Violinist Isabel Chin Garita is in her first year at Bard Conservatory studying with Professors Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony. She started playing the violin at age 5 and has studied at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, Project Step (String Training Education Program, 2013-2019) and Project BEAM (Bridge to Equity and Achievement in Music). Her teachers have included Magdalena Richter and Jin Kyung-Joen. She is the recipient of the Eleanor L. Campbell Scholarship and the George James Webb Scholarship, sponsored by the Boston Society of New Jerusalem. As a soloist, she has performed with several orchestras including the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Costa Rican National String Orchestra, New England Youth Repertory Orchestra, Rivers Conservatory Ensemble, and Nashua Chamber Orchestra. In addition to solo performances, Chin enjoys chamber music and collaborating with other musicians. She performed as the Chin Duo with her brother on From The Top, a live broadcast radio station featuring promising young musicians. She also spent many years as part of Project STEP’s Honors Quartet. For the past few summers, she has attended the Bowdoin International Music Festival, studying with Almita Vamos, Robin Scott, and Mikhail Kopelman. Her music has taken her to worldwide concert halls in Boston, Costa Rica, Spain, Czech Republic, and Hungary.