Gramophone 2023 Young Artist of the Year Stella Chen garnered worldwide attention with her first-prize win at the 2019 Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competition, followed by the 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant and 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award.

Since then, Stella has appeared across North America, Europe, and Asia in concerto, recital, and chamber music performances. She recently made debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Baltimore Symphony, Belgian National Orchestra, and many others and appeared at the Vienna Musikverein and Berlin Philharmonie. In recital, recent appearances include Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Phillips Collection, Rockport Music Festival, and Nume Festival in Italy. She appears frequently with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center both in New York and on tour.

Stella has appeared as a chamber musician in festivals including the Ravinia, Seattle Chamber Music, Perlman Music Program, Music@Menlo, Bridgehampton, Rockport, Kronberg Academy, and Sarasota. Chamber music partners include Itzhak Perlman, James Ehnes, and Matthew Lipman.
She is the inaugural recipient of the Robert Levin Award from Harvard University, where she was inspired by Robert Levin himself. Teachers and mentors have included Donald Weilerstein, Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, and Catherine Cho. She received her doctorate from the Juilliard School where she serves as teaching assistant to her longtime mentor Li Lin.

Stella plays the 1720 General Kyd Stradivarius, on generous loan from Dr. Ryuji Ueno and Rare Violins In Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative and the 1708 Huggins Stradivarius courtesy of the Nippon Music Foundation.

Joshua was a violist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 2021 to 2025. He went on tour to Mexico (2022) and South Korea (2024) and served as tour director for Korea, the largest tour in HRO history. A graduate of the School of Engineering (SEAS), he concentrated in Mechanical Engineering with a secondary in Music. Along with playing viola, Joshua enjoys playing organ and singing, having made appearances on stage with the Harvard College Opera (HCO) on more than one occasion, Park Street Church Sanctuary Choir weekly, and the Harvard Organ Society. Joshua lives in Madison, WI with his wife where he works as an engineer.

Caroline Choi Kim was a violinist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 1992–1996. She served as concertmaster for three years and has many fond and formative memories of making music with friends in HRO on campus, serving the local community as part of HRO outreach initiatives and on tour in Italy (1996). After graduation, Caroline received a degree in medicine at Harvard Medical School while also serving as a pre-med and music resident tutor at Winthrop House.  She completed her internship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and residency at the Harvard Combined Dermatology Program.  Caroline went on to a career in academic medicine as an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and she is a nationally recognized expert in melanoma and atypical moles.  Caroline is currently Director of the Melanoma and Pigmented Lesion Programs at Newton-Wellesley Dermatology Associates and at Tufts Medical Center, focused on optimizing and innovating the care of high-risk patients. Caroline enjoys spending time and enjoys music with her three children and husband, Howard Kim (’96).

Eugene was a violinist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 2006–2010.  Eugene is a past HRO president, and was on the search committee that hired the HRO’s current Music Director, Federico Cortese.  He concentrated in economics for his undergraduate degree, then earned a master’s degree in applied mathematics.  In 2010, he joined Goldman Sachs, where he is currently a vice president specializing in multi-strategy investing, alternative energy investing, and emerging themes.

Christine cherished her formative Harvard experience as an HRO musician. During her four years as a first violinist in the orchestra, she was also proud to serve as Treasurer (1999 - 2000); a member of the 2000 Brazil Tour Committee; and President-Elect, President, President Emerita (2000-2003). Following graduation, Christine joined the Yale School of Music as the Manager of the Philharmonia Orchestra and ensemble programs. She stayed at Yale to earn her MBA from the School of Management, and subsequently joined the international fundraising consulting firm CCS in their New York City office. During her tenure at CCS, she served as resident counsel to CEOs, Presidents, and Boards of leading organizations across the non-profit sector. From CCS, she joined the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute (NYSCF), initially as resident counsel and interim Vice President of External Relations. Today, she serves as NYSCF Chief Advancement Officer and Strategic Advisor to the President and CEO. Christine also serves as a founding Board member of the Chelsea Music Festival in NYC.

Mary Ellen was a bassoonist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 1976–1979, and participated in the Berlin Tour. Mary Ellen is a Director of Sales Operations in Oracle Corporation’s public sector practice.  Mary Ellen has been on the Board of the HRO Foundation since 1986, serving as Secretary for many of those years.  She lived in Japan for several years after graduation, and has lived in the Boston area since 1982. She currently resides in Jamaica Plain with her teenage daughter.

