Festival Chamber Players: Ching-Yi Lin, violin; Andrew Braddock, viola; Megan Yip, cello; Ting-Ting Yang, piano

Repertoire Helen Grime: To see the summer sky (2009) Betsy Jolas: Quatre duos (1979) Lera Auerbach: Oskolki (Broken Pieces) , Op. 61 (2001) Lera Auerbach: Postlude, Op. 47b (1999) R. Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47 (1842) About the Artists Violist Andrew Braddock’s teaching and performing career has recently taken him to the Sejong Center in Seoul, South Korea, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, a solo appearance with the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, and the International Viola Congresses in Paris and Rotterdam. A passionate educator, he has given master classes at Vanderbilt University, the Chinese Culture University in Taipei, Taiwan, Bowling Green State University, and many others. He teaches at Western Kentucky University (WKU) and is the codirector of the WKU String Academy. In the summers, he teaches at the Indiana University Summer String Academy and directs the Hilltop String Festival and the WKU Summer String Institute. His creative teaching led him to cofound Bridging Cultures with Music, a 501(c) (3) organization that supports various pedagogical and outreach programs in his community and abroad. His writings have appeared in such publications as The Strad and the Journal of the British Music Society. He is the editor of the American Suzuki Journal, a quarterly publication of the Suzuki Association of the Americas. From 2017 to 2021, Braddock was the editor of the Journal of the American Viola Society and served on the board of the American Viola Society. His primary areas of scholarly focus are the fundamentals of string pedagogy and the analysis of modern viola repertoire by Hans Werner Henze, Betsy Jolas, and Arthur Bliss. He is the principal violist of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, and he regularly plays with the Nashville Symphony and the Nashville Opera. He earned degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Kentucky. His principal teachers are Atar Arad, Kathryn Plummer, and John Graham. He plays a viola made by Giovanni Pistucci, c.1920, and a bow by Jules Fétique. Visit andybraddock.com for his recordings, research, and arrangements for viola. Violinist Ching-Yi Lin’s performances and master classes have taken her to the Barratt Due Institute of Music in Norway, the Shenyang and Xi’an Conservatories in China, Northwestern University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of British Columbia. She has also performed in New York on the Museum of Modern Art’s Summer Garden Series, at the Sejong Center in South Korea, in Taiwan at the National Concert Hall in Taipei, and at Carnegie Hall. Her album on MSR Classics features sonatas for violin and piano by Ives, Bolcom, and Corigliano. In reviewing the album, Gramophone noted the “panache and warmth” of Lin’s playing and described the interpretations as “a series of tender, lively, and challenging conversations.” A dedicated and creative teacher, Lin is professor of violin at Western Kentucky University (WKU) and directs the year-round WKU String Academy. She also serves on the faculty at the IU Jacobs School of Music Summer String Academy, Hilltop String Festival, and WKU Summer String Institute. She regularly performs in the Tennessee and Kentucky region, and serves as the concert master of Paducah Symphony Orchestra. Lin is active in national and international pedagogical organizations, serving on the boards of the Suzuki Association of the Americas and the Daraja Music Initiative (Moshi, Tanzania) and presenting at the American String Teachers Association National Conference. She is also an active clinician and adjudicator. Lin is the recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Award for Public Service in Washington, D. C., recognizing her work in bringing music into the lives of young people throughout her community. In 2017, she received a WKU Sisterhood grant to direct student teachers and volunteers in teaching the violin to refugee children in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Lin earned B. M., M. M., and D. M. degrees in Violin Performance at the Jacobs School and undertook additional studies at the Vienna Conservatory. Her principal teachers include Mauricio Fuks, Boris Kuschnir, Fredell Lack, and Nelli Shkolnikova. She plays on a violin made in 1863 by Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume. Ting-Ting Yang is a collaborative pianist and multigenre composer from Taiwan whose artistry spans performance, composition, and education. Effective fall 2026, she will join the University of Iowa as the Jo Benda and Charles Platz Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano. Previously, she served as a visiting assistant professor of collaborative piano at Virginia Tech (2025-26) . She is currently a doctoral candidate in collaborative piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, studying under Anne Epperson and Kevin Murphy. An internationally invited pianist, Yang’s expansive performance portfolio includes appearances this year at the American Viola Society Festival, Western Kentucky University, and Austin Peay State University. She frequently collaborates with world-class musicians, including members of the New York Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra. As a festival artist, she is a collaborative pianist for the Thailand International Trombone Festival (2024, 2026) , Bass Around Asia Festival in Taiwan (2024, 2025) , and the Indiana University Summer String Academy (2025, 2026) , performing alongside such artists as trombonists Joseph Alessi, Brian Hecht, and Martin Schippers; double bassist Artem Chirkov; violinist Ching-Yi Lin; and violist Andrew Braddock, among others. Additional performance highlights include serving as a festival fellow at the Bowdoin International Music Festival (2023, 2024) and Brevard Music Festival (2022) , collaborating with clarinetist Gábor Varga (2024) , and recording Anthony Brandt’s chamber opera Kassandra (2021) . As a composer, Yang began her studies under Ching-Yu Hsiau and graduated with highest distinction from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore) . Her award-winning orchestral work Portal (2019) was premiered by East Carolina University. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she engaged in virtual collaborations, producing Floating Rhyme (2021) with pipa player Li-Teng Huang and violist Lauren Ross as well as an arrangement of Laputa: Castle in the Sky (2020) with trumpeter Jon Dante. Often inspired by Taiwanese culture, her music has been premiered and performed across Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States.