Violinist Julia Cash has recently returned to Louisville after some 25 years pursuing an exciting musical career in New England and Europe. Brought back to Louisville by her family and her husband’s career, she was named Interim Principal 2nd violin of the Louisville Orchestra by Teddy Abrams. Also in the 21-22 season Ms Cash performed Mozart 5th Violin Concerto in Boston with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra this last summer, that was hailed for “heroic presence, sparkling accuracy and delicacy of her silvery tone ” (Musical Intelligencer)

Ms. Cash left Louisville for Boston to work with legendary violinist James Buswell at age 15 to pursue an already promising musical future. Winner of the National Music Club Prize as a Tanglewood fellow, and a two-time Outstanding Performer award winner at the Academia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, Ms. Cash has performed all over the United States and Europe as a chamber musician and recitalist. In Boston, she performs with the Boston Ballet, Boston Pops, and has served as concertmaster for many prominent Boston musical groups such as Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Boston.  A huge new music advocate, Ms. Cash served as concertmaster of Alea III under Gunther Schuller to high accolades. Early in her career, she served as principal second of Opera Boston and won a Pulitzer and has been on many Grammy nominated albums through her extensive recording career. Ms. Cash holds degrees from New England Conservatory of Music, the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik in Germany and the Royal Conservatory of the Netherlands. In addition to James Buswell, other notable musical mentors include Pamela Frank, Vera Beths and Federico Agostini.

Ms. Cash is also an avid teacher and music educator.  Along with her private studio, she has taught chamber music, orchestral coaching and lessons at Harvard, Boston College and Boston Latin School.  She is currently on faculty at New England Conservatory and maintains a competitive studio of award winning students.  Currently she spends summers teaching for Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras and serves as Music Director at Point Counter Point Chamber Music Camp in Vermont. She currently lives in Crescent Hill with her 3 daughters and violist/physician husband Tom, and is splitting her performing obligations between Louisville and Boston.  

Violinist Geoffrey Herd leads a varied and impactful career as a soloist and chamber musician, artistic director, and pedagogue. He has performed throughout the United States, Latin America, and Asia at venues including the Isabel Stewart Gardner Museum of Art in Boston and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, as well as at universities and conservatories globally. An avid chamber musician, Dr. Herd has collaborated with prominent musicians including Ettore Causa, Jinjoo Cho, James Dunham, Clive Greensmith, Ani Kavafian, and Jon Kimura Parker. Dr. Herd has performed concertos with numerous orchestras including the Rochester Philharmonic, the Thailand Philharmonic, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Ithaca College Symphony, the Amherst Symphony, the Finger Lakes Symphony, the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra, and the Longmont Symphony. 



Dr. Herd is the founder and director of the Geneva Music Festival, currently celebrating its 12th annual season. Each summer, the festival gathers many of the nation’s finest performers of classical music and jazz for a month-long series of concerts. The festival is recognized as a leader in innovative programming and promotion of diversity and inclusivity in the arts. By celebrating and highlighting the contributions of African-American, Women, and Latinx artists to the field of music, the festival has given recognition to composers and musicians who have often been neglected on the concert stage. Recordings from the festival are broadcast frequently on American Public Radio’s Performance Today and other stations around the region and country.

As a pedagogue, Dr. Herd is on faculty at the University of Louisville School of Music where he has built a thriving studio, attracting students from around the globe. His students frequently participate in prestigious festivals including the Aspen, Brevard, Killington, Sarasota, and Wintergreen festivals, have gone on to graduate school at the Yale School of Music, McGill University, and the Cincinnati Conservatory, and are frequent competition winners throughout the country. Mr. Herd has also been on faculty at the Killington and Sewanee Music Festivals, and a guest artist at Encore Chamber Music and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. He is co-director of the Knoxville Suzuki Academy and immediate past president of the Tennessee Chapter of the American String Teacher Association. Mr. Herd studied at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, the Yale School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music with Ani Kavafian, Paul Kantor, William Preucil and David Updegraff. He plays on the “Berkic-Pennington” Carlo Bergonzi made in Cremona in 1737.

