Rhyuhn Green is a music artist from Philadelphia. He studies at the Juilliard School where he is a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. Born with a highly advanced musical intuition, Green began his musical studies at the age of 2. On his musical journey, around age 9, he began to study piano privately under the guidance of Michelle Cann at the Curtis Institute. He shaped his artistry and technique and went on to make his solo Carnegie Hall debut at age 12. He opened concerts for the likes of Korn, Rob Zombie, Godsmack, and Bring Me the Horizon. He has worked under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin and has scored for the Philadelphia Ballet, David Taylor, the Manhattan Brass Quintet, his own choir, and will be featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk in early 2025. His mentors and advisors have included Valerie Coleman, Joseph Conyers, and Anna Meyer. 

Chloe (she/her) is a flutist focused on musicianship, entrepreneurship and improving her native Philadelphia community. In 2018, while being a junior in high school, she founded Generation Music with friend Claire Casanova. She briefly attended the University of Tampa studying Music Education and Entrepreneurship and interned with the Center for Black Educator Development in 2020. In 2022, she joined the executive board for the International Society for Black Musicians where she serves as an advisory role for organization operations. Chloe is currently completing a certification course in small business management from Temple University’s Small Business Development Center. Chloe is an active participant in her community, volunteering at various charity events. 

KIKA WRIGHT is a bassoonist, teaching artist, and arts administrator based in New York City. She is also an active freelancer throughout the Northeastern US. She is the bassoonist of the Incidental Chamber Players of Pittsburg Pennsylvania, a chamber group focused on performing unjustly forgotten works of the wind repertoire, and the Atlantic Collective of New York City. Ms. Wright is the music curator of the Bronx Arts Ensemble, as well as a teaching artist, teaching woodwinds in Bronx public schools. She is dedicated to promoting equity in the arts and has given talks on the subject at various industry conferences, such as The Meg Quigley Bassoon Symposium Summer Series, Quinteto Latino’s 2022 Seminario, and Chamber Music America. Ms. Wright has participated in summer music programs in the U.S. and Canada, including the Hot Springs Music Festival, Banff, Eastern Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. She has performance degrees from Penn State and the University of Wisconsin-Madison as well as diplomas from Carnegie Mellon University and The Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Former teachers include Daryl Durran, Marc Vallon, Nancy Goeres, and Frank Morelli. Ms. Wright is a member of American Federation of Musicians, Local 802. Kika has  earned her masters degree in 2024 in music education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Andy Sabol, MS, is a pre-award research administrator for Thomas Jefferson University and the managing director of the Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival. In his role at Jefferson, he works closely with researchers to provide strategic guidance and project management support for targeting and pursuing relevant funding opportunities. Andy collaborates with the executive director and founder of the Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival to organize and deliver an annual music festival to celebrate the communities in Southern Vermont. Through his training as a saxophonist, he has performed across the east coast, taught a studio of students, and worked as an audio engineer. Andy’s wide variety of experience allows him to continue pursuing his passion of supporting transformative programming and research.

Claire Casanova is a clarinetist, native Philadelphian and currently a senior at Temple University studying Music Education. At Temple she was rewarded the Presidential Scholarship and The Stuart J. Best Memorial Scholarship for Clarinet. During her sophomore year of high school, she was accepted into the Philadelphia Music Alliance for Youth (PMAY) Artists’ Initiative. She studied with Dr. Rie Suzuki, Clarinet Professor at Rowan University and Gi Lee, the assistant clarinetist of the Met Orchestra. She has participated in many ensembles including PMEA District 12, All-City Band and Orchestra, and Philadelphia Sinfonia Players. This year she created her own chamber group led by Gi Lee. Claire is also an alumna of Project 440’s Doing Good program where she became the Co-founder and Director of Outreach, in her own non-profit, Generation Music. This organization provides, encourages, and exposes classical music education to underrepresented youth in school districts that can not afford to do so. She has received the Sphinx Connect Fellowship to visit the Sphinx Connect convention in Detroit.