Violinist David Bowlin is a member of the violin and chamber music faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he also serves as Chair of Strings. First prize winner of the 2003 Washington International Competition, he has performed extensively as a soloist, with premieres of violin concerti written for him at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Mostly Mozart Festival, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall and at the Aspen Music Festival. As a chamber musician, Mr. Bowlin has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and tours regularly with the Oberlin Trio and his duo partner, pianist Tony Cho. He is a founding member of the acclaimed International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and a former member of the Naumburg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber players. David Bowlin has performed as guest concertmaster with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Marlboro Festival Orchestra and IRIS Orchestra. His festival collaborations include frequent performances at Aspen, Banff, Bowdoin, Bridgehampton, Chesapeake, Marlboro, Ojai, and Olympic as well as the Boston Chamber Music Society, ChamberFest Cleveland, Chamber Music Chicago, and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, where he has been faculty artist since 2013. His recordings can be found on the Arsis, Bridge, Mode, Naxos, New Focus, Oberlin Music and Tundra labels. Mr. Bowlin is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, The Juilliard School and Stony Brook University.

Pianist Tony Cho enjoys a multifaceted career as recitalist, chamber musician and opera and vocal coach. He has collaborated with numerous artists at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Zipper Concert Hall (Los Angeles), Ganz Hall (Chicago), Meany Hall (Seattle), Harris Concert Hall (Aspen) and the Honolulu Museum of Art, among many others throughout the United States and abroad. His performances have been featured on WKCR (New York City), WVIZ (Cleveland) and WXOJ (Northampton, MA), live on KVOD (Denver), KHPR (Honolulu) and Maine Public Radios’s WMEA Tiny Screen Concert Series. Tony Cho has held collaborative piano and coaching positions at The Juilliard School, University of Southern California, Chapman University, and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he currently serves as on the chamber music faculty. Also, he has been on the music staff of several opera houses, including those of Aspen, Central City, Glimmerglass, Hawaii, Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Sarasota, Tulsa and Virginia, functioning as assistant conductor and coach. A native of South Korea, Tony Cho is a graduate of Oklahoma State University, University of Cincinnati and University of Washington.