American violinist, Jae Cosmos Lee, who's performances have been acclaimed as "Delicate and beautiful" (Syracuse Post-Standard) and "Bursting with color" (Boston Globe), is Concertmaster of the Cape Symphony (Cape Cod, MA), and co-founder of A Far Cry, the two time Grammy nominated, self conducted, democratically run chamber orchestra in Boston. He is also first violinist of the Pedroia String Quartet and a podcast enthusiast, moonlighting as the writer & producer of the podcast, Beethoven Bad Boy. Jae has been a guest artist with the Audubon, Borromeo and Jupiter String Quartets, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, ECCO, Boston Musica Viva, Sound Impact, The Knights, the Firebird and Radius Ensembles, and has performed in concert halls throughout Europe, the United States, Canada and Asia. He is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, and has performed in many of the finest music festivals including Apple Hill, Aspen, Chautauqua, Norfolk, Sarasota, Vail, Banff, Seoul, Scotia, New South, Skaneateles, Salzburg, Ottawa, Prussia Cove and Kneisel Hall. Jae has worked closely with the members of the Cleveland, Juilliard, Takács and Tokyo String Quartets and holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the New England Conservatory. His performances have been heard widely on American Public Media's Performance Today, Boston's WGBH and New York's WQXR, along with public radio stations across Georgia, Maine & Vermont.

Brittany MacWilliams has a rich and diverse career both as performer and educator. She made her professional violin debut at age ten with the Louisville Orchestra and went on to win numerous competitions including the Music Teachers National Association competition. Since then, Ms. MacWilliams has performed extensively as soloist and concertmaster in such diverse locales as Istanbul, Beijing, Salzburg, Munich, Lisbon, and New York. She has had solo engagements with such orchestras as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Munich Hochshule Orchestra, Kentucky Symphony, and Aspen Chamber Symphony. Ms. MacWilliams can be heard as soloist on two critically acclaimed compact discs of Giornovichi Violin Concerti for the Arte Nova Classics/BMG label.

Ms. MacWilliams is a passionate educator and has an active and varied teaching background. She has been a professor of violin and viola at the University of Louisville School of Music for fourteen years. She has also been the Director of the UofL String Academy, a program for talented and dedicated pre-college students, and founder and director of the Oldham County Chamber Ensemble, for ten years.Under her direction, the UofL String Academy was awarded a $240,000 grant from the prestigious Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation, providing scholarships for deserving young musicians.

She has taught at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a member of the violin faculty for eleven years and was a member of the string faculty at Xavier University, where she taught violin, viola, and chamber music for six years. She has been a member of the string faculty at Campbellsville University and at the Oldham County Schools Arts Center. She was also the director and a member of the violin faculty of the Starling Preparatory String Project at the University of Cincinnati for twelve years.

During the summers, Ms. MacWilliams has served on the faculties of the Aspen Music Festival and the Great Wall International Music Academy in Beijing, and she currently teaches at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, where she has been a member of the artist faculty for nine years.

As a frequent recitalist and avid chamber musician, Ms. MacWilliams performs in duos, piano trios, and string quartets throughout the United States. She is a founding member of the Baur Quartet and the Xavier Trio and has recorded four compact discs for the Vital Sounds label, including the Ten Celebrated String Quartets of W.A. Mozart. She can also be heard on “Passion from the Romantic Era,” a CD featuring Brahms’ Violin and Piano Sonatas. She was chosen as resident artist for the Next Generation Music Festival where she toured and performed with pianist Awadagin Pratt.

In 2001, Ms. MacWilliams was the first winner of the prestigious Dorothy Richard Starling Teaching Fellowship, and over the years her students have won national competitions, performed with major orchestras, won teaching positions at numerous institutions, and received music scholarships to many top universities and conservatories.

Liana Zaretsky is an active chamber and orchestral musician in the Boston area. She is a member of Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra Boston. She is the former principal second violinist of Portland, ME Symphony and appears regularly with the Boston Ballet, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra and the Boston Symphony.

