Fulton Ambassadors
The Fulton Ambassadors are a team of students and alumni of the Fulton Summer Music Academy. Passionate about Fulton's mission, they aim to spread the word about Fulton's programs and help fundraise, learning important leadership skills through their efforts.
Marielle Roselli
President
Marielle Roselli is a high school junior attending North Shore Country Day School in Winnetka, Illinois. She was drawn to music from the earliest age beginning with piano. But by the age of seven, she found her love of violin when she started playing as part of the Winnetka Public Schools’ Suzuki Program. By age ten, she enrolled in the Music Institute of Chicago and began studying with Addison Teng. Marielle has participated in Midwest Young Artists orchestras, MIC’s chamber music program and attended Suzuki Music Camps at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. For the past three years, she has been a student at the intensive Fulton Summer Music Academy. In addition to music, Marielle is involved in Model UN and is an avid tennis player. Marielle’s desire to make the transformational Summer Music Academy experience accessible to more talented young musicians led her to the creation of the Fulton Ambassadors in 2023.
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Erick Nickerson
Vice President
Eric Nickerson lives in Homewood, IL and is an aspiring orchestral cellist. Eric started playing the cello at 9 years old and has been studying with Ingrid Krizan of the Illinois Philharmonic for the past 2 years. Eric Nickerson is a junior entering his second year as a cellist in Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra's Concert Orchestra and his third year in Homewood Flossmoor High School’s Viking Orchestra. Eric recently studied with Addison Teng and Nicholas Mariscal at the Fulton Summer Music Academy. Fulton completely changed Eric as a musician and he looks forward to attending for years to come.
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Ingrid Buschkopf
Secretary
Ingrid Buschkopf is a violin student at the Eastman School of Music, where she is pursuing a BM in Violin Performance with Reneé Jolles. She previously studied with Katherine Brooks at the String Academy of Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Ingrid has performed with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and attended Interlochen Arts Camp in 2021 and 2022, where she earned a Fine Arts Award. She is a Fulton Summer Music Academy alumna and student, and is excited to be a part of continuing to advance the mission of Fulton Music Society.
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Bowen Cheng
Treasurer
Violinist Bowen Cheng is enrolled in Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Growing up in Chicago, he graduated from Walter Payton College Prep in 2023. A student of Addison Teng, he attended Fulton Summer Music Academy, playing in masterclasses for Jorja Fleezanis, Alena Baeva, and Augustin Hadelich. Bowen also toured Hawai’i and Vietnam with Fulton in Residence, soloing with the University of Hawai’i Orchestra and the Imagine Philharmonic Orchestra. Passionate about the violin, he was a part of the Chicago Symphony Youth Orchestra, playing in prestigious venues such as Symphony Center’s Orchestra Hall, Millennium Park’s Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, and University of Chicago’s Logan Center for the Arts. He is honored to be part of the Fulton Ambassadors.
Arthur Johnson
Ambassador
Cellist Arthur Johnson is a rising senior at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He has studied with Horacio Contreras, Taide Prieto, and now studies with Kivie Cahn-Lipman, and Nicholas Mariscal at Fulton Conservatory. In Fall 2023, he studied cello abroad in Milan, Italy, where he worked closely with Cosimo Carovani, principal cellist of the Milano Classica Orchestra. Arthur is active as principal cellist for the Lawrence Opera Orchestra and played in masterclasses for Zlatomir Fung, Joel Krosnick, Colin Carr and Cora Swenson Lee. Arthur has attended various festivals, including the Vivace Music Festival in Wilmington, NC, the Pennsylvania Summer Chamber Music Collective Festival, where he studied with Kieran Campbell, and the Borromeo Music Festival, where he studied with Ben Hong. Most recently he completed his second year at the Fulton Summer Music Academy.
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