Joel Weszka is a clarinetist whose career spans orchestral performance, military music, and international cultural exchange. He has performed in some of the world’s most historically significant and solemn settings, including the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and the Rhone American Cemetery in France, the Sicily-Rome American Cemetery in Italy, and the Brookwood American Cemetery in the United Kingdom; the waterfront of Lucca near the Puccini House Museum; performed solo outside the Cathedral of Orvieto in Italy; conducted and performed as featured soloist at the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella in Naples, and given street performances in Malta while deployed with the USS Mount Whitney. He has performed for foreign dignitaries of NATO and non-NATO allies including the Japanese and Finnish Ministers of Defense, and collaborated with the Swedish embassy to use music to sustain international partnership during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As an educator, Joel has led masterclasses and worked with school bands and students in Washington, Utah, Nevada, Maryland, Naples, Italy, and Lagos, Nigeria. He has also coached chamber ensembles at Temple University and Gonzaga University, and currently serves as a mentor in the Midshipmen Musical Activities at the U.S. Naval Academy, sharing his experience and enthusiasm for collaborative music-making with young musicians of all goals and backgrounds.

Joel’s artistry is rooted in rigorous orchestral training. He holds a Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Graduate Performance Diploma from The Peabody Conservatory, and continued his studies at Temple University. His principal teachers include Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic, and Ricardo Morales, principal clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Through grants from Peabody and Temple, he studied abroad with Walter Seyfarth of the Berlin Philharmonic. Most recently, he studied with Gi Lee.

Across all his work as a performer, educator, and lifelong student, Joel is committed to music’s ability to inspire reflection, build connection, and elevate shared experience.

Praised for her “delicate performing with pureness, clarity, and sweetness” —The Hancock Herald, NY, Hanbyeol Lee (Han) is an accomplished historical keyboard specialist and pianist.

Han has appeared in many festivals and concerts in North America, Europe, and South Korea. She was the first-prize winner of the Wanda Landowska International Harpsichord Competition and was awarded the Gold award of the Kiwanis Piano Competition in Canada.

She has performed the harpsichord, organ, and fortepiano in concerts at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Amare Den Haag, the Sablé Baroque Music Festival, Lanvellec Baroque Academy, La Petite Bande Academy, Boston Early Music Festival, and Tafelmusik Summer Institute. She made her debut in Italy in 2018 as a soloist performing Mozart's Concerto K.595 on the fortepiano under the direction of Sigiswald Kuijken. Furthermore, she licensed a solo recording of “12 Variations On La Folia d’Espagne” for permanent use in the film, “Notre Dame,” directed by Valérie Donzelli in 2019 France. As a continuo player, Han has collaborated under the baton of distinguished conductors like Masaaki Suzuki, Sigiswald Kuijken, and William Christie.  She is also the founder and artistic director of In Nomine Ensemble and a member of Open Source Baroque with The Gluck Community Service Fellowship. 

Han has taught private piano lessons to students of all ages and abilities since 2010, including teaching for West Amadeus and City String and Piano in New York City and the Salvation Army Art Institution in Philadelphia. She participated in the Dorothy Taubman Seminar and incorporated this into her pedagogy to help children safely and ergonomically develop their piano technique. Han was a guest artist and assistant for The Juilliard School Pre-College / Music Advancement Program. She was an instructor for an undergraduate harpsichord course at Temple University, and currently, is a teaching asistant for several courses including Secondary Piano Course and Lesson, Early Music Ensemble, and Baroque Performance Practice. 

She earned her Graduate Diploma in Historical Performance at The Juilliard School. She previously studied privately with Enrico Baiano in Naples, Italy, as well as at the Conservatorio di Cimarosa. She completed her master's degrees in piano and harpsichord at Temple University and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in historical keyboard at the same institution.

In addition to her keyboard studying, Han is interested in seventeenth century lute music, and has been researching renaissance lute music and making transcriptions for harpsichord and lautenwerk. She studied renaissance lute as her secondary instrument at The Juilliard School.