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About the Artists

Award-winning violinist Robin Scott has built a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, and concertmaster. He has competed internationally, winning first prizes in the California International Young Artists Competition and the WAMSO Young Artist Competition in Minnesota, and second prizes in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, the Irving M. Klein International String Competition, and the Stulberg International String Competition. He has appeared as a soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Montgomery Symphony, Orchestre National de Lille in France, and many others. He has given numerous recitals and performances throughout the United States and abroad in such venues as Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and the Schubert Club (St. Paul, Minnesota). Scott is associate professor of string chamber music and violin at the Eastman School of Music, where he is the first violinist of Eastman’s Grammy-winning string quartet-in-residence, the Ying Quartet. An avid chamber musician, he has performed at such venues as the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, and Jordan Hall. Festival appearances include the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia’s Steans Institute for Young Artists, and Yellow Barn, among others. He has participated in the acclaimed Music from Marlboro tours, as well as tours under the auspices of the Ravinia Festival, and was a member of the Gesualdo String Quartet. He has served as concertmaster of the New York Classical Players and guest concertmaster with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra as guest principal second violin. From 2011 to 2013, he was the Montgomery Symphony’s artist-in-residence and concertmaster, performing with the orchestra and throughout the community as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. A native of Indiana, Scott was a student of Mimi Zweig at Indiana University’s preparatory program. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree at the New England Conservatory (NEC) and an Artist Diploma at IU, where he studied with Miriam Fried. He pursued additional studies at NEC with Donald Weilerstein and Kim Kashkashian.

Pianist Chih-Yi Chen’s versatile qualities as a collaborative partner, chamber musician, and teacher have contributed to a distinguished international career. Chen has been on the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 2003 and is the associate chair of the Chamber and Collaborative Music Department. She was a recipient of the 2023 IU Trustees Teaching Award. She has also been on the faculty of the IU Summer String Academy for more than two decades. Chen has been performing with International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Laureates since 2003, when she was first invited to perform with Barnabás Kelemen. She has served as an official pianist for the competition since the 9th Quadrennial in 2014 and was awarded special recognition at the 2018 competition for Best Performances of the Beethoven and Mozart sonatas. She has also served as an official pianist for the China International Music Competition in Beijing. Her early work with the talented young violinists of the IU Violin Virtuosi, directed by renowned pedagogue Mimi Zweig, led to performances in France, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Japan, and throughout the United States. Among the numerous musicians with whom she has collaborated are violinists Jaime Laredo, Mihaela Martin, Kyoko Takezawa, Sirena Huang, Richard Lin, Luke Hsu, Liviu Prunaru, Augustin Hadelich, Kerson Leong, and Sarah Kapustin, violist Atar Arad, cellists Sharon Robinson, Peter Stumpf, and Eric Kim, and clarinetists James Campbell, Howard Klug, Gábor Varga, and Min-Ho Yeh. She has also performed with the Michelangelo, Pacifica, Rubens, and Verona string quartets. Chen has served as an adjudicator for competitions including the National Society of Arts and Letters Instrumental Competitions and the Music Teachers National Association, and she has presented at the CollabFest of the International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society. She has given master classes in the United States, Taiwan, and Argentina. Born in Taipei, Chen earned Bachelor, Master and Doctor of Music degrees from the Jacobs School where she studied with Lev Vlasenko and with Luba Edlina-Dubinsky, pianist of the Borodin Trio.