VIOLIN

Luri Lee has been praised as “the perfect chamber music partner” (Bachtrack), with playing described as “spotlessly clean and with never a routine phrase” (The Calgary Herald). She has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia as both a soloist and chamber musician, captivating audiences with her artistry.

As a founding member of the Rolston String Quartet, Lee has earned numerous accolades, including Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award, First Prize at the 12th Banff International String Quartet Competition, and Grand Prizes at both the 31st Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition and the Astral Artists National Auditions. The quartet’s debut album, Souvenirs (2020)—an all-Tchaikovsky recording—was named Recording of the Year by BBC Music Magazine. They have performed at prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Louvre, the Kennedy Center, Koerner Hall, and Wigmore Hall.

In 2022, Lee joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and was appointed Assistant Concertmaster in 2024. She is also a faculty member at the Taylor Academy of the Royal Conservatory of Music. Playing a Carlo Tononi violin, generously on loan from Shauna Rolston Shaw, Lee continues to inspire audiences and students alike.

When not performing, she enjoys traveling with her husband, violist Hezekiah Leung, exploring new destinations and discovering hidden culinary treasures.

VIOLIN

Violinist Jason Issokson enjoys an active career as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral violinist. Over the past decade Jason has performed extensively in a string quartet setting, first as a founding member of the Argus Quartet, where he served as a violinist for six seasons, and subsequently as the second violinist of the Rolston String Quartet. His busy chamber music schedule has brought him to many prestigious venues and festivals, including multiple appearances at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, as well as recent performances at Washington Performing Arts, Lincoln Center’s Great Performers Series, Chamber Music Society of Detroit, Kammermusik Buchholz, München Residenz, the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, and London’s Kings Place.

In addition to his extensive travel schedule as a soloist and chamber musician, Jason has served as a member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra since 2019. Jason’s playing has garnered many awards, including top prize at the International Violin Competition ‘Andrea Postacchini,’ third prize at the International ‘Alberto Curci’ Violin Competition, and the prize for best performance of a commissioned work at the International Max Rostal Competition. Chamber music honors include first prize at the M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition, and first prize at the Concert Artists Guild Competition.

Jason was a member of the Fellowship Quartet in Residence at the Yale School of Music, and the Graduate Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School. He studied with the violinist Midori at the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Southern California

VIOLA

Praised for his “lovely lyricism” by The Calgary Herald, Hezekiah Leung has been featured as a performer throughout North America and Europe, both as a soloist and as the founding violist of the Rolston String Quartet, winner of the First Prize at the 12th Banff International String Quartet Competition.

After completing his violin studies at the University of Michigan under the tutelage of Stephen Shipps, Leung pursued an artist diploma in viola with Stephen Dann and Barry Shiffman. Leung holds a Master’s degree from Rice University, an Artist Diploma from the Royal Conservatory of Music, and was part of the Fellowship Quartet in Residence at the Yale School of Music with the Rolston String Quartet. Leung has shared the concert stage with renowned artists such as Tabea Zimmermann, Leif Ove Andsnes, Jon Kimura Parker, and James Campbell.

As a founding member of the Rolston String Quartet, he was also awarded Grand Prize at the 31st Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition and the Astral Artists National Auditions. The quartet has performed at some of the world’s most prestigious concert venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Louvre, the Kennedy Center, Koerner Hall, and Wigmore Hall. Their debut album Souvenirs, an all-Tchaikovsky release in 2020, was named Recording of the Year by BBC Music Magazine.

Leung joined the Dover Quartet as their violist for the 2022-2023 season and has served on the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Northwestern Bienen School of Music. He is currently on the viola faculty at the University of Toronto and serves as a Chamber Music Coach at the Phil and Eli Taylor Academy at the Royal Conservatory of Music.

CLARINET

Todd Cope has been the Principal Clarinet of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal since 2014.  Prior to his appointment, he served as Second and E-flat clarinet with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra from 2011 to 2013 and was a member of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach from 2007 to 2010.  Todd has also performed with the Sun Valley and Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Florida Grand Opera, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, National Repertory Orchestra, and Aspen Music Festival Orchestra, among others.  As a member of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, he has toured extensively through Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States.  He has been featured as a concerto soloist with the OSM and can be heard on the “Soloists of the OSM” CD series released by Analekta Records featuring chamber works by Beethoven, Strauss, and Schubert.  In addition to performing, Todd is an Assistant Professor at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.  He has given masterclasses in North America and Europe, and is a faculty member at the Domaine Forget International Summer Academy.  Todd completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music as a student of Richie Hawley and earned a Professional Studies Certificate from the Colburn Conservatory of Music as a student of Yehuda Gilad.  Other teachers include Greg Raden, Carmine Campione, and Deborah Fabian.  Todd is a performing artist and clinician for Buffet Crampon and Vandoren USA. 

PIANO

Meagan Milatz, pianist, is winner of the prestigious 2025-2028 Mécénat Musica Prix Goyer and the 2024 Prix Opus “Discovery of the Year”. She is “a remarkable pianist with a seemingly limitless palette of expression” (Le Devoir). Meagan regularly shares the stage with top international musicians including Andrew Wan, concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra; Stefan Dohr, Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic; cellist Matt Haimovitz; and mandolinist Avi Avital. In 2022, Meagan was named co-artistic director of HausMusique, along with cellist Cameron Crozman.

Meagan has appeared as a soloist alongside orchestras such as the Edmonton, Regina, Sherbrooke, and McGill Symphonies. Meagan was top prize winner in the Shean Piano Competition, CFMTA National Piano Competition, and Canadian Music Competition, and the recipient of a Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award. Her performances are regularly broadcast on CBC/Radio-Canada.

An ATMA Classique recording artist, Meagan recently recorded an album of music for fortepiano and natural horn alongside Louis-Pierre Bergeron, released in December 2023. For the 2019/2020 season, Meagan undertook a 50-concert, Canada-wide tour alongside violinist Amy Hillis as the duo “meagan&amy”. Meagan began her studies in Saskatchewan and holds a Master’s degree from McGill University. She is grateful to her teachers and lifelong mentors Cherith Alexander, Ilya Poletaev, Philip Chiu, and Tom Beghin with whom she was greatly privileged to study the fortepiano.

CELLO

Cameron Crozman, “Canada's next big cello star” (CBC Music), is praised for his “rich imagination and keen mind” (Diapason Magazine). He leads an active career as soloist and chamber musician across Canada, the USA, and Europe, including with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Philharmonie de Paris and Orchestre National d'Ile-de-France. Cameron shares the stage with eminent artists such as James Ehnes, Augustin Hadelich, Louis Lortie, Gérard Caussé, and James Campbell. Cameron’s critically acclaimed recordings with ATMA Classique and Printemps des Arts de Monaco and performances are broadcast on CBC, BBC, RTÉ Radio, Radio France, and Medici.tv. He is grateful to be the winner of the Fernand-Lindsay Career Grant, supporting the development of his career internationally. Cameron is the co-founder of ClassicalValley, and since Fall 2024 the assistant Artistic director of the Festival of the Sound.

Western Canada’s foremost contemporary chamber ensemble, Standing Wave is a sextet of intrepid new music interpreters dedicated to commissioning and performing cutting-edge music from today’s most forward-thinking composers.

Acclaimed internationally for their virtuosity, vision, and artistry, Standing Wave has cultivated a reputation for electrifying live performance that pushes the boundaries of what chamber music is and can be.