Chamber music has been at the center of violinist Eric Chin’s musical life for more than two decades, shaping a career devoted to performance, collaboration, and education. As a founding member of the Telegraph Quartet, he has built a career encompassing chamber music, recording, and teaching.

Since co-founding the Telegraph Quartet, Chin has appeared on major concert stages in the United States and abroad. The ensemble received the Grand Prize at the 2014 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the 2016 Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Award, and its recording Edge of the Storm was named Chamber Music America’s 2026 Album of the Year. Through an extensive performing and recording career, the quartet has become known for its wide-ranging repertoire and sustained engagement with music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries alongside the classical canon.

Throughout his career, Chin’s work as a soloist, chamber musician, and concertmaster has taken him to festivals, concert series, and institutions throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He has also given concerts and masterclasses at universities throughout Taiwan, including National Taiwan Normal University, National Taiwan University of Arts, and Tunghai University.

Teaching and mentorship are central to Chin’s artistic life, rooted in the importance he places on carrying musical knowledge, tradition, and experience from one generation to the next while allowing each generation to shape the art in its own time. At the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, where the Telegraph Quartet serves as Quartet-in-Residence, Chin works closely with students in chamber music and strings, helping them develop their individual voices while cultivating the listening, communication, and collaboration at the heart of chamber music. His work with dedicated adult chamber musicians further reflects a commitment to chamber music as a lifelong practice—one that continues to deepen, evolve, and create meaningful connections at every stage of a musician’s life. Alongside his university teaching and performing career, he continues to work with a select private studio of violin students, both in person and remotely.

Violinist Joseph Maile has been passionate about chamber music and teaching from very early on in his musical studies and he has worked and performed in various ensembles throughout the United States.

As a chamber musician Mr. Maile is a founding member of the San- Francisco-based Telegraph Quartet, an ensemble that straddles equally the works of past and present.  Along with the other members of the Telegraph Quartet, Mr. Maile was the recipient of the Senior String Division Gold Medal and Grand Prize at the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. This past season Mr. Maile has made appearances with the Left Coast Ensemble, Vocallective, the Zivian-Tomkins Duo and Bonnie Hampton. Mr. Maile has also collaborated in past years with numerous artists , including Ian Swensen, Norman Fischer, James Dunham, Roberto Diaz, Menahem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Roger Tapping, Donald Weilerstein and composer John Adams. During the summer of 2014, Mr. Maile was invited along with the Telegraph Quartet to participate in the Great Lakes Festival, directed by Paul Katz.

Mr. Maile began his career as an educator at the Michael P. Hammond Preparatory Program at Rice University, as a private violin instructor. Mr. Maile is violin faculty at the Pre-College Program of San Francsico Conservatory of Music and has also coached chamber music as interim faculty for the San Francisco Conservatory’s Collegiate Chamber Music Class for 2013/2014 school year.  During the previous summer of 2013 Mr. Maile coached chamber music at the Young Artist Program at Yellow Barn Music Festival in Putney, Vermont.

Hailing originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Maile received his Bachelors in Music at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Itzhak Perlman and Cathy Cho and his Masters in Music at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University with Kathleen Winkler. Mr. Maile also has an Artist Certificate in Chamber Music studying with Ian Swensen and Mark Sokol at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Native Taiwanese violist Pei-Ling Lin enjoys a fulfilling musical life as a chamber musician, educator, and soloist. Her passion for chamber music and education has brought her to major concert halls and festivals across the nation and abroad.

As a co-founder of the Telegraph Quartet, Ms. Lin was the winner of both the Senior String Division Gold Medal and the Grand Prize at the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and the winner of the Walter Naumberg chamber music competition in 2016. In the past few years, she has collaborated with musicians such as Robert Mann, Paul Katz, Donald Weilerstein, Peter Wiley, Joseph Lin, Leon Fleischer, and Benjamin Beilman. Ms. Lin was part of the Musicians from Marlboro tour in 2015.

A fervent educator, Ms. Lin strongly believes in making connections with students and engaging in music-making in creative ways. Her goal is to challenge students while inspiring deeper love and understanding of the instrument and the music. She has given masterclasses and coachings throughout the nation and abroad, including serving as the viola faculty in Augustana College in South Dakota, chamber music faculty for Yellow Barn Young Artist Program, Festival Napa Valley, Music in the Vineyards, Hidden Valley Chamber Music Workshop, SoCal Chamber Music Workshop, and Center Stage Strings. Ms. Lin has served as collegiate chamber music faculty and pre-college viola faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory for 11 years and has been teaching at the University of Michigan since 2024.

Ms. Lin attended The Juilliard School for her Bachelor’s of Music under Hsin-Yun Huang. She holds a Master’s of music degree from Rice University, where she studied with James Dunham of the Cleveland Quartet. Ms. Lin also holds an Artist Certificate in Chamber Music from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, with the guidance of Jodie Levitz, Mark Sokol, Bonnie Hampton, and Ian Swensen.

Jeremiah Shaw, cellist, has performed throughout Asia, Europe, and the U.S. with various symphonies, chamber orchestras, and ensembles. In 2013 he founded the acclaimed Telegraph Quartet in San Francisco which won the Grand Prize and Gold Medal at the 2014 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the 2016 Naumburg Foundation Chamber Music Competition.

As an avid chamber musician, Jeremiah spent multiple summers at Kneisel Hall in Maine, having the privilege of working with members of the most prestigious and influential string quartets of America such as the Audubon, Cleveland, Concord, and Juilliard String Quartets. Past festival performances include, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in MI, Kneisel Hall in ME, Mainly Mozart Music Festival and Music in the Vineyards in California, Chautauqua Music Festival in NY, Gretna Music Festival in PA, Music at the Gardner and LyricaFest in MA, Steans Institute at Ravinia Music Festival in IL, the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, and was a member of the cello section of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony in Idaho for over a decade.

Jeremiah is currently faculty at the University of Michigan School of Music Theatre and Dance and has held faculty positions at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Diego State University School of Music, Interlochen, The SoCal Chamber Music Workshops in California, Chamber Music Connection in OH, and at Sun Valley Summer Symphony Music Workshops in ID. During his fellowship at New World Symphony in Miami Beach Florida he performed the Shostakovich Cello Concerto no. 1 with conductor Alasdair Neale as winner of the concerto competition. Jeremiah holds performance degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, as well as a bachelor degree in Music Production and Recording Technology from Shenandoah University. He also had the unique opportunity of interning for the Grammy Award Winning classical music label Sono Luminus, while attaining his audio engineering degree.

His principal cello teachers were Richard Aaron and Joel Krosnick, but his main inspiration to become a quartet cellist was from his father Clyde Shaw, cellist of the Audubon Quartet.