< Back Previous Roma Joshi Next Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall November 24, 2025 WATCH VIDEO Roma Joshi began studying piano at the age of six and developed a deep love for classical music by age nine. She currently studies under Tzuyi Chen and has performed works by composers from the Baroque to the Romantic era, with a particular admiration for Chopin. Outside of music, Roma is a STEM-focused student whose appreciation for classical music reminds her that structure and creativity can coexist in perfect harmony.

< Back Previous Charlotte Chan Next Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall November 25, 2025 WATCH VIDEO Charlotte Chan began her musical journey at the age of five and commenced masterclass studies with Olga Khroulevitch at age nine. Driven by a deep passion for the violin, she has rapidly developed as a performer and has earned awards in numerous regional, national, and international competitions, including the Metropolitan Music Festival, Opus Competition, New Asia International Music Competition, American Virtuoso International Music Competition, and the Young Soloist International Competition. Charlotte regularly collaborates with the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and has served as Assistant Concertmaster for AYPO’s Prelude Strings and Prelude Violins. She has received chamber music masterclasses at the Peabody Institute and the Maryland Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, and is actively involved in chamber music, performing in ensembles at Immanuel Christian School and the Maryland Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. She has also participated in string and orchestral programs at the Greater Washington Suzuki Institute. In 2025, Charlotte made her solo debut with a Manhattan orchestra and performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall. She also enjoys sharing music in community settings such as churches, schools, and nursing homes. She enjoys sharing music through both solo performance and chamber music.

< Back Previous Albena Petrovic Next Composer Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall February 20, 2025 WATCH VIDEO Albena Petrovic is a Luxembourgish composer of Bulgarian origin and a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg ( L’Ordre de Mérite du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg , 2013). She has also been honored with the Médaille de Mérite en Argent de l’Union Grand-Duc Adolphe (2017), the Médaille en Argent de l’Union Saint Pie X (2018), and the Cultural Award 2007 from the Municipality of Hesperange. In 2007, she served as a jury member of the International Composition Competition “Valentino Bucchi” in Rome. Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Albena earned her Master’s degree in Composition and Music Writing and a Diploma in Concert Piano Performance. Since 1996, she has made her home in Luxembourg, where she has become one of the country’s most prolific and influential composers. Albena has written more than 600 works spanning a wide range of genres, including eight operas and three concertos for orchestra. Her compositions are published by SCHOTT MUSIC International, Luxembourg Music Publishers, Éditions L’Octanphare, and Furore Verlag. Her five integral CDs— Crystal Dream , The Voyager , Bridges of Love , Dreamlover , and Sanctuary —released by solo.musica.de , have enjoyed international acclaim and received Opus Klassik nominations in 2019, 2020, and 2022. Albena is also the President and Founder of the International Composition Competition “Artistes en Herbe” ( Budding Artists ), held under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of Luxembourg. Now in its sixth edition, the competition is unique in Western Europe, offering both a Junior Category for young children and a Senior Category for adult composers, with the goal of enriching the pedagogical repertoire for young performers. www.albena-petrovic-vratchanska.com

