Epongue Ekille
Violin Soloist
Epongue Ekille, a Cameroonian- and Taiwanese-American historical and modern violinist, enjoys an incredibly varied career. She performs regularly with New York City ensembles including the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, American Composers Orchestra, and NYO All-Stars. She has been featured on ESPN and The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. Epongue is also active in the studio recording scene and on Broadway, having appeared on recent productions of Sweeney Todd, Gypsy, and The Great Gatsby. She was assistant principal second violin on the Grammy-nominated recording of An American Soldier with the American Composers Orchestra and was recently a chair holder in Lincoln Center Theater’s Tony Award-winning production of Ragtime.
As a baroque violinist, Epongue has played with ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, The English Concert, and the Carmel Bach Festival. She was recently concertmaster for Juilliard415 and Yale Schola Cantorum’s tour of Italy with Haydn’s Creation. She is a fellow with both The English Concert in America and Mercury Chamber Orchestra. Epongue holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Environmental Management from Yale University. She also has a Masters in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School.
Eliana Estrada
Violin Soloist
Los Angeles-born baroque and modern violinist Eliana Estrada holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard School. Eliana has appeared at the Carmel Bach Festival, Berwick Academy, Musica Antiqua Bruges, and Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht. She has also performed with Teatro Nuovo, Apollo’s Fire, Twelfth Night, and is one of the 2025-2027 Stone Fellows with the Handel and Haydn Society. Additionally, she was recently awarded a fellowship at Mercury Chamber Orchestra in Houston and the Drake Fellowship with American Bach Soloists in San Francisco. During the summer of 2026, her string quartet, Quartet Novalis, was in residence at the Arizona Early Music Festival. Outside of music, Eliana enjoys befriending stray cats and running her online vintage clothing shop.
Isabelle Seula Lee
Violin Soloist
NYC-based violinist Isabelle Seula Lee performs as a soloist, concertmaster, and chamber musician at major venues throughout the US, Europe, and Asia, and is recognized for her versatility and fluency across a wide range of musical styles, from the Baroque era to contemporary repertoire.
She began studying the violin at age four in South Korea before moving with her family to Russia, where she spent ten years at the Special Music School of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. At age eleven, she made her debut as a concerto soloist with the Tele-Radio Symphony Orchestra in Saint Petersburg, and later appeared as soloist with the Saint Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Petersburg Conservatory Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Estonia, and the Lynn Philharmonia. As a baroque violin soloist, Isabelle has appeared with ensembles including the Sebastians, New York Baroque Incorporated, Philharmonia Baroque Chamber Players, Voices of Music, Erdódy Chamber Orchestra, and Juilliard415.
She is currently one of the leading members of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco, where she has performed as concertmaster under Richard Egarr and Peter Whelan in California and on the orchestra’s East Coast tours at the Tanglewood and Caramoor festivals. She also frequently performs with other ensembles in the US and internationally, including Bach Collegium Japan and Trinity Baroque Orchestra.
Isabelle holds degrees from Lynn University (B.A.), The Juilliard School (M.M. in modern and baroque violin), and the Yale School of Music (Artist Diploma).