Meet the extraordinary musicians who will perform in the Summer 2025 concert in the Four Seasons in Music series:
Kathryn Lockwood, Viola and Artistic Director leads an active and varied career as performer, teacher, and artistic director. Since moving to the United States from Australia, Kathryn has played with a virtual who’s-who in the chamber music world and captured sought-after awards in the country including the Naumburg Chamber Music Award. Kathryn’s career launched straight out of graduate school at USC (CA) where she, along with three friends, formed the award winning Pacifica Quartet. After moving to New York Kathryn soon claimed the viola chair of the internationally renowned Lark Quartet. Always evolving and thinking out of the box, Kathryn formed the innovative group duoJalal with percussionist and husband Yousif Sheronick. As Artistic Director for both the Four Seasons in Music (NY) and MusicFest (Telluride CO), Kathryn creates innovative programming that is both entertaining and educational. Kathryn is tenured faculty at the John Cali School of Music at Montclair State University, previously serving on the faculty at University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Rutgers University in NJ, Northwestern University, Music Institute of Chicago, and the University of Chicago.
A dynamic and versatile percussionist, Yousif Sheronick was raised in Iowa within a Lebanese-American family, a cultural foundation that would later shape his musical identity. After earning his degree from Yale University, Yousif was drawn to the captivating rhythms of world music, leading him to specialize in frame drums and global percussion traditions. Now recognized as a master of his craft, Yousif performs internationally with an eclectic range of artists and ensembles, including Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma, Laurie Anderson, Branford Marsalis, the Silk Road Ensemble, Ethos Percussion Group, Glen Velez, Paul Winter, and the Lark Quartet. His genre-defying artistry was featured in Drum! Magazine in an article aptly titled “At the Corner of the World,” highlighting his unique ability to bridge musical worlds. Committed to education, Yousif founded FrameDrumSchool.org, an online platform with students from 72 countries. He currently serves as co-artistic director of the Telluride MusicFest, where he continues to blend performance, education, and artistic vision at 10,000 feet above sea level.
Hailed for their “fearless exploration” (Toronto Star), duoJalal (Ensemble in Residence) brings together violist Kathryn Lockwood and percussionist Yousif Sheronick in a genre-defying collaboration that seamlessly blends Classical, Middle Eastern, Jazz, and world music traditions. With backgrounds as diverse as their repertoire—Lockwood from Australia and Sheronick of Lebanese descent—the duo creates a rich, organic sound that bridges cultures and centuries. Whether reimagining the works of Philip Glass or bringing to life new commissions from today’s leading composers, duoJalal captivates audiences with their dynamic synergy, technical virtuosity, and adventurous spirit. Their performances transport listeners across time and geography—from ancient rhythms to contemporary grooves —through fiery improvisation, global instrumentation, and an intimate musical dialogue.
As ensemble-in-residence and co-artistic directors of the Telluride MusicFest, duoJalal is deeply committed to artistic collaboration and innovation. Their global touring schedule includes appearances across the United States, Australia, and Brazil, along with premieres of works written especially for them by composers including Philip Glass, Kenji Bunch, Derek Bermel, Evan Ziporyn, Eve Beglarian, and John Patitucci. With a name inspired by the 13th-century mystic poet Rumi (Jalal ad-Din), duoJalal invites audiences to experience music as a unifying, transformative force.
SUMMER GUEST ARTISTS:
Praised by The Strad for her “surpassing degree of imagination and vibrant sound,” violinist Deborah Buck has built a rich and varied musical career as a chamber musician–including 17 years with the celebrated Lark Quartet, as well as a concertmaster, pedagogue, soloist, recording artist, and artistic director. She has recorded works by many of America’s greatest composers on Endeavor, Koch, Arabesque, and Bridge Record labels. She has received two commissions written for her: John Harbison’s DeBut for solo violin, and Fantasia on Beethoven’s Spring Sonata by Bruce Adolphe. Buck was the tenured concertmaster of the Brooklyn Philharmonic 2008-2013 and is now the tenured concertmaster of Orchestra Lumos. Highlights of recent recitals have been with pianists Orli Shaham and Orion Weiss at BargeMusic (NYC); Gather NYC (Museum of Art and Design); and Lyrica Chamber Music Series (NJ). She was a Starling Foundation and Martin Kaltman Foundation scholar at Juilliard where she studied with Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki. Buck holds a Master of Music Degree from the University of Southern California, as a student of Robert Lipsett and was awarded the Jascha Heifetz Violin Scholarship.
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 is a frequent guest with ECCO and the 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 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.