Venezuelan-American violist Adriana Linares is one of today’s most talented artists with an active career as a chamber musician, pedagogue, conductor, mentor, and entrepreneur.

Her playing has been called “meltingly beautiful” by Naxos label reviewers, and her performances and recordings have received international acclaim in Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Canada, and the USA. She was described by Grammy Award-winning violist Roger Tapping as “an artist of extraordinary merit and ability who is not only excellent but also distinctive, characterful, and individual.”

Ms. Linares is the founding President and Artistic Director of the Arts & Community Network (ArCoNet), a nonprofit organization founded in 2012 based in North Wales, PA. Under the umbrella of ArCoNet, Ms. Linares has launched innovating music programs including a string academy with 120 students, a youth and chamber orchestra, intensive solo boot camp retreats, the Dalí Quartet International Music Festival, college preparatory courses, community outreach partnerships, and collaborative projects. Ms. Linares has mentored hundreds of students with successful careers in the music field, as performers, educators, and arts administrators.

Ms. Linares is also the founding violist of the award-winning Dalí Quartet, with whom she has embarked on recording, performing, and educational projects in the U.S. and abroad. She currently serves on the faculty at West Chester University in PA, as part of the Dalí Quartet residency. She regularly performs as principal and assistant principal viola with the Iris Collective and the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Linares was recently appointed to the board of directors of Chamber Music America.

Recent performing collaborations include performances and recordings with acclaimed pianist Olga Kern and clarinetist Ricardo Morales. Highlights of solo engagements include her debut at Carnegie Hall with the U.S. première of Venezuelan composer Modesta Bor’s Sonata and the world première of Howard Hanson’s Summer Sea Side #2, recorded on the NAXOS label.

Ms. Linares holds a Master’s degree in viola performance from Temple University, where she studied with violist and Curtis Institute of Music President Roberto Diaz. She also holds a Bachelor’s degree from Indiana University where she studied with distinguished violist Atar Arad.

In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, traveling, power walks, the outdoors, and spending time with her family and friends.

Violinist Carlos Rubio began his musical career as a member of Venezuela’s famous Youth Orchestra System (“El Sistema”). As a member of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, he toured France, Japan, the U.S., Mexico, and Spain, and participated in seven CD recordings under the Dorian Records label.

Mr. Rubio has taught master classes and performed at Miami University, Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, University of Tennessee, Drake University, University of Iowa, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Festival de Música Latinoamericana in Colombia, Festival y Academia del Nuevo Mundo, the Simón Bolivar Conservatory of Music in Venezuela, and Colorado State University, and is a founding member of the Dalí Quartet International Music Festival.

Mr. Rubio was awarded the grand prize in the Spanish and Latin American Music Competition at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and was distinguished as the Ohio Latino Arts Association’s Performing Artist of the Year. Mr. Rubio has soloed with the Middletown Symphony, the Illinois Philharmonic, and the Oxford Chamber Orchestra. His chamber music partners have included the Colorado, Oxford, Penderecki, DaPonte, and Amernet String Quartets, clarinetist Ricardo Morales, pianists Alessio Bax, Olga Kern, Vanessa Perez, Pamela Mia Paul, and cellist Marc Johnson of the Vermeer Quartet. Additionally, he has collaborated with composers such as Joan Tower, Joel Puckett, Edward Thomas, Susan Botti, Ricardo Lorenz, Efrain Amaya, and Manena Contreras. He has also premièred works by composers Roland Vasquez, Paul Salerni, Terry Vosbein, Diana Arismendi, and Arcangel Castillo-Olivari.

Carlos is a founding member of the Dalí Quartet and is on faculty at West Chester University as part of the quartet’s residency. He is also a member of the Iris Collective and the Philly Pops, and performs regularly with the Harrisburg and Lancaster Symphonies.

Carlos lives near Philadelphia with his wife, Julia, and sons, Javier and Miguel.

