Cellist , Roxana Guevara .  Roxana Mendoza Guevara was born in Xalapa, Mexico, and began her cello studies at age 10 with professor Ulises Bullon at the Centro de Iniciación Musical Infantil. She later attended the Facultad de Música of the University of Veracruz, where her principal teachers were Anna Maklakiewicz and José Arias Luna. In 2003, she was offered a full scholarship to attend Northern Kentucky University, and began her studies in the United States with Javier Arias. While earning her bachelors degree, she was awarded the prestigious Corbett Scholarship for Performance, was inducted into the Pi Kappa Lambda honorary music society, and earned a professional position in the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra.

In 2006 she moved to Miami, Florida to attend the Masters program at Florida International University, where she was awarded a teaching assistantship and was a member of the graduate string quartet under the guidance of the Amernet String Quartet. From 2007 to 2009 she worked for the Greater Miami Youth Symphony as an orchestral assistant and chamber music coach., Roxana has played in numerous solo, chamber and orchestral concerts in Oaxaca, Puebla, Veracruz, Jalisco, and Guanajuato, México, and throughout the United States. She has participated in chamber music festivals such as the BUAP International Chamber Music Festival in Puebla, the San Miguel de Allende Music Festival in Guanajuato, was a fellowship performer in the 2007 Hampden-Sydney Festival in Virginia, and as an assistant and performer at the Animato Festival in Miami, Florida, and the Northern Lights Chamber Music Institute in Ely, MN. She has worked with musicians such as cellists Marc Johnson, Eric Kim, Harvey Shapiro, Fred Sherry, violinist Jaime Laredo, composer Gunther Schuller, and the Shanghai String Quartet, and has been featured in Radio Television of Veracruz.

Roxana is currently principal cellist of the St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra and a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota, where she studies with professor Tanya Remenikova, and chamber music with Young Nam Kim and Lydia Artymiw.

Violinist , Hsuan-Wen Lin .  Hsuan-Wen Lin is currently a doctoral candidate in Violin Performance and a Suzuki violin teacher.

Ms. Lin has frequently performed in orchestra and variety of concerts. She was a featured soloist at a charity concert in Taiwan. She also performed a piece by composer Don Freud who was in attendance. In 2005, Ms. Lin was accepted to the Aspen Music Festival. In 2008, she was invited to be the concertmaster of the Mississippi Valley Orchestra for their Christmas Concert performance of The Nutcracker. During 2007-2012, she gave 5 recitals, and performed with the University of Minnesota’s New Music Ensemble on their tour of Wisconsin and Iowa. She has participated in master classes with Samuel Rhodes, the Diotima Quartet, and Thomas Timm.

Pianist I , Nai-Fang Ko .  Nai-Fang Ko is an active pianist and chamber musician. During the years of musical training in Taiwan, she was awarded prizes in piano, chamber music as well as concerto competitions that presented her in many of the major concert halls of Taiwan. She has appeared as soloist with the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra, the Kaohsiung City Symphony Orchestra, Chiayi Artistic String Orchestra, among others. As a concert and ensemble pianist, she has appeared throughout Taiwan and in the Twin Cities, performing on solo and chamber music series directed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Schubert Club and the Minnesota Public Radio. She is also a winner of the 2012 Bruce P. Carlson Student Scholarship Competition of the Schubert Club.

Ms. Ko has received degrees from the National Kaohsiung Normal University, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota in Piano Performance. She has studied with Li-Juan Wang, Joanna Ting, Chao-Yi Chen, Kevin Class and Alexander Braginsky.

Pianist II , Loren Fishman .  American pianist Loren Fishman has been widely praised for his ability to communicate with audiences through a combination of colorful technique, conviction, and musical sensitivity. Born in 1985 in Columbus Ohio, Loren began piano lessons at the age of nine with Capital University Professor John Carter. He later studied with Richard Lopez and Nina Polonsky. He received his bachelors degree with honors in 2006 from Northern Kentucky University, where he received a full scholarship and studied with Ukranian pianist and master teacher Sergei Polusmiak. While there, he was also the recipient of the prestigious Dean’s Scholarship and the Commonwealth Scholarship for Academic Excellence.

Loren has won top awards in various competitions, including the Graves Regional Young Artist Competition, the Tifereth Israel Young Artist Competition, the KMTA/Bluegrass Young Artist Competition, the NFAA National Arts Recognition Talent Search, the Paducah Symphony Concerto Competition, the MTNA Kentucky State Piano Competition, the Columbus Symphony Concerto Competition, and the Bexley Summerfest Young Artist Competition. He made his concerto debut in 2003 with the Minnesota Sinfonia. He has also been a soloist with the Paducah Symphony Orchestra and the Northern Kentucky Chamber Orchestra. He has recently appeared in solo recitals at important Minnesota venues, including for the Schubert Club at the Landmark Center in St. Paul, and Minnesota Public Radio’s 2011 Bach Anniversary Concert at the St. Thomas Aquinas Chapel.

He has been a featured participant in numerous summer workshops and chamber music festivals, including at the Las Vegas Music Festival, The Niagara Chamber Music Festival, The Animato Chamber Music festival in Miami Florida, and The Summit Music Festival in New York. In 2006, He was a featured performer in the “Musicos de Camara” series for the Instituto Superior de Muisica in Xalapa Mexico.

Loren received his master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Minnesota, where he studied with the distinguished pianist Lydia Artymiw. He was the recipient of a Berneking Fellowship in 2007. He currently teaches piano in the Twin Cities, and is Adjunct Professor of Piano at St. Cloud State University.