Rebecca Henry, violin with Wanchi, violin, and Aiveen Gallagher, violin

Wanchi's CDs have been excellently reviewed (“her incisive technique and an exceptionally rich and beautiful tone...”by Phil's Classical Reviews, Audio Video Club of Atlanta.)

She is an active performer in chamber music, solo recitals, and as a soloist with orchestras throughout North America and Asia, at venues including Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and numerous music festivals. She joined Curtis on Tour for 2017-18 season, touring the West Coast with guitarist Jordan Dodson.

Rebecca Henry holds The Scott Bendann Chair in Classical Music at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, Md. where, as Chair of the Peabody Preparatory String Department, she guided the development of one of the most comprehensive pre-college string programs in the country. She is now focusing on teaching violin and viola, performing, and pedagogy projects as Associate Chair of String Pedagogy. In the Peabody Conservatory she teaches violin and viola minors Violin Pedagogy, and helped create the Performance/Pedagogy Master’s Degree, a series of Pedagogy Master Classes and Teacher Workshops, and a program that pairs Conservatory pedagogy students with Preparatory students in need. Ms. Henry has performed in chamber music festivals in Canada, Mexico and throughout the USA, is a founding member of the Kegelstatt Trio, performs in faculty chamber ensembles and is principal violist of the Washington Chamber Orchestra. For the last three summers she has performed and taught at the Heifetz International Music Institute, and in prior years she returned to her alma mater, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she studied viola with Kim Kashkashian, Georges Janzer and Mimi Zweig, to teach at the Retreat for Professional Violinists and Violists and the IU String Academy.

Aiveen Gallagher has performed extensively in Europe, the UK, and the USA. She is a three-time international prize-winner, and her ensemble, Duo Schembri-Gallagher, was awarded 2^nd prize in the 2022 American Prize for Excellence in the Arts. Gallagher has worked with many professional orchestras, performing in venues such as Berliner Philharmonie, Musikverein Vienna, Moscow State Conservatory, the Mariinsky Theatre, and Carnegie Hall. Gallagher has delivered workshops at third-level institutions such as NYU Steinhardt School of Music and the University of Illinois.