Charles Castleman, perhaps the world’s most active performer/pedagogue on the violin, has been soloist with the orchestras of Philadelphia, Boston, Brisbane, Chicago, Hong Kong, Moscow, Mexico City, New York, San Francisco, Seoul and Shanghai. Medalist at Tchaikovsky and Brussels, his Jongen Concerto is included in a Cypres CD set of the 17 best prize-winning performances of the Brussels Concours’ history.

Mr. Castleman's solo CDs include Ysaye's six Solo Sonatas (made at the time of his unique performance at Tully Hall in NYC), eight Hubay Csardases for Violin and Orchestra, and ten Sarasate virtuoso cameos on Music and Arts, Gershwin and Antheil on MusicMasters, and contemporary violin and harpsichord music for Albany. As one of sixteen Ford Foundation Concert Artists he commissioned the David Amram Concerto, premiering it with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony, recording it for Newport Classic. He is dedicatee of "Lares Hercii" by Pulitzer winner Christopher Rouse.

He has performed at such international festivals as Marlboro, Grant Park, Newport, Sarasota, AFCM (Australia), Akaroa (New Zealand), Ascoli Piceno (Italy), Budapest, Fuefukigawa, Montreux, Shanghai, Sheffield, and the Vienna Festwoche. His recitals have been broadcast on NPR, BBC, and Australia Broadcasting Company, in Berlin and in Paris.

Mr. Castleman has conducted master-classes in London, Vienna, Helsinki, Kiev, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, and all major cities in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. His students have been winners at Brussels, Munich, Naumburg and Szeryng, are in 30 professionally active chamber groups and are 1st desk players in 11 major orchestras. He is founder/director of THE CASTLEMAN QUARTET PROGRAM, in its 48th season, now at S.U.N.Y Fredonia and at Linfield College , McMinnville, OR -intensive workshops in solo and chamber performance.

Charles Castleman’s long-term chamber music associations have included THE NEW STRING TRIO OF N.Y. with BASF recordings of Reger and Frank Martin and THE RAPHAEL TRIO with CDs of Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Wolf-Ferrari for NONESUCH, SONY CLASSICAL, DISCOVER, UNICORN, and ASV, and with premieres by Rainer Bischof and Frederic Rzewski for the Vienna Festival and Kennedy Center.

Mr. Castleman earned degrees from Harvard, Curtis, and University of Pennsylvania. His teachers were Emanuel Ondricek (teaching assistant of Sevcik, Ysaye student) and Ivan Galamian, his most influential coaches David Oistrakh, Szeryng, and Gingold. He plays the “Marquis de Champeaux” Stradivarius violin from 1708, and chooses from more than 80 bows.

Laura J. Goldberg was born in Washington, D.C., and has won prizes at the Banff, Coleman, and Fischoff competitions. She is a founding member of the Cassatt and Rossetti string quartets and has given concerts worldwide including concertos with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Norfolk Orchestra. She is the recipient of a Wardwell Fellowship at Yale University and has had residencies at The Juilliard School, Tanglewood Festival, and Caramoor Festival. Goldberg is director of music at Belvoir Terrace, a performing-arts summer program in Lenox, Mass. She is also the founder of ArtsAhimsa Music Festival to Promote Non-Violence. She holds BM and MM degrees from Juilliard. She has studied violin with Lewis Kaplan, Margaret Pardee, Charles Castleman, and Nancy Cirillo; and chamber music with the Juilliard String Quartet and Tokyo String Quartet, and with Ben Zander, Josef Gingold, and Felix Galimir. Goldberg has been on Juilliard’s Pre-College faculty since 1985.

Terry King, Grammy-nominated cellist is widely regarded as one of the country’s finest cellists. King was a protégé of the legendary Gregor Piatigorsky and served as his assistant in Piatigorsky’s master classes at the University of Southern California. King was privileged to join his celebrated teacher in a duo concert in one of the master’s last concerts.

Terry King is not only a unique cellist, but a musical scholar, chamber musician and conductor. His repertoire features the classic works for cello including unknown masterworks he has found throughout the world. Many prominent American composers have written works for King as well as entrusted him with their premieres, among those being Roy Harris, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Halsey Stevens, Paul Reale, Paul Creston, Miklos Rozsa, Lou Harrison, Lukas Foss, Otto Luening, and many others. Mr. King is a member of the Mirecourt Trio, and has been on the faculties of the San Francisco Conservatory, UC Berkeley, California State University at Fullerton, Grinnell College, University of Iowa, and is currently teaching at the Longy School of Music and the Hartt School of Music and serves as the Co- Director of both the LyricaFest Music Festival and the Citizen’s Artist Orchestra of the non for profit organization, Lyrica Boston, Inc.

King is presently engaged in a recording project of standard and American works for cello on the Music and Arts label. His recording of the complete Mendelssohn works was praised in Fanfare Magazine, “of all versions this is the most consistently thought out and expressively realized…intensely poetic.” and was also the preferred recording mentioned on the nationally syndicated radio program, “First Hearing.” His ground-breaking series “Cello America” has been met with similar praise worldwide. Terry King records for MCA, CRI, Innova, Genesis, Orion, A&M, Music and Arts, Bay Cities, Gasparo, Erasmus, Albany, Sony, Troy, Varese Saraband and TR Records.

Laura Bossert violinist/violist, is a Silver Medalist in the Henryk Szeryng International Violin Competition, has earned recognition for her artistry as a soloist, chamber musician, and pedagogue. She is also one of the most respected and sought after teachers of her generation.

Ms. Bossert is the Associate Professor of violin and viola at the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University. In the summer months, she is on the faculty of the Castleman Quartet Program, LyricaFest, ArtsAhimsa and the Wellesley Composer’s Conference. Her students hold positions in many wide ranging institutions such as the San Francisco, Portland, Milwaukee, Toronto and Knoxville Symphonies, Handel and Haydn Society, BBC Radio Orchestra, Helsinki, Santiago and Royal Philharmonics, the Hausmann & Cecilia String Quartets, (Banff’s 2010 International Quartet First prize winners), A Far Cry, New England Conservatory, Santa Fe Opera, Community Music Works, The Castleman Quartet Program, San Diego State University and Longy School of Music. They have been awarded top prizes in international and national competitions such as Young Concert Artists, Fischoff, Spohr, the Banff & Miami String Quartet Competitions and the Music Teacher’s National Association (MTNA).

Ms. Bossert has appeared in collaboration with Elmar Oliveira, Joseph Silverstein, Paul Neubauer, Kim Kashkashian, David Jolley, Joseph Robinson and with ensembles such as the Muir and Lark String Quartets, Amelia, Raphael and Mirecourt Piano Trios. She has toured as an improv violinist with David Amram and Chuck Mangione, and was a frequent guest artist, with the Boston based ensemble, Cello Chix. Ms. Bossert started her early career as an orchestral player, having played with the Utah Ballet Orchestra (Ballet West), and as guest concertmaster of the Tucson and Oklahoma Symphony Orchestras. Currently, she leads the Lyrica Chamber Orchestra.

Recent performing highlights include chamber music appearances with David Finckel, the Ellipsis Piano Trio, Con Affetto & the Hausmann String Quartets, Vocollage and a debut recording sponsored by the Rebecca Clarke Society of the violin duo repertoire. In the spring of 2017, Laura will visit the Eastman School of Music for her 6th teaching residency.

Bossert resides in Syracuse, New York and Lincoln, Massachusetts with her husband, cellist Terry King and their very loved Brittany spaniel dog, Buddy. With Terry they co-direct LyricaFest, a chamber music festival for college and conservatory students now in its 21th season.