The Ondine Quartet
Violinists Ariana Cappon & Chloe Kim, violist Cindy Lan, and cellist Sara Song make up the Ondine Quartet. These chamber musicians regularly program diverse works covering the territory from Mozart to modernist and everything in between. After a thrilling Downtown Music debut in 2023, they return to present a program featuring works of Beethoven and American composer Gabriella Smith.
This program is made possible, in part, with the support of Apple Bank.
Cellist Sarah Song holds degrees from Indiana University, The Eastman School of Music, Queens College and is now pursuing her DMA at The CUNY Graduate Center with Marcy Rosen. She is a passionate soloist, chamber musician and improviser and is seen performing in venues like Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Space, Flushing Town Hall, LGBTQ Center and The Dimenna Center. Sarah is the recipient of The Chamber Music Live Award, winner of the 2020 Concerto Competition at Queens College, semi- finalist at the Coltman Chamber Competition and Classical Tahoe’s 2019 quartet fellow. She is adjunct faculty at LIU Roc Nation in Brooklyn.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, Chloe Seunghyen Kim began playing the violin at the age of six. She studied at GyeongGi Art High school where she graduated with highest honors and won several competitions. She holds an undergraduate degree from SookMyung Women’s University under Hyun-Mi Kim. She has performed as a soloist with the Seoul National Symphony Orchestra, as well as the SookMyung Women’s University String Orchestra. After moving to New York, she studied at Mannes School of Music for her Master degree and Artist degree under Todd Phillips. Soon after moving, she won 3rd prize at the East Coast International Competition and performed as a soloist at Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center. Aside from being a soloist, Chloe is a respected orchestral and chamber musician, performing at Carnegie hall and Lincoln center in New York, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, Italy and Russia.
Her interest in and exploration of other genres (such as jazz, Korean traditional music, new music, and pop) have led Chloe to work with an eclectic array of musicians from diverse backgrounds. In 2019, she founded the Music and Friends Chamber Ensemble, a collective of musicians that serves as a vehicle for her artistic vision, and started her own concert series centered around the collective. She is a member of the Downtown Brooklyn Chamber Music Festival. She is the concertmaster in several orchestras, such as New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, New Camerata Opera and Litha Symphony Orchestra.
Cindy Lan is a performer, composer, and improviser from unceded Munsee Lenape and Canarsie land otherwise known as Queens, NY. She began studying the violin under her mother’s tutelage at the age of 7. From an early age, she has been involved with multidisciplinary, collaborative creative endeavors, including: performing with TADA! Youth Theater through middle school, attending LaGuardia High School where she held principal positions in orchestras and performed with the New Music Ensemble, countless hours of chamber music at Skidmore College, being a member of the band EMDR, playing regularly with Musica Nova (conducted by Brad Lubman of Ensemble Signal) at the Eastman School of Music, and attending music festivals such as New Music On the Point where she worked closely with composers and performers such as Caroline Shaw, JACK Quartet, Tony Arnold, and Miya Masaoka. At the Eastman School of Music, she completed her Master’s degree with George Taylor. She is a pedagogue with a decade of experience and is constantly learning from her students. She is the principal violist of the Greenwich Village Orchestra, and an avid chamber musician. She is the recipient of a 2023 Queens Art Fund grant for a New Work composition. Today, she enjoys expanding her strings family with cello studies, working on multi-genre recording projects, and making art with her husband, Raphael Galvis.
Ariana Cappon is a professional violinist based in New York City. Since her solo debut at age 14, she has performed frequently in North America and Europe in solo and collaborative roles, and in notable venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Merkin Hall. She has played on prestigious series, such as the Young Artists Showcase at Bruno Walter Auditorium in Lincoln Center, the Richardson Chamber Players at Princeton University, and the St. Paul’s Chapel Series as Columbia University. In 2019, she was appointed violinist of a piano quintet to represent Lincoln Center on the Holland America Line, in which she performed about 250 concerts. She is currently a member of the Greenwich Symphony Orchestra, and performs often with the Harrisburg Symphony and the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic. Outside of classical music, Cappon has performed in other styles, such as Baroque and Argentine Tango, and for two years, she performed in an Afro-Cuban charanga band.
She obtained her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under Mauricio Fuks and Mark Kaplan. She has studied chamber music with Menahem Pressler, Andre Watts, and the Horszowski Trio, and played in masterclasses for Philippe Quint, Philippe Graffin, and Giora Schmidt. In addition to her musical life, Cappon has a passion for mathematics. She won a National Science Foundation grant in 2013 to publish original research, and in recent years taught at the Russian School of Mathematics.