Sydney is a 15 year-old violinist from Sausalito and studies wtih Elbert Tsai at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. As a soloist, Sydney made her debut at age 13 with the Mill Valley Philharmonic playing Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. The same year she soloed with the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra as the winner of the 2024 concerto competition. This fall, Sydney will take stage with the Sonoma County Philharmonic playing the Paganini Concerto No.1 in D Major. Sydney has garnered numerous awards and accolades. She was one of nine national semi-finalists in the prestigious 28th Sphinx Competition and has won first prize 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.

Elan is a 15  year-old cellist who studies with Jonathan Koh at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College as a recipient of 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 won first prize in the ENKOR International Music Competition Strings Category (2025), and was one of nine semi-finalists in the national 2025 28th Annual Sphinx Competition’s Junior Division. In 2024, Elan was First Place winner in the US International Music Competition’s Solo Cello division as well as First Place Winner in USIMC’s Bach Prize, and performed in the Junior Bach Festival's Honors Concert. He has been awarded multiple honors, including as a recipient of the competitive Foon Scholarship through Oakland School for the Arts in recognition of outstanding musical talent and academic achievement and the Senior Strings Award at King's College School, Cambridge. Elan has attended the Bowdoin International Music Festival (studio of Paul Katz) and Center Stage Strings with Horacio Contreras (2024), Indiana University School of Music (2023), and the Cambridge Chamber Academy in the UK (2022). Elan has played in master classes with Robert Cohen, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, and Joshua Roman and has given invited solo performances in London, Cambridge, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Playing cello allows Elan to find a language to interpret the world and reflect on the struggles and beauty of humanity. Elan attends Berkeley High School and, in his free time, he enjoys running, spending time with friends, and baking.

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.