Caitlyn Lynch, Co-Director
Viola, A Far Cry
Violist Caitlin Lynch has performed across the globe in collaboration with artists from Itzhak Perlman to Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood. She is violist of the Aeolus String Quartet, violist and co-Artistic Director of the Grammy-nominated conductorless chamber orchestra A Far Cry, and founder and Artistic Director of Project Chamber Music: Willamette Valley. Praised for her “deep, chocolate-rich voice” (Washington Classical Review) and “lush sound and splendid advocacy” (Boston Music Intelligencer), Ms. Lynch’s “effervescent…stellar” (Oregon ArtsWatch) performances as a chamber and orchestral musician, soloist with orchestra, and recitalist have spanned fourteen countries across five continents – including performances at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Sydney Opera House, the Beijing National Center for the Performing Arts, and the United Nations. Her performances frequently appear on PBS Great Performances, Performance Today, NPR, WQXR, and American Public Media. Festival appearances include performances at Caramoor, Halcyon, Methow Valley, Mozaic, Perlman Music Program, Ravinia, and Yellow Barn Music Festivals. She performed on the Experiential Orchestra’s Grammy Award winning album featuring Dame Ethel Smyth’s “The Prison”. Ms. Lynch performs on an 18th century viola made by English luthier William Forster, and thanks to the generosity of the Five Partners Foundation, a 2020 viola by Samuel Zygmuntowicz.
Inés Voglar Belgique, Co-Director
Assistant Principal Second Violin, Oregon Symphony
Inés Voglar Belgique performs with passion and grace as Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Oregon Symphony and a member of new music ensemble, Fear No Music. As a member of DuoKrom alongside flutist Molly Barth, Voglar Belgique recently performed on tour in Slovenia (2023) which included performances at the Slovenian Parliament, National University Library, and Vipava Castle. Committed to music education, Voglar Belgique is the conductor of the String Ensemble (PYSE) of the Portland Youth Philharmonic and a faculty member at the Interlochen Adult Chamber Music Camp and the Portland Summer Ensembles. As Artistic Director of Fear No Music from 2005 until 2011, Voglar Belgique curated unique concerts that featured collaborations with internationally acclaimed composers alongside the music of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Before joining the Oregon Symphony in 2004, she played two seasons with the Pittsburgh Symphony as an extra musician, including national and European tours. Other orchestral distinctions include having been Guest Concertmaster of the Galicia Symphony Orchestra in December 2007 and being a frequent Concertmaster of the Astoria Music Festival Orchestra. Born to a Slovenian family in Venezuela, where she studied music under the program “El Sistema” and violin with Roberto Valdes, she came to the United States in 1996 to complete her undergraduate and graduate studies from Duquesne University and Carnegie Mellon University with then-Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Andrés Cárdenes.
Photo credit: Sankar Raman
Megumi Stohs Lewis
Violin, A Far Cry
Raised in Portland, Oregon, Megumi started playing the violin at age three. She has soloed with orchestras throughout the US and Japan, and has toured with ensembles throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. Now residing in Boston, she is a co-founder of A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra, has been a guest with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, the Radius Ensemble, the Boston Pops, and plays regularly with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Odyssey Opera, and the Sheffield Chamber Players. Starting in 2008, Megumi picked up the baroque violin and quickly fell for the gut strings and a variety of period bows. This love has led to performances with Boston Baroque, the Handel and Haydn Society, Les Bostonades, and the formation of Antico Moderno, a period instrument ensemble actively commissioning contemporary works. She also loves to fiddle and play rock and has regularly toured with Britain’s Jethro Tull. In the summers, Megumi can be found in Oregon wine country playing at the Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival. Megumi’s primary influences include her teachers Kathryn Gray and Bette Boyer in Portland, Lucy Chapman at the New England Conservatory and Camilla Wicks and Ian Swensen at the San Francisco Conservatory. Especially in chamber music and period performance, Roger Tapping, Martha Katz, Phoebe Carrai, Manfredo Kraemer, and Mark Sokol have been significant mentors.
Photo credit: Rachel Hadiashar
Raúl Gómez-Rojas
Violin, MYS Music Director
Member of the 2018 class of the prestigious Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview (League of American Orchestras), Raúl Gómez-Rojas inspires audiences and artists of all ages and backgrounds to use music as a vehicle to connect, pursue excellence, and spread joy. Lauded as a “visionary conductor” (Oregon ArtsWatch), Raúl has built a reputation as an insightful leader that “captivates both performing musicians and audiences alike,” and whose “positive attitude and enthusiasm make him a joy to be with.” Under Raúl’s leadership, the Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra’s “precise, yet effortless playing and beautiful cohesion were both breathtaking and steadfast through the show’s final note.” (Amy Leona Havin for Oregon ArtsWatch).
