About the Artists

Alvin Lee, violin

Alvin has served as co-concertmaster of Camerata Notturna since 2011. Originally from Atlanta, Alvin studied with members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra throughout his youth and performed violin concertos by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Saens as a high school student with orchestras throughout his native Georgia.

He later attended the Encore School for Strings and the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with David Updegraff and members of the Cavani String Quartet. Alvin ultimately chose to leave music school after his freshman year of college (much to his family's surprise!) and received an undergraduate degree in Government from Cornell University, where he was concertmaster of the Cornell Symphony Orchestra and performed chamber music with members of the music faculty, including pianist Miri Yampolsky.

Alvin is a graduate of Harvard Law School and works today as a partner at a large international law firm. He has received a number of legal industry awards from publications such as Bloomberg Law, Benchmark Litigation, and Law360. He has also been named by Crain's New York Business as a Notable Diverse Leader in the Law and as a Notable LGBTQIA+ Leader in New York City.

An avid runner, Alvin will be running the New York City Marathon in November 2025 for the second year in a row.

Maurice Cohn, conductor

A two-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award, Maurice Cohn currently serves as Assistant Conductor for the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular guest conductor with the Chicago-based contemporary ensemble Zafa Collective and is also the Assistant Conductor of the Aspen Music Festival for the 2022 season.

Recent and upcoming engagements include the Cincinnati Symphony, Utah Symphony, Amarillo Symphony, Colorado Music Festival, Symphoria New York, and the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. Highlights of last season also include two world premieres, Mason Bates's Philharmonia Fantastique with the DSO, and Liza Sobel’s chamber opera I DID, DID I? with the Zafa Collective. In September 2022, Maurice was a finalist in the Guido Cantelli Conducting Competition, where he received the Orchestra Award.

Maurice spent two summers as a conducting fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, where he received the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize (2019) and the Aspen Conducting Prize (2021). He recently received an M.M. from the Eastman School of Music, where he worked frequently with the Eastman orchestras and OSSIA New Music Ensemble. He holds a B.M. in cello performance from Oberlin Conservatory and a B.A. from Oberlin College, where he studied history and mathematics. When not conducting or playing cello, you can find him reading mystery novels, playing tennis, or continually searching for the best podcast app.