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Zaretsky was one of the original and former member of the Radius Ensemble. She has collaborated with faculty from Longy School of Music, New England Conservatory, as well as with Boston Symphony members to perform frequently. Ms. Zaretsky holds a Masters degree in music from Northwestern University and a Graduate Diploma degree from the New England Conservatory. Between degrees, she was a member of the New World Symphony where she had a rotating Concertmaster position under Michael Tilson Thomas.

Ms. Zaretsky is currently a string faculty member for the Preparatory and School of Continuing Education at the New England Conservatory, Project STEP. ant the Rivers School Conservatory. She continues to actively work with the Boston Youth Symphonies coaching chamber music and leading orchestra repertoire sectionals.

From summer of 1992 to 2011 Ms. Zaretsky was a regular member of the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra in Wisconsin, holding positions in the viola and violin section under conductor Victor Yampolsky. She spent several summers teaching at Music on the Hill (MOTH) at the Powers Music School, eventually co-directing the program. From 2018 to 2021, she directed the Summer Music Program at the Rivers School Conservatory. She recently joined the faculty at Point Counterpoint, teaching and performing at the Prelude session.

Jonathan Mueller has been a member of the Louisville Orchestra since 2006 and Adjunct Professor of Viola at Bellarmine University since 2009. Mr. Mueller finished his Masters in Viola Performance at Rice University in 2006 under the instruction of James Dunham and his Bachelors from Indiana University where he studied with Alan DeVeritch. Mr. Mueller lives in the Highlands with his wife Krista, son Everett and daughter Coral.

Since performing as a concerto soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at age 18, cellist Nicholas Finch has established himself as an artist of great depth and diversity, both within and beyond the classical genre. Finch recently performed three new cello concerti written for him by composers Lev “Ljova” Zhurbin, Alyssa Weinberg, and Dorian Wallace on one concert, and will record them during the 2022/2023 season for his debut recording. He also appeared as cello soloist in Richard Strauss's "Don Quixote" with the Louisville Orchestra during the 2019/2020 season.

Finch was appointed Principal Cellist of the Louisville Orchestra during the 2013-2014 season by music director Teddy Abrams.  He has appeared with the Boston-based chamber orchestra ‘A Far Cry’ on numerous concerts and recordings, one recording having been nominated for the 2015 Grammy awards. He has additionally appeared numerous times with the Jupiter Chamber Players in New York City.

Finch has collaborated with some of the most prominent artists of today, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble, pianist Joyce Yang, members of the Dover and Escher String Quartets, and many more.

A native of Boston, Finch began his cello studies at the age of 12. He attended Harvard, Juilliard, the University of Michigan, and the Mannes College of Music. Finch has additionally recently pursued studies as a conductor, recently making his debut with members of the Louisville Orchestra, leading works by Aaron Copland and more. He has studied conducting with Markand Thakar, Kenneth Kiesler, and with Michael Jinbo and Ludovic Morlot at the Pierre Monteux School.  Finch currently splits his residence between Louisville and New York City.

Tahirah Whittington, native of Houston, TX, and currently residing in Chicago, IL, most recently completed her position as the cellist for the Dear Evan Hansen North American Broadway Tour. Previously, Ms. Whittington was the cellist for Hamilton: An American Musical in Chicago. Television/Film: “Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” and episodes of “Empire”. Studio recordings: The Lion King (2019 – as a member of Re-collective Orchestra), Beyoncé’s The Lion King: The Gift, John Legend’s Big Love and PJ Morton’s Gumbo Unplugged. Tahirah performed the cello solo for Rhiannon Giddens’ “Cry No More” arranged by Michael Abels. As a chamber musician, she is a founding member of both the Ritz Chamber Players in Jacksonville, FL, and D-Composed based in Chicago, IL. Ms. Whittington received her Bachelor’s Degree from New England Conservatory and her Master’s Degree in Cello Performance from The Juilliard School.

