Recipient of the 2015 Hnatyshyn Foundation Developing Artist Grant, TSO violinist Christina (Jung Yun) Choi gave her first concerto performance in 2006 with the Queensland Symphony.Since then, she has performed around the world in venues such as Bridgewater Hall, the Sydney Opera House, and Carnegie Hall. Born in South Korea, Choi began playing the violin at the age of 5. Two years later, while visiting relatives in Australia, she met her future long-term teacher, Emin Tagiev. That moment became a turning point in her life, and after receiving a full music scholarship to attend boarding school in Australia, she went on to complete her studies at the Glenn Gould School, the Colburn School, and the New World Symphony.Choi’s primary teachers include Emin Tagiev, Atis Bankas, David Zafer, Mayumi Seiler, Paul Kantor, Barry Shiffman, and Martin Beaver. Outside of music, Choi likes to travel, hike, and search for good food and coffee.

Luri Lee has been deemed “the perfect chamber music partner” (Bachtrack) whose playing is “spotlessly clean and with never a routine phrase” (The Calgary Herald). Appearing as soloist with the Royal Conservatory Orchestra and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Lee has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia as a soloist and chamber musician.

As a founding member of the Rolston String Quartet, she received Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, First Prize at the 12th Banff International String Quartet Competition, and Grand Prize at the 31st Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition and the Astral Artists National Auditions.

The quartet are associated artists at the Queen Elizabeth Music Chapel, and completed a two-year term as the Yale School of Music’s fellowship quartet-in-residence in spring 2019. Previously, they were the graduate quartet-in-residence at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.

Keeping in the teaching tradition, they have taught at the Yale School of Music, the University of Toronto, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival among others. Their début album, Souvenirs, an all-Tchaikovsky recording released in 2020, was named Recording of the Year by BBC Music Magazine. The quartet has performed at some of the most prestigious concert venues on the globe, including Carnegie Hall, the Louvre, the Kennedy Center, Koerner Hall, and Wigmore Hall.

Her diverse chamber music career has led to collaborations with many world-renowned artists such as Paul Neubauer, Yura Lee, Gary Hoffman, Cho-Liang Lin, Miguel da Silva, and Jon Kimura Parker. Lee holds degrees from the University of Toronto, Glenn Gould School, Peabody Conservatory, and Rice University.

She plays on a Carlo Tononi violin, generously on loan from Shauna Rolston Shaw.

During her spare time, Lee loves to travel with her husband, violist Hezekiah Leung, exploring and finding hidden food gems.

Violinist Csaba Koczo is currently Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, and holds a position with the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra.

Mr. Koczó also enjoys a prolific career as a chamber musician and soloist both in Canada and abroad. As a founding member of the Banff Competition prizewinning and Dora award nominated Tokai String Quartet, Mr. Koczó has toured across Canada and the US and some of his performances have been broadcast on the CBC and the Hungarian National Radio. He has performed at Ottawa Chamberfest, and the Toronto Summer Music Festival where he has worked with Ian Swensen and the Leipzig String Quartet. Mr. Koczó has taught at the Universities of Stanford, Toronto, Kingston, Halifax and Acadia in Wolfville NS, and spent many summers as a faculty member of Music at Port Milford in Picton, ON. He also often appears on the Chatter Chamber Music series in New Mexico and plays with the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra. He is a member of the TakeFive Ensemble, and was one of the founding members of the Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestra.  

Mr. Koczo has shared the stage with such illustrious musicians as Mayumi Seiler, Steven Isserlis, Scott St.John, Douglas McNabney, Yehonatan Berick and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. As a soloist, he has been featured with the Sandor Frigyes Chamber Orchestra and has also had the opportunity to perform the Beethoven Violin concerto and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.

Born in Hungary, Mr. Koczó began his studies in Yugoslavia and then continued in Hungary at the Richter Conservatory in Gyor and the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest. After attaining his bachelor’s degree with distinction from the College of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, he continued his studies in Toronto with Lorand Fenyves and Erika Raum at the Glenn Gould School and the University of Toronto, where he was the recipient of the H. Carter scholarship. 

Praised by audiences and critics alike, Halifax native Heemin Choi has been featured on CBC Music’s list of “30 Hot Classical Musicians Under 30” and has shared his passion for music internationally in various orchestral, chamber and solo settings. Performing on the 1768 “Miller” Januarius Gagliano Violin generously on loan from the Canada Council for the Arts, Choi has performed with the likes of Simon Rattle, Antonio Pappano, Ginandrea Noseda and Valery Gergiev.

