Westside Chamber Players

Westside Chamber Players Student-led chamber orchestra based in NYC. Directors Julius Akira Mauldin, Adeline Baban, Sofia Ouyang. Community driven, artistically adventurous.

Join WCP in celebrating our 2026 graduates 👏🏼🎉🎓 Your artistry, leadership, and dedication have shaped our community in c...
05/25/2026

Join WCP in celebrating our 2026 graduates 👏🏼🎉🎓 Your artistry, leadership, and dedication have shaped our community in countless ways, both on and off the stage! Thank you for the music, friendship, and energy you’ve brought to WCP, we can’t wait to see where your next chapters take you ❤️

Congratulations, Class of 2026 🌟🌟🌟

Lucas Amory, MM
Adeline Baban, MM .baban
Samuel Braiman, MM
Lot Bates, BA
Loa Cho, MM
Michał Cieslick, MM .cieslik.oboe
Oliver Costello, GD
Evelyn Dimov, BM
Susha Edwards, BA
Taig Egan, BM
Epongue Ekille, MM
Danny Farah, MM
Alice Ford, MM .f.59
Aidan Gold, DMA .gold
Miles Goosby, PS
Owen Graham, MM
Colin Guan, BA
Phoebe Jenkins, BS
William Ju, BM .juuu
Minseo Kim, MM
Colby Kleven, .r.r.kleven_
Julia Liu, BM
Beatrix Matin, BM
Julius Akira Mauldin, MMus .akira
Katya Moeller, BM .moeller
Rebecca Nelsen, MM
Raquel Nisi, BM
Emma Northcutt, MM
Matteo Paoli, MM
James Preucil, MM
Jacks Pollard, MM
Jessica Ringston, MM
Jack Rittendale, MA .attack.3000
Amaree Sanchez, BM
Emma Taggart, MM
Krissy Teng, BM .harp
Carlos Walker, MM
Shania Watts, MM
Joe Weinberg, BM
Brooks Wisniewski, BM

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Announcing our 2026-27 Call for Scores 🎉Visit westsidechamberplayers.org/callforscores to learn more — two winning works...
05/05/2026

Announcing our 2026-27 Call for Scores 🎉

Visit westsidechamberplayers.org/callforscores to learn more — two winning works will be selected to be performed in our 2026-27 season.

Apply by June 30, 2026, 11:59pm EST!

04/27/2026

POV: it’s 1783 and Haydn just dropped his latest symphony 🔥🤘🏼 We had a great time jamming to Haydn’s Symphony No. 45!

Haydn for breakfast! 🥞🍴A huge thank you to and for having us back on their Arts on Bergen concert series after 3 years...
04/23/2026

Haydn for breakfast! 🥞🍴

A huge thank you to and for having us back on their Arts on Bergen concert series after 3 years! Coincidentally, we also played other Haydn’s Cello Concerto then (with .hannahsohn 💖). We had an amazing time playing in this gorgeous space, answering questions from the audience, and hope to return soon!

Bravo to for his incredible performance of the infamously hard Cello Concerto in D, and thank you to for leading with such joy! 👏🏼

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04/21/2026

Cadenza clip from rehearsal ⚡️🎥

We’re so excited to play Haydn in D with tomorrow!! Come out for an all-Haydn program!

🗓️ Wednesday, April 22, 12pm
📍47 Glenwood Ave, 6th Floor, Jersey City, NJ
🎟️ Free, no tickets required

Meet Miles! Our soloist for A Haydn Celebration, this upcoming Wednesday, April 22 at 12pm ☀️ Miles will be performing H...
04/20/2026

Meet Miles! Our soloist for A Haydn Celebration, this upcoming Wednesday, April 22 at 12pm ☀️ Miles will be performing Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D, and we can’t wait! Admission is free, and all are welcome, click the link in our bio for more information or go to westsidechamberplayers.org/events 🎟️

Cellist Miles Goosby (), 25, enjoys a varied career as a soloist, orchestral, and chamber musician,
and is a passionate and dedicated teacher. Celebrated for his sensitive and generous musicianship, he is a graduate of .nyc (BM ‘23) and (MM ‘25), where he studied with Julia Lichten and Natasha Brofsky, respectively.

Miles’s recent performance highlights include performing as a semi-finalist of the 29th Annual
Competition; ’s Opening Night with Yuja Wang and the NYO All-Star
Orchestra; performing as a soloist in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the ; and chamber recitals with the , and , where he collaborated with his brother and pianist .

As a devoted chamber musician, Goosby has collaborated with acclaimed artists including
Itzhak Perlman, Laurie Smukler, Areta Zhulla, Don Weilerstein, Sam Rhodes, and the Takács, Juilliard, and Brentano Quartets; he was a featured recording artist on Damien Sneed’s 2025 album Our Song, Our Story. He is an alumnus of chamber music festivals such as , , .yale, , and both the Robert Mann and Juilliard String Quartet Seminars. He was a founding member of the BECA Quartet, based at the Juilliard School. As members of the Juilliard Honors Chamber Program, BECA’s performances included recitals at Alice Tully Hall, the California Festival in collaboration with Kris Bowers, and ’s Greene Space in New York City.

His passion for community outreach and education has led him to educational residencies in Memphis, TN, with the Iris Collective, and serving on the faculty of . Miles has appeared as a guest teaching artist at educational programs for schools in New York City in addition to teaching a private studio.

WCP’s annual Afternoon Concert of chamber music 🌸 This year’s program featured works by Clara and Robert Schumann, Brahm...
04/20/2026

WCP’s annual Afternoon Concert of chamber music 🌸 This year’s program featured works by Clara and Robert Schumann, Brahms, and Takashi Yoshimatsu, performed by Lucas, Anoush, Carlos, Evelyn, Bella and Adie! 💫 Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate the close of our 2025-26 season ♥️

🌟Join us next week for A Haydn Celebration, presented by Arts on Bergen, a free concert series of Saint Peter’s Universi...
04/16/2026

🌟Join us next week for A Haydn Celebration, presented by Arts on Bergen, a free concert series of Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, NJ!

Featuring , .akira, and the musicians of WCP, performing Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2 in D, and Haydn’s Symphony No. 45 “Farewell” 🥳

All are welcome! Admission is free.

Huge congratulations to our friends for taking home First Prize and the Composer Prize at the Saint Paul String Quartet...
04/12/2026

Huge congratulations to our friends for taking home First Prize and the Composer Prize at the Saint Paul String Quartet Competition 🥇🥇🥇

They performed “Pisachi” by Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, alongside Haydn Op. 33/3 and Bartók String Quartet No. 1! Congratulations .emi.nishi .a.nichols 👏🏼🎉🌟

Last night 💥💥💥💥💥WCP returned back to Hoboken, our birthplace! 🎉 The last time we performed here in 2024, .akira was head...
04/11/2026

Last night 💥💥💥💥💥

WCP returned back to Hoboken, our birthplace! 🎉 The last time we performed here in 2024, .akira was heading off to the UK, was named Music Director, and .baban assumed the role of Executive Director. Last night we celebrated the deeply collaborative spirit that defines our leadership, organization, and community in a program rooted in experimentation, vibrancy, and joy!

Thank you to our wonderful musicians for the their INCREDIBLE work this past week and a half (😮‍💨), and to our wonderful audience full of familiar faces! 🌟🤩🌟

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