Recently hailed by The New York Times for his “warm-toned” performance of Lutosławski’s Grave (Metamorphoses), cellist Paul York is an accomplished soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. He currently serves on the string faculty at the University of Louisville, where he maintains an active teaching and performing schedule. Recent solo appearances include performances of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in Nanjing, China and Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and Karel Husa’s Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra at New York’s Carnegie Hall. He has performed Aaron Jay Kernis’s Colored Field for Cello and Orchestra with the Louisville Orchestra, and Vivaldi’s Double Concerto in G Minor with internationally acclaimed cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Of his performance at Carnegie Hall, New York Concert Review said, “The fiendishly difficult solo part was brilliantly played by cellist Paul York; one had to be in awe of his playing.”

Mr. York serves on the faculty of the ARIA Summer International Academy and has been member of the artist faculty at the Beyond the Music Festival in Benasque, Spain, the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Strings in the Mountains, and Accent 09 and 11 at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He served as principal cello with the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra and has held principal cello positions with numerous regional orchestras and has performed with the cello section of the Saint Louis Symphony.

Mr. York received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California and his Master of Music degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he studied with Ronald Leonard. Other teachers include Gabor Rejto, and Louis Potter. The recipient of numerous honors and awards, Mr. York was selected to participate in the prestigious Piatigorsky Seminar at the University of Southern California and has received Distinguished Faculty Awards in Teaching and Creative and Research Work from the University of Louisville.

Mr. York can be heard on the Ablaze, Arizona University Press, Centaur, innova, and CRS labels. His recording of works by Debussy, Shostakovich and Faure performed by the York-Biran Duo has recently been released by Centaur. His premiere recording of the Husa Concerto, as well as his recording of solo works entitled Paul York: Soliloquy and the Lutoslawski Cello Concerto, have received critical acclaim

Composer, pianist, arranger, and educator John Kramer has written music for the piano, organ, orchestra, and choir and has received numerous commissions, including A Dream of Hope, a cantata in five movements for choir and orchestra. His recently completed Violin Sonata was premiered by Julia Cash, for whom it was written. A recent choral and orchestral work, The Immigrant Experience, a cantata in seven movements, has been performed across the U.S. As a pianist, John has performed throughout the U.S. and in France. He has two CDs of solo piano music, Orange Earth/Blue Ether and a collection of 24 Meditations. He is an assistant professor in the Harmony & Jazz Composition Department at Berklee School of Music and the Music Director at the Winchester Unitarian Society.

Praised for her “artistic, clear and enlightened” performances (BBC Magazine) of “technical brilliance and complete emotional engagement" (Fanfare Magazine), Bulgarian pianist Anna Petrova embraces a multifaceted career as a soloist, chamber musician, educator, and artistic director. She has been the recipient of top honors and awards at numerous competitions internationally, including the Queen Elisabeth and Jose Roca Competitions, MAW Alumni Enterprise Award, and the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture among many others. Petrova’s latest project is serving as the Co-artistic director of ATX Chamber Music and Jazz: an organization curating extraordinary musical and social experiences, while also offering educational opportunities to the local community.

Petrova serves as the Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Louisville in Kentucky. She enjoys offering regular masterclasses around the world at institutions from the Beijing Central and Tianjin Conservatories in Asia, to the Jerusalem Music Center and Edward Said National Conservatory of Music in the Middle East, Musical Arts Madrid and FORUM Festival in Spain, Meadowmount School of Music and Manhattan School of Music in the US, and Memorial University in Canada.

In 2018, Petrova was honored at the United Nations for her work with refugees around the globe through the Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project. Currently, she co-directs the Novel Voices Distance Learning branch of the musical non-profit Project: Music Heals Us, bringing weekly virtual lessons, masterclasses, and workshops to underserved students in Kenya, El Salvador and the Middle East.

