Miles Hoffman is a violist and the Artistic Director of the American Chamber Players.

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She says the challenge for her in this piece is not to play like a classical violist.

NPR: Kim Kashkashian's Vocal Viola

"He looks young on the podium, but he doesn't act young, " L.A. Philharmonic violist Dana Hansen says.

NPR: Dudamel Leads L.A. Philharmonic In Concert

She will compete against soprano Kate Royal, who performed on last year's winner of album of the years Sir Paul McCartney's Ecce Cor Meum, and critically acclaimed violist Lawrence Power.

BBC: Classical Brits to honour Webber

It's his Trinity College training in London -- he got into composition by applying as a violist, he laughs -- that helps him go where no classicist likely even knows one might venture.

CNN: Helping 'Bourne' rise to the occasion

With her friends Joshua Smith (principal flutist in the Cleveland Orchestra) and Cynthia Phelps (principal violist in the New York Philharmonic), she chose a set of atmospheric, ethereal works that have what she calls an "esoteric" connection with nature and the environment.

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