Geoffrey Day is currently in his thirteenth season as a violinist with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra. Geoffrey received his Bachelor of Music from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Ruggiero Ricci, and earned a Master of Music from Michigan State University as a student of I-Fu Wang. While in Michigan, he served as Concertmaster of the Michigan State University, Battle Creek, and Midland Symphonies, Assistant Concertmaster of the Kalamazoo Symphony, and Principal Second Violin of the Greater Lansing Symphony.             

            Since moving to Florida in 1994, Mr. Day has performed frequently as member of the Neapolitan Quartet and as a recitalist with his wife, pianist Lan Lam. He is a founding member of the Botticelli Quartet, the Aurore Piano Trio and most recently Neapolitan Baroque, an ensemble dedicated to historically informed performance with period instruments.     

John Marcy is assistant principal cellist with the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra.  Born in France to a French father and an American mother he was raised in South Bend, Indiana, and began playing the cello at the ago of ten, inspired by his uncle, Marcel Bardon, a cellist in L’Ensemble Orchestral de Paris.  John earned bachelor’s degrees in both Spanish and cello performance at Oberlin College and Conservatory, where his teachers were Richard Kapuscinski and Norman Fischer.  John then went on to earn a master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Pamela Frame.  While at Eastman, he performed in the 1990 American Soviet Youth Orchestra world tour under the direction of Leonard Slatkin and Catherine Comet. 

Since joining the Naples Philharmonic in 1991, John has twice performed as soloist with the orchestra’s Baroque Ensemble.  During the summers he has been an instructor and performer at the Luzerne Music Center and has performed at the Penn’s Woods Festival and at the Colorado Music Festival.  He and his wife, oboist Judy Christy, have two children.

Lam Ling began piano lessons in Weymouth, Nova Scotia, shortly after immigrating to Canada from Vietnam. Arriving in Yarmouth in 1981, she studied with Christopher Allworth until entering Acadia University, where she earned a Bachelor of Music degree under the tutelage of John Hansen. She completed her Master of Music degree in Performance and Literature at the University of Western Ontario, studying with Ronald Turini and Damjana Bratuz. She also participated in master classes at the Banff Centre for the Arts with Marek Jablonski and at the Orford Arts Centre with André Laplante. Since receiving her degree, Ms. Lam has been coached by Jean Saulnier, and as a participant in the Canadian Music Competition, she performed in Vancouver as a 1994 national finalist.

Currently she lives in Naples, Florida, where she is Director of Music at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Ms. Lam teaches privately and performs frequently as a solo and collaborative artist. During the summer she teaches at Acadia University’s Piano Camp in Nova Scotia.