< Back Previous Noam Faingold Next Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall April 1, 2024 WATCH VIDEO Composer Noam Faingold (b. 1984) is committed to composing and collaborating across traditional, multidisciplinary, and cross-genre projects. His music has been described as “lyrical,” “exhilarating,” and “a tour-de-force of jazz melded with classical” by The New York Times, The BBC, and Downbeat Magazine, among others. Recent highlights include works written for Leilehua Lanzelotti (Pulitzer Prize finalist), cellist Inbal Segev (Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center), oboist Rob Botti (New York Philharmonic), violinists Domenic Salerni (Attacca Quartet), Jesse Mills (Horszowski Trio), and Itamar Zorman (Lysander Trio), as well as for the Appalachian Chamber Music Festival. His music has been performed by the Argus Quartet, PubliQUARTET, Fidelio Trio, pianists Michael Brown (CMS) and Peter Dugan (host of NPR’s From the Top), and featured in arrangements for the London Symphony Orchestra, OK Mozart, and Pentatone Records. Faingold thrives on multi-stakeholder collaborations and special projects. Current work includes a new piece for Washington, D.C.’s Sumner Museum in celebration of its 150th anniversary in partnership with students and faculty of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. His “A Prayer for Those Who Look Away,” written for Inbal Segev, became a video collaboration with YouTuber The Cello Doll and later an installation at the Sumner Museum. “The Defiant Poet: Elegy in Memory of Yevgeny Yevtushenko” united the late poet’s family with orchestras and Navona Records to honor his legacy. “We Persist”—one of the earliest original virtual orchestra projects—was produced with the George Kaiser Family Foundation and the Tulsa Symphony and has been viewed over 50,000 times across platforms. Faingold’s work also appears in the Sphinx catalogue of Latin American Cello Works and in the Latin Orchestral Music catalogue. Equally dedicated to education and mentorship, Faingold creates opportunities for young artists to compose and engage with new music. In 2023, the U.S. Navy Band performed a piece he co-composed with nine D.C. Public Schools students, and he mentored a student composer’s first orchestral work for the district’s 100-plus member Honor Ensemble. He serves as composer-in-residence with Washington Musica Viva and with Oklahoma State University’s Community Music School and Cellofest, and as an arts mentor with the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the Music Teachers National Association. Previous roles include Visiting Artist in Composition at the University of Tulsa and founder/director of the composition programs at Tulsa Community College and The bART. Faingold has received fellowships from the Salzburg Global Seminar, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Atlantic Music Festival, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which supported his Ph.D. in Music Composition at King’s College London. Where Our Voices Hide When We Must Speak Where Our Voices Hide When We Must Speak was written in response to the feeling of needing to speak up for vulnerable people but staying muted. I Imagine a hidden place where our voice goes. The piece attempts to create a rendering of the invisible tensions present in situations that make us feel that it is unwise or even advantageous to stay silent.

< Back Previous Brian Ganz Next WATCH VIDEO Brian Ganz is widely regarded as one of the leading pianists of his generation. A laureate of the Marguerite Long Jacques Thibaud and the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Piano Competitions, Mr. Ganz has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the St. Louis Symphony, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Baltimore Symphony, the National Philharmonic, the National Symphony, the City of London Sinfonia, and the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra, and has performed with such conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Marin Alsop, Mstislav Rostropovich, Piotr Gajewski and Yoel Levi. The Washington Post has written: “One comes away from a recital by pianist Brian Ganz not only exhilarated by the power of the performance but also moved by his search for artistic truth.” For many years Mr. Ganz has made it his mission to join vivid music making with warmth and intimacy onstage to produce a new kind of listening experience, in which great works come to life with authentic emotional power. As one of Belgium’s leading newspapers, La Libre Belgique, put it, “We don’t have the words to speak of this fabulous musician who lives music with a generous urgency and brings his public into a state of intense joy.” In January of 2011 Mr. Ganz began a multi-year project in partnership with the National Philharmonic in which he will perform the complete works of Frédéric Chopin at the Music Center at Strathmore. After the inaugural recital, The Washington Post wrote: “Brian Ganz was masterly in his first installment of the complete works [of Chopin].” This year’s February recital marked the tenth in the series. (For four excerpts from that recital, see “Videos.”) The next recital in the series will take place on February 27, 2021. Mr. Ganz is on the piano faculty of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, where he is artist-in-residence, and is also a member of the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory. He is the artist-editor of the Schirmer Performance Edition of Chopin’s Preludes (2005). Recent performance highlights include Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 at the Alba Music Festival in Italy and with the National Philharmonic at Strathmore, Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 466 with the Virginia Chamber Orchestra and the Annapolis Symphony, Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto with the Billings Symphony, and a solo recital for the Distinguished Artists Series of Santa Cruz, California.

