Bay AreaEst. 2024

LumonQuartet

Four lives outside music.
Four lives within it.

Discover

The other side
of the self.

By day, we move through medicine, technology, education, family, and all the ordinary complexity of life. Then we pick up our instruments, listen closely, and become something else together.

Our name is a wry nod to Severance and its fictional Lumon Industries. We don’t believe the two halves of a life can truly be severed. The person outside the rehearsal room shapes every phrase inside it—and the music follows us back out.

The music is
the meeting place.

Rehearsals, performances, and the moments between—four separate lives briefly moving as one.

Meet the
four.

Friends, collaborators, and musicians with plenty going on after rehearsal.

Lynn Gerber playing violin outdoors
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Lynn Gerber

A Bay Area violinist and concertmaster of the Stanford Medicine Orchestra, Lynn grew up studying at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and with Geoff Nuttall of the St. Lawrence String Quartet. Away from the stand, she is an anesthesiologist and clinical instructor.

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Leyan Lo smiling in concert attire while holding his violin and bow
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Leyan Lo

An avid chamber musician, Leyan has performed with friends across the Bay Area and at the St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber Music Seminar. His other life is spent building technology—and occasionally solving a Rubik’s Cube very quickly.

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Tyson Mao seated in concert attire holding his instrument and bow
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Tyson Mao

Tyson has played violin and piano since childhood, including orchestra and chamber music at Caltech. He is president of the California Youth Symphony board and co-founded the World Cube Association—proof that precision travels well between worlds.

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Stephanie Wu seated outdoors with her cello
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Stephanie Wu

A cellist praised for her singing tone and perceptive musicianship, Stephanie performs throughout the Bay Area and serves as Assistant Principal Cellist of Berkeley Symphony. She studied at Harvard and the Royal Northern College of Music.

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“Music begins where
the day job ends.”
Classical repertoireCurious programmingChamber music among friends

Let’s make
something resonate.

For performances, collaborations, or a friendly hello, send us a note.