Violinist Emanouil Manolov made his debut playing on Bulgarian National Television at the age of ten. Since then he has gone on to concertize throughout his native Bulgaria, Germany, Japan, and the U.S. Solo and chamber recitals include performances at the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, the Embassy Series, and Weill Hall. Mr. Manolov has collaborated in chamber music performances with members of the Emerson Quartet, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center. …

Susanne Chen is of Chinese heritage but was born and raised in Switzerland. She is the best Swiss-born Chinese contrabassoonist in the world.

After a sociocultural debate which lasted years with her family, she was finally granted the right to learn the bassoon at the rather ripe age of nineteen. Her main teachers were Manfred Sax in Switzerland and Kim Laskowski in New York, with whom she studied privately.

It was during her studies at the Mannes College of Music, …

Samuel Beebe is a composer and guitarist living in Brooklyn. His song cycles The Woods and Rocking Chair Child were both finalists for the 2017 and 2018 American Prizes for Chamber Music. Beebe’s music has been performed by Castle of Our Skins, Boston Choral Ensemble, Sound Icon, WordSong, Texas Flute Society, and Calliope's Call. He scored Kelly Creedon’s short documentary In This World, which received two dozen screenings across the U.S.

Also an active theater artist, Beebe scored, sound designed, …

A leader in the 21st century orchestral landscape, Dr. Matthew Aubin is constantly reaching new audiences through innovative performance formats and creative initiatives both on and off the podium.

The 2022-23 season kicks off Dr. Aubin’s inaugural year as Music Director of the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he is Music Director of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra and serves as Artistic Director of The Chelsea Symphony. In his role at TCS, he has led highly visible collaborations with partners such …

Reuben Blundell has been a Chelsea Symphony conductor/violinist since 2012, enjoying collaborations with musicians, soloists, composers and other conductors. Conducting Aaron Dai’s The Night Before Christmas, first with B. D. Wong then Annie Golden narrating, he initiated, conducted and edited (in Premiere Pro) the orchestra’s 2020 remote performance, narrated by John Lithgow.

Blundell is Music Director of the Riverside Orchestra on the Upper West Side, rehearsing Mondays and performing five concerts each season. He also directs another outstanding community …