Tyler DeVigal currently serves as principal cellist of Symphony San Jose and holds positions in the Santa Rosa Symphony and Marin Symphony. He regularly plays with several other Bay Area orchestras, including Oakland Symphony, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and San Jose Chamber Orchestra. Outside of the traditional repertoire, Tyler is the cellist of Quartet San Francisco, whose crossover performances have brought him to SFJAZZ, Yoshi’s Oakland, and the Sag Harbor American Music Festival. In addition to performing, Tyler is the director of Youth Chamber Music at the Crowden School’s Community Programs, where he also maintains a private studio. He received his musical training at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he earned his M.M. in Cello Performance. Prior to CIM, he attended Stanford University, where he earned his B.A. in Human Biology, with an emphasis in mental illness in the arts. His mentors and teachers include Bonnie Hampton, Robert DeMaine, Mark Kosower, Stephen Harrison, and Milly Rosner.
Violist Nao Kubota is an active chamber and orchestral musician in the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Nao frequently performs in several Bay Area chamber music series, including the Chamber Music Society of SF and Benicia Chamber Players. As an orchestral musician, Nao has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and regularly plays with several Bay Area orchestras, including the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Santa Rosa Symphony, Modesto Symphony Orchestra, and Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera. Nao is a member of the Los Angeles-based chamber ensemble, Delirium Musicum, where she can be heard on albums Seasons and Cabinet of Curiosities, released by Warner Classics. Nao is a graduate of New England Conservatory, where she earned her B.M. in Viola Performance studying with Dimitri Murrath, and the USC Thornton School of Music, where she earned her M.M. and G.C. in Viola Performance, studying with Karen Dreyfus.