< Back Previous William Toutant Next Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall April 1, 2024 WATCH VIDEO William Toutant was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He earned his BA and MA from The George Washington University and his Ph.D. in music theory and composition from Michigan State University. In 1975, he joined the faculty of California State University, Northridge, where he taught in the Department of Music and held a variety of administrative roles, including Dean of the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication. For eighteen years, Toutant wrote and hosted the weekly radio program The KCSN Opera House. He became Professor Emeritus in May 2013. His compositions are available on North/South, Capstone, Centaur, Phasma, Ariel, and Navona Records. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Ligia Toutant. Quarantine Quartet I wrote this piece during the quarantine/lock down order caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The piece reflects my varied emotions during this time of enforced confinement. Structurally, the piece consists of a germ motif heard at the beginning and a short theme that begins with the ascending sixth of the germ motif. This short theme is immediately fragmented and imitated among the four instruments. There are two slower fugato sections; the subject of each is a rhythmic variant of the short theme. In the second fugato, each entry of the subject is varied rhythmically. At the end of the piece each of the three ideas (the first theme and the two fugato subjects) is played successively in stretto. Near the end of the piece, all three ideas are twice played simultaneously. The opening motif is heard at various points in the piece and very prominently at the end.

< Back Diego Imperiale Voice (Countertenor) Learn More Videos About Diego Gabriel Imperiale, born in Buenos Aires Argentina. Singer, actor, voice coach and musician. Since he was young, around 2005, he began writing songs and performing on stages in Argentina. In 2010 he founded his band “Absurda Atracción” and in addition to playing in several legendary places in the city, he began to appear on the musical theater scene as a vocal coach, composer and assistant director of local musicals. As an actor, he was the face of “Coca Cola” for the celebration of 125 years as a lead role for Spain and several places in Europe. He was selected by Oscar winner Armando Bo for this role. He is also in the movie “Christmas In Miami” on Amazon Prime. Between 2010 and 2020 he portrayed Paul McCartney in different bands of the Latin American Beatle scene, participating in Beatle Week festivals in Latin America and also in different cities in Brazil. In 2014, he celebrated a successful tour with the band Quantica, a Pop Art Discos and Sony Music signed project, as a backup vocalist, keyboardist and sequencer. He is an Estill Voice Training certified singing teacher (Estill Voice Master Trainer) at Estill Voice International. He studied with Kim Steinhauer, the president of the method, and assisted her in some of her international courses. He was certified by Alejandro Saorín Martínez (renowned opera voice teacher from Italy) and is also an assistant for his international courses in Spanish. He is one of the few Latin American Master Trainers in the world. In 2018, he directed, headlined and produced “Avenida Broadway”, a musical theater concert series in Buenos Aires that ran for a year and a half and had two shows in Columbus, Ohio, United States. He participated in shows at Tecnópolis, Buenos Aires, as a singer and musician with his former pop/rock band “Absurda Atracción” under the production company Club Media Networks, awarded by YouTube as one of the most important influencers’ agents in Latin America. “Avenida Broadway” had its new installment at the end of 2022 as “A Night At Broadway” in Fort Lauderdale. Diego is a former counter tenor opera singer, cross-trained to sing tenor roles as well. In 2019 he played Jesus as a counter tenor lead in a baroque opera version of Jesus Christ Superstar and Marius in Les Miserables. He also starred in the Opera Gianni Schicchi in the role of Rinuccio, the lead tenor, in California. In mid-2023. At the end of 2023, he returned to the musical theater stage in South Florida with West Side Story, where he performed two different roles singing, acting and dancing in a professional cast for the Wynmoor Theater. Previous Next

