Meet the extraordinary musicians who will perform in the Summer 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.
SUMMER GUEST ARTISTS:
Equally at home in recital halls, symphony stages, recording studios, opera houses—and even on Saturday Night Live—violinist Deborah Buck maintains a versatile career as a chamber musician, recitalist, concertmaster, and educator. Recent highlights include recitals with pianist Orli Shaham at BargeMusic (NYC), guest concertmaster appearances with American Composers Orchestra and Palm Beach Opera, a string quartet masterclass at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and regular appearances at Reflections in Music (NYC) and Telluride’s MusicFest series. She was recently named Artist in Residence for Pro Musica Detroit for the 2026–27 season and has served as tenured concertmaster of Orchestra Lumos since 2022. In June 2026, her recording of September by Curtis Stewart will be released on the Bright Shiny Things label. Her debut solo album, Tracing a Legacy, will be released by Avie Records in May 2027. Buck is Co-Executive Director and Artistic Advisor of Kinhaven and serves on the faculty of Montclair State University.
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 Caroline Stinson performs widely as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Caroline is a frequent guest artist at summer festivals and gives masterclasses at Domaine Forget in Québec. She is co-Artistic Director of the Weekend of Chamber Music in the Southern Catskill region of New York with her husband, composer Andrew Waggoner. A native of Canada, she lived in New York for 18 years and appears on close to twenty recordings, including acclaimed records with the Lark Quartet, from that time. She was faculty in cello and chamber music at Juilliard and has given masterclasses across North America, in Mexico and Europe. Caroline’s current solo project – Interpretive Routes –produces films that reveal the nuance and significance of direct collaboration with composers. First to be released are two films featuring her work with composers Anna Weesner and John Harbison. Ms. Stinson is Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University where she is Director of Chamber Music and is developing baroque study on cello.
Alan R. Kay is Principal Clarinetist and a former Artistic Director of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and serves as Principal Clarinet with New York’s Riverside Symphony and Little Orchestra Society. Mr. Kay is the recipient of the Classical Recording Foundation’s Samuel Sanders Award, the C.D. Jackson Award at Tanglewood, a Presidential Scholars Teacher Award, and the 1989 Young Concert Artists Award with the sextet Hexagon, featured in the prizewinning film, “Debut.” A founding member of the Windscape Quintet, he is a regular guest in chamber music venues throughout the world, including the Yellow Barn, Colorado College, Orlando (Holland), Bowdoin, Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society Festivals, and the Cape May Music Festival, where he curated a concert series for 25 years. Mr. Kay currently teaches at the Manhattan School of Music, Stony Brook University and The Juilliard School, where an anonymous donor established the “Alan R. Kay Music Scholarship” in perpetuity.