Rising young violinist Dylan Hamme was winner of Juilliard’s 2024 Ligeti Violin Concerto Competition and performed as soloist at Alice Tully Hall with Juilliard Orchestra and conductor Jeffrey Milarsky. In October 2025, he made his Carnegie Hall solo debut with conductor Constantine Kitsopoulos and the Senior Orchestra of NY as winner of the 2025 Waldo Mayo Violin Competition. He won third prize at the 2025 Joseph Bologne International Violin Competition held in Guadeloupe.

Dylan is pursuing his Master of Music degree at The Juilliard School as a student of Catherine Cho on full tuition scholarship, following the completion of his bachelor’s at Juilliard under Areta Zhulla. His other teachers and mentors include Scott Yoo, Ying Fu, Ray Iwazumi, and Amelia Gold. An avid chamber and orchestral musician, Dylan has guest performed with major ensembles including the New York Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Carnegie Hall's NYO-USA All Stars, and the North/South Consonance Ensemble, with which he also performed Max Lifchitz’s Violin Concerto "Intervencion" as soloist. Dylan has been a member of Juilliard’s Principal Pool for three years now, performing regularly as concertmaster of The Juilliard Orchestra, including for their February 2026. He has also performed chamber music with highly esteemed musicians including Andrew Wan, Stephen Rose, and Philip and David Ying.

Other recent chamber music appearances include the Joyce Theater’s “Ballet Festival: Jerome Robbins” performing Stravinsky “Concertino” alongside New York City Ballet dancers; "Encounters With Beauty" with the Leela Dance Collective at Livermore Valley Arts; a string quartet residency with Juilliard colleagues at the European American Musical Alliance (EAMA) in Paris, France; and the 90th anniversary concert and livestreamed event: “Claiming Your Space: A Celebration of Black Music at Juilliard” - a Webby award nominee. He is incredibly excited to be performing at Festival Mozaic in the summer of 2026.