Andy & Friends

 Cécile Chaminade: Flute Concertino, Opus 107

Camille Saint-Saëns: From Sonata for Oboe & Piano, Opus 166

Jessie Montgomery: Peace, arr. for French Horn & Piano

Camille Saint-Saëns: Sonata for Bassoon & Piano, Opus 168

Astor Piazzolla: Oblivion, arr. for English Horn & Piano

Francis Poulenc: Sextet, FP 100

Jean Françaix: L’Heure du Berger - Musique de Brasserie, for Sextet

Praised by critics for his passionate expression and dazzling technique, pianist Andrew Armstrong has delighted audiences across Asia, Europe, Latin America, Australia Canada, and the United States, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic.

Andrew’s orchestral engagements across the globe have encompassed a vast repertoire of more than 60 concertos with orchestra as well as solo recitals and in chamber music concerts at festivals around the globe.

This 2025-26 season, Andrew will perform Grazyna Bacewicz’s Piano Concerto and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto both with the South Carolina Philharmonic.  This October 2025, Andrew launches the first presentation of his Tuscan Music Festival, October 11-19.  Throughout calendar year 2026, Andrew joins longtime friend and duo partner, Two-Time Grammy Winning violinist James Ehnes in a cross-country tour across Canada, playing in each capital, province, and territory. Back in the States, year-round, Andrew directs and hosts six thriving chamber music series. Three of them are in South Carolina – in Beaufort (USCB Chamber Music), in Columbia (SC Philharmonic’s Andy & Friends), and in Greenville (Sigal Music Museum presents Andy & Friends, a combination of evening chamber music concerts and daytime workshops with students at the remarkable public arts high school, the Fine Arts Center).  He also directs New Canaan Chamber Music in Connecticut, Fabbri Chamber Concerts in NYC at Fabbri Mansion’s 1609 Italian Renaissance Library, a rare, intimate jewel with only 80 seats, and A Little Night Music at Tuckerman Hall in Worcester, MA, the vibrant city where Andrew lives happily with his wife Esty, their three children Jack (19), Elise (14), and Gabriel (8), and their dog Dooker.

Hailed as “stunning and assured” by the New York Times, Atlanta native David Byrd-Marrow is a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble, as well as The Knights. Working with a uniquely wide range of performers, he has premiered works by Anna Webber, Hilda Paredes, George Lewis, Paul Wiancko, Du Yun, Marcos Balter, Eric Wubbels and Jörg Widmann.

David has performed at festivals including the Ojai Music Festival, the Spoleto Music Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Tanglewood Music Center, Summerfest! at the La Jolla Music Society, the Denver Chamber Music Festival, Tippet Rise, and the Bang On A Can Summer Festival.

He is an alumnus of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, and has also made appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta, Seattle and Tokyo symphony orchestras, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has recorded on many labels including Tundra, More Is More, Nonesuch, EMI, Deutsche Grammophon, and Naxos.

Mr. Byrd-Marrow received his Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School and Master of Music from Stony Brook University. He is the Associate Professor of Horn at the Oberlin Conservatory.

Heralded as a "bold, emergent personality" by the Philadelphia Inquirer, bassoonist Harrison Hollingsworth was appointed Principal Bassoon of the New York City Ballet Orchestra at the age of 21, while still a student at the Curtis Institute of Music. He is also Principal Bassoon and Artist Faculty at the Brevard Music Center, and is in high demand as a principal bassoonist, chamber musician, soloist, and pedagogue.

Harrison performs recitals worldwide, with appearances ranging from the Kennedy Center to La Mortella in Ischia, Italy, and he has performed as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Louisville Orchestra. A frequent guest artist with top ensembles, he has been invited to perform with the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, American Ballet Theatre, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center (formerly Mostly Mozart), the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Chesapeake Chamber Music, the Kingston Chamber Music Festival, and the Olympic Music Festival. He is also a violinist, and writes and performs original music with Downtown Folk.

Harrison is equally recognized as a conductor of "polish, vigor, and energy" (The New York Times). He has conducted over sixty performances with the New York City Ballet since 2012, where he is a regular guest conductor and Conductor of Family Saturdays. He also serves as Associate Conductor of the New York Choral Society and as Music Director and Conductor at Redeemer Downtown. His past appointments include Music Director of the Columbia University Bach Society, Assistant Conductor with the New York Youth Symphony, and Co-Artistic Director of GardenMusic Festival (Miami, FL).

As a teacher, Harrison is equally at home in the private studio and the classroom, and his pedagogy centers Socratic dialectic, memorable analytical frameworks, and deep relational trust. He currently serves as Principal Artist Faculty at the Brevard Music Center, and has been invited to conduct, teach, coach, and adjudicate at leading institutions including the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, the Chautauqua Institution, and the Mannes School of Music.

Described by Libération as “a rare virtuoso of the flute,” Sooyun Kim has earned distinction as one of the rare flute soloists on today’s classical music scene. She made her concerto debut at age ten with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and has since appeared with renowned ensembles including the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, Munich Chamber, Boston Pops, and KBS Symphony Orchestras. Her recital engagements have taken her to prestigious venues such as Budapest’s Liszt Hall, the Kennedy Center, Helsinki’s Sibelius Academy, Kobe’s Bunka Hall and the Seoul Arts Center. Her European debut recital at the Louvre Museum was broadcast live on medici.tv.

