Viola
Andrew Gonzalez
Hailed by the Strad Magazine for his ‘warm hearted playing and tone’, New York based violist Andrew Gonzalez lives a fulfilling career as both a soloist and chamber musician. As a sought after chamber musician, his playing has allowed him to collaborate with respected members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Tokyo, Orion, Borromeo, and Vermeer quartets. Also an accomplished teacher, Andrew served as a fellow of Carnegie Hall’s ‘Ensemble Connect’ from 2016-2018. In the fall of 2020, Andrew became the new member of the Jasper String Quartet.
Passionate about historical performance, Andrew Gonzalez frequently performs on the violoncello da spalla. Andrew is one of the few people in the world who plays the Violoncello da Spalla, a five stringed cello that is played on the shoulder. In 2018, Andrew gave the New York City premiere of the entire sixth cello suite at Barge Music. Andrew looks forward to returning to Barge Music to perform all of the Bach Cello Suites later this season.
A graduate of the Juilliard School, Andrew holds both a master’s and bachelor’s degree under the direction of renown violists and pedagogues Michael Tree, Heidi Castleman, Steve Tenenbom, and Hsin-Yun Huang. Andrew performs on a 1930 Frederick Haenel viola modeled after a Gaspar da Salo.
linda numagami
Linda Numagami is currently the violist of the Haven String Quartet and Resident Musician at Music Haven since 2024. She has worked as Acting Associate Principal Viola of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra from 2022-23, and as Acting Section Violist from 2018-2020 in the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. In addition, she has also enjoyed performing with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Ballet, Sarasota Opera Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the San Francisco Symphony. In the summertime, Linda currently performs as Associate Principal Violist with the Colorado Music Festival.
During her time at Juilliard, Linda was awarded a 2016 Juilliard Community Engagement Grant which enabled her to present a week-long series of concerts and events in her hometown Reading, Pennsylvania. She was also awarded a 2015 New England Conservatory Entrepreneurial Musician Grant where she created a multi-disciplinary project called Silence Speaks. More recently, Linda was awarded a 2021 Grow Your Art Project Grant as an alumni of the New England Conservatory of Music.
Numagami earned a Bachelors degree and Masters degree from the New England Conservatory and the Juilliard School, respectively, where her teacher was Roger Tapping. She also received a postgraduate degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Jonathan Vinocour.
In her free time, Linda enjoys hanging out with friends, hula hooping and spending time outdoors.