As a soloist Petrova has appeared with the Virginia Symphony, Monterey Symphony, Manhattan Chamber Sinfonia, Louisville Orchestra, the Iasi and Timisoara Philharmonics, Valencia Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of Wallonia, as well as all of the major orchestras in her native Bulgaria. She has collaborated with numerous world-renowned conductors including Paul Goodwin, JoAnn Falletta, Philippe Entremont, Roderick Cox, Jonathan Rush, Jonathan Pasternack, Max Bragado-Darman, Bruno Aprea, Ramón Tébar, Francisco Valero–Terribas, and Horia Andresecu.

Highlights of recent seasons include several highly-acclaimed solo and concerto appearances including a return engagement with the Monterey Symphony Orchestra in which Petrova was praised for “the vitality in her crisp playing… [brought out] an impetuous excitement that stirred the audience to its feet!” Other memorable performances include the Karel Husa Concertino for Piano and Wind Ensemble at the Žofín Palace in Prague, Czech Republic; the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Louisville and Port Angeles Orchestras; solo recital tours of China and Chile; the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto and the Rhapsody on a theme by Paganini, Prokofiev First and Third Piano Concertos, Beethoven’s Fourth and Triple Concertos. Petrova has appeared in recitals in such revered venues as Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Museum, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, the Jerusalem Music Center, the Oslo Concert Hall, the Auditorio Ciudad de Leon in Spain, and the Palau de la Musica in Valencia, Spain.

A passionate chamber musician, Petrova has appeared as both a performer and teacher at festivals around the world, including Mozartfest, Musc@Menlo, Music Academy of the West, Virginia Arts Festival, Malaga Clasica, and the Holland Music Sessions among others. She has collaborated with such renowned artists as Andre-Michel Schub, Jinjoo Cho, Alexander Sitkovetsky, as well as members of the Dover, Escher and Juilliard Quartets. She is a member of two award-winning ensembles: the viola-piano Carr-Petrova Duo with violist Molly Carr and the clarinet-viola-piano Iris Trio with clarinetist Christine Carter and violist Zoë Martin-Doike.

Petrova’s debut album, Slavic Heart, released by the German label Solo Musica (2022,) received five-star reviews by Spain’s Ritmo Magazine which commented, “One would think this is an album for a virtuoso, but this Slavic Heart is also full of dreamy moments where the pianist is a narrator and a poet.” Fanfare Magazine also labeled the recording as “superb, a marvelous showcase for Petrova’s splendid pianism and artistry,” giving it the “highest recommendation.”

Additionally, the Carr-Petrova Duo’s debut album Novel Voices, released on the Melos label in 2018, was immediately chosen by Spain’s Classical Music Magazine Ritmo as one of its “Top 10 CDs of the Month,” praising the Duo’s performance of the Rebecca Clarke Sonata as “the best interpretation of this sonata to date.” Codalario Magazine also gave the album its “Superior Quality” award, named it as their “Top Album of 2020,” and stated, “It would be hard to debut better than this.” The Iris Trio’s 2019 release of Hommage and Inspiration on the Coviello Classics label was chosen by CBC as one of its “Top 10 Classical Albums to Get Excited About,” and reviewed by Fanfare as “superb […] a five-star stand-out release, writ large with the spirit of chamber music.” Other discography includes recording of Stravinsky’s Les Noces with the Virginia Symphony and conductor JoAnn Falletta (NAXOS, 2016).

Robert Walker is the 2nd/Eb Clarinet player with the Louisville Orchestra. He has also appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Saint Louis Symphony. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California and the Juilliard School of Music. In his free time, Robert also writes and arranges music, both acoustic and electronic.

Since 1988, Kathleen Karr has been the Principal Flutist of the Louisville Orchestra. A founding member of the Kentucky Center Chamber Players (a chamber group that was active from 1984-2016), she is currently a member of the NouLou Chamber Players. For 25 years, Kathleen taught applied flute, flute ensemble, flute pedagogy and flute literature at the University of Louisville's School of Music. She was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Professor Award for the University of Louisville in 2012.

A frequent soloist with the Louisville Orchestra, Kathleen most recently performed the J. S. Bach Brandenburg Concerti #2, #4 and #5 during the 2023-2024 season. She has performed recitals and masterclasses in Israel, Mexico and across the U.S.A. She has performed as guest flutist with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic, Chautauqua Symphony and the Orquestra Sinfonica da Mineria in Mexico City.

