of Music, and received degrees in Piano Performance from SUNY Purchase and SUNY Stony Brook. Her principal teachers include Richard Goode, Gilbert Kalish and Lucy Greene. She lives in Amherst, MA.

Amy Kimball is based in New York City and enjoys a varied and busy freelance career. She is a regular performer with the Symphony Orchestras of Princeton, NJ, Albany, NY and Key West, FL, and has played with many new music groups in New York, including S.E.M. Ensemble, North/South Consonance, SONOS Chamber Orchestra and the contemporary dance troupe, dre.dance. Amy and cellist Arthur Cook are members of The Beehive, an ensemble that performed new music by composer Debra Kaye this year at the Howland Cultural Center in Beacon, NY, St. Peter's Church in New York City, and on the TV show "Minding Your Business." Amy has appeared in concert with numerous pop, rock and jazz artists such as Michael Buble, Diana Krall, Hall & Oates, Ray LaMontagne, Josh Groban, The Killers, and Rachael Yamagata. In May she played in a string quartet with Pearl Jam at Madison Square Garden. As one of the Creme Tangerine Strings, she has performed throughout the U.S. for the past 9 years with the star-studded Beatles tribute band, The Fab Faux. Amy can be heard on the recent release by David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, "Here Lies Love" as well as on Byrne's score for the HBO show "Big Love." Other recent studio work includes Turkish jazz artist Fahir Atakoglu, LCD Soundsystem, Hem, and Flight of the Conchords. She has served in the orchestras for multiple Broadway shows in addition to national and European touring musical theater productions. Television experience includes Saturday Night Live, The Late Show With David Letterman, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and Rachael Ray. Originally from New Hampshire, Amy attended the New England Conservatory Prep and graduated from Oberlin Conservatory. She has studied violin with Valerie Vilker, Marilyn McDonald, Diane Monroe, Syoko Aki, Yuri Mazurkevich and Lewis Kaplan.

Whitney La Grange, viola, is from Mission, TX. She received her Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School. She also attended Yale University on full scholarship where she studied with Eric Friedman and the Tokyo String Quartet in the Artist Diploma Program. She received her Master of Music Degree from the University of Illinois Champagne/Urbana where she was a teaching assistant to Sherban Lupu. First Violinist of the St. Augustine String Quartet, she recorded the Bartok and Beethoven String Quartets for the Fuller Sound Label, performing throughout the US and Canada. Her latest recording is Panic by Drew Krause on the CD, Powder, by Innova Records. Her most recent solo appearances were Quadrille for Violin and Orchestra by Drew Krause with the Musica Bella Orchestra of New York and the Bach Double Violin Concerto with the Lautreamont Chamber Orchestra. She currently lives in New York.

Cellist Garo Yellin chamber music appearances have included performances in Carnegie, Alice Tully, and Merkin Halls as well as live performances on New York's WQXR and on NPR. As a founding member of the Halcyon String Quartet, he premiered more than a dozen new works. Mr. Yellin is the recipient of a fellowship to the Banff Festival in Canada, the Juilliard Quartet Seminar, the Elaine R. Brody Prize, the Hanna Von Vollenhollen Vories Award, Juilliard's Samuel Gardiner Prize, and is a winner of he Artists International Competition. His teachers include Channing Robbins, Jerome Carrington, Joseph Fuchs, and Eugene Becker.  Mr. Yellin has performed at the Berlin, Holland and Montreux jazz festivals, the Next Wave Festival at BAM, and has toured Scandanavia, Europe, Canada, and Japan as soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble on its summer 2009 tour. As a studio musician, Mr Yellin has appeared on almost every live television show broadcast from New York, is on numerous film scores and has recorded with artists such as  Sheryl Crow, Natalie Merchant, Lenny Kravitz, Suzanne Vega and with poets Allen Ginsberg and Bernard Picasso.