Sydney is a 15 year-old violinist from Sausalito and studies with Elbert Tsai at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. As a soloist, Sydney has performed with multiple orchestras including the Mill Valley Philharmonic, the Sonoma County Philharmonic, and the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra. Sydney has garnered numerous awards and accolades. She is a 2026 YoungArts award winner, the 2025-2026 MTNA California state winner in the Senior Strings category, one of nine national semi-finalists in the prestigious 28th Sphinx Competition, and first prize winner in Pacific Music Society, International Youth Music Competition, and Korea-American Music Supporters Competition. She is the 4-time recipient of the Marin Music Chest and was awarded the Alma Tomlinson Award for Outstanding Performance in 2025. Sydney is an avid chamber musician and a founding member of the Onde Trio. Her passion for learning and performing chamber music was recognized by Yellow Barn, the internationally renowned chamber music program, with an invitation to participate in a collaborative performance at the 2025 summer music festival. Sydney is a current member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (Second Violin Co-Principal 2024-2025) and a past member of the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra (Co-Concertmaster 2022-2024). In past summers, Sydney has attended Music@Menlo (2024), Center Stage Strings at the University of Michigan (2025, 2024, 2023), and the Sphinx Performance Academy at Juilliard (2022) and Cleveland Institute of Music (2023).  Outside of music, Sydney is a fan of poke, crocheting, and F1 racing.

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Elan Dorman Mackenzie is a 17 year-old cellist who studies with Jonathan Koh at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College as a recipient of the The Peter Boesch and Darrill Hudson Scholarship. Elan began his cello and chamber music training at age seven at The Crowden School in Berkeley and has been trained internationally at The Royal Academy of Music junior conservatory in London. Elan is the recipient of numerous awards for his solo and chamber music performances. In 2025, Elan participated as a Fellow and recorded with From The Top (FTT) with Onde Trio, was one of nine semi-finalists in the 2025 28th Annual National Sphinx Competition’s Junior Division, and won first prize in the ENKOR International Music Competition Strings Category. In 2024, Elan won First Place winner in the US International Music Competition’s Solo Cello division and First Place Winner in USIMC’s Bach Prize. In addition, Elan has performed in Winner’s concerts for the Diablo Valley Concerto Competition, The Etude Club Young Artist’s Competition, the Royal Academy of Music’s Bach Prize, and the Honors Concert for the Junior Bach Prize. Elan is a passionate chamber musician and, as the cellist and co-founder of the Onde Trio, played in the live rounds of both Fischoff and Coltman Chamber Music competitions in 2026, and won first place in the 2024 US International Music Competition’s chamber competition. Additional honors include: a recipient of the competitive Foon Scholarship through Oakland School for the Arts in recognition of outstanding musical talent and academic achievement (2023), and the recipient of the Senior Strings Award as principal cellist for the orchestra at King's College School, Cambridge, England, where he sang with and accompanied the King’s College Choir (2022). Elan has attended Summer festivals such as Juilliard Summer Music (2026), Texas Cello School (2026), the Bowdoin International Music Festival (studio of Paul Katz, 2025 & 2024), Center Stage Strings at the University of Michigan (2024), Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University (2023), and the Cambridge Chamber Academy, England (2022). He has performed in master classes with Richard Aaron, Clive Greensmith, Lluis Claret, Emmanuel Ax, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Joshua Roman, Jonathan Brown, and Robert Cohen, and has had the honor of learning from esteemed cellists including Paul Katz, Clara Kim, Zvi Plesser, Horacio Contreras, Steuart Pincombe and Tony Woollard. As a young multiracial Latino cellist, Elan dedicates his art to building connections and bringing his passionate interpretations of classical music to diverse audiences.

Kamil is a 16 year-old pianist from Oakland, California who studies at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College as a recipient of the Moon J. Song Scholarship. Kamil began studying piano at the age of six at the Crowden Community Music Center in Berkeley, and has been studying with Arkadi Serper since 2019. In the 2023-24 school year, Kamil studied Jazz Harmony with Ken French. In the summer of 2024, he attended the Colburn Chamber Music Intensive, where he performed in a Masterclass for Joanne Pearce Martin, principal pianist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In 2023, he studied with pianist Davide Cava at the Chee Yun & Friends Festival at the San Domenico Conservatory. In 2022 and 2021, he participated in Crowden’s summer Chamber Music Workshop. His chamber music experience includes piano duets, four hands, and eight-hands; piano trios, and piano quintets. In his free time, Kamil enjoys photography and playing basketball and football with friends.

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