Artists & Collaborators

Kathryn Felt

Kathryn Felt, DMA is a pianist and educator whose work integrates performance, research, and advocacy. She has performed at leading venues including Lincoln Center and Koerner Hall, and with ensembles such as the Delaware Symphony, The Juilliard Orchestra, Reading Symphony Orchestra, and New World Symphony. Dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices, she serves on the board of the International Alliance for Women in Music. She is the author of a recent article on protofeminist aesthetics in the piano works of Mélanie Bonis and presented this research at the 2025 Joint Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) and the Society for Music Theory (SMT). She holds degrees from Rice University (BM), The Juilliard School (MM in Collaborative Piano), and Rutgers University (DMA in Piano Performance, under the tutelage of the late John Perry). Dr. Felt currently serves as a lecturer at Rutgers University.

Artistic Director / Piano

Sharon Gayoung Cho

Dr. Sharon Gayoung Cho, born in South Korea and raised in Vienna, is an internationally recognized violinist and chamber musician whose career has taken her across Europe, Asia, and the United States. She has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Vienna Musikverein, and the Austrian Presidential Palace, where she was invited to perform for the President of Austria. A prizewinner in several international competitions, she has served as concertmaster for numerous orchestras. At fifteen, she entered the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna as one of its youngest students, where she completed her undergraduate, master’s, and postgraduate degrees on full scholarship, and later earned an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Rutgers University.. A highly regarded educator, her students have earned top awards in competitions and have gone on to attend Ivy League and other leading institutions. She is also the founder and artistic director of Music Matters Lab Collective.

Violin
Cello

WanYi Pan

A native of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Dr. WanYi Pan has received degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (B. Mus.), SUNY Purchase College (MM), and Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (DMA). Her teachers have included Peter Wiley, Richard Weiss, Jonathan Spitz, Merry Peckham and Allan Harris. Dr. Pan had participated in the Kneisel Hall Summer Chamber Music Program and the Quartet Program. She toured around the United States, Armenia and Russia with the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra (ARYO) under the baton of Leon Botstein and Maestro Paavo Järvi and was subsequently invited to join the Amirus chamber players, an ensemble comprised of ARYO’s most talented alumni. Since 2014 she has been a faculty member of the Beverly Hills International Music Festival in Los Angeles, CA working alongside Oleh Krysa. Dr. Pan taught at the Montclair State University extension division and is currently a faculty member for the Stokes summer music camp.

Flute

Sarah Shin

Dr. Sarah Shin is a vibrant flutist, educator, and collaborator known for her artistry and leadership in the classical music world. She is Lecturer of Flute at Princeton University, a member of the Richardson Chamber Players, and a William S. Haynes Artist, performing on a handmade custom 14k white gold Haynes flute. Her solo album Mozart Concertos for Flute and Orchestra Nos. 1 & 2 is available on Sony Classical. Sarah has performed worldwide at venues including Carnegie Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul, and Prague’s Smetana Hall. She has shared the stage with Lizzo at the 2023 Met Gala and collaborated with major orchestras across Europe. A passionate advocate for new music, she is commissioning a new work with composer Juri Seo. She is also a founding member of the Emissary Quartet and former President of the New Jersey Flute Society, where she co-led initiatives supporting equity and arts access.

Composer-in-Residence

Angelique Mouyis

Angelique Mouyis is a South African-born, Greek-Cypriot composer based in the New York tri-state area. Her work bridges cultures and genres, blending her South African roots, Greek heritage, and American experiences into a distinctive musical voice. Her compositions have been performed internationally, with highlights including The Trees Speak (poetry by David Bottomley), premiered at the Eco-Arts Festival on Governor’s Island in 2025; A Song to Heal, premiered by the Western Colorado Concert Choir in 2025; and operas Family (with Gabe Caruso, NYU/American Opera Project, 2022) and Bessie: The Blue-Eyed Xhosa (with Mkhululi Mabija, Cape Town Opera/UCT, 2015). Angelique holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from Rutgers University, an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a Master’s in Music Composition from Wits University. She is the author of Mikis Theodorakis: Finding Greece in His Music and recipient of SAMRO and Ernest Oppenheimer scholarships.

As composer-in-residence at Wild Muse Arts, her work The Trees Speak will be presented across the season.

Antonietta Positano

Illustrator

Antonietta Positano contributes an intricate, hand-drawn triptych for Seed I Bloom I Flight.