Delirium Musicians on Tour

  • Etienne Gara - Artistic Direction / Violin

    Artist in Residence at The Soraya and at USC's Brain and Creativity Institute, Etienne is a French-Hungarian graduate of the New England Conservatory, and ended his student career of more than 11 years at USC with Midori Goto. Since then, he enjoys concertizing internationally and gathering artists from different backgrounds around creative projects, and goes skydiving when he runs out of ideas. His dearest memories, beside the time spent with Delirium Musicum musicians, are from playing under the baton of John Adams with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and recording his debut album on a 1714 Stradivarius. His strongest trait of character: French.

  • Tiffany Chang - Violin

    Originally from Arizona, Tiffany Chang received her B.M. and M.M. in Violin performance at the New England Conservatory. She is currently a doctoral fellow at the CUNY Graduate Center, studying with Mark Steinberg. An avid chamber musician, Tiffany loves to collaborate with other artists in various musical spheres, and has worked with renowned musicians including Miriam Fried, Gabriel Kahane, and Nina Lee among others. She is a founding member of the piano trio, Trio Rai. Outside of music, Tiffany enjoys eating hot pot, watching the Phoenix Suns, and teaching tricks to her recently rescued cat, Slim Bim.

  • Evan Hjort- Violin

    Evan Hjort is a native of Seattle, WA who recently returned to the area after completing his studies at the New England Conservatory. An enthusiastic new music fan, Evan has premiered pieces by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Caroline Shaw, Tan Dun, and Wayne Shorter, among others. When not flying down to LA to perform with his delirious friends, Evan enjoys curating for a film studies group, drinking beers while hiking, and constructing elaborate Halloween costumes. Evan recently completed his debut album of electronic music.

  • Sheng-Ching Hsu - Violin

    As a quiet introvert girl, Sheng-Ching wanted to be a musician when she realized it is a way to communicate without actually speaking. Born and raised in Taiwan, S-C earned all her degrees in New York (Mannes, Juilliard and Stony Brook) and moved to Los Angeles after performing Lincoln Center Stage on cruise ships all over the world for a few years. During the pandemic, “S-C Sidewalk Performance” brought weekly live music to the street corners of West LA. The performances brought comfort and hope to many people during the time of isolation, and were featured on KTTV Fox 11 Los Angeles. S-C enjoys baking, organizing, and drinking coffee. She shows her delirious love to her DM colleagues by baking one thing for them every cycle.

  • Mann-Wen Lo - Violin

    Violinist Mann-Wen Lo performs extensively throughout the world in some of the most prestigious venues as a soloist and chamber musician. Originally from Taipei, she has lived in the United States in different cities including Boston, New Haven, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, and Honolulu. She enjoys a wide array of reading including books by Franz Kafka and mangas by Toshihiro Togashi, as well as playing board games with her “Delirious” family. To inspire and encourage everyone to lead a creative life through performances and teaching is Mann-Wen’s personal mission; she is a violin faculty at the University of Houston. Find out more about Mann-Wen: https://www.mannwenlo.com

  • Misha Vayman - Violin

    Misha Vayman is a professional violinist, educator, and dog lover. He has performed in a wide variety of contexts, from opening for Dorian Electra to soloing with various orchestras in the United States, Mexico, Russia, and China. With his genre hopping band Astral Mixtape, Misha has been featured at a variety of venues across Los Angeles and at multiple international music festivals. After 10 years of school at the USC Thornton School of Music, Colburn Conservatory, and the Cleveland Institute of Music, Misha is good, and doesn’t need to practice at all. Animals have been known to enjoy his playing, as do some people.

  • Yezu Woo - Violin

    Violinist Yezu Woo debuted at Carnegie Hall at age 16, becoming the youngest performer to play all 24 of Paganini’s Caprices for solo violin. Winner of the Korean national award, "Outstanding International Musician of the Year" by the Arts Critics Association, Yezu was appointed as Honorary Ambassador of the City of Chuncheon, where she is currently serving as the Artistic Director of the New York in Chuncheon Music Festival. Yezu is a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship in Germany, where she was a member of the Ensemble Modern Academy and a researcher at the Isang-Yun-Haus in Berlin. She received a degree from virtually all of the best music schools in New York, while finding time to enjoy watching movies and reading during her free time. Yezu has recently been obsessed with salsa dancing!


