2025 Residents

Introducing the resident artists of the 2025 Windwood Music Festival!

  • Violin

    Amir Kadamani is a Colombian violinist pursuing a Graduate Performance Diploma in Violin at the Peabody Institute under Herbert Greenberg. He has been featured as soloist with the Cali Philharmonic and the Xaverian Orchestra. He has served as concertmaster and principal second violin of the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, the World Youth Symphony Orchestra, the PRISMA orchestra, the Curtis Institute Summerfest Orchestra and the Colombian Youth Philharmonic. He has played chamber music and orchestra performances as a fellow of the Eastern Music Festival, the Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival, the Colorado College Music Festival, the Verbier Festival, Young EuroKlassic, Styriarte and Reinghau Musik Festival. This summer Amir will take part of The Next Fest, and the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival. He is a member of the Setas Piano Trio, with which he is currently competing as semi-finalist of the Plowman Chamber Music Competition. Similarly, the Setas Trio will be one of the ensembles-in-residence at the Texas Chamber Music Institute this summer. He holds a BM from Rice University under Kathleen Winkler and a MM from Peabody Conservatory. Other important musical mentors include Richard Young and Luis Martín Niño.

  • Violin

    Lana Auerbach is a violinist from the Hudson Valley and currently a member of The Orchestra Now. She graduated from Oberlin Conservatory with a BM in violin performance under the tutelage of Sibbi Bernhardsson and Jinjoo Cho. Lana has had transformational experiences at numerous summer festivals including Bard Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, ENCORE Chamber Music, Brancaleoni International Music Festival, and the Music Academy at Domaine Forget along with many others. She has performed in masterclasses for Wolfram Koessel, Matt Haimovitz, Matt Goeke, Rachel Barton Pine, Pamela Frank, Vadim Gluzman, the Calidore String Quartet, the Calder String Quartet, the Cavani String quartet, and the Miro String Quartet. In 2015, Lana was awarded first place in Rhinebeck Chamber Society’s annual concerto competition, and was awarded the Dean’s scholarship to Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Aside from classical music, Lana has a growing passion for many styles and traditions of music including old time Appalachian music, Bluegrass, Scandinavian, Celtic, Western and Swing and more. She has participated in many camps at The Ashokan Center based in the Hudson Valley and has attended Christian Howes’s “Creative Strings Workshop” multiple times in Asheville, North Carolina. She attended Pete Wernick’s Bluegrass Camp in Silver Bay, NY and became certified as a Wernick Method Teacher/Coach. She performs traditional music regularly in different duo projects and bands throughout New York and Connecticut. Apart from performance, Lana loves to teach violin within the communities she is a part of and has taught at numerous institutions including the Oberlin Community Music School, Harmony Project Hudson, Bard Pre College Division, ESYO Chime Program, among others.

  • Viola

    Nicholas Lindell studied both violin and viola under Michael Heald and Maggie Snyder at the University of Georgia and is presently pursuing a doctorate and teaching music theory at The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University under Ivo-Jan van der Werff. He served as principal violist and soloist at the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge in 2021 and regularly plays with the Houston Symphony, the Houston Grand Opera, and the Houston Ballet. He is a four-time finalist in UGA’s Concerto Competition on both violin and viola and was UGA’s Presser Foundation Scholar in 2017. In 2023 he received Rice’s Lodieska Stockbridge Vaughn Fellowship for outstanding achievement and promise, one of only several graduate students campus-wide. The American Viola Society invited him to present a lecture recital as an Emerging Artist at the society’s 2024 Festival in Los Angeles, CA.


    A man of many hats, Nicholas is also quite passionate about jazz and folk music, and he loves composing, arranging, and performing cross-genre styles. He picked up the Celtic fiddle tradition while training as a competitive Irish dancer and has fiddled and recorded with several bands. In parallel with all this music, he spent a summer researching classified cryptographic problems for the National Security Agency and earned a graduate degree in mathematics with a thesis on mathematical music theory. He has held deep a passion for maths competitions since high school and has twice scored in the top 15% of students nationally on the notoriously difficult William Lowell Putnam Exam. When not playing his instruments, teaching music theory, or studying, Nicholas loves bicycling, frisbee, soccer, and tennis.

  • Cello

    Praised by the Baltimore Sun for his “poised and polished presentation” and Montecito Journal for his “deeply personal” and “earnest” stage presence, Taiwanese-American cellist, Alex Wu, is a cello fellow at the New World Symphony. Hailing from Philadelphia, he debuted with the Warminster Symphony in 2010 and has since performed as a soloist with the Lansdowne, Old York and Southeastern Pennsylvania symphony orchestras, among others. He is a laureate of the National YoungArts competition, semi-finalist in the IXth “Annarosa Taddei” International Competition in Italy, and a recipient of the Marjorie Jane Brewster Career Grant.


    As a chamber musician, Alex has been invited to perform at the Caramoor International Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival and the Manchester Music Festival. Being a founding member of HEXTET, he serves with the group as ensemble-in-residence at Arcadia University and competed as semi-finalists in the Coltman Chamber Music Competition. As an orchestral musician, Alex has served as principal cellist for the Peabody orchestras and is a member of Symphony in C. In recent years, he has performed as an orchestral cellist at the Pacific Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, New York String Orchestra Seminar and NYO-USA.


    Alex received his master of music degree from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of Alan Stepansky. As a graduate of the Schreyer Honors College at Pennsylvania State University in political science and music, he has also studied with Kim Cook, Jon Dexter and Jeffrey Solow.

  • Piano

    Rosa Burke is a pianist from Staten Island, New York. She began playing piano at 16, studying intensively with Dr. Tereza Lee at the Church Street School of Music and Art, where she returned to teach piano while in college. She has recently completed her bachelor’s in Classical Piano Performance at SUNY Purchase, studying under Stephanie Brown, and will be starting her masters in Collaborative Piano at the University of Maryland in the fall studying under Futaba Niekawa. Most recently, Rosa was a guest artist at the Ruby Holland Foundation’s Gala Concert, a 2024 piano fellow at the Talis Chamber Music Festival in Sarajevo, Bosnia, and a participant in the 2024 Decoda Chamber Music Festival in North Carolina, where she gained a passion for bringing chamber music and music education to folks whose lives have been impacted by the prison and justice system, particularly women. Rosa has performed at venues such as the DiMenna Center, Tribeca Film Festival, and Bosnian Cultural Center, among others. Most recently, Rosa coached with Martin Katz, Rita Sloan, Ana Maria Otamendi, Anne Epperson, Warren Jones, Kathy Kelly, Amanda Majeski, and Simon Gollo, among others. She was a first-prize winner of the 2023 Molnar Harris Chamber Music Competition for her group’s performance of Joaquin Turina’s Piano Quartet. She has performed in masterclasses for Vanessa Perez, Caleb Van der Swaagh, Christine Lamprea, Mihai Marica, Deborah Buck, Alexandra Nguyen, Ana Maria Otamendi, and Horacio Contreras. She has participated in the Ithaca Piano Festival at Ithaca College, where she studied with Diane Birr, Brevard Music Festival in North Carolina, where she studied with Jiyhe Chang of FSU and sang in the chorus of Mahler’s Second Symphony under Conductor Keith Lockhart, and the Taconic Chamber Music Intensive, where she was coached by Jon Klibonoff, Davide Cabassi, Joana Rudiakov, and Ari Rudiakov. She was a 2016 and 2017 prizewinner in the Rondo Young Artist Festival, and received CSSMA’s Edith Hirshtal Award for Artistic Excellence in 2017, an award that was created for Rosa.