The Glenn Gould School Chamber Competition

David Deveau has enjoyed a substantial career of over five decades, with appearances on four continents. He has performed as soloist with major orchestras including the Boston, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Houston, Minnesota and Miami symphony orchestras with such conductors as Bernard Haitink, Herbert Blomstedt, John Williams, Michel Plasson, Oliver Knussen, John Harbison and Jose Serebrier.

Abroad he has appeared with L’Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse (France) and the Qingdao Symphony (China). His recital appearances include New York’s Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall, San Francisco’s Herbst Theater, Washington’s Kennedy Center and Phillips Collection, the Shanghai Theater Academy, Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall, and at venues in Japan and Taiwan.

He served as Artistic Director of the Rockport (MA) Chamber Music Festival from 1995-2017 and was on the music faculty of MIT for over thirty years. He resides in midcoast Maine.

A Steinway recording artist, Mr. Deveau released his fifth recording of Schumann's Fantasy, Op. 17 and selections from Kinderszenen, Op. 15 on March 6, 2026. His 2015 recording, Siegfried Idyll, was critically acclaimed in the New York Times and Gramophone, and was listed as one of that year’s ten best classical albums by the Boston Globe.

Violinist/violist Yura Lee is a multifaceted musician, as a soloist and as a chamber musician, and one of the very few that is equally virtuosic on both violin and viola. Her career spans through various musical mediums, captivating audiences with music from baroque to modern, and enjoying a career that spans three decades that takes her all over the world.

She has performed with major orchestras including those of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She has given recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.

At age 12, she became the youngest artist ever to receive the Debut Artist of the Year prize at the Performance Today awards given by National Public Radio. She is the recipient of a 2007 Avery Fisher Career Grant; she has received numerous other international prizes, including top prizes in the Mozart, Indianapolis, Hannover, Kreisler, Bashmet, and Paganini competitions. Yura Lee was the only first prize winner awarded across four categories at the 2013 ARD Competition in Germany.

Her CD Mozart in Paris, with Reinhard Goebel and the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, received the prestigious Diapason d’Or Award. As a chamber musician, she regularly takes part in the festivals of Seattle, Marlboro, Salzburg, Verbier, La Jolla, Caramoor, to name a few.

Yura Lee is currently a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, as both violinist and violist; she is also a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society. Yura Lee plays a fine Giovanni Grancino violin kindly loaned to her through the Beares International Violin Society by generous sponsors. For viola, she plays an instrument made in 2002 by Douglas Cox, who resides in Vermont.

Yura Lee is a professor at the University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music, holding the Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld Endowed Chair. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog Nugget.

Hailed "Queen of the flute" by New York Magazine, flutist Carol Wincenc was first prize winner of the (sole) Naumburg Solo Flute Competition, as well as the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Flute Associations of the USA and China, the National Society of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Music, and Distinguished Alumni Award from the Brevard Music Festival Center and Manhattan School of Music. She continues to celebrate more than half a century as an international concertizing artist and legendary pedagogue at both the Juilliard School and Stony Brook University.

The muse of hundreds of celebrated composers, she's commissioned and premiered over 70 works—now staples in the flute canon—by luminaries Rouse, Foss, Tower, Gorecki, Schoenfeld, Schickele, Heggie, Jalbert, Sirota, Smith, Uebayashi, Gabriela Lena Frank, Sato Matsui and Valerie Coleman. She's had the privilege to work closely with such legends as Copland, Messiaen, Takemitsu, Carter, Corigliano, Rampal, Maazel, Paul Simon, Philip Glass and Tilson Thomas.

She has appeared as soloist with the Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and London symphonies, the BBC, Warsaw, and Buffalo Philharmonics; the Los Angeles, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras. Wincenc has appeared with Mostly Mozart, Aldeburgh, Budapest, Frankfurt, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Music at Menlo, Aspen, Yale/Norfolk, Sarasota, Banff, and Marlboro Festivals. A Grammy nominee, and most recently recipient of the Martha Graham Dance Company: "Five Fearless Women Award", she has received a Diapason d'Or Award for her recording of the Rouse Flute Concerto with the Houston Symphony, a Recording of Special Merit Award with pianist András Schiff, Gramophone magazine's "Pick of the Month" with the Buffalo Philharmonic, and NPR's 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023 for her recording of the Joan Tower Flute Concerto.

A devotee of chamber music, she is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, and founding member of Les Amies, Trio Calore and Gossamer Trio. Wincenc is renowned for her series with Lauren Keiser Music Publishers, the Carol Wincenc 21st Century Flute. She is the founder and Director of flute symposiums in the USA and Europe: Creating Resonance Retreat "CRR" in the Finger Lakes, NY, and with composer Yuko Uebayashi in France at "La Melodieuse”. Nothing gives her greater pleasure than to collaborate with former students now holding prominent positions as soloists, university professors and orchestral players, worldwide.