Victoria was a percussionist in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 2006 to 2010. She went on tour to South Korea, served as publicity manager, and was part of the student committee for the appointment of Federico Cortese. A graduate of the Harvard/NEC dual degree program, she joint concentrated in Music and History of Art and Architecture. She is visiting assistant professor of music at Carleton College.

Cathy played viola in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 1970–1974. She also performed in the Bach Society, Lowell House Opera, and numerous other pick-up ensembles during her years in Cambridge. Somehow she managed to fit in two years on the Radcliffe Crew Team (1972–73) as well, traveling with them to the European Championships in Moscow in 1973.

Cathy is a specialist in cultural diplomacy and creative industry development, and an independent producer with 25 years of experience working with the People’s Republic of China. She received a 2015 Silver Magnolia Award from the Shanghai government in recognition of her longtime contributions to the economic and social development of the city, and the 2018 Patrick Hayes Award from the International Society for the Performing Arts, in recognition of her transformative leadership in the performing arts.

Cathy has spent over 35 years managing and consulting to organizations including The Philadelphia Orchestra, the United States Department of State, The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, The Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China, Arts Midwest, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Juilliard School, Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment, China Shanghai International Arts Festival, and the China National Centre for the Performing Arts. She was the lead architect of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s current China tour/residency project.

Cathy has served on the boards of the International Society for the Performing Arts and City Contemporary Dance Company (Hong Kong), and currently services on the Ping Chong & Company (theater) board. She is a member of the National Committee on United States-China Relations.

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.

Ben loved his time with HRO and has been working in IT consulting / product management for many years. He currently serves as the Head of Product Management for Wayfair's Data Engineering & Enablement teams, platform teams aimed at optimizing internal reporting, analytics, and machine learning data. Prior to this, Ben served as a Data Science Manager within Wayfair's Supply Chain Analytics team and as a Data Scientist for the New England Patriots, where I developed their early ML & statistical forecasting models.

Ben holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College and a MBA from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.

Maryellen was a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 1982–1984, and Development Manager of the HRO's 1984 Tour to Europe.

A natural leader, Gleason has overseen four nonprofits including three orchestras: Interim Executive Director for the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra; President and Executive Director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra; and, President and CEO of the Phoenix Symphony. The fourth nonprofit was an early career startup where Gleason served as Executive Director of the Senior PGA Tour Event GTE North Classic whose 501(c)3 she built from the ground up.

Throughout her career, Gleason has served on and administered a variety of fiduciary, advisory, endowment, foundation, and pension trust boards. While working as an accounts director at Qwest, she was appointed by then-Governor of Arizona, Jane Dee Hull, as the telecommunications industry representative for the Small Business Rural Incubator Advisory Board. She also chaired the Unsecured Creditors Committee in U.S. Federal Bankruptcy Court for an Internet bankruptcy.

A long-time member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Gleason has served as Education Chair for the Women’s YPO Network, where she led “Board Talks” training seminars for YPOers in search of corporate board service. Gleason is chair-elect of the YPO Digital, Marketing and Media Network for 2018–2020. In addition to her work with YPO, Gleason is a member of the International Women’s Forum and Women Corporate Directors.

Gleason earned an undergraduate degree cum laude from Harvard University, where she studied History and Literature. While she worked full-time in Phoenix, Gleason commuted to Chicago in order to earn an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Prior to transferring to Harvard, Gleason attended Boston University School of Music and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. An avid amateur violist, she has attended Kneisel Hall Adult Chamber Music Institute, Great Lakes Chamber Music seminar and the Manhattan String Quartet seminar.

Current board service includes Harvard Alumni Association.

Li-Wen was a first violinist with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 1988 to 1992 and was invited to participate in HRO’s 1988 East Asia tour the summer before his freshman year. He was also involved in the planning of HRO’s 1992 European tour, and it remains one of his few Harvard regrets to have chosen to skip that tour but instead started working on Wall Street in NY right after graduation. A native of Taiwan, Li-Wen came to Baltimore in 1985 to study at Peabody and Baltimore School for the Arts before Harvard. He has been a financial advisor with Merrill Lynch in Towson, MD since 2010 and has been in various roles in financial services in New York, London, and Baltimore since 1992. Li-Wen lives in Baltimore with his wife Sharon Solomon (H ’92 Mather) and their twin boys, and currently serves on the boards of Baltimore School for the Arts (first alum trustee and board chair) and the Shriver Hall Concert Series.

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.

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.

Lee Ann graduated in 2015 with a degree in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience and a minor in Global Health and Health Policy. She lived in Quincy House and played cello in the HRO throughout all four years in college. Upon graduating, Lee Ann spent a year in Argentina on a Michael C. Rockefeller travel fellowship learning about holistic wellness and music improvisation (and also, improvisation in every aspect of her life). Upon returning to Boston in 2017, she worked as a research assistant at Boston Children’s Hospital. Hated it. Scrapped med school. Did a culinary arts program at BU. Loved it. Worked lots of part time jobs tutoring; assistant teaching at the culinary program; running entrepreneurship programming at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition; teaching healthy eating and summer camp counseling in Hawaii, and coordinating A Fine Line Documentary's film tour for award-winning filmmaker, Joanna James, who shed on women's experiences in the food industry. In 2019, unsure of where it was all going, Lee Ann started a Master’s in Innovation and Management at Tufts. She graduated during the early months of the pandemic and after some desperate soul searching made an impromptu decision to help start a sourdough bakery and vegan cafe in Venice, California. The Venice Love Shack was a hip (and hippie) spot where she learned a ton about baking and entrepreneurship. After that, she did some food rescue and community feeding work, and also worked briefly in high end retail at AHLEM, a high-end French eyewear company and Shikohin, a Japanese skincare & wellness brand. Lee Ann moved back to Boston in 2022 to take a job as the Director of Institutional Giving at CommonWealth Kitchen (CWK)—a nonprofit food start up incubator in Dorchester that helps BIPOC folks, women, and immigrants from under-resourced communities start their own food businesses as a means of economic empowerment. In addition to helping diverse entrepreneurs, CWK works with regional farms to process cover crops and upcycle surplus produce—turning overripe tomatoes into marinara, cucumbers into pickles, field peas into falafel, and butternut squash into soup.


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.

Arpi was a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra from 2009–2013.  Arpi concentrated in neurobiology at Harvard, and even though she decided not pursue music professionally, being involved in HRO and chamber music was very important and central to her time in college. Arpi served as HRO’s Ticket Manager her freshman year (2009–2010), then as Financial Manager for two terms (2010–2012) through HRO’s tour to Cuba, and finally became Co-Tour Director for HRO’s Middle East tour in 2013.  Currently, Arpi works at Mass General Hospital in the cardiology division, helping conduct research trials on various cardiovascular devices prior to FDA approval.

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.