Currently, Bean serves as Music Director/Conductor of the Young People’s Philharmonic of the Lehigh Valley, Conductor of the Philadelphia Young Musicians Orchestra, and Assistant Conductor

A graduate of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he studied with Ralph Kirshbaum, and a current student of Laurence Lesser

A graduate of the Tchaikovsky School of Music where she studied with Petros Haykazyan, she is a current student of Ana Chumachenco at the Munich University of Music and Performing Arts. Diana

Congratulations to the following winners: Clarinetist Anthony McGill was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize. VC Artist cellist Zlatomir Fung, VC Artist violinist Stella Chen and Baroque