A two-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, Maurice Cohn is currently the 11th Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and serves as Artistic Partner and Conductor of Camerata Notturna. Alongside his work with West Virginia highlights of his 24/25 season include his debuts ...

A two-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, Maurice Cohn is currently the 11th Music Director of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and serves as Artistic Partner and Conductor of Camerata Notturna. Alongside his work with West Virginia highlights of his 24/25 season include his debuts with the Filharmonie Bohslava Martinů for Stravinsky’s The Firebird and Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations and Omaha Symphony for Kurt Weill’s Symphony No. 2.

Highlights of his 23/24 season included a successful jump-in with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, a return to Aspen Music Festival to conduct the Chamber Symphony in a programme that includes the world premiere of Peng-Peng Gong’s Late Bells for Concertante Piano and Orchestra as well as conducting Mason Bates Philharmonia Fantastique and a concert performance of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Recent seasons include debuts with Utah Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Symphoria New York as well as frequent appearances with the Chicago-Based contemporary ensemble Zafa Collective and the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. Maurice served as the Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra until the end of the 23/24 season, he was also Assistant Conductor of the Aspen Music Festival in 2022 and 2023.

He received the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize and the Aspen Conducting Prize, and an M.M. in conducting from the Eastman School of Music, where he worked frequently with the Eastman orchestras and OSSIA New Music Ensemble. He holds a B.M. in cello performance from Oberlin Conservatory and a B.A. from Oberlin College, where he studied history and mathematics.

Jiebing Chen is one of the foremost erhu virtuosos in the world based on her mastery of the classical Chinese repertory and her award-winning contemporary innovations. As a soloist with Chinese, American, and European orchestras she was the first to bring the erhu into the symphonic concert hall. She ...

Jiebing Chen is one of the foremost erhu virtuosos in the world based on her mastery of the classical Chinese repertory and her award-winning contemporary innovations. As a soloist with Chinese, American, and European orchestras she was the first to bring the erhu into the symphonic concert hall. She has performed in partnership with some of the most notable jazz and world music artists of our time. She received a Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album for her jazz improvisations with Bela Fleck and Vishwa Bhatt.

Ms. Chen began performing at 5 in her native Shanghai. Her talent was saved during the Chinese Cultural Revolution when, at age nine, she was taken into the Chinese Navy Orchestra. There she played the lead instrument in the orchestra that accompanied Madame Mao’s “model operas”. She was the youngest performer to be named National First Rank Performing Artist; the highest honor the Chinese Government award to artists.

Ms. Chen graduated with top honors from the Shanghai Conservatory and received a master’s degree in music theory from the State University of New York in Buffalo.