Beth joined the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in 2013 as Principal Viola. Previously, she was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and enjoyed a varied career as a chamber musician and recitalist. Beth is still an avid chamber musician, and has collaborated with many artists including Mitsuko Uchida, Gil Shaham, Itzhak Perlman, Joseph Kalichstein, Ida Kavafian, Menahem Pressler, Augustin Hadelich, and James Ehnes. As a recording artist, she has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Tzadik, Naxos, and the CMS Studio Recordings. 

During the summer Beth performs and teaches young musicians at the Aspen Music Festival and School, National Youth Orchestra-USA, Taipei Music Academy and Festival, and at the Marlboro Music Festival. In recent years, she has performed at Seattle Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Northwest, Bridgehampton Chamber Music, and Salt Bay Chamberfest. Beth has also performed as concerto soloist with many distinguished conductors including Hannu Lintu, Nicholas McGegan, Bramwell Tovey, Leonard Slatkin, and James DePreist. 

As a teacher, many of her students have won principal or section jobs all over the world and the younger ones have been accepted to the most prestigious conservatories. She taught a year at New England Conservatory on faculty and has taught both lessons and masterclasses at Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, NEC, and Indiana University.  

Beth received her Artist Diploma at the New England Conservatory studying with Kim Kashkashian, and her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School studying with Masao Kawasaki and Misha Amory. She lives in St. Louis with her husband Jonathan, a violist and lawyer, and their three children. 

Alexi is a violinist forging a career that defies categorization, following his interests, intuition, and heart. He is equally at home in creating experimental programs, commissioning new works, and soloing with major orchestras around the world, and collaborating with some of the most celebrated musicains of our time. Alexi is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award. 

Highlights of the 2025/26 season include returns to the Pittsburgh Symphony (Sibelius with Manfred Honeck), San Francisco Symphony, and Dallas Symphony (Barber with Daniele Rustioni), as well as debuts with the Houston Symphony and Slovak Philharmonic in Sofia Gubaidulina’s in tempus praesens. Additional appearances include Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and a range of U.S. orchestras. He curates San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox and appears in recital at leading venues including the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, 92nd Street Y, and Spoleto Festival. Recent seasons have brought collaborations with the Cleveland Orchestra, l’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and more, with recitals at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. 

A devoted chamber musician, Alexi has performed at major festivals including Caramoor, ChamberFest Cleveland, and Chamber Music Northwest and is a founding member of Owls. His multimedia project Shifting Ground with video artist Xuan weaves together pieces for violin and electronics, and he also performs on period instruments, recently performing the complete Schumann Violin Sonatas on gut strings with Amy Yang on fortepiano. A New England Conservatory graduate, Alexi plays a 2009 Stefan-Peter Greiner violin. alexikenney.com 

In many ways, Louis began growing toward the role of bandleader on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when he started playing drums at the age of 2. His love of music evolved into an appreciation of gospel and contemporary Christian music from his native North Carolina and continued into his education at the Berklee College of Music. 

Since then, Louis has become a Grammy-nominated and internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer and songwriter. He has an undeniable ability to craft sonic landscapes into timeless masterpieces and has worked with an array of artists including Bobby McFerrin, Snarky Puppy, Jon Batiste, Q-Tip and A Tribe Called Quest. 

After two decades of lending his talents to other creators Cato released his first solo record Starting Now in 2017 and more recently released Reflections in the summer of 2023. True to form he played every instrument on each of those albums, which leads to his next original endeavor – a compendium of his infamous Cato Covers – a weekly cover series made popular on his Instagram. Music is Louis’s lifeblood and it brings him unbridled joy to share his gifts, feelings and energy with those around him. 

Charles is a Boston-based harpist known for bridging classical and jazz traditions, bringing a fresh, engaging perspective to every performance. As both second and substitute harpist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston Pops, Charles has accompanied world-renowned artists such as Cynthia Erivo, Queen Latifah, and Terence Blanchard. His chamber music experience is extensive, including performances with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Winsor Music, and the Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia, as well as appearances at the Yellow Barn and Marlboro Music Festivals. 

A passionate jazz musician, Charles collaborates regularly with artists like Shabaka and Ganavya and has appeared at major venues and festivals throughout North America and Europe, including Big Ears Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, NYC Winter JazzFest, North Sea Jazz Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. He remains an active presence in jazz clubs in New York and Boston. 

Originally from Richmond, VA, Charles began his musical journey with the American Youth Harp Ensemble and later attended Interlochen Arts Academy. He went on to study at Berklee College of Music, where he also participated in the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. Charles serves on the faculty of both the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Yellow Barn. 

In addition to performing, Charles writes and arranges his own original music and is a core member of projects such as Trio Oko and Wild Tapestry. He is currently working on new music as a follow-up to his debut album, Convergence. 

Huntertones is a dynamic, horn-driven band blending jazz, funk, and soul with a sharp, contemporary edge. With a signature three-horn frontline, bold arrangements, and an irresistible sense of groove, they’ve earned a reputation for high-energy performances that feel both deeply musical and wildly fun. Their collaborative spirit has led them to work with artists like Lake Street Dive, SuperBlue: Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter, O.A.R., and Cory Wong, while touring stages around the world. 

Every Huntertones show is vibrant, rhythmic, and fueled by the band’s unmistakable blend of creativity, connection, and adventurous improvisation. 

