Meet the extraordinary musicians who will perform in the Spring 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.
SPRING 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.
With a deep love for music new and old and exploring crossroads between music and language, Boston native Julia Glenn performs internationally on modern and baroque violins. Called “remarkable,” “gripping,” and “a brilliant soloist” by the New York Times, she joined the Naumburg-winning Lydian String Quartet after teaching for three years at the Tianjin Juilliard School. In January of 2016 she gave the world premiere of Milton Babbitt’s violin concerto; her article on the work was published in 2022 in Contemporary Music Review. Glenn received her doctorate from Juilliard in 2018, her master’s from New England Conservatory in 2013, and her bachelor’s in linguistics magna cum laude from Harvard University in 2012. Her solo album “The Road” with pianist Konstantinos Valianatos, released on Navona Records in 2024 to critical acclaim, features new and recent works by Chinese-speaking composers. Outside of LSQ she enjoys performing with Boston Baroque, A Far Cry, Aston Magna, Newton Baroque, and Arcadia Players. She is currently an Associate Professor of Violin at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
For eight seasons as a founding member of the Horszowski Trio, and for eleven seasons as a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet, cellist Raman Ramakrishnan has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia, and recorded for Bridge Records and Avie Records. He is currently a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and is on the faculty of the Bard Conservatory of Music. In the summers, he has performed at the Marlboro, Vail, and Kingston Chamber Music festivals, and served on the faculties of the Kneisel Hall and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals. Mr.Ramakrishnan was born in Athens, Ohio and grew up in East Patchogue, New York. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University and a Master’s degree in music from The Juilliard School. His principal teachers have been Fred Sherry, Andrés Díaz, and André Emelianoff. He plays a Neapolitan cello made by Vincenzo Jorio in 1837.
American pianist Simone Dinnerstein is known for a distinctive musical voice. The Washington Post has praised her as “an artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity.” She gained wide attention in 2007 with her recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which The New York Times called evidence of “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation.” Dinnerstein has appeared with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony, London Symphony, and Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI, and performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Seoul Arts Center, and the Sydney Opera House. She has released fifteen albums, all topping the Billboard classical charts. Recent recordings include the pandemic-era trilogy A Character of Quiet, An American Mosaic (Grammy-nominated), and Undersong. Her 2025 album Complicité, featuring Jennifer Johnson Cano, Peggy Pearson, and her ensemble Baroklyn, marks her first all-Bach recording in a decade.