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.

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.

Sheila Jaffé was born into a family of musicians and was fascinated by classical music from a young age. Born in Montreal and raised in South Florida, she returned to her native Quebec at the age of thirteen to live and study with her second cousin Catherine Dallaire, concertmaster of the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec and professor of violin at the Conservatoire de Musique de Québec. After completing high school as part of the arts intensive program at l'École Secondaire Pierre-Laporte in Montreal, Sheila completed her Bachelor's degree in violin performance at the Université de Montréal. Over the course of her years in Montreal, it became clear that chamber music and orchestral playing were at the core of her musical passions. She co-founded the Alaya String Quartet, performed in numerous chamber music concerts in the city, and kept herself impossibly busy with every kind of ensemble she could put together. In the summers, she participated in orchestral, chamber music and masterclass festivals such as Schleswig-Holstein Orchester, Domaine Forget, International Musicians Seminar and Open Chamber Music at Prussia Cove, Orford Arts Centre, Aurora Music in Sweden, and several others. Sheila continued her studies in Berlin, Germany with a Master's program at the Hanns Eisler Hochschüle für Musik, during which she also was accepted into the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Akademie for a one-year position. During this time she also co-founded the Alondra String Quartet, who were invited to the International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove as well as the Toronto Summer Music festival. The members of this quartet are now in leading orchestras around the world. In 2013, at the Rosebud Chamber Music Festival in Alberta, Canada, she co-founded the Rosebud String Quartet (RSQ), with whom she currently performs regularly. Sheila is also the violinist and violist of the Array Ensemble, specializing in new music. In 2015, Sheila joined the Canadian Opera Company as a violist while continuing to nurture her love of chamber music on the violin with her string quartet as well as other chamber ensembles and various solo performances. She has also recently been appointed as principal viola of the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra. Her first album, featuring works by Franck, Elgar and Britten in collaboration with Welsh pianist Huw Watkins, is due to come out in 2022. Sheila Jaffé plays on a Francesco Gobetti (1710-15) violin and Raymond Schryer (2001) viola on generous loan from Canimex.

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. 

Hailing from Hunan, China, Yan began playing the violin at the age of 5 and made her solo début with the Hunan Symphony Orchestra at 8. Yan holds a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied under the guidance of Ronald Copes, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory (NEC), under the tutelage of Ayano Ninomiya. Prior to joining the TSO, Yan served as concertmaster of the Music Academy of the West during the summer of 2022, receiving coaching from Glenn Dicterow, Rainer Honeck, and Jorja Fleezanis. As Principal Second Violin, Yan toured with the National Youth Orchestra of China (NYO-China) in 2017 and 2019. She collaborated with Yuja Wang and Garrick Ohlsson, performing at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York City, Konzerthaus Berlin, and other renowned locations in the UK, Italy, and China. During NYO-China’s 2019 European tour, she was selected to perform at the Chinese Embassy in the UK. Yan has also participated in music festivals including the New York String Orchestra Seminar, Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall, Bowdoin, and Morningside Music Bridge.

A devoted chamber music enthusiast, Yan participated in the Honors Chamber Music Program at both schools she attended. She is a founding member of the Blanche String Quartet at NEC and a member of the VIA Piano Trio at Juilliard. Yan’s chamber groups have performed at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Jordan Hall, and Harvard University. Her primary chamber coaches and mentors include Jerome Lowenthal, Orli Shaham, Joseph Lin, and Ronald Copes, and she has received coaching from members of the Borromeo, Brentano, and Emerson String Quartets.

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.