Violist Amelia Hollander Ames is a passionate advocate for music. The 2024– 25 season brought many recording projects: notably Philip Glass’s Songs and Poems for solo viola, to be released this fall on Glass’s OMM label, as well as music by Yoon-Ji Lee, Reynaliz Herrera, folk duo Ari and Mia, and Amelia’s own band, Violabajo. In the same period, Amelia performed and held residencies at the UNAY (Universidad de Artes Yucatán); Conservatoria Massotti in Murcia, Spain; Piemonte, Italy; Bordeaux, France and Exeter, UK, and she premiered Ixchel, a concerto written for her by Judith Alejandra Gonzalez Benitez, in Mérida, Mexico.

In 2024, New Focus Recordings released Swirl, debut album by RAHA, Amelia’s duo with pianist Elaine Rombola Aveni, featuring new music by Matthew Aucoin, Jonathan Bailey Holland, Marti Epstein, Curtis Hughes, Emily Koh, and Evan Ziporyn.

A native of Jersey City, Amelia founded Con Vivo Music, which brings excellent, adventurous and free chamber concerts to her hometown. She frequently returns to play with them. In the Boston area, Amelia plays principal viola with the Vista Philharmonic and is a member of Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Shelter Music Boston, and Semiosis Quartet. International festivals include the Singapore Arts Festival, Panama Jazz Festival, Kneisel Hall, Vancouver Jewish Music Festival, Verbier, Keshet Eilon, and the Israel Festival. She loves teaching, and carries what she learned from her own teachers- including Martha Katz, Karen Ritscher and George Taylor- to her many private students as well as groups she coaches at Lexington Chamber Music Center. Amelia lives in Arlington with her husband, two sons, and their bloodhound Beatrix.

Violinist Lilit Hartunian performs at the forefront of contemporary music innovation, both as soloist and highly in-demand collaborative artist. First prize winner in the 2021 Black House Collective New Music Soloist Competition, her "Paganiniesque virtuosity” and “captivating and luxurious tone” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) are frequently on display at major concert halls and leading academic institutions, where she often appears as both soloist and new music specialist. Ms. Hartunian appears regularly with A Far Cry, Emmanuel Music, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Sound Icon, and Ludovico Ensemble. Recent highlights include co-founding violin and cimbalom duo Lamnth, performing at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s “Ligeti 100” chamber music concerts in Symphony Hall, and appearing on the 2023 Grammy winning album for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Described as “brilliantly rhapsodic” by the Harvard Crimson, Ms. Hartunian can be heard on New Focus Records, Innova Recording, Albany Records, and New Amsterdam Records. For recordings, photos, and news, visit www.lilithartunian.com

Praised for her “warm, colorful mezzo” (Opera News) and her “astonishing range and flexibility” (BostonMusical Intelligencer), Sophie Michaux has become one of New England’s most versatile and compelling vocalists. Born in London and raised in the French Alps, Sophie’s unique background informs her artistic identity, making her feel at home in an eclectic span of repertoire ranging from grand opera to French cabaret songs. Recent solo engagements include the roles of Alcina in Caccini’s La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (Haymarket Opera), Olofernes in Scarlatti’s La Giuditta (Haymarket Opera), Ceres in Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles (Boston Early Music Festival), and Clorinda in Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda ( A Far Cry), as well as soloist in the world premiere of Kevin Siegfried’s arrangement of Three Shaker Songs (Boston Symphony Chamber Players), in Handel’s Dixit Dominus (Upper Valley Baroque), and in De Falla’s El Amor Brujo (Lowell Chamber Orchestra). She is thrilled to collaborate with Blue Heron, Lorelei Ensemble, Roomful of Teeth, A Far Cry, Palaver Strings, Les Délices, Bach Collegium San Diego, Ruckus, Upper Valley Baroque, and other ensembles performing across the US.

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