2023 Residents

Introducing the resident artists of the

2023 Windwood Music Festival:

  • Violin

    Canadian violinist Teresa Wang is a passionate and versatile musician who strongly believes in the power of art to educate, connect, and affect change. Always looking for ways to break down barriers in concert halls, Teresa enjoys curating holistic concert experiences that help bridge the gap between audiences and performers.

    As an active member of the Houston community, Teresa is dedicated to positively impacting the area. She started performing with the Houston Symphony in 2021 and is currently a contracted violinist. She is a current member of the DACAMERA Young Artist Program, where her work focuses on proactive social engagement in the city of Houston and includes interdisciplinary concert events featuring a diverse range of composers, commissions/premieres of new music works, and arts-integrated education initiatives.

    Teresa is a patient and dedicated teacher who encourages curiosity in students to guide them to their wishes and goals. Teresa has been a teacher for non-major students at Rice University and has taught violin and viola at the Whitby School of Music and Through the Staff. She maintains a private teaching studio and is a violin teacher at the Vivo Professional Music School.

    Teresa has garnered many awards throughout her career. She was named the winner of Jeunesses Musicales Canada’s 2018 Peter Mendell Award and was a finalist at the 2019 Shean Competition and Prix d’Europe, where she was awarded multiple prizes. She won the concerto competitions with the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and Academy Chamber Orchestra, and has been a finalist at the McGill University Concerto Competition and the Golden Violin Competition.

    As an avid chamber musician, Teresa has performed alongside artists such as Martin Beaver, John Novacek, Scott St. John, and Axel Strauss. She has been a member of the TAG duo with pianist Tong Wang since 2017. In 2020, the duo was featured in an Emerging Young Artist Residency at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance. After winning the 2018 McGill Chamber Music Competition with the Z4 Quartet, Teresa was invited to participate in a residency at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music.

    Teresa is an experienced orchestral musician and has been the concertmaster of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, Shepherd School Orchestras, McGill Symphony Orchestra, and Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. She has made solo appearances with the Academy Chamber Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra. Teresa has studied at the Glenn Gould School’s Young Artist Academy, McGill University Schulich School of Music, and Rice University Shepherd School of Music. Her primary mentors have been Marie Berard, Paul Kantor, Felicia Moye, and Axel Strauss.

  • Violin

    Oláh has performed as a soloist on five continents. In addition to his appearances at numerous festivals and in many of the world's music capitals, he has also served as an ambassador of Hungarian culture. He has been active as a concertmaster since 1990, leading the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Dohnányi Orchestra Budafok, MAV Symphony Orchestra, Danubia Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Strings, and Camerata Transsylvanica. Oláh’s mentors and professors include masters Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Jose Cura and Adam Fischer, to name a few.

    In 2005, Oláh joined the award-winning Auer String Quartet as first violinist, with whom he recorded all ten of László Lajtha's quartets and the composer's chamber music for piano and strings. He led the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra as first concertmaster from 2010 - 2023.

    Awards and Recognitions:

    • Lajtha Award, 2010

    • Dohnányi Award, 2013

    • Ferenc Liszt Award, 2018

    • Emmy Award, 2018

    • Knight of Malta 2020

  • Viola

    Violist Nao Kubota is an active chamber and orchestral musician in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. A passionate chamber musician, Nao was the Gold Prize Winner of the 9th International Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, and has worked closely with the Juilliard, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, Escher, Borromeo, Cavani, and Danish String Quartets. Nao’s festival appearances include the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, Aspen Music Festival Center for Advanced Quartet Studies, St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar, Sarasota Music Festival, Encore Chamber Music String Quartet Intensive, and Bowdoin International Music Festival.

    A graduate of New England Conservatory, she received her Bachelor of Music degree studying with Dimitri Murrath, and her Masters and Graduate Certificate degree at the USC Thornton School of Music, studying with Karen Dreyfus. During her time at USC, Nao was a finalist in the USC Solo Bach Competition and USC Concerto Competition, and winner of the USC Ofiesh Quartet Competition.

    As an orchestral musician, Nao has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, California Symphony, Modesto Symphony, and Ojai Music Festival, among others. Nao is a member of the award-winning Delirium Musicum, and a faculty member at the Crowden Music Center. Nao has been featured in the LA Times, The Violin Channel, and most recently, on Delirium Musicum’s album “Seasons” with Warner Classics.

  • Cello

    Titus Young is 23 and currently enrolled in a master’s degree program in cello and historical performance practice at the University of Oregon. Titus started playing the cello when he was seven – and has been playing ever since. Born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, Titus was homeschooled until high school, when he dual enrolled in the Baker Charter School and Lane Community College. He then attended the University of Oregon, graduating summa cum laude in 2021 with a bachelor’s in cello performance.

    Music and family are both very important to him and when he is not playing music, he enjoys playing games with friends and family.

  • Piano

    William Chiang, of Plano, Texas, completed degrees at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studied under the tutelage of Evelyne Brancart and André Watts. He began piano studies at age four with Olga Radosavljevich at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Later teachers include Andrey Ponochevny and Pamela Mia Paul. William has performed with the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra, Plano Symphony Orchestra, Lewisville Lake Symphony, and Indiana University student orchestras. Top competition prizes include the International Chopin Young Artist Competition (Houston), Vernell Gregg, Collin County, MTNA State, and California Association of Professional Music Teachers Concerto competitions, with additional awards from the International Keyboard Odyssiad, Knabe International Piano Competition, Blount-Slawson Competition, and Hellam Young Artist Competition, among others.

    He received the 2014 Texas Commission on the Arts’ Young Masters in the Arts Scholarship, recognizing young musicians and artists in Texas. Summer festival appearances include Brevard, Chautauqua Institution, Orford Musique (Quebec), Texas State International Piano Festival, Art of the Piano, and Dublin International Piano Festival in Ireland. An avid chamber musician and collaborative pianist, William seeks to encourage musical collaboration as a method of dialogue, community activism, and promotion of contemporary music.

    William is currently pursuing a doctorate in piano performance with Bernadene Blaha at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he is a Studio Teaching Assistant in Keyboard Studies, works as a collaborative pianist and a piano instructor for the HEAL art program at the USC Keck School of Medicine.

  • Cello

    Cellist David Dietz has performed across the US and Europe and is experienced in a variety of settings as both a performer and a teacher. He currently resides in Houston, Texas, where he frequently performs as a chamber, solo and orchestral musician. Recent highlights include performances with MUSIQA Houston, Aperio Ensemble, Monarch Chamber Players, Ars Lyrica, DACAMERA Young Artists, and the Klangspuren Festival in Innsbruck, Austria.

    David is a founding member of Trio Menil, the Grand Prize and the Odyssey Chamber Music Series Award winner from the 2023 Plowman Chamber Music Competition. He frequently performs with the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and will be joining the Houston Ballet Orchestra for the 2023-2024 season.

    Teaching is an important part of David’s artistic practice. He will be joining the faculty of Lone Star College as an Adjunct Instructor of Cello in the fall of 2023, in addition to maintaining a robust private studio in Houston.

    David received his Bachelor’s Degree and Performer Diploma at Indiana University and recently completed his master’s degree at Rice University.