A Far Cry

The orchestra has released nine albums,[1] two of which have been nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance: Dreams & Prayers in 2015 and Visions and Variations in 2019.

Her mentors include Miriam Fried, Robert Mann, Pamela Frank, Ani Kavafian, and Phil Setzer.

[3] Caitlin Lynch is a violist whose musical career has led her to perform across the globe in collaboration with artists ranging from Itzhak Perlman to Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.

Hatton’s solos as Principal Viola of Experiential Orchestra can be heard on GRAMMY winning album “The Prison.” Francesca McNeeley is a cellist based in Boston, originally from Haiti.

Her principal mentors have included Stefan Reuss, Ole Akahoshi, Aldo Parisot, Michel Strauss, Robert Mealy, and Marcy Rosen.

She has appeared as a guest artist with the Landmarks Orchestra in Boston, the Sapporo Philharmonic in Japan, and on tour with Britain’s Jethro Tull.

Her teachers include Camilla Wicks, Ian Swensen, Lucy Chapman, Roger Tapping, and Phoebe Carrai.

[13] Rafi Popper-Keizer is a cellist, currently residing in Cambridge, MA, who received his Masters of Music and Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory.

from Harvard College, spent a year at the Juilliard School and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, and completed an Artist Diploma at the Hochschule fur Musik Freiburg as a recipient of the Beebe, Paine, and DAAD grants for study abroad.

[15] Zenas Hsu is a violinist originally from San Jose, California with degrees from Curtis Institute of Music and the New England Conservatory.

Bach, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Mozart, Elgar, Tchaikovsky, Bartók, Astor Piazzolla, Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, and Osvaldo Golijov.

As part of their ensemble residency at the Isabella Gardner Museum, the group presented a seven-concert series called the Avant Gardner series, which focused on forward momentum and repeating patterns in music, with modern composers Andrew Norman, Christopher Theofanidis, Louis Andriessen, and the Baroque composer Bach.