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Born and raised in New York, Tatiana Dimitriades attended the
Pre-College Division of the Juilliard School. She earned her
bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as an artist diploma, from
the Indiana University School of Music, where she was awarded the
performer's certificate in recognition of outstanding musical
performance. A recipient of the Lili Boulanger Memorial
Award, Ms. Dimitriades has also won the Guido Chigi Saracini Prize,
presented by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena, Italy, on
the occasion of the Paganini Centenary, and the Mischa Pelz Prize
of the National Young Musicians Foundation Debut Competition in Los
Angeles.
Ms. Dimitriades joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the
beginning of the 1987-88 season. An active chamber musician,
she is a member of the Boston Artists Ensemble, Boston Conservatory
Chamber Ensemble, and Walden Chamber Players. Ms. Dimitriades
now teaches at the Boston Conservatory. She was concertmaster
of the Newton Symphony Orchestra, with which she appeared often as
a concerto soloist, and is currently the concertmaster of the New
Philharmonia Orchestra. She continues to perform frequently
in recital and chamber music performances throughout New
England. Other solo performances have included a Carnegie
Recital Hall appearance sponsored by the Associated Music Teachers
of New York and an appearance as soloist in Mendelssohn's Violin
Concerto at the Grand Teton Music Festival.
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Lucia Lin made her debut performing Mendelssohn's Violin
Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 11.
Since then, she has been a prizewinner of numerous competitions,
including the 1990 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
She has performed in solo recitals throughout the U.S., making her
New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in March 1991, and has
appeared with the Boston Pops Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony
Orchestra, Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber
Orchestra and Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria.
A frequent collaborator in chamber music, Ms. Lin is a member of
the Muir String Quartet, the quartet in residence at Boston
University. She is also a founding member of the Boston Trio and
the chamber group Innuendo. She has performed in the Sapporo Music
Festival, Taos Festival, Da Camera Society in Houston, St. Barts
Music Festival, and Barbican Hall Chamber Series in London. She has
also recorded for Nonesuch Records as a guest of the Boston
Symphony Chamber Players, New World Records on a disc featuring the
works of Bright Sheng, and most recently on a recording featuring
the works of Gabriela Lena Frank.
A native of Champaign, Illinois, Ms. Lin received her bachelor's
degree at the University of Illinois and her master's degree at
Rice University in Houston. Important musical influences include
Sergiu Luca, Paul Rolland, Josef Gingold, Dorothy DeLay, and Louis
Krasner.
Ms. Lin joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1985 and served as
assistant concertmaster from 1988 to 1991 and 1996 to 98. During
the 1991-92 season, she was acting concertmaster of the Milwaukee
Symphony Orchestra and during the 1994 to 1996 seasons, she served
as joint concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra
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Violist Danny Kim joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the
start of the 2016-17 season and was appointed 3rd chair of the
viola section during the 2017-2018 season. A native of St. Paul,
Minnesota, he earned his master of music degree in viola
performance from the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Samuel
Rhodes. Having begun his musical studies at a young age on the
violin with his mother, Ellen Kim, he transitioned to the viola in
high school under Sabina Thatcher. Mr. Kim completed his
undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where
he studied with Sally Chisholm, receiving a B.A. in viola
performance and a certificate in East Asian Studies. An alumnus of
the Tanglewood Music Center, where he won the Maurice Schwartz
Prize, he has participated in such festivals as the Pacific Music
Festival, Lucerne, Aspen, and Marlboro and has toured with
Musicians from Marlboro. As a teacher, he was in residence with El
Sistema in Caracas and the Northern Lights Chamber Music Institute
in Ely, Minnesota. Mr. Kim has performed with such distinguished
ensembles and artists as the Metropolis Ensemble in collaboration
with Questlove and The Roots, and the New York Classical Players.
