Meet the extraordinary musicians who will perform in the Fall 2026 concert in the Four Seasons in Music series:
Kathryn Lockwood, violist and artistic director originally from Australia, leads an active career as a performer, educator, and curator. She first came to the United States to study for one year at USC in Los Angeles—more than 30 years ago—and has since made her home in New York.
Her childhood dream to be a chamber musician came true first as the violist of Pacifica Quartet, then the Lark Quartet, and now the very unique viola and percussion duo with her husband, Yousif Sheronick. Since 2019, Lockwood has served as artistic director of the Four Seasons in Music concert series at the Sands Point Preserve on Long Island, where duoJalal is in residence. Since 2022, she and Sheronick have also been co-artistic directors of MusicFest, Telluride Chamber Music in Colorado. Lockwood is tenured faculty at the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, where she teaches, coordinates the string area, and curates the Immersive Residency Program, bringing internationally renowned artists and ensembles for weeklong residencies.
Praised by The New York Times for his “dazzling improvisations” and “wizardry on a range of humble frame drums,” Yousif Sheronick brings percussion to life through a vibrant fusion of classical and global rhythmic traditions. A graduate of Yale University, Yousif has collaborated with an extraordinary range of artists including Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Laurie Anderson, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Lark Quartet, Silk Road Ensemble, Branford Marsalis, Sonny Fortune, Ethos Percussion Group, Glen Velez, and Paul Winter. He also performs alongside his wife, violist Kathryn Lockwood, in their adventurous and genre-blurring ensemble, duoJalal. Equally devoted to education, Yousif is the founder of Frame Drum School (www.framedrumschool.org), where over 1,400 students from 74 countries study his distinctive approach to rhythm and world percussion. His performances and collaborations have taken him from Carnegie Hall to festivals across six continents. Yousif also serves as co-Artistic Director of the Telluride MusicFest, a two-week summer chamber music festival set in the scenic mountains of Colorado.
duoJalal (Ensemble in Residence) captivates audiences with exceptional artistry and a seamless blend of global musical traditions. Described by the Toronto Star as “fearless seekers and synthesizers of disparate instruments and cultures,” violist Kathryn Lockwood and percussionist Yousif Sheronick create music that flows naturally from Classical to Klezmer, Middle Eastern to Jazz. Inspired by 13th-century poet Rumi, they open doors to a rich intercultural experience. For over fifteen years, duoJalal has premiered works by Philip Glass, Eve Beglarian, Dafnis Prieto, and others, performing across the U.S., Australia, and Brazil. Collaborations include Time for Three, PILOBOLUS, and Glen Velez, with featured appearances at the International Viola Congress and the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. As Artistic Directors of Telluride MusicFest and Ensemble-in-Residence at Sands Point Preserve’s “Four Seasons in Music” series, they continue to curate innovative programs that bridge traditions through passion and imagination.
FALL GUEST ARTISTS:
Multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, and singer Ben Russell creates music across genres with musicians around the world. He performs with “impressive expressivity and musicality” (The Strad), blending “spiky, down-home fiddle and soaring violin lines” (Apple Music Classical). Ben recently collaborated with Max Richter, performing Blue Notebooks and In a Landscape to sold-out audiences worldwide. His recording and touring collaborations include Johann Johannsson, Miho Hazama, Björk, Sufjan Stevens, and Carla Kihlstedt. Ben has co-created ensembles spanning classical, folk, jazz, and improvisation. His duo Hinterlands released its drone-folk debut album in 2025, while Founders combined classical, jazz, and singer-songwriter influences. His newest ensemble, Few of a Kind, released its debut EP in 2026.Based in NYC, Ben frequently performs in Broadway productions and with dance, choral, and contemporary music ensembles, including Mark Morris Dance Group, Trinity Wall Street Choir, ACME, Present Music, and Ensemble Echappe. www.benrussellmusic.com
Philadelphia violinist Min-Young Kim is a founding member and first violinist of the Daedalus Quartet, and has been presented by many of the world’s leading musical venues including Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, the Musikverein in Vienna, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Min is also the concertmaster of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and a core member of ECCO and a frequent guest with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. She has been featured as a soloist with the Boston Pops in Symphony Hall and with the Bard Festival Orchestra and performs on historical violin and viola with Apollo’s Fire and Tempesta di Mare. She enjoys working closely with composers, commissioning and premiering new works including those of Fred Lerdahl, Anna Weesner, Huck Hodge, and Wolfgang Rihm. In her quest to play many strings, Min also plays the violoncello da spalla, a six string electric violin and the guitar. A graduate of Harvard and Juilliard, she currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.
Cellist Eliana Razzino Yang has performed solo recitals in London, Paris, Rome, Brussels, Frankfurt, New York, Helsinki, Boston, and Philadelphia and concertos with orchestras in Italy, across the US, and England. She has also performed as part of Harrisburg’s Market Square rising star series and the Taos Chamber Music Group, and has received top prizes in the Adelphi Orchestra, All City Orchestra, YCVT, Caprio, Charleston, and Vivace competitions. Eliana has collaborated with members of the Emerson, Tokyo, Borromeo, Vermeer, Audubon, and Aizuri string quartets, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). Past programs include IMS Prussia Cove, La Jolla Music Society, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Taos School of Music, Kneisel Hall, Perlman Music Program, Sarasota Music Festival, Heifetz Institute, and Carnegie Hall’s New York String Orchestra Seminar. Eliana received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard under the tutelage of Natasha Brofsky, Richard Aaron, Zvi Plesser and Clara Kim.
Grammy Award-winning clarinetist Mark Dover is a versatile musician rooted in classical music and continually exploring the world of improvisation. Since 2016, he has served as clarinetist of Imani Winds, appearing as a soloist with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Albany Symphonies and the American Composers Orchestra. In 2024, Mark won a Grammy as player and producer for Best Classical Compendium for Imani Winds’ Passion for Bach and Coltrane, following the ensemble’s 2022 Grammy nomination for Bruits. In 2023, he joined chamber ensemble yMusic, with recent highlights including Carnegie Hall appearances with both ensembles and NPR’s Tiny Desk with yMusic. Mark joined the chamber music faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music in 2021 and also teaches at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts and Queens College, CUNY. A frequent collaborator with Vulfpeck, Mark holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music and the University of Michigan. He is a Buffet Crampon and Vandoren Artist.