Praised for his “beauty of tone and elegance of style” (Herald-Tribune), Toronto based violinist Patrick Goodwin enjoys a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral violinist and teacher. As former concertmaster of the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, Patrick has performed in many of the world’s great halls including the David Geffen Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Wales Millennium Centre and the Dubai Opera House. He has served as leader and orchestral soloist for multiple productions in collaboration with Cape Town Opera, Cape Town City Ballet and for the touring St. Petersburg Ballet’s production of Swan Lake. Patrick has appeared as a guest leader with various South African orchestras and chamber ensembles and has recorded for national radio, television and on numerous commercial recordings. In 2017 he represented South Africa performing with the New York Philharmonic Global Orchestra Project at the Lincoln Centre under conductor Alan Gilbert. Since relocating to Canada in 2018, Patrick has performed in various chamber music ensembles in and around Toronto and is a substitute violinist with the Orchestra of the National Ballet of Canada, Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Concert Orchestra and joins Sinfonia Toronto for their 2019-2020 season. Patrick has featured regularly as a soloist with the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra, University of Cape Town Symphony Orchestra and in recital throughout South Africa. An experienced and sought-after chamber musician, he was a founding member of the Bacharova Quartet and leader of the Juliet String Quartet with whom he championed many new works alongside established repertoire. He was awarded first prize in the ATKV Ensemble Competition (2009) and has been faculty member at the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival (2012, 2013)Patrick studied in Cape Town and Chicago where his principal teachers were Farida Bacharova and Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in violin performance and was a member of the South African National Youth Orchestra as well as a frequent participant in the Britten-Pears Orchestra courses in Aldeburgh, UK. From 2011 to 2018 Patrick was adjunct lecturer in violin at the South African College of Music, University of Cape Town. 

Canadian-Korean violinist Sienna (MinKyong) Cho is a recent graduate of McGill University (Grad Dip. and B.Mus), under the tutelage of Andrew Wan and Jinjoo Cho, and a full-scholarship scholar at Rice University (M.Mus), working with Cho-Liang Lin. As an active orchestral player, Sienna is featured most frequently with Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Salsinger Tani Gold Medal at the time of her graduation and prize winner of the Peter Mendell Award Competition. She has appeared in world class academy festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, National Academy Orchestra, Kneisel Hall, Colorado College Music Festival, New York String Orchestra Seminar, Toronto Summer Music, Zodiac Music Festival, Orford Musique, and Domaine Forget.

Noa Sarid is an Israeli violinist and chamber musician. She is the first violinist and founding member of the Dior Quartet, winner of the 2023 Concert Artist Guild Elmaleh Competition, silver prize winner of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition (2021) and bronze medalist of the 46th Fischoff National Chamber Competition (2019). Coached by the Pacifica Quartet, the Dior Quartet also studied with members of the Alban Berg, St. Lawrence, Danish, Artemis, Ébène, and Belcea Quartets. She is a 2023 Rebanks Fellow at the Royal Conservatory of Music. 

Noa is the recipient of various scholarships and awards, such as the Ronen Foundation and the America-Israel Cultural Foundation (2004-2019) and the UNO Competition (Second prize, 2013). As a soloist, Noa toured in Israel and Europe with The Symphonette Ra’anana and The Thelma Yellin Symphony Orchestras. Noa participated in The Aspen Music Festival and School as a full scholarship recipient. As a chamber musician, Noa is a Naxos Records artist (2020) and a four-time winner of the Jerusalem Academy of Music Chamber Competition (2015-2018).

Noa is committed to advocating social justice through music. She took part in the Musethica International Chamber Music Festival in 2017, performing in hospitals, shelters for survivors of domestic violence, prisons, and schools for children with special needs. As part of her military service, Noa toured Israel with the Israel Defense Forces String Quartet, delivering lecture-recitals in army bases. 

Noa holds a master’s degree in Violin Performance from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and a bachelor’s degree from The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Noa’s violin mentors include Simin Ganatra, Roi Shiloah, and Nava Milo. With the Dior Quartet, Noa will joined The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory in Toronto as the new String Quartet-in-residence for the 2021-2022 academic year. 

Noa teaches violin at the Lane School of Music, and passionately mentors violin students at the Oscar Peterson Program at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto.

Hee-Soo Yoon began the violin at the age of 3. Today, she continues to share her passion through concerts, teaching, and community engagement.

 Hee-Soo has an interest in many forms of music. She spends most of her time playing classical music as that is her specialty, but some of her favourite musical memories include working with traditional Korean dancers, playing in the pit for musicals, and touring with Iranian singer Homayoun Shajarian. She is also passionate about performing contemporary classical music and has worked with many living composers including Sofia Gubaidulina, Julian Anderson, and Andy Akiho. In August 2021, she performed in the world premiere of Roger Tapping’s composition Reverberations for string quartet at Yellow Barn in Putney, Vermont.

One of Hee-Soo’s most memorable experiences as an orchestral musician include the partnership between The Juilliard School and the Royal Academy of Music in London in the summer of 2018 which was led by Sir Edward Gardiner at the baton and soloist James Ehnes, where they performed at the Aldeburgh Festival and at the BBC Proms.

 An alum of the New England Conservatory, Juilliard, and the Glenn Gould School, she currently lives in Toronto. Her current partner in crime is a 2014 Douglas Cox copy of the “ex-Huberman” Stradivarius.