Violinist Robin Sharp, a native of California, is in demand as a solo performer, chamber musician, concertmaster, and teacher. In addition to maintaining private teaching studios in San Francisco and Palo Alto, Ms. Sharp performs as concertmaster of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra with conductor Benjamin Simon.  Ms. Sharp also served as concertmaster for the Berkeley Symphony with conductor Kent Nagano for six seasons, and was a guest concertmaster for a concert in Germany under conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. She is currently on the Artistic Advisory Board of the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra and teaches violin at UCBerkeley.  She is also on the faculty of California Summer Music in Pebble Beach, California where she played a special Tenth Anniversary Celebration Art and Music recital in 2006 with pianist Lori Lack, featuring the works of painters Tiffany Graham and Kathleen Lack.

Ms. Sharp has appeared in recital at many prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the National Music Hall in Taipei, and the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco where she performed on Jascha Heifetz's Del Gesu violin. She is a frequent guest on the Chancellor's Concert Series sponsored by the University of California at San Francisco and has appeared in recital on the Old First Church concert series in San Francisco. In January 1998 Ms. Sharp represented Carnegie Hall in their Rising Stars Series, when she and her duo partner Jeremy Denk played a recital at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall following a European tour.  The duo also performed on Carnegie Hall's main stage under the guidance of Isaac Stern.

Ms. Sharp has participated in music festivals worldwide, including the Musikalischer Sommer Festival in Germany, the Marlboro Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Sandor Vegh masterclasses at Prussia Cove, and the Isaac Stern Seminar in New York. She has formerly served as first violinist of the Ives String Quartet, which toured nationally, and has played several seasons with the San Francisco Symphony.  Ms. Sharp has been a professor of violin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in both the Preparatory and Collegiate divisions, at Santa Clara University, and at Sacramento State University of California. Among her collaborators in performance have been such artists as Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinet), Jon Nakamatsu (piano), Lori Lack (piano), and conductors such as Raymond Leppard, Peter Oundjian, and Vladimir Ashkenazy. Ms. Sharp is a Laureate prize winner of the 1994 Indianapolis Violin Competition and is featured in a documentary about the competition. At present, a violin concerto is being composed for Ms. Sharp by composer Gabriela Lena Frank.

Avi Downes
Since making noteworthy debuts at the age of sixteen in London, Vienna, and Amsterdam, Avi Downes has performed extensively throughout Europe, South America, and the United States.

A native of San Francisco, Avi Downes began her piano studies at the age of three as the youngest student ever admitted to the San Francisco Conservatory. At 14, she moved to Europe to further her musical education; completing her studies at the University of Vienna and the University of Cologne.

Throughout her career, Ms. Downes has divided her time between her solo work and various chamber ensembles. As the youngest of three very musical sisters who constantly made music together, her interest and talent for chamber music showed itself at a very young age. She was awarded top prizes in some of the most prestigious international music competitions in the world, including the ARD Competition in Munich, the Rostropovich Competition in Paris, the Maria Canals in Barcelona, and the Vittorio Gui, and Trio di Trieste competitions in Italy.

Elizabeth Prior Runnicles
A noted violist, Elizabeth Prior-Runnicles performs regularly with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra (where she has served as Associate Principal) as well as the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, and, as Associate Principal, the Marin Symphony. Other orchestral credits include the Baden Baden Radio, Stuttgart Radio, Basel Symphony, and Mannheim Opera Orchestras, as well as the Freiburg Philharmonic and Cape Town Symphony.

A native of South Africa, she was a prizewinner in the International String Competition in Pretoria, and has toured extensively as an orchestral soloist, recitalist and in chamber music ensembles such as the Broderick String Quartet, the Marin Harp Trio, Trio Resonance, the Barbican String Quartet, and Ensemble 13 Karlsruhe.

Festival performances include the Colorado Music Festival, the Cabrillo Festival, the Grand Tetons Music Festival, the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony and the Fredener Musiktage. Ms Runnicles is also known for organizing a series of 'house concerts' on behalf of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.

Angela Lee
Since giving her Carnegie Hall debut in 1994, Angela Lee’s “amazing finesse, control and coloration” [San Francisco Chronicle] has been celebrated with recitals in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Victor Borge Hall in New York, Chicago’s Cultural Center, The Phillip’s Collection and Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Copenhagen’s Nationalmuseet and the Purcell Room at South Bank Centre in London.

She has soloed with the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra, the San Francisco Concert Orchestra, the New Haven Symphony, the CAMS Orchestra, the Central Philharmonic Orchestra, the Paraiba Symphony, São Paulo State Orchestra, the Chautauqua Symphony and the Hertfordshire Chamber Orchestra (UK).

An important highlight of Angela Lee’s career was a U.N.-sanctioned tour of six war-torn cities throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1996. She has also given solo and chamber performances in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Chile, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, and throughout the United States, and has participated in festivals including St. Petersburg’s Revelations, International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, Taipei Summer Festival, Banff, Pontino Festival, Cagayan Valley International Music Festival, La Musica, Marlboro Music Festival, and Anneberg Festival. She has collaborated with such artists as Bruno Giuranna, Frans Helmerson, Nobuko Imai, Cho-Liang Lin, Alexander Lonquich, Anthony Newman, Franco Petracchi, and Andras Schiff. A theater enthusiast, Angela was the featured cellist in Harris Yulin’s production of Don Juan in Hell starring Ed Asner and Cherry Jones. She is also dedicated to working with and performing the music of today’s most eminent composers, among them Lukas Foss, Aaron Jay Kernis, Tania León, Yehudi Wyner and Per Nørgård. With her sisters Lisa, violinist, and Melinda, pianist, Angela Lee is a founding member of The Lee Trio, which won top awards in 2004 at the Gaetano Zinetti and Kuhmo International Chamber Music Competitions in Italy and Finland. The Lee Trio performs throughout the United State, Europe and Asia.

Angela Lee, a graduate of The Juilliard School and Yale School of Music, began her cello studies at age four at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with Irene Sharp. She has been the recipient of the Ruth T. Brooks Achievement Award for Continued Excellence in the Arts, a grant from the Foundation for American Musicians in Europe, a Fulbright scholarship to study in London with the late William Pleeth, the Jury Prize in the Naumburg International Cello Competition, and a cello performance fellowship from The American-Scandinavian Foundation. Her cello is a 1762 Nicolo Gagliano from Naples. She currently resides in San Francisco with her husband Paul and their children Schuyler and Ava.