Core Musicians
Nikita Borisevich,
violin
Nikita Borisevich is an internationally acclaimed violinist, who is frequently performing across the United States and Europe. Mr. Borisevich is a winner of numerous international music competitions and has performed on world renown stages such as The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), Grand Hall of Moscow Conservatory (Moscow, Russia) Shriver Hall (Baltimore, Maryland) and Manuel de Falla Auditorium (Granada, Spain), among others.
Nikita Borisevich performs together with his wife, internationally acclaimed pianist Margarita Loukachkina as the Borisevich Duo. The Duo was a recipient of the inaugural Young Artist Development Series Award at The El Paso Pro Musica Festival in collaboration with Peabody Conservatory, and has since then been invited to do a residency at El Paso Pro Musica Festival, Northwest Bach Festival and Sitka Summer Music Festival by Grammy-Award-winning cellist, Zuill Bailey. The Borisevich Duo made their debut at the Venetian Arts Society in Florida, the Chamber Music Society of Maryland, The Shandelee Music Festival in New York and gave performances in France and Luxembourg. Most recently The Borisevich Duo performed at the Alden Theatre in McLean (VA), the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts (NY), the Gualala Chamber Music Society in Gualala (CA), the Tuesday Concert Series in Washington, DC and the Evensong Concert Series in Silver Spring (MD). In 2020 The Borisevich Duo was named a winner of the Beverly Hills National Auditions and will perform a series of concerts in Southern California in the 2021-2022 concert season.
Master Sgt. Luke Wedge,
violin
Master Sgt. Luke Wedge is principal second violinist with the Air Force Strings, The United States Air Force Band, Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C. Originally from Hutchinson, Kansas, his Air Force career began in 2003. Wedge currently serves as music director for the Air Force Strolling Strings.
A graduate of the University of Kansas, Wedge received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1998. In 2001, he earned a Master of Music degree in violin performance from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. His primary instructors have included Ben Sayevich, David Perry and Gerardo Ribiero. Wedge has performed with the National Symphony, Chicago Sinfonietta and the Ravinia Festival Orchestra.
An active chamber musician, Wedge has performed in concert in Washington, Chicago, Kansas City, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. As soloist, he has appeared with the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra, Northshore Chamber Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of the Emporda in Figueres, Spain. Highlights from Wedge's Air Force career include a special concert for the King of Cambodia in Phnom Penh in 2016, as well as participating in the Juilliard String Quartet workshop in 2009.
Adelya Lindsay,
viola
Adelya Lindsay is a prizewinning Russian - American violist. Her numerous awards include top awards at the “Andrey Korsakov All-Russian Music Competition”, “Eugen Coca International Music Competition,” and “Togliatti International Competition”, as well as the First Prize at the “National J.S.Bach Competition.” In November 2016, Adelya Lindsay was announced the First Prize winner of the “American Protege International Competition”, and a winner of the prestigious “The American Prize Competition.” The former award won her an opportunity to give a solo performance in Carnegie Hall in December 2016. Adelya Lindsay returned to Carnegie Hall in June 2019 for a solo performance as a top winner of the LISMA International competition (August 2017). In May 2018 she became a winner of Beverly Hills National Auditions, which won her concert engagements in Encinitas, Torrance, and Beverly Hills, CA, in May 2019. Ms. Lindsay has performed in such venues as the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall in New York, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, among others. From 2009 until 2015 Ms. Lindsay was on the roster of iPalpiti Artists International, as well as a principal violist and a soloist of the iPalpiti Chamber Orchestra. As iPalpiti soloist, Ms. Lindsay appeared in the “New York Benefactors Series” at the residence of Charles Avery Fisher, and was featured on “Sundays Live!” radio broadcast chamber concerts.
Ms. Lindsay is an active solo and chamber musician. She appears in various chamber concert series, such as the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Bargemusic, Ltd., BCENY Concert evenings, and Candlelight Concerts. In May 2016 she was invited to join the Fine Art Music Company concert series and actively performs with the group since then. Ms. Lindsay collaborated with such prominent musicians as Dmitry Berlinsky, Julius Berger, Svetlana Smolina, Luiza Borac, Mark Peskanov, and Branford Marsalis, to name a few. Adelya Lindsay has studied in the international studio of a world-renowned professor Eduard Schmieder of Temple University’s Boyer College of Music, and with Daniel Avshalomov, the violist of the American Quartet. Adelya Lindsay is a Doctor of Musical Arts. She completed her doctoral studies at Temple University in 2019.dStreetReview.com
Jacques-Pierre Malan,
cello & Founder
Internationally prize-winning, South African cellist Jacques-Pierre Malan is known as a “tour de force” player with “vibrant musicality” (Beeld). Mr. Malan is an Artist-in-Residence at the Embassy Series in Washington D.C. where he engages with the Embassies not only as a soloist and chamber musician, but as a producer, developing concert programs with humanitarian themes.
With a passion for chamber music, Mr. Malan has performed extensively on stages spanning multiple continents. He is the founder of the Embassy String Quartet, and a member of Serafin Ensemble based in Wilmington, DE. He has had the opportunity to collaborate with such players as Ivry Gitlis, Anthony McGill, Victor Yampolsky, and Jonathan Carney, among many others. Select chamber music engagements include performances on the Four Seasons Music Festival, Stellenbosch International Chamber Festival, Venetian Arts Society, Arts Club of Washington, Casa Labia Series in Cape Town, Worcester Music Society, and Erin Hall in Roedenbosch.
As a concerto soloist, Mr. Malan has performed with Kwazulu Natal Philharmonic, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Cape Town Philharmonic, Mid Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, FreeState Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Conductors Orchestra, and the South African National Youth Orchestra. With the Creative Concert Group, he premiered a new arrangement of Dvorak’s Cello Concerto with string quartet accompaniment. Mr. Malan is currently principal cello of Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and the Washington Opera Society, and was formerly the assistant principal position of the KwazuluNatal Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2013, as a member of the KwazuluNatal Philharmonic Orchestra, Mr. Malan was selected to perform for the funeral of the South African leader Nelson Mandela.
Earning a Masters Degree in cello performance and a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory at John Hopkins University, Mr. Malan studied under the tutelage of Amit Peled (principal teacher), Alan Stepansky, Seth Knopp, and Michael Kannen. Graduating with honors, he received a Bachelors of Music from the University of Pretoria in South Africa studying with Heleen Du Plessis, and a Performance Licentiate from the University of South Africa. He has been a prize-winner in such competitions as the Yale Gordan String Competition, SAMRO Bursary Competition, Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival Competition, and Baltimore Music Club Competition. Mr. Malan currently holds faculty positions at the Bryn Mawr School and the Nelly Berman School of Music, and maintains a private cello studio.