People
Guest Artists
Matthew Daline
Matthew received the Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School where he served as Teaching Assistant, and the Master of Music degree at Yale University. While pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts at The State University of New York, Daline served as a Teaching Assistant for the Department of Music.Matthew is the former Associate Professor of viola and Coordinator of String Area at Bowling Green State University. Professor Daline enjoys an international career as a chamber musician, violin and viola soloist, and educator. He began his violin studies with Michele Auclair of the Paris Conservatory, and continued his studies on the viola with Marcus Thompson and Martha Strongin Katz at the New England Conservatory, Boston. Since making his New York solo recital debut in Carnegie Hall as the winner of the Artists International Competition, Matthew Daline has performed worldwide as a chamber musician and viola soloist.
Emerson Millar
Emerson Millar currently plays in the first violin section of the Seattle Symphony and serves as the Second Assistant Concertmaster.She began her tenure as the Co-Concertmaster of the Naples Philharmonic in Naples, Florida, in 2018. Millar attended the New World Symphony and is a graduate of the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where she studied with Robert Lipsett. As an orchestral musician, Millar has appeared as guest Concertmaster with the Nashville Symphony and she served as the Concertmaster of the New World Symphony, the Debut Orchestra of the Young Musicians Foundation and as the Associate Concertmaster of the American Youth Symphony. A recipient of the New Horizons Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival, she performed as the Assistant Concertmaster of the Aspen Festival Orchestra in the summer of 2015. She has been a participant at the Verbier Festival and the Tanglewood Music Center, where she performed Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 4 as Concertmaster with Giancarlo Guerrero conducting.
In March 2018, as a winner of the New World Symphony concerto competition, she performed the Barber Violin Concerto with conductor Edwin Outwater. Originally from Ithaca, New York, Millar grew up on a 100-acre organic farm. She currently plays on a French violin made in 1897 by H.C. Silvestre.
Katherine Audas
Katherine Audas is a current member of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. She holds a bachelor's degree, a masters degree, and an artist diploma in cello performance from Rice University's Shepherd School of Music, where she studied with Norman Fischer from 2014-2018 and Brinton Smith from 2018-2023. While at Rice, she was the recipient the Annette and Hugh Gragg Principal Chair in Cello. She was awarded first prize at the Ann and Charles Eisemann International Young Artists Competition in Dallas in 2020 and she won the silver medal at the IX Concurso Internacional Violonchelo Carlos Prieto in Michoacan, Mexico in 2019.In recent years, Katherine has appeared as a soloist with numerous symphonies, including the Houston Symphony at the Ima Hogg Competition, the Northbrook Symphony, the Michoacan Symphony, the Shepherd School of Music Symphony Orchestra and the Boise Philharmonic. She is the founding member the Houston Cello Quartet and an active performer in the non-profit Classical C.A.R.M.A. (Concerts Aiming to Raise Money & Awareness).