He appeared on Sesame Street with conductor Alan Gilbert and
participates in the BSO's Concerts for Very Young People at Boston
Children's Museum. As an avid chamber musician, he has performed
with the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota, Concordia Chamber
Players, and Pro Arte Quartet, and collaborated with artists
including Joseph Silverstein, Peter Wiley, Marcy Rosen, Richard
O'Neill, Charles Neidich, Anthony McGill, among others. Mr. Kim
toured South Korea in 2014 with his string quartet, Quartet Senza
Misura, and violist Richard O'Neill, and was also a tenured member
of the Madison Symphony Orchestra while earning his undergraduate
degree. Following the BSO's summer 2018 tour of Europe, he joins
Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, Germany, for the fall of the
2018-2019 season as a part of the BSO-Gewandhaus Alliance.
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Born in Canada, Rebecca Gitter began studying Suzuki violin at
seven and viola at thirteen. In May 2001 she received her bachelor
of music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she
was a student of Robert Vernon, having previously studied in
Toronto, Ontario. While at CIM she was the recipient of the
Institute's Annual Viola Prize and the Robert Vernon Prize in
Viola, and twice received honorable mention in the school's
concerto competition, resulting in solo performances. Among other
honors, she was the 2000 recipient of Toronto's Ben Steinberg
Jewish Musical Legacy Award and, prior to her BSO appointment, was
offered a position in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. She was a
summer participant in the Taos School of Music, the Marlboro
Festival, Ravinia's Steans Institute for Young Artists, and the
National Academy and National Youth Orchestras of Canada. Ms.
Gitter joined the viola section of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in
August 2001.
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Oliver Aldort joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in
September 2015.
Raised on Orcas Island, in Washington State, Oliver Aldort began
his musical studies on cello and piano at the age of six. He gave
his debut recital at age seven, and has performed as a soloist with
orchestras since the age of ten. Among these were performances with
the Victoria Symphony Orchestra, Newton Symphony Orchestra, and the
Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra. Mr. Aldort was co-principal
cellist of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in the 2013/14 season, and
has performed at the Verbier Festival Academy, the Tanglewood Music
Center, and the Steans Music Institute at Ravinia.
Mr. Aldort has appeared on KOMO TV's Northwest Afternoon, NPR's
From the Top, and CBC Radio. He was also featured in the 2008
British TV documentary The World's Greatest Musical Prodigies. He
has been awarded top prizes in numerous competitions, including the
2007 MTNA Junior Competition, as well as the 2008 and 2010 Seattle
Young Artists Music Festival.
Mr. Aldort received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis
Institute of Music in May, 2015. His major teachers have included
Carter Brey, Peter Wiley, Lynn Harrell, Ron Leonard and Amos
Yang.
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Cellist Owen Young joined the BSO in August 1991. A frequent
collaborator in chamber music concerts and festivals, he has also
appeared as concerto soloist with numerous orchestras. He has
appeared in the Tanglewood, Aspen, Banff, Davos, Sunflower,
Gateway, Brevard, and St. Barth's music festivals and is a founding
member of the innovative chamber ensemble Innuendo. Mr. Young's
performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio, WQED in
Pittsburgh, WITF in Harrisburg, and WGBH in Boston. He has
performed frequently with singer/songwriter James Taylor, including
the nationally televised concert "James Taylor Live at the Beacon
Theatre" in New York City. Mr. Young was formerly on the faculties
of the Boston Conservatory, the New England Conservatory Extension
Division, and the Longy School of Music; is currently on the
faculty of Berklee College of Music; and is active in Project STEP
(String Training and Education Program for students of color). From
1991 to 1996 he was a Harvard-appointed resident tutor and director
of concerts in Dunster House at Harvard University. His teachers
included Elinor Osborn, Michael Grebanier, Anne Martindale
Williams, and Aldo Parisot. Mr. Young holds both bachelor's and
master's degrees from Yale University. He was a Tanglewood Music
Center Fellow in 1986 and 1987. After winning an Orchestra
Fellowship in 1987, he played with the Atlanta Symphony in 1988 and
with the Boston Symphony in 1988-89. He was a member of the New
Haven Symphony in 1986-87 and of the Pittsburgh Symphony from 1989
until he joined the BSO in 1991.
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