In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, traveling, power walks, the outdoors, and spending time with her family and friends.

Praised for his “enormous soul and a big, vibrant sound,” (The Reading Eagle), violinist Ari Isaacman-Beck is a captivating and multifaceted artist whose solo and chamber music performances have taken him all over the world, including venues such as Jordan Hall, the Kennedy Center, Zürich’s Tönhalle, and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. An award-winning violinist, he was the 2016 winner of the Lili Boulanger International Competition, won second prize in 2006 at the Sion-Valais International Violin Competition, and received the prize for the best performance of the commissioned work, Thomas McKinley’s Dialogues, at the 2017 Elmar Oliveira International Violin Competition.

As of fall 2020, Isaacman-Beck is proud to be the first violinist of the Dalí Quartet, in residence at West Chester University. With the quartet, he is ecstatic to study and promote the traditional string quartet canon alongside lesser-known works by Hispanic composers. From 2009-2016, he performed in North America, Europe, and China as the violinist of Trio Cleonice, an award-winning piano trio described by the Boston Globe as “abundantly sincere and absorbing.” With the trio, he was a top-prize winner at the 2014 Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld and Chamber Music Yellow Springs competitions and received the John Lad Prize from Stanford University at the discretion of the St. Lawrence String Quartet.

A committed educator, he was on the faculty of the Sunderman Conservatory of Gettysburg College from 2017-2020, alternately as the Visiting Assistant Professor of Violin and Interim Director of Orchestras; he also completed a teaching and performing residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in September 2019. He has previously served on the faculties of the Kinhaven Music School, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, New England Conservatory’s Preparatory Division, Rivers Conservatory, and Junior Greenwood Music Camp. Additionally, he has presented master classes at the Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Bucknell University, the University of Hawaii, and Husson College. He received degrees from the Cleveland Institute, The Juilliard School, Mannes, and the New England Conservatory; his teachers have included Donald Weilerstein, Ronald Copes, Mark Steinberg, Laurie Smukler, David Updegraff, and Mary West. ariisaacmanbeck.com

Jesús A. Morales Matos was born into a prominent musical family and is an active soloist, recording artist, and chamber musician. As a member of the Dalí Quartet, Jesús is on faculty at West Chester University as part of the quartet’s residency. His students have been accepted into esteemed music schools such as the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University, and Temple University.

As a concert artist, Fanfare Magazine wrote, “Not since DuPre’s or Starker’s performances of the Saint-Saëns Concerto have I heard such miraculous playing: clean as a whistle, impassioned, technically adept, and exhibiting extraordinary control.” The Salt Lake Tribune added, “His sound has an assertive, gorgeous quality, from the cello’s brusque low notes to its sweet upper range.” The New York Concert Review hailed him as a soloist “in a category above many cellists of today … inspired and captivating.” Caribbean Business declared, “… he is already talked about as a soloist of potential international stature.”

Mr. Morales’s solo appearances include the Philharmonia Bulgarica, the San Bernardino Symphony, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Puerto Rico, the Camerata Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra, the Starling Chamber Orchestra, and the Festival de Orquestas Sinfonica Juvenil de las Americas.

As a recording artist, Mr. Morales’s recordings of the Saint-Saëns and Lalo cello concertos on the Centaur label, were received with rave reviews.

Mr. Morales has participated in summer festivals including the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Banff Centre for the Arts, Grand Teton Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Bowdoin Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival, and Música Rondeña in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mr. Morales has also performed in recitals and chamber music concerts in Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

Mr. Morales holds a Bachelor’s degree from The Cleveland Institute of Music and has done postgraduate work at The Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. His teachers include Dr. Ronald Crutcher, Alan Harris, Helga Winold, and Yehuda Hanani. He studied chamber music with Peter Oundjian among others.

Mr. Morales resides in Philadelphia with his wife, violinist Dara Morales, and daughters, Isabel and Karina.