“When feeling and technique come together it’s like Swan Lake. Huntertones, y’all are like ballerinas!” –Audiotree 

“Soulful, tasty and groovy. I dare you not to dance or be in a good mood during and after listening to this beautiful music” –Lionel Loueke 

“Music and community at the highest level!” – Louis Cato 

Cécile is a composer, singer, and visual artist. The Late Jessye Norman described Salvant as “a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings.” Cécile has developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions from around the world, theater, jazz, and baroque music. She is an eclectic curator, unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor. Salvant won the Thelonius Monk competition in 2010. Cécile has received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for three consecutive albums, “The Window,” “Dreams and Daggers,” and “For One To Love,” and was nominated for the award in 2014 for her album “WomanChild.” In 2020, she received the MacArthur fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. “Ghost Song”, her debut for Nonesuch Records, was released in March 2022 to critical acclaim, and has gone on to receive two Grammy Nominations. 

Cécile’s latest work, Ogresse, is a musical fable in the form of a cantata that blends genres (folk, baroque, jazz, country). Salvant wrote the story, lyrics, and music. It is arranged by Darcy James Argue for a thirteen-piece orchestra of multi-instrumentalists. Ogresse, both a biomythography and an homage to the Erzulie (as painted by Gerard Fortune) a d Sara Baartman, explores fetishism, hunger, diaspora, cycles of appropriation, lies, othering, and ecology. It is in development to become an animated feature-length film, which she will direct. 

Andrew is a Grammy-Award winning cellist praised by Michael Kennedy of the London Telegraph as “spellbindingly virtuosic”. Trained at the Juilliard School, they are a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet who have released several albums to Critical acclaim including Andrew’s arrangement of Haydn’s “Seven Last Words” which Thewholenote.com praised as “ . . .easily the most satisfying string version of the work that I’ve heard.” They were the quartet-in-residence at the Met Museum in 2014, and have won the Osaka and Coleman international string quartet competitions. Their newest recording of the string quartets of Caroline Shaw won a GRAMMY for best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble performance. As a soloist last season Andrew performed John Taverner’s The Protecting Veil and Strauss Don Quixote. In 2019 they won the first prize at Oklahoma University’s National Arts Incubation Lab for their pitch of a wearable garment that translates sound into vibrations for the hard of hearing. They like to make stop-motion videos of food, draw apples, cook like an Italian Grandma and have developed coffee and cocktail programs for award-winning restaurants (Lilia, Risbobk, Atla) in New York City. 

Their solo project “Halfie” draws on their experience as a bi-racial and non-binary person in having access to multiple communities at once, while not feeling at home in any of them.  

 They play on an 1884 Eugenio Degani cello on loan from the Five Partners Foundation. 

Caleb is widely regarded as a leading performer, choreographer, director, musical collaborator, and curator of musically-driven dance and interdisciplinary collaboration. 
 
A two-time Bessie Award winner (and five-time nominee), their work in concert dance and music has played some of the most prestigious venues in North America including Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, New York City Center, Carnegie Hall, the Joyce Theater, and countless others. They’ve performed duets with Regina Spektor and Ben Folds on Broadway, television, and on music albums. They’ve graced the cover of Dance Magazine, and they’re the only dancer to be featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series. 

Many shows created by Caleb (SW!NG OUT, Counterpoint, Caleb Teicher & Nic Gareiss, B-Z-Z-Z) regularly tour performing arts centers in North America – their work will be presented in over twenty cities this year. 

Led by Latin Grammy-nominated accordionist, pianist and composer Sam Reider, The Human Hands is a collective of innovative acoustic musicians working at the confluence of American folk, jazz and chamber music. Irresistible melodies, joyful improvisation and otherworldly sounds collide in what Songlines Magazine dubbed a “mash-up of the Klezmatics, Quintette du Hot Club de France and the Punch Brothers.” The Human Hands have toured throughout the US, UK, and Europe at venues like Lincoln Center, Celtic Connections Festival, Savannah Music Festival, Strawberry Music Festival and SFJAZZ and they’ve been featured on NPR, PBS and the BBC.  

Their latest record, The Golem and Other Tales, is anchored by a suite inspired by a medieval Jewish folktale about a man-made creature, the limits of human power and the relationship between divine and human creativity. The Human Hands features some of the brightest lights in acoustic music today: violinist Alex Hargreaves (Billy Strings), mandolinist Dominick Leslie (Molly Tuttle), cellist Duncan Wickel (Rising Appalachia), saxophonist Eddie Barbash (Jon Batiste), guitarist Roy Williams (Stephane Wrembel), and bassist Andrew Ryan (Kaïa Kater). The album features “The Golem” suite alongside five other compositions with echoes of Django Reinhardt, Planxty, Duke Ellington and Astor Piazzolla.  

Originally trained as a jazz pianist, Reider has spent his career composing original music and collaborating with a dizzying range of roots, jazz and classical artists like Jon Batiste, Jorge Glem, Sierra Hull, Laurie Lewis, Gaby Moreno and Paquito d’Rivera. Reider’s solo piano record Petricho, garnered a four-star review in Downbeat Magazine and made their Best of 2022 list. Reider and Glem’s collaborative album Brooklyn-Cumaná was featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk and was nominated for Best Instrumental Album at the 2023 Latin GRAMMY Awards. Beyond performing, Reider is a prolific composer and has worked with a variety of chamber ensembles and artists ranging from the Bay Area’s Del Sol Quartet to the San Francisco Girls Chorus, and Grammy-nominated violinist Tessa Lark.