Brandon Lin is a trombonist, bassist, pianist, composer, and arranger.

Born in Taiwan, music education for Brandon began with classical piano
lessons. He started playing trombone and bass after he moved to British
Columbia, Canada with his family, and was introduced to jazz when he
joined the band program at Semiahmoo Secondary School where he

met his trombone teacher and mentor, Faust Pinto. Brandon has won
numerous awards as a performer and composer at festivals such as the
Lionel Hampton Jazz Fest, Music Fest Canada, and Vancouver International
Jazz Festival. His most recent highlight has been attending Betty Carter’s
Jazz Ahead at the Kennedy Center. Brandon is currently in his final

undergraduate semester at the Berklee College Music.

Réya Wahab is a Lebanese violinist and composer. At age 9 she started
studying classical music in the Lebanese National Conservatory. She

was a part of the National Conservatory’s Children’s Orchestra and later
joined the National Middle Eastern Student’s Orchestra. Réya is currently
studying Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music. Being born and raised
in Lebanon Réya finds inspiration for her music in memories from her

childhood in Beirut and the mountains of Lebanon.

Kayhan Kalhor is an Iranian Kurdish composer and Kamancheh player who
was born in Tehran in 1963. He is an expert on Persian, Kurdish and Turkish
music and also studied European classical music at Carleton University

in Ottawa, Canada. He is currently based in the U.S.A. and performs
frequently with Yo-Yo Ma and the Ensemble of the Silk Road Project. He
has also worked with the Kronos Quartet. “The Silent City” was written in

2005 for Silk Road.