Featuring performances by the 2022 WMF Resident Artists and Debussy’s picturesque and sensual String Quartet.

Program

Reinhold Glière - 8 Pieces, Op.39

Garth Knox - Fuga Libre

Claude Debussy - String Quartet in G minor

I. Animé et très décidé

II. Assez vif et bien rythmé

III. Andantino, doucement expressif

IV. Très modéré

Aaron Chan, violin 

Liana Branscome, violin 

Troy Stephenson, viola 

Mairéad Flory, cello 

Aaron Chan (he/him)

Violin

Currently as a resident of the Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Aaron came to public attention when he won the Golden Violin Competition in 2019. Aaron received his Bachelor of Music with Stephen Rose and Jinjoo Cho at the Cleveland Institute of Music (CIM) and McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, and completed his Masters degree at Rice University’s Shepherd School of music under the guidance of Paul Kantor. As a soloist and chamber musician, Aaron has participated in established festivals such as MISQA, Kronberg Academy Masterclass, Verbier Festival Academy (Soloist and Chamber Music), ENCORE Chamber Music, etc.

Liana Branscome (she/her)

Violin

Liana Branscome is the first prize winner of the Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota Competition Scholarship Level (2015), the Boca Raton Symphonia Concerto Competition (2014), the Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition (2014) and second prize winner of the New World Symphony Young Artist Competition (2014). She has appeared as soloist with the Vidin Philharmonia in Bulgaria, Palm Beach Atlantic Symphony, the Ars Flores Symphony Orchestra and the Treasure Coast Youth Symphony. She has also performed as guest artist at the Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island and the Auras Nunes Aula de Cámara in Santiago, Spain. Liana has given numerous recitals throughout the United States, Spain, Portugal and London. She has performed solo and chamber music in venues such as the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall and Indiana University’s Auer Hall. In the spring of 2022, Liana was a member of the Heifetz Institute’s Ensemble in Residence. Liana graduated with her Master of Music in violin performance at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music where she studied under Glenn Dicterow. She received her Bachelor of Music at the New England Conservatory under the instruction of Paul Biss and Lucy Chapman. Her precollege teachers include David and Linda Cerone. Liana served as a Fellow in NEC’s Community Performances and Partnerships Program where she presented numerous solo and duo recitals in the Boston community. In 2016, she founded the Palm Beach Gardens Soirée Series, an in-house concert series designed to build connection and community between the performer and the audience. Liana served as a teaching assistant at the University of Southern California in non-major violin. She also served as a guest adjudicator for the Florida Orchestra Association’s Solo and Ensemble Competition and has presented several masterclasses and recitals at schools in South Florida, Boston and Southern California.

Troy Stephenson (he/him)
Viola

Troy is a violist from Houston, Texas. Having started playing at the age of 11, he began to develop a love for music from the very beginning. From there, he went on to pursue music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Kirsten Docter. In 2020, Troy graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Viola Performance and is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree at McGill University's Schulich School of Music with Andre Roy. Troy has participated in festivals and masterclasses across North America and has worked with artists such as Jeffrey Irvine, Andrew Wan, James Dunham, Merry Peckham, the Jupiter Quartet, and more. An advocate for equity, Troy initiated a series of discussions entitled "Black Voices in the Conservatory", a round table discussion that has inspired administration and faculty alike to change the education, systems, language, and student life at his alma mater.”

Mairéad Flory (she/her)

Cello

Cellist Mairéad Flory, 22, has performed at the Augarten Palais in Vienna, Austria, the Concert Hall of the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, Belgium, and the Concert Hall, Terrace Theater, and Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. She has soloed with the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, the National Philharmonic, and the US Army Orchestra. Mairéad was a National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellow for three years. She also attended the 2017 National YoungArts Week as a winner. Mairéad has participated in the Altensteiger Sommermusik Festival, the Kinhaven School of Music, the Heifetz International Music Institute, the National Arts Center Young Artist Program, the Keshet Eilon Summer Mastercourse, the Orford Music Academy, and is a Teaching Assistant at the Meadowmount School of Music. Mairead studied with Viviane Spanoghe of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, with Amit Peled of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and recently graduated from her bachelors at Northwestern University with Hans Jorgen Jensen. She is now getting her masters at the University of Southern California with Ralph Kirshbaum and David Geringas.