Mimi Stillman, internationally acclaimed flutist, has performed as soloist with orchestras including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Bach Collegium Stuttgart, and Orquesta Sinfónica Carlos Chávez (Mexico City). She has given solo and chamber performances at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Verbier Festival, Bard College, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, and other venues. She is a Yamaha Performing Artist and the winner of the prestigious Young Concert Artists International Auditions. Ms. Stillman has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the Earhart and Bradley Foundations. At age 12, she was the youngest wind player ever admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Julius Baker and Jeffrey Khaner. Ms. Stillman is Artistic Director of Dolce Suono Ensemble, a chamber music ensemble that performs and presents a home series in Philadelphia that tours, records, and commissions some of today's most celebrated composers. Since she founded Dolce Suono Ensemble in 2005, it has grown into a dynamic force in the chamber music world, receiving grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project, and other grant-making organization and foundations. Ms. Stillman has recorded for the EMI, Innova, Albany, Dolce Suono, and DTR labels. She and Charles Abramovic, her duo pianist of 10 years, recorded Odyssey: 11 American Premieres for Flute and Piano, a 2-CD collection to be released by the Innova label in fall 2011. She has performed with Paquito D’Rivera and recorded a film soundtrack for Kevin Bacon. Ms. Stillman holds an M.A. degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania and is a published author on music and history. She teaches master classes at universities, conservatories, and flute societies.

Violinist Paul Arnold has been a member of The Philadelphia Orchestra for 23 years and is a familiar personality in the Philadelphia classical music scene. He has appeared as a recitalist and chamber musician with such diverse personalities as Yefim Bronfman, Christoph Eschenbach, Tan Dun, Keith Jarrett, the New Arts Trio, and the Emerson Quartet. Mr. Arnold has appeared numerous times in the Saratoga Chamber Series directed by Chantal Juillet, where he has worked beside Gil Shaham, Truls Mørk, and Sarah Chang. He has also been featured over 20 times in The Philadelphia Orchestra’s Chamber Music series performing widely contrasting repertoire. Mr. Arnold gives master classes around the country. He has most recently given classes and performed at Cornell University, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Bucknell University. He is a founding member of both the Society Hill Quintet and the widely touring Dalihapa Ensemble.

Violinist Anida Goga is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, with a Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance. While in Rochester, she was the Principal Second Violin of the Eastman Philharmonic, and also played in the Eastman School of Music Symphony Orchestra and the Eastman Opera Theater Orchestra. Ms. Goga has studied violin with Zvi Zeitlin of the Eastman School of Music, Paul Arnold of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Lorenc Radovani of the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, Albania. While residing in her native Albania, Ms. Goga performed a nationally broadcast solo recital on Albanian television in 1999. Upon arrival in the United States at the age of 17, she enrolled as a senior at Downingtown High School. After graduation, she was accepted to West Chester University as a violin major and studied there for two years before transferring to the Eastman School of Music. While at West Chester University, she performed with the Newark Symphony Orchestra as winner of their 2003 College Division Competition. In addition to serving as Concertmaster of the Delaware County Symphony, Ms. Goga has held this position for the Chester County Pops Orchestra, Festival de la Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil de Las Americas, and the West Chester University Symphony Orchestra.

Pianist Marcantonio Barone made his debut at the age of ten at a Philadelphia Orchestra children's concert. He returned in 1990 as soloist with the Orchestra's subscription series under the direction of William Smith. He has also performed as soloist with the St. Louis Symphony, Houston Symphony, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, and Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Sir Simon Rattle, Leon Fleisher, Arthur Fiedler, and Barry Tuckwell. His recital engagements in America and abroad have included Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Metropolitan Musuem, and the National Gallery. A prize winner at both the 1985 Busoni and 1987 Leeds Competitions, Mr. Barone also won the 1996-1997 Musical Fund Society Award. He performs chamber music frequently with the Lenape Chamber Ensemble, 1807 and Friends, Orchestra 2001, and many other groups. An active champion of New Music, he has given the world premiere performances of works by several distinguished composers, including George Rochberg, David Finko, and Gerald Levinson. In addition to his duties at Swarthmore College, Mr. Barone is also on the faculty of the Bryn Mawr Conservatory, where he is head of the piano department.

Violinist Amy Semes is currently a student of Daniel Han of The Philadelphia Orchestra. She participates in the Temple University Music Preparatory Division where she is a recipient of a Starling Violin Scholarship and Concertmaster of the Youth Chamber Orchestra. Amy is currently in The Snitzer Advanced Study Scholarship Quartet at the Settlement Music School, and is Associate Concertmaster of The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra. In September 2009, Amy performed as a soloist with the Shanghai Philharmonic, and has appeared on radio in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Macau, China. She has also appeared with the Ambler Symphony, the Olney Symphony, and the Ocean City Pops. She has appeared on radio in Philadelphia on WRTI, and in 2011 was heard on the NPR radio show “From the Top”. Amy has performed in Master Classes with Pamela Frank, Ida Levin, Robert Lipsett, the Emerson Quartet, the Daedalus Quartet, and the American Quartet. She is a junior Distinguished Honors Student and member of the National Honor Society in the University Scholars Program of the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School.