Born in Detroit 1953, my mother was a Julliard trained concert pianist. She concertized from age 6 to age 80, all around the world. And in the last 5 decades of her life with a chamber music group and concert series (“The American Artist Series”) that she created and lead. My father was a chemist and an amateur cellist. I studied violin starting age 6 with Mischa Mischakoff. He was a demanding Russian émigré who played concertmaster under Toscanini and then in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for many decades. (My lesson were taken under photos of Mischakoff and Toscanini consulting on a part and a signed photo of Jascha Heifetz glowering down at me.)

At Harvard I played all four years under James Yannatos landing at the first desk my senior year. I also played in many pit orchestras and pick up orchestras (e.g. getting Yo yo, and Lynn and Robert to play with us if we could get together enough musicians to make an orchestra.) During undergraduate years I took a leave of absence and studied at the Royal Academy of Music (London England) and earned a “Licentiate” degree which allows me to teach violin in the British Commonwealth. I played in school orchestras through medical school and two residencies. Since landing in Detroit I have played with semi-pro orchestras continuously. I also have a regular chamber music group the meets once a month. All members of professional orchestras (except me.)

And the other half of my life? I attended University of Michigan Medical school, then a pediatrics residency, and then a dermatology residency. I was recruited to start the Pediatric Dermatology section of Henry Ford Hospital dermatology in 1987. I have been here since.

I am triple boarded in Pediatrics, Dermatology and Pediatric Dermatology. I count more than 200 residents whom I have trained, as well as a handful of pediatric dermatology fellows. I lecture regularly around the country, as well as in South America, Europe and the Middle East.

I am a pilot with more than 1300 hours, with VFR, IFR and complex engine ratings.

And lastly I grow roses and peonies. The tending of which I find much cheaper than psychotherapy.

Lee Ann was a cellist with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 2011–2015. She graduated from Harvard College in 2015 as a pre-med, Neuroscience concentrator with a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. Lee Ann served as Social Chair her freshman and sophomore years, and served as Co-Tour Director for the South Korea & Philippines tour her senior year. After college, she spent a year in South America on a Michael C. Rockefeller postgraduate travel fellowship. Lee Ann completed a 14-week culinary arts certificate program at BU in May 2018 and a Masters in Innovation and Management from Tufts. She has worked as a culinary arts teaching assistant at BU, college consultant, music teacher, film tour coordinator, baker, personal chef, yoga instructor, and development director for a nonprofit food startup incubator in Dorchester. In her spare time, Lee Ann enjoys yoga, working out, cycling, swimming, dancing, learning new languages, and cooking for friends.

Today, Lee Ann lives in Cambridge. She continues to play the cello in pick up orchestras, chamber music ensembles, and with singer songwriters through the SoFar Sounds concert series. She also plays piano, practices yoga diligently, works out at the gym, social dances, cooks & hosts lots of brunches and dinners, goes to concerts, performs in concerts, hikes, and swims in her spare time.

Jenny Yu Wang is a Harvard College Class of ‘22 graduate, with a joint AB in Neurobiology and Music. She was a flutist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 2018-2022, and served as General Manager for a semester (2019) and President for two years (2019–2022). During her time as President, she led the orchestra through the Covid-19 pandemic and oversaw the 2022 Tour to Mexico, the Orchestra’s first international tour post-pandemic in 5 years. In 2020, Jenny was awarded the Rachel Mellinger Memorial Award by the Harvard Office for the Arts for significant contributions to the HRO.

​Jenny is currently a first-year medical school student at the University of Illinois in Chicago College of Medicine. She continues to serve as a director of Virtual Bedside Concerts, a Harvard Medical School organization that uses virtual performance to combat loneliness in hospitals. In Chicago, she expanded this organization to co-found HeartBeats with peers, a group which organizes performances by medical school students and other interested musicians for patients and community centers. This organization was created during the pandemic to harness the arts and technology to address issues of loneliness and isolation in hospitals. Outside of medicine and music, Jenny is also passionate about food and film.

Scott Yoo (A.B. '93) performed in the HRO from 1989-93 as a Physics concentrator in North (Pforzheimer) House. After graduation, he started the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra with Richard Lim, a fellow HRO violinist. Today, Scott is the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Mexico City Philharmonic, the Music Director of Festival Mosaic in California, and Conductor of the Colorado College Music Festival. He is also host and executive producer of Now Hear This on PBS, presented by Great Performances.

Scott Yoo (A.B. '93) performed in the HRO from 1989-93 as a Physics concentrator in North (Pforzheimer) House. After graduation, he started the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra with Richard Lim, a fellow HRO violinist. Today, Scott is the Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Mexico City Philharmonic, the Music Director of Festival Mosaic in California, and Conductor of the Colorado College Music Festival. He is also host and executive producer of Now Hear This on PBS, presented by Great Performances.