Kathleen received her Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University and her Master of Music degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is an Altus Flutes Performing Artist.

Joseph Caminiti began his conducting career as the Assistant Conductor of the Ithaca College Symphony and Chamber Orchestras in 1996. After arriving in Philadelphia, he started the professional string ensemble, Solaris, before accepting the Music Director position with the Cairn Symphony Orchestra, 2001–2015. He was appointed Director of Orchestral Studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania from 2015-2022 where he conducted the Symphony, Chamber, and Opera Orchestras, and taught undergraduate and graduate music courses. He also won the Music Director position of the Delaware County Symphony which he served from 2016–2019. In 2021, he founded and conducted the professional Gateway Ensemble with whom he produced video recordings posted on YouTube to bring music to homes during the COVID shutdown.

Joseph has collaborated with arts and charitable organizations such as Advocates For the Homeless and Those in Need, Esperanza, ARTolerance, Musicopia, the American Red Cross, and West Chester University’s Promise Program to help support underserved communities. He further values his work with living composers including Judith Lang Zaimont, Kile Smith, Raoul Pleskow, Gabriela Lena Frank; international soloists, Ching-Yun Hu, and Elena Urioste; and Philadelphia Orchestra members Ricardo Morales, David Kim, Jennifer Montone, Richard Amoroso, and Udi Bar-David.

Committed to connecting with audiences through dynamic and thoughtful concerts, Joseph has created various performance formats including “Concerts in The Round,” smartphone-friendly features, in-concert conversations, multi-media elements, pre-concert “round-tables,” and family concerts with instrument petting zoos for children. He launched the “Concert on the Quad” series of audience-selected film scores at West Chester University that inspired CBS News to spontaneously run a spot on it.

Compelled by humanitarian needs, Joseph changed careers in 2023 and now serves as the Co-sponsorship and Volunteer Engagement Manager at Kentucky Refugee Ministries., helping to resettle refugees. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky with his wife Kirsten.

Hailed by The New York Times as "delightful and vocally strong and versatile," Emily Albrink is a soprano whose career sports esteemed collaborations with venerable conductors and composers such as Robert Spano, Marin Alsop, Jake Heggie, and John Musto. She just released her debut album Force of Nature on the Lexicon Classics Label with pianist, Kathleen Kelly, featuring world premiere commissions by Jake Heggie, Rene Orth, Nailah Nombeko and Steve Rouse. She has sung leading roles with the Washington National Opera, Kentucky Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Boston, Indianapolis Opera, and Chicago Opera Theater and has been a featured soloist with orchestras including the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Baltimore Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony, and the Louisville Orchestra. Ms. Albrink has appeared at Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall and has performed internationally in China and France. She is on the voice faculty at the University of Louisville School of Music.

Baritone Edward Caruthers is an active performer, teacher, and clinician. As a performer Mr. Caruthers has been a featured soloist in major works including The Messiah, Magnificat (Bach), and Christmas Oratorio (Bach), The Creation (Haydn), Elijah (Mendelssohn), Ein Deutsches Requiem (Brahms), Five Mystical Songs (Vaughn Williams). Mr. Caruthers was a featured soloist for Requiem (Mozart) at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Caruthers is also an active recital artist. He has presented recitals that include the works of Tosti, Donaudy, Bellini, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Faure, Hahn, Duparc, Barber, Quilter, Niles, and many other composers. In addition, Mr. Caruthers has performed concerts featuring the music of female, African/Hispanic, Jewish and LGBTQI composers. Mr. Caruthers is a private voice teacher and his students have attended music programs at Julliard, Manhattan School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, University of Michigan, and Florida State University. As a clinician Mr. Caruthers has adjudicated festivals in Kentucky, Ohio, and Washington. Mr. Caruthers is also the vocal coach for The Youth Performing Arts High School and Western School for the Arts in Louisville, Ky.