  • YuTing Hsu - Viola

    Originally from Taiwan, Yu-Ting graduated from USC with Yura Lee. Yu-Ting has devoted herself to music since the age of seven. She made her solo debut at the age of twelve, after winning the golden prize in a Taiwan Viola Competition. Yu-Ting is one of the rare violists who started on viola directly instead of on violin. Besides music, she loves national parks and beaches, basketball, and delicate non-spicy bar food.

  • Luther Warren - Viola

    Luther is a violinist, violist, and avid teacher. He grew up in Minneapolis, MN and is currently based in Boston. A soon-to-be four-time graduate of the New England Conservatory, he enjoys traveling and performing with his friends in groups like Delirium Musicum and ensemble132. When not engaged in musical activities, Luther loves exploring cities and thinking about urban design. His favorite color is burgundy.


  • Stella Cho - Cello

    Originally from South Korea and raised in the UK, Stella made her solo debut at the Royal Albert Hall, London at the age of fifteen. She was selected as one of the Holland Music Sessions’ “New Masters on Tour”, which took her to the Royal Concertgebouw for a solo recital, and concertizes on 3 continents. As a kid, Stella started piano and cello with the same teacher. She is now known for her super-power as a living GPS – she can point you to any restaurant at anytime, anywhere – which probably made her pick cello over piano, so she could fulfill her destiny to be the anchor of any ensemble she plays with.

  • Javier Iglesias Martin - Cello

    Born in Madrid, Spain, Javier has lived in the United States since 2010. He studied at the Peabody Conservatory, New England Conservatory, and a Doctorate in Musical Arts at USC with Ralph Kirshbaum. His love for chamber music is only matched by his passion for soccer, which he enjoys both watching and playing. Outside of music and sports, he believes in the healing powers of good Spanish food followed by a siesta. Javier is the official paella chef of Delirium Musicum and also the cello professor at Pepperdine University.


  • Ryan Baird - Bass

    Born and raised in Waco, TX, Ryan moved to Los Angeles in 2011. He loves his adoptive city, but Tex-Mex and proper barbecue will always hold a special place in his heart. A 2019 recipient of a doctorate in bass performance (DMA) from USC, Ryan sees himself as consistent and persistent, in the most self-effacing sense. Ryan performs all around Southern California in orchestras, recordings, chamber ensembles, and as an educator. Though he is enthusiastic about wearing these many hats, he gets profound satisfaction from playing with his friends in Delirium Musicum. When he is not playing music, Ryan is also an avid ultramarathon runner. The craziest distance he's run so far is 100km.

  • Nathan Ben-Yehuda - Keyboard

    Born in Los Angeles, Nathan Ben-Yehuda completed his masters degree at Juilliard. Passionate about new music and embracing a variety of keyboard traditions, Nathan especially enjoys the open mindedness and risk taking that playing in Delirium Musicum encourages in himself, and all its entities. He’s been lucky to work closely with some of the leading composers of our time, like Thomas Ades, Kaija Saariaho, George Lewis and Oliver Knussen. A connoisseur of funky synth bass grooves, he often experiments with electronic soundscapes, and is a member of classical-crossover band Astral Mixtape. Catch Nathan after a Delirium show and he might make you extra delirious with a whisky based cocktail.


Resting Musicians

  • Leonard Fu - Violin

  • JiEun Hwang - Violin

  • Yiliang Jiang - Violin

  • YuEun Kim - Violin

  • Sophia Szokolay - Violin

  • Dian Zhang - Violin

  • Nao Kubota - Viola

  • Sung Jin Lee - Viola

  • Chieh-Fan (Jay) Yiu - Viola

  • Annie Jacobs-Perkins - Cello

  • Joo Lee - Cello

  • Kathryn Schulmeister - Bass

  • Thomas Mellan - Keyboard