Claire Haidara, born in Clermont Ferrand, France and grew up in a musical family. She started violin at 7 years old. At 11, she met Ivry Gitlis for a master class and at 14 she joined the young French orchestra for 4 years. Performing in orchestra was a revelation to her, and she decided to integrate at 17 the famous high music school of LYON for 5 years. In 2000, she succeeded the audition for the Orchestre Régional de Cannes (south of France) where she spent 16 years at the first violin section. She joined the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra since Fall of 2018 and lives in NJ forthe last two years with her family for a new experience abroad. She claims that chamber music is one of her favorite repertory.

Chiu-Ling Lin is an international-renowned pianist, educator and former Artistic Ambassador who made extensive solo appearances in South America. Critics have written that she makes compositions “soar with her joyous and skilled interpretation.” Dr. Lin made her Carnegie Weill Recital Hall debut as the winner of the East and West Young Artist Auditions. She has soloed with orchestras such as the Atlanta Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, Des Moines Symphony & Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra. Her appearances in New York, Boston, Chicago, England, Canada, and throughout the Far East have featured her unique mix of music by Chinese and Western composers. Her virtuosity is showcased in the CD, “Portraits of China.” As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Marina Piccinini, Marcos Granados, and Ignat Solzhenitsyn. Dr. Linis committed educator who received her bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and her master’s and doctoral degrees from Indiana University. She is Emeritus Professor of Piano of Drake University in Des Moines, IA where she taught for 37 years before moving to West Windsor, NJ where she maintains a private piano studio. She is past president of the New Jersey Music Teachers Association, the recipient of the 2014 Foundation Fellow, 2015 Teacher of the Year and still serves on the board. She is also the NJ-DE-PA tri-state representative of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music. She is currently the Program Director of Bravura Summer Music at Lawrenceville School, NJ and Chamber Music director for the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra.

Ning Mu, Principal violist of Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, has received numerous awards for musical excellence in China and US. He has performed in chamber music concerts in Carnegie Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall, including appearing many concerts with renowned violinist Arnold Steinhardt of Guarneri string Quartet. Ning graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and received a master’s degree at Rutgers University under Michael Tree. He was a adjunct Professor of Franklin and Marshall College and a full time Faculty of Pennsylvania Academy of Music in Lancaster. He has given master classes and chamber music recitals at The National Center for the Performing Arts and China Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Currently he is also Principal Violist of Riverside Symphonia.

Wan-Yi Pan,cellist, is a native of Taiwan and a member of theBravura Philharmonic Orchestra. She excels in bothorchestral and chamberperformances. She has appeared with the Erie Youth Orchestra, Mansfield Symphony,Cleveland Institute Orchestra, and the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. She has also participated in the Kneisel HallSummer Chamber Music Program and the Quartet Summer Program.In June 2002, she toured the US, Armenia, andRussia with the American Russian Young Artist Orchestra (ARYO). During its Fifteenth Anniversary Tour, Ms. Panwas its principal cellist under the baton of Maestro Paavo Jarvi at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. She hassubsequently been invited to join the Amirus Chamber Players, which draws from the ARYO’s most talented alumni.She has performed with Amirus at the Joselyn Art Museum, the Hillwood Museum in Washington DC, and theHarriman Institute of Columbia University. In September 2004, she was part of ARYO’s Musika 2004 chamber tourthrough the Volga and Ural regions of Russia. During 2004 and 2005, Ms. Pan performed frequently with the NewEngland Music Ensemble in prestigious concert halls including CarnegieHall. Ms. Pan’s teachers have included PeterWiley, Richard Weiss, Jonathan Spitz, Merry Peckham and Allan Harris

Emily Li Wang, co-concertmaster of the Bravura Youth Orchestra, is a senior at Ridge School in Basking Ridge. Emily has been awarded 1st prize in the NJ Music Teachers Association Young Musicians Competitions. She has won the Music Teachers National Association Competition Strings Solo Competition for New Jersey, which enabled her to represent New Jersey in the 13 Eastern States Strings Competition. Emily is a violin student of Dr. Kevin Tsai, and formerly studied with Tunde Gaal.