A Far Cry

A Far Cry is a Boston-based chamber orchestra. The orchestra is self-conducted and consists of 18 musicians called "The Criers". It was founded in 2007 by a group of 17 musicians in Boston. The orchestra performs in Jamaica Plain and previously served as Chamber Orchestra in Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. A Far Cry has toured across America and undertook its first European tour in 2012. It also collaborates with local students in an educational partnership with the New England Conservatory and Project STEP. The orchestra has released nine albums, two of which have been nominated for Grammy Awards for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance: Dreams & Prayers in 2015 and Visions and Variations in 2019.

Alex Fortes is a violinist from San Diego with degrees from Harvard College and Mannes College. His teachers include Mark Steinberg, Peter Zazofsky, Hernan Constantino, Mary Gerard, and Michael Gaisler.

Annie Rabbat is a violinist from Chicago who received her bachelor's degree from Indiana University and her master's degree from the Juilliard School. After a year at Stony Brook University, she went to the New England Conservatory. Her mentors include Miriam Fried, Robert Mann, Pamela Frank, Ani Kavafian, and Phil Setzer.

Caitlin Lynch is a violist whose musical career has led her to perform worldwide in collaboration with artists ranging from Itzhak Perlman to Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.

Celia Hatton is a violist based in New York City. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree with Kim Kashkashian from New England Conservatory receiving a Presidential Distinction Award Scholarship. She received her master's degree and professional studies certificate from Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Karen Dreyfus as a recipient of a William Randolph Hearst Scholarship. Hatton's solos as principal viola of Experiential Orchestra are on the Grammy-winning album The Prison.

Francesca McNeeley is a cellist based in Boston, originally from Haiti. She attended Princeton University with a primary focus in politics, and received scholarships to attend Rice University and the New England Conservatory for her graduate degrees in cello performance. She performs regularly with Castle of Our Skins, the Celebrity Series of Boston, and as a substitute with the Boston Symphony & Boston Pops Orchestras.

Garbriela Díaz is a violinist originally from Georgia. She is on the faculty of Wellesley College and the Longy School of Music at Bard College. In 2024 she became the newest member of the Kronos Quartet.

Hannah Collins is a cellist and teaching artist. She earned a B.S. in biomedical engineering summa cum laude from Yale College and has graduate degrees in cello performance from the Yale School of Music, the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and the City University of New York's Graduate Center. Her principal mentors include Stefan Reuss, Ole Akahoshi, Aldo Parisot, Michel Strauss, Robert Mealy, and Marcy Rosen. Collins is associate professor of cello at the University of Kansas School of Music.