Patricia Sunwoo enjoys a varied career as a chamber musician, educator and member of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. As a member of the Whitman String Quartet, winner of the 1998 Walter Naumburg Chamber Music Award, she concertized and gave master classes across the United States and Europe for five years. In 2001 she joined the Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble and Bard Festival String Quartet, with whom she currently tours. Ms. Sunwoo was on the faculty at Binghamton University from 2001 to 2006, and was a teaching artist for the Midori Foundation in New York City and American String Teachers Association String Institute at Ithaca College. Her musical adventures began with group violin lessons at the age of six in Vancouver, Canada, and were later fueled by the prospect of meeting new and old friends at Canadian youth orchestras, overnight summer music camps, competitions and festivals. She attended the Juilliard School in New York City with many of these friends, and there earned three degrees studying with Sally Thomas.

Pianist Michael Salmirs is a founding member and artistic director of the Finger Lakes Chamber Ensemble. He is well known as a recitalist and chamber musician performing extensively in NY State. He has appeared as soloist with the Corning Philharmonic, Binghamton University Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, and has been a featured pianist on their Sunday chamber series.
As a performer of contemporary music, he has participated in such series as Binghamton University's Musica Nova, Cornell University’s Ensemble X, and has toured and recorded for the Syracuse Society for New Music.
Mr. Salmirs studied at the New England Conservatory and Eastman School of Music; his teachers have included pianists Leonard Shure and Rebecca Penneys and composer Karel Husa.
Mr. Salmirs has taught at the Syracuse University School of Music and Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He is currently a faculty member at Binghamton University and Affiliate Artist at Cornell University. He maintains a private piano studio in Ithaca, and enjoys teaching students of all ages and levels.

David Brickman fell in love with the violin as a child when he heard Nathan Milstein's recording of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto. Many more gems were to be discovered in his parents’ record collection. (For youngsters: Records are a sort of antique CD.) Mr. Brickman began Suzuki violin lessons at the age of 9 in Albany, NY. He completed his training at the Eastman School of Music, where he is now an Associate Professor, and at Indiana University in Bloomington. He performs as a soloist, a chamber musician, and an orchestral musician. Mr. Brickman has performed in solo and chamber music concerts with Hilary Hahn, Jon Nakamatsu, Eliot Fisk, and members of the Emerson String Quartet. He has studied the baroque violin with Stanley Ritchie. His major teachers are Lois Lyman, Charles Castleman, and Franco Gulli. He studied with Joseph Gingold for a summer and, fulfilling a lifelong dream, played in master classes for Nathan Milstein in Zurich, Switzerland. For fun Mr. Brickman likes to cook, bake bread, play the piano, and run/bike/swim. He recently completed his first triathlon and hopes his knees will allow him to do more. He lives in Rochester, NY with his wife, the violinist Patricia Sunwoo, and daughters Claire and Lillian.