Mozart/Bach: Six Preludes & Fugues for String Trio, K. 404a

No. 3 in F major: Adagio & Fugue after BWV 992

No. 5 in E flat major: Adagio & Fugue, after BWV 526

Three-Part Invention No. 2 in C minor, BWV 788

Selections from The Goldberg Variations, BWV 998
(Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Dmitri Sitkovetsky)

Fiona Khoung-Huu, violin
Joseph Skerik, viola
Boubacar Diallo, cello

Born in New York City, fifteen-year-old Fiona Khoung-Huu studies the violin under Professor Li Lin, Itzhak Perlman, Stella Chen, and Kenneth Renshaw at the Juilliard Pre-College division. Fiona recently became one of the 2022 Arkady Fomin Scholarship Fund recipients and was awarded the prestigious career grant award from Salon De Virtuosi. She took part in the Napa Valley Festival as a Bouchaine Young Artist in 2021. She has had the honor of performing with her sister Hina in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium and the Buckingham Palace along with Maestros Maxim Vengerov and Marios Papadopoulos. They also performed for Juilliard’s Pre-College Centennial Gala at the Alice Tully Hall and at the Bozar Concert Hall in Brussels with the Flanders Symphony Orchestra. Fiona has joined the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players on numerous occasions. She also performed often on the NPR show From The Top and participated in the musical storefront series with the Kaufman Music Center. She has performed as a soloist with the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and Juilliard Orchestras. She won the First prize at the 2017 Grumiaux competition, and the third prize and the best virtuoso interpretation prize at the Louis Spohr Competition in 2019. She has taken lessons and masterclasses with artists such as Menahem Pressler, Ivry Gitlis, Shlomo Mintz, Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Gluzman, and more. She goes to the Spence School in New York.

Currently pursuing his MM with Ettore Causa at the Yale School of Music, violist Joseph Skerik recently won 3rd Prize at the 4th Oskar Nedbal Viola Competition in Prague. He completed his undergraduate studies with Jeffrey Irvine at the Cleveland Institute of Music and in 2018 graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy, having studied with Renee Skerik. Prior to Interlochen, Joseph was a student of David Holland. Festivals include the Heifetz Chamber Music Seminar, Perlman Music Program, Aspen Music Festival, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar. He has performed chamber music with musicians such as Ani Kavafian, Jaime Laredo, Philip Setzer, Shmuel Ashkenazi, Andres Cardenes, Sharon Robinson and Shannon Lee.

Boubacar Diallo is an African- American cellist born and raised in New York City. Growing up, he spent his early studies at Kaufman Special Music School and New York Youth Symphony’s
chamber music program. He graduated from the Eastman School of Music in the spring of 2022 with a Performer’s Certificate, an award for excellence in chamber music and the Alan Harris cello award, under the tutelage of Steven Doane and Rosemary Elliot. Boubacar is currently pursuing his Master’s degree at the Juilliard School in his hometown of New York City, where he studies with Clara Kim. He has attended the Heifetz Institute for four consecutive summers, both a student and staff member. Boubacar is an avid lover of chamber music as well as the art of pedagogy, and hopes to pursue a career that incorporates these passions.