Jeiven Fellows

A firm believer in the power of music, Sheng-Ching Hsu created “S-C Sidewalk Performance” where she brought weekly live music to the street corners of West LA during the pandemic. “S-C Sidewalk Performance” brought comfort and hope to many people during the time of isolation, and was featured on KTTV Fox 11 Los Angeles and EliteGen Magazine in Toronto, Canada. Her story was also made into a documentary by “Aria’s Lens” in China.

A native of Taiwan, Sheng-Ching was six years old when she made her first public appearance as both violinist and pianist at the National Cheng- Kung University, Taiwan. She has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Stage on Holland America Line, Walt Disney Hall, Teatro Municipal de Santiago(Chile), Remonstrantse Kerk in Alkmaar (The Netherlands), Théâtre de l’Île- Saint-Louis (Paris), and National Recital Hall (Taiwan), among others.

Sheng-Ching plays with Delirium Musicum, New Asia Chamber Music Society, as well as Concerts on the Slope, in which many of her performances were featured on WWFM Classical, NY. She serves as concertmaster of Iranshahr Orchestra, as well as the guest principal 2nd violin of St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra. She is a member of California Symphony and New West Symphony. Sheng-Ching has given solo recitals in Europe, North America, South America and Asia, and has performed with Ensemble 212 and Old York Road Symphony as a soloist. Sheng-Ching enjoys discovering new techniques and sound that she has worked with many living composers, including recent recording of two works by Robert Sirota for commercial release. Her interest in the impact of music on motion picture led Sheng-Ching to perform in the debut of “BBC Frozen Planet Live,” scored by award-winning composer George Fenton.

Sheng-Ching serves as a faculty at California State University - Long Beach, as well as Colburn Community School of Performing Arts. Sheng-Ching is also a sought after music arranger. Her latest commissions include the National Anthem for the New York Knicks’ Lunar New Year Game in Madison Square Garden. She arranges a wide variety of music, and has worked with ensembles such as the New Asia Chamber Music Society, the Amphion String Quartet, the Lincoln Center Stage Quintet and the Manhattan Symphonie Orchestra. In addition, her arrangements have been performed at New York Fashion Week, Times Square Flash Mob, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

Sheng-Ching earned her Doctor of Musical Arts from SUNY Stony Brook University, Master of Music from The Juilliard School, and Bachelor of Music from the Mannes School of Music. Her major teachers include Catherine Cho, Christina Khimm, Itzhak Perlman, Aaron Rosand, Philip Setzer, and I-Chen Wang.

Sheng-Ching’s instruments were generously sponsored by CHIMEI foundation in Taiwan throughout her studies. (www.shengchinghsu.com)

Violinist and violist Luther Warren enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician and educator. Luther is a founding member and violist of ensemble132, a chamber-music collective whose work centers on presenting original arrangements of familiar works together with standard repertoire. Luther also performs regularly with LA-based chamber orchestra Delirium Musicum. As an educator, Luther has served as violin and viola instructor for New England Conservatory’s Preparatory School and Expanded Education divisions, Merrimack College, Thayer Academy, and the Performing Arts Center of MetroWest. He also acts as junior chamber music faculty at the Heifetz International Music Institute. Luther has presented masterclasses and teaching residencies at East Carolina University, University of Houston, Queens College, and Texas Christian University.
Luther has appeared at such festivals as Caramoor, Ravinia, Yellow Barn, Four Seasons, Olympic Music Festival, the Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music, Menuhin Festival Gstaad, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Music from Angel Fire, and Taos School of Music. He has performed with esteemed artists including Itzhak Perlman, Kim Kashkashian, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Marcy Rosen, David Shifrin, Colin Carr, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Daniel Phillips, Steven Tenenbom, and Hsin-Yun Huang. He has also frequently appeared as substitute violist for the Borromeo String Quartet. Luther has a keen interest in new music, and has collaborated with living composers Steven Mackey, Billy Childs, Gabriella Smith, Joan Tower, Aaron Jay Kernis, James MacMillan, Lior Navok, Kati Agocs, and Ethan Chaves.
Luther is currently studying in the doctoral program at the New England Conservatory where he has worked with Kim Kashkashian, Donald Weilerstein, and Miriam Fried. Additional principal mentors have included Erin Keefe and Mimi Zweig.

✴ Returning Jeiven Fellow

South Korean cellist Stella Cho grew up in the United Kingdom, where she made her London solo debut at the Royal Albert Hall at fifteen years old. Since then, she has concertized in South Korea, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Croatia, and the U.S.A. She has been featured on national television and radio on numerous occasions. Stella was also selected as one of the Holland Music Sessions’ “New Masters on Tour” and gave solo recitals across Europe, including prestigious venues Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Slovak Philharmonic Hall in Bratislava.

Stella has been invited to numerous renowned music festivals around the world, including Yellow Barn, Ravinia Steans Institute, Aspen Music Festival, Casals Festival, La Jolla SummerFest, Banff Chamber Music Festival, the Perlman Music Program, and IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music. She has also collaborated with eminent musicians such as Ralph Kirshbaum, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Joseph Kalichstein, Joseph Silverstein, and Borromeo Quartet.

Stella earned her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees with honors at the respected Gregor Piatigorsky Studio at USC’s Thornton School of Music under Ralph Kirshbaum and furthered her studies at the New England Conservatory with Laurence Lesser. She recently completed her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at University of Southern California and was honored as the 2021 Outstanding DMA Graduate and inducted into the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honors Society.

Stella currently divides her time between teaching and performing. She holds faculty positions in cello at Loyola Marymount University and the Colburn Community School of Performing Arts, and she is also the director of Junior Chamber Music’s Los Angeles branch. As an active performer, she regularly appears with the SAKURA Cello Quintet, the Webern Quartet, and as a core member of the critically acclaimed chamber orchestra Delirium Musicum, a Warner Classics exclusive artist.

An active freelance orchestral and chamber musician in the New York City area, Joshua Butcher has served as the acting Principal Bassoon for the Albany Symphony since 2021.

Receiving his Master’s degree in Music Performance from New York University after receiving his Bachelors of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music and CUNY Brooklyn College, Joshua has performed as a soloist, chamber and orchestral musician with such groups as the Albany Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Princeton Symphony, Modus Operandi Orchestra, Exponential Ensemble and Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players. Joshua is a current fellow at Marlboro Music Festival.