Stephanie Oestreich, PhD, MPA

Violin

Stephanie Oestreich is a semi-professional violinist who started to play violin at age 5 and has studied (among others) with Grigory Kalinovsky, assistant of Pinchas Zukerman in New York.

She has performed with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (where she was also a director) in Carnegie Hall, with members of the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics, Metropolitan Opera New York, German Opera Berlin, Mozarteum Salzburg, Bamberger Symphony as well as at the Verbier and Salzburg Festival.

Her recent Carnegie Hall comeback was with the World Doctors Orchestra.

Stephanie plays a Nicola Gagliano violin from 1725 and a Tourte bow.

Stephanie Oestreich is Managing Director of the Myeloma Investment Fund (MIF). She is also on the faculty of MIT and has worked in roles of increasing responsibility at pharma and biotechnology companies and in venture capital.

She conducted the research for her Ph.D. in biochemistry in the lab of a Nobel Prize winner at Harvard Medical School and obtained an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Stephanie conducts workshops with live orchestras, demonstrating the similarities between teams and leadership in music and management.

Tom Boss

Piano

Tom Boss studied composition with Gardner Read and piano with Leon Tumarkin at Boston University. He wrote the first adaptation of Wonder Woman. He is the writer of over 1000 compositions and lifetime interpreter of the Great American Songbook.

He sells rare books.