The Dalí Quartet (string quartet), with members hailing from Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and the U.S., currently serves as the Faculty Quartet in Residence at West Chester University’s Wells School of Music, and is also an Iris Collective Resident Ensemble. In recent years, it won Chamber Music America’s Guarneri String Quartet Residency; the Silver Medal in the inaugural Piazzolla Music Competition; and the Atlanta Symphony's esteemed Aspire Award for accomplished African American and Latino Musicians. A champion of Latin American music, the quartet founded its own International Music Festival in 2004, which aims to develop the performance skills of young musicians.

Tara Helen O’Connor (flute) is the newly appointed Co-Artistic Director of the Music from Angel Fire Festival (New Mexico) and Visiting Associate Professor, Adjunct, of Flute at Yale School of Music. A two-time Grammy Award nominee, O’Connor is a passionate proponent of new music and has premiered hundreds of new works. A Season Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,
she is a member of the woodwind quintet Windscape, and was a founding member of the Naumburg Award-winning New Millennium Ensemble. Ms. O’Connor is in demand at major festivals throughout the country.

Joseph Conyers (double bass) joined The Philadelphia Orchestra as assistant principal bass in 2010 and is currently serving as acting associate principal bass. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, he has been recognized and awarded widely for his extensive work as an educator and entrepreneur. He founded the non-profit music-based program Project 440, and is the Director of the Young Artists Orchestra for the Tanglewood Institute as well as Director of the Philadelphia School District’s All City programs. He serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School.

Stephen Prutsman (piano) moves from classical to jazz with ease in both his compositions and playing. With the aim of connecting cultures through music, he served as Artistic Partner for the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra (2004-2007) and Artistic Director of the Cartagena International Festival of Music (2009-2012). A prolific composer, he has written over 40 pieces in collaboration with the
acclaimed Kronos Quartet, and his extensive library has been performed by artists such as the St. Lawrence String Quartet, and Yo-Yo Ma. In January of 2023, Prutsman began a two-year appointment as Visiting Artist at Stanford University.