In high demand as a guest conductor, Raúl is equally at home on stage and in the pit, leading professional orchestras in the USA and Latin America, new music ensembles, youth, and community groups, and collaborating with a vast array of guest artists across many genres and disciplines. Recent highlights include performances with the Oregon Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Nashville Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio, Portland Chamber Orchestra, 45th Parallel Universe, Fear No Music, Third Angle New Music, Beaverton Symphony, Tilikum Chamber Orchestra, the Oregon International Ballet Academy, esperanza spalding, jazz violinist Regina Carter, Steward Copeland, Boyz 2 Men, Lyle Lovett, The Tenors, Kermit Ruffins, Rick Springfield and more. After a performance together in Portland in 2023, hip-hop artist Common immediately engaged Raúl to join his band on violin for their next performance in Seattle. In 2025, Raúl commissioned and conducted esperanza spalding’s first-ever orchestral composition, with Metropolitan Youth Symphony (Portland, OR).
Raúl is a passionate music educator, and his skills to “inspire children and young adults to make music to the best of their ability are astonishing” (D. Seldis, The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra). 2025-2026 marks Raúl’s tenth season as Music Director of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony in Portland, OR, where he leads a team of 12 conductors serving over 500 students in 14 ensembles. He has led the organization to new artistic heights while creating “concert programs that any forward-looking orchestra should envy.” (Willamette Week). Raúl also currently serves as Music Director of YMA: Young Musicians and Artists and served as Resident Music Director (2022-2024) with Oregon Ballet Theatre.
A native of Costa Rica, Raúl received full scholarships for graduate studies at Louisiana State University in violin/viola (MM, Kevork Mardirossian) and conducting (DMA, Carlos Riazuelo), and was a Conducting Fellow in the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival (2011). In 2o21, Raúl was a recipient of the Carlos Miguel Prieto Conducting Fellowship. Beyond the podium, his work extends to frequent engagements as a violinist/violist, clinician and public speaker. From 2020 to 2024, he served as a Contributing Host and Producer for On Deck with Young Musicians on All Classical Radio.
Zenas Hsu
Violin, A Far Cry
With a sound palette ranging from a ‘commanding tone’ to ‘delicate sentiment’ (Calgary Herald), Taiwanese-American violinist Zenas Hsu enjoys a vibrant career filled with chamber music, orchestral leadership, and education. He is a member of A Far Cry, a Grammy nominated ensemble in Boston and second violin principal at the Boston Ballet. He has served as guest concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Brockton Symphony, Chorus pro Musica, and Monadnock Music Symphony Orchestra. Zenas also performs regularly with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops and Esplanade, and as a tenured member of Boston Lyric Opera.
Zenas is a founding member of Chamber Music by the Bay, a California-based interactive music series designed for schools, libraries, and public spaces. He is on faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music, and serves as a guest coach at Portland Summer Ensembles, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and Rivers Conservatory.
As an advocate of new music, Zenas has enjoyed personally working with composers such as Jorg Widmann, Carlos Simon, Philip Glass, and Lembit Beecher on commissioned or premiered works. He has premiered works also of Jungyoon Wie, Robert Honstein, Matthew Aucoin, and Jessie Montgomery.
A native of California, Zenas received his early training in the preparatory division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He was accepted at age sixteen to the Curtis Institute of Music for his Bachelor of Music degree, and received his Master of Music and Graduate Diploma degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music. His teachers include Wei He, Ida Kavafian, Nicholas Kitchen, and Donald Weilerstein.
Marilyn de Oliveira
Cello, Oregon Symphony
Marilyn de Oliveira, cellist with the Oregon Symphony, has been a PSE faculty member for five summers and with the Oregon Symphony since September 2009. Prior to joining the Oregon Symphony, Marilyn was a member of the San Antonio Symphony for three seasons, during which she was both a member of the section and acting assistant principal. Before moving to San Antonio, Marilyn was a fellow of the New World Symphony in Miami, FL. While in Miami, she served as principal cellist during tours to Teatro Santa Cecilia in Rome and to Carnegie Hall, all under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas.
Since moving to the United States to pursue her musical career, Marilyn’s summer activities have included the Tanglewood Music Center (where she received the Karl Zeise Memorial Cello Prize), Spoleto Festival USA, the Kent/Blossom Music Center, the Youth Orchestra of the Americas and several European music festivals. She was also the Bronze Award Winner in the senior division of the 9th Annual Sphinx Competition in 2006. Marilyn received her Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University under cellist Emilio Colon and her Master of Music degree at Rice University with Norman Fischer. Some of her live solo performances can be heard regularly on National Public Radio’s Performance Today. Marilyn is married to Oregon Symphony cellist Trevor Fitzpatrick and has a 1-year old daughter. She is also a founding member of local string quartet, Mousai Remix.
Yoko Greeney
Pianist, Oregon Symphony
As a collaborative pianist, Yoko Greeney has performed at various venues throughout the U.S. Since she moved to Portland in 2010, she has actively performed orchestral and chamber music in various settings including the Oregon Symphony, All Classical Portland, and Oregon Ballet Theatre. She teaches privately at home and at Lewis and Clark College. As a devoted supporter for artistic, cultural, and educational institutions she hosts and performs for numerous fundraising events. She holds a Master’s Degree from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University.