Georgina Isabel Rossi
As a soloist, Chilean-American violist Georgina Isabel Rossi has performed with the Orquesta Sinfónica Uncuyo (Mendoza) and the Orquesta de Cámara de Chile, and enjoys a varied career on stage in North and South America. Santiago-born, she began her training with her mother, Penelope Knuth, moving to the United States on a Chilean national grant at sixteen to study at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. Ms. Rossi is a member of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, which she joined in 2016. She is a Fellow of the Toronto and Bowdoin Summer Music Festivals, holds a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Roger Tapping, and a Bachelor of Music from the Manhattan School of Music, where she was a student of Karen Dreyfus and Daniel Avshalomov. Ms. Rossi plays a 2014 viola made by Leonardo Anderi in Buenos Aires and an 1820 bow by Karl Wilhelm Knopf. Ms. Rossi is also a visual artist and draftswoman. She began her art education at an early age with Chilean artist Susana Larraín, and studied painting at the Art Students League of New York under Jerry Weiss. She lives in Washington Heights.

Silvie Cheng
Lauded for her “extraordinarily varied palette” (WholeNote Magazine) and “purely magical” playing (New York Concert Review), Chinese-Canadian pianist Silvie Cheng made her Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2011. Since then, she has premiered over forty works and performed in esteemed concert halls across the globe, from New York’s Steinway Hall to Brussels’ Flagey Hall, and Montréal’s Maison Symphonique to Shanghai’s Poly Theatre. Recent solo highlights include debuts with Symphony Nova Scotia and the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra. An active recitalist and sought-after chamber musician, Ms. Cheng tours extensively alongside her cellist brother Bryan Cheng, as the Cheng2 Duo; they have released a trilogy of critically-acclaimed albums on the German label audite. She is a teaching-artist of the Manhattan School of Music’s Distance Learning Program and of the Bridge Arts Ensemble in New York, where she is currently based.