Chamber Music for Global Young Musicians

Emily Taubl (Artistic Director)

Emily Taubl has been called “an outstanding cellist with a bright future” (Hartford Courant), and her playing has been described as “sheer poetry” (Rutland Herald). She currently serves as the Principal Cellist of the Springfield Symphony (MA) and is on the faculty at the University of Vermont.

Emily is the director of the Conservatory Audition Workshop, an annual summer program she founded to prepare top string students from around the world for auditions at elite music schools. In 2024, the program partnered with the New England Conservatory as part of its summer programming at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts.

As a member of the Champlain Trio, Emily tours regularly, presenting innovative programs that showcase both traditional and underrepresented works. The trio has received a Vermont Arts Council Grant, filmed a documentary for Vermont PBS, and recently completed its second recording project.

A versatile performer, Emily has appeared as a soloist at the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles and on the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Prelude Concert Series. She has been featured on Vermont Public Radio and Boston’s WGBH, including The Colors of Claude Debussy: A 150th Birthday Celebration, which was broadcast internationally. As a concerto soloist, she has performed with the Hartford Symphony, Boston Virtuosi, New England String Ensemble, Nashua Chamber Orchestra, Burlington Chamber Orchestra, Granite State Symphony, Vermont Philharmonic, and the University of Vermont Symphony Orchestra, among others. Her orchestral collaborations include performances and recordings with the New Haven Symphony, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and, most recently, the Montreal Symphony on an album of Strauss and Mahler released in March 2024 on Pentatone.

Emily’s teaching career spans roles at the University of Vermont and Middlebury College, as well as faculty positions at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Lyra Music Festival, and the Faulkner Chamber Music Festival. She also shares her expertise through writing, with articles on audition preparation and pedagogy featured in Strings Magazine.

Emily holds degrees from The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, and New England Conservatory, where her primary teachers were Paul Katz, Aldo Parisot, and Ardyth Alton. She lives in Shelburne, Vermont, with her husband, John, and their daughter, Lily.

Miguel Pérez-Espejo

Miguel Pérez-Espejo Cárdenas is recognized as “an extraordinary violinist with an outstanding ability to interpret from the heart” (Aaron Rosand), “a very strong leader, a magnificent soloist, with a beautiful tone, impeccable intonation and rhythm, wonderful musicianship and artistic sensibility” (Stanislaw Skrowaczewski), whose performances have been praised as “extremely impressive, [...] of exceptional expressive depth” (Geoffrey Norris, Chief Music Critic, The Daily Telegraph, UK.)

Pérez-Espejo concertizes throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia, and has released solo CDs for RTVE MÚSICA. He has performed with distinguished artists such as principal players and members of the Boston Symphony and Cleveland orchestras, Lluís Claret, Roberto Díaz, James Dunham, James Buswell, Laurence Lesser, and Colin Carr. He performs with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, working with the great conductors of our time, including Andris Nelsons, Gustavo Dudamel, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. Together with his wife, violinist Hsin-Lin Tsai, he is a member of the acclaimed L’Étoile Violin Duo and Co-Artistic Director of the multi-disciplinary The Renewal Series. Recent and upcoming engagements include collaborations with composers Augusta Read Thomas, Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee, John MacDonald and Kareem Roustom, whose work “Reflections & Refractions” was written for and premiered by L’Étoile Violin Duo.

Fulbright Scholar, member of the Honor Music Society of the United States and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Spain, winner at The Olga Koussevitzky International Competition, he is the recipient of the Rotary Club’s Paul Harris Award, the Theodore Presser Award, and the New England Conservatory’s Chadwick Medal, among other honors. A pupil of the legendary Aaron Rosand, his teachers include Michèle Auclair, Eric Rosenblith, and Pina Carmirelli, founding leader of I Musici.

Dr. Pérez-Espejo’s doctoral dissertation, Pablo Sarasate: The Violinist, is the first in-depth violinistic study of the Spanish virtuoso’s playing and his dimension in the history of violin playing. As a teacher, he is on faculty at the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division, and is affiliated faculty at Tufts and Harvard universities. He has been guest artist in residencies and master classes in the US and abroad, most recently Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. His students have won numerous competitions, perform as soloists in the U.S. and
abroad, and have gone on to study at institutions such as the Cleveland Institute of Music and Princeton University. For more information, please visit www.perezespejo.com.

Hsin-Lin Tsai

Hsin-Lin Tsai has concertized as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Europe and Taiwan, and has performed with artists such as Andris Nelsons, John Williams, Thomas Adès, Christoph Eschenbach, Sir Colin Davis, and principal players and members of the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Montréal and San Diego Symphony orchestras. Her playing has been praised as "outstanding" by Richard Dyer, former Chief Music Critic of the Boston Globe, and the legendary Yfrah Neaman said of her "I have not heard anyone play with such musicality, emotion, and beautiful sound in the last fifty years."

First Prize Winner in the Taiwan National Violin Competition, she gave her New York City recital début at Carnegie Hall. She has released solo CD recordings with the label RTVE MUSICA, and she has performed at the Spanish National Radio, broadcast live throughout Europe. Dr. Tsai was invited to perform at the Lucerne Music Festival in Switzerland and in the world's greatest halls, including Lincoln Center in New York, the National Concert Hall in Taiwan, the Víctor Villegas Auditorium in Spain, and historic Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall in Boston. She is a member of the "extraordinary" (Martín Llade, Melómano music magazine, Spain) L'Etoile Violin Duo with her husband, violinist Miguel Pérez-Espejo. Together they are also Co-Artistic Directors of The Renewal Series, a multidisciplinary concert series of their creation. Through the Series, they champion new works by composers of our time, and they engage students within our communities, such as Boston Arts Academy, in their creative process. Recent and upcoming engagements include collaborations with Kareem Roustom, Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee, Augusta Read Thomas, a residency with the Composition Department at Tufts University, and master classes at Taipei National University of the Arts.

Hsin-Lin is passionate about carrying on her musical legacy through teaching. Her students have performed as soloists and in recital in venues that include Carnegie Hall and Jordan Hall. They have won first prize in competitions and professional orchestra positions, most recently at the MTNA National, Division and State Collegiate competitions. They have been invited to international festivals, including the Stauffer Center for Strings in Cremona, Italy, and to perform in master classes with distinguished artists such as Salvatore Accardo, Hilary Hahn, Lynn Harrell, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Pinchas Zukerman. She has taught at the International Master Classes of the Mediterranean in Spain, Boston University, Bridgewater State University, and All Newton Music School. While maintaining an active private studio, she is currently on faculty at Tufts University and the New England Conservatory's Preparatory Division. She is affiliated instructor at Harvard University.