The musicians

Hamilton Berry: A Nashville native, Berry has been active in a variety of performing, arranging and composing projects. He has performed with the Toomai String Quintet, Founders, A Far Cry, Novus NY, Con Brio Ensemble, Ensemble ACJW, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Gotham Chamber Opera; collaborated with pop artists including Debbie Harry, Bjork, Becca Stevens, Vampire Weekend, FUN. and Cults; and written and arranged music for Speed Bump, a string trio co-founded with violist Nathan Schram and cellist Eric Allen. He recently joined the teaching roster of Musicambia, which offers music lessons to inmates at Sing Sing Correctional Facility.

Claire Bryant: As a founding member of Decoda, she has collaborated with world- class artists such as Daniel Hope, Anthony Marwood, Emanuel Ax, Sir Simon Rattle, Dawn Upshaw, the Weilerstein Trio and members of the Peabody Trio, Saint Lawrence String Quartet and Danish String Quartet, among others. She regularly performs with acclaimed chamber ensembles in NYC such as Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Novus NY and Ensemble ACJW. The 2010 recipient of the Robert Sherman McGraw Hill Companies award for excellence in community outreach and music education, she is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her diverse career includes performing chamber music, contemporary music and the solo cello repertoire.

Caitlin Sullivan: A chamber, orchestral and contemporary music performer based in New York City, she has been recognized by the New York Concert Review as having “the understanding and emotional projection of a true artist.” As a member of Decoda, she has helped to lead educational outreach projects in South Africa and Japan, as well as curate a chamber music performance at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She also is a member of the Knights, which has afforded her the opportunity to travel extensively in the U. S. and abroad, performing with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Bela Fleck, the Joshua Redman Quartet and others. She also is a member of the IRIS Orchestra in Memphis.

Yves Dharamraj: As soloist, chamber musician, teaching artist and composer, this Franco-American cellist has played major stages of the United States and abroad, including appearances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center (New York); the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.), Orchestra Hall, Ravinia Festival and Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago); Disney Hall (Los Angeles); SpoletoUSA (Charleston, S.C.), and internationally in Canada, Germany, Dominican Republic, Panama and Thailand. He co-founded New Docta International Music Festival in 2013 to bring world- class musicians to Argentina. He is a founding member of Decoda and the genre- defying Bohemian Trio.