A recipient of the Georg Solti Foundation Career Grant, Kim has garnered numerous international honors, including third prize and the special award for best performance of a commissioned work at the ARD International Music Competition in Munich.

An avid chamber musician, Kim is an alumna of the Bowers Program at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where she continues to appear as an Artist Member both at Lincoln Center and on tours across the U.S. and abroad. She is a frequent guest at leading festivals such as Music@Menlo, Spoleto USA, Yellow Barn, Rockport, Chamber Music Northwest, Olympic, Charlottesville, Music in the Vineyard, Camerata Pacifica, Ravinia, and Tanglewood.

Dedicated to interdisciplinary collaboration and education, Kim has worked with a diverse range of artists and institutions, including Sol Lewitt, Samuel Bak, Brother Thomas, Tivoli Dance Troupes, BodyVox, the Pucker Gallery, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and Glassmuseet Ebeltoft in Denmark. She studied at the New England Conservatory with Paula Robison and received Baroque Dance training from Melinda Sullivan. She is an Assistant Professor of Flute at University Cincinnati College-Conservatory and teaches summer courses at Orford Musique.

Kim performs on a rare 18-karat gold flute made especially for her by Verne Q. Powell Flutes and has recorded for labels including ArtistLed, Naxos, Toccata Classics, and BR-Klassik. Her album, Confluence, was released to great acclaim in 2025 on the Musica Solis label.

Beyond music, Kim is also a certified wine professional, having earned her WSET Level 3 certification in Wine.

Hailed by The New York Times for her “inexhaustible virtuosity,” clarinetist Yoonah Kim enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, and educator. She first came to international attention as the winner of the 2016 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition, becoming the first solo clarinetist to win the competition in nearly 30 years. She is also the first woman to win first prize at the Vandoren Emerging Artist Competition and a first-prize winner of the George Gershwin International Competition.

Kim has appeared as soloist with the Maui Chamber Orchestra, New York Classical Players, DuPage Symphony Orchestra, Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, and other ensembles, with performances throughout North America and Asia. She has been featured as a headlining artist at the 2026 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest in Incheon, South Korea, and has appeared at major festivals including La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, Moab Music Festival, Marlboro Music Festival, Hawaii Chamber Music Festival, Bravo! Vail, and the Thessaloniki Festival.

An active advocate for both standard and contemporary repertoire, Kim has recorded Eric Nathan’s Double Concerto for Clarinet and Violin with violinist Stefan Jackiw, and Samuel Adler’s Arcos Concerto with the New York Classical Players. As an orchestral musician, she has performed as guest principal clarinet with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Albany Symphony, and Princeton Symphony Orchestra.

Kim has given masterclasses at institutions and festivals including The Juilliard School, Juilliard Pre-College, the International Clarinet Association, New York University, Pepperdine University, Mannes School of Music, Michigan State University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Seattle Youth Symphony, and in Seoul, South Korea.

She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music from The Juilliard School, a Bachelor of Music from Mannes School of Music, and is an alumna of Ensemble Connect, a highly selective two-year fellowship program under the joint auspices of Carnegie Hall, The Weill Institute, and The Juilliard School. Kim currently serves on the clarinet faculty at New York University and is a Vandoren Artist.

Elizabeth Koch Tiscione has established a distinguished career as an orchestral musician, soloist, chamber artist, and educator. Admired for the warmth and beauty of her sound and the expressive depth of her performances, she has served as Principal Oboe of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra since 2007. Appointed to the position at the age of twenty-one, she became one of the youngest musicians ever to hold a principal wind position in a major American orchestra. Over nearly two decades, she has remained a defining musical voice of the ensemble while maintaining an active international career as a guest principal oboist, soloist, chamber musician, and teacher.

In addition to her position with the Atlanta Symphony, Ms. Tiscione serves as Principal Oboe of the Grand Teton Music Festival, Strings Music Festival, and Festival Mozaic, and is a member of the Atlanta Chamber Players. She has appeared as guest principal oboist with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, KBS Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

As a soloist, Ms. Tiscione has appeared with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She has been featured on NPR’s From the Top and has collaborated with distinguished artists at chamber music festivals throughout North America. Critics have praised her performances for their expressive depth, tonal richness, and technical command, noting her distinctive voice as both a soloist and orchestral musician.
Equally dedicated to teaching, Ms. Tiscione has served on the faculty of Kennesaw State University and has taught at the Aspen Music Festival and School and the Curtis Institute of Music. Her former students have gone on to successful careers as music educators, as well as in professional orchestras, military bands, graduate programs, and conservatories across the United States.

A graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Curtis Institute of Music, Ms. Tiscione studied with Marc Dubois, Daniel Stolper, Richard Woodhams, and Robert Walters, whose mentorship shaped her artistic voice and lifelong approach to performance.
Elizabeth lives in Atlanta with her husband, acclaimed trumpeter Michael Tiscione, and their two children, Elio and Gaia. Outside the concert hall she enjoys reading, cooking, traveling, practicing yoga, and sharing music with her family.