< Back Giacomo Franci Piano/Conductor/Orchestra Learn More Videos About Maestro Pianist Giacomo Franci is the Artistic Director and the Conductor of The New York Chamber Players , an organization he founded in 2004. For the 2010-11 season Maestro Franci was elected Guest Maestro of Escuela de Direccion de Orquesta in Cordoba , Spain. Giacomo Franci is world renowned as the leading interpreter of the music of Aaron Copland . He earned this highly coveted position based on the merits of his acclaimed world premiere recording “The Complete Edited Piano Works by A. Copland”, a triple CD released by Fone’ Classics .Maestro Franci performed at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, for the centennial of Copland’s birthday in February 2000, receiving rave reviews for his performance. In December 2010 his World Premiere Recording “Igor Stravinsky: The Complete Published Piano Works” was released by Fone’ Classics . The double CD recording was praised by Audio Review Magazine as “… the Great Igor Stravinsky in the outstanding performance by Giacomo Franci” In the year 2016 he started the Recordings of The Complete Piano Sonatas by Beethoven on Sheva Collection Record Company, this year(2020) he has in program the 3rd CD Recording In 1998 Franci debuted at the Carnegie Recital Hall and the Italian Music Magazine “Musica” compared him to Glenn Gould and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Mr. Franci hails from Tuscany and now resides in New York City . When not performing he works at The Tribeca Music Studio, a teaching studio for aspiring pianists and singers. Read More Franci started his Concert Career in Italy with appearances at Teatro Comunale “Guglielmi” , Teatro San Filippo di Torino , Circolo della Musica di Bologna , and Teatro Comunale di Ferrara . When Franci is not performing as a featured pianist/soloist he devotes his time to conducting his new chamber orchestra. He is very excited about the recent attention which he and the orchestra are receiving. The Chamber Orchestra had their debut at the CAMI Concert Hall in New York City in May 2004 , performing the Bach Piano Concerto in D minor , and they have been in growing demand ever since. Franci who is constantly looking to interpret new works, studied with Gaetano Gaeta and Giampiero Semeraro while earning his Bachelor’s Degree in Piano from the Boccherini Music Institute in Lucca . He was awarded his Master’s Scholarship from the Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale in Saluzzo , studying with Jean Fassinat and the famed Aldo Ciccolini . He also studied conducting with Piero Bellugi and Gustav Kuhn at Teatro Comunale di Pisa . Over the last few seasons Franci has been a featured soloist for engagements throughout the USA, Italy, England, Finland, France,Bulgaria,Chile,Turkey, China, Hungary . He is a returning soloist with : Philharmonic Orchestra of Veneto, Orchestra Sinfonica di Grosseto (where he has been featured as Soloist/Conductor), La Grande Ronde Symphony Orchestra, ISO Symphony, Turkey State Symphony in Istanbul, Richmond County Orchestra, New York Chamber Players, Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Bacau Philharmonic Orchestra, Ensemble Orchestral de Bordeaux and The Beijing Symphony Orchestra ( where he has been featured as Soloist/Conductor). Since the year 2004 when he founded his Orchestra in New York , he has conducted many great Orchestras such as :The Shanghai Baroque Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Grosseto, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, New York Chamber Players , Concepcion Symphony Orchestra,Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano,Orchestra Modigliani,Boston Chamber Orchestra in Tanglewood and Richmond County Orchestra . Very recently he has been featured in 2 Radio Programs by David Dubal : “Piano Matters” on WWFM Radio and “Reflections from the Keyboard” on WQXR . For some of you that might not know , these radio programs feature the most legendary pianists of today and of all times . He has also appeared on radio and television shows carried by New York One, ABC, WPIX, Manhattan Cable, Hofstra University Radio, Blusat Radio 2000 (an hour long interview broadcast to an audience of over 2 million people) and Antenna 3 . In 2008 Maestro Franci was selected to the Cambridge Who’s Who Registry which lists the most accomplished professionals in the U.S. Previous Next

< Back Previous Andrea Causapruna Next Guitarist Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall June 30, 2025 WATCH VIDEO Andrea Causapruna developed a passion for music at a young age. He began studying classical guitar, alternating with electric guitar during his high school years, and played in various bands, exploring genres from early blues to experimental rock. He studied at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome under Giuliano Balestra, graduating with top honors in guitar. He was a full student at the advanced courses of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with Oscar Ghiglia and he furthered his studies with Stefano Grondona in Brescia. His classical repertoire spans from the Renaissance to contemporary works. Andrea performis Spanish Golden Age music on the vihuela and 19th-century music on period instrument. He has performed in numerous festivals and events in Italy and abroad and has won several national and international competitions. In 2006, he was awarded the Silver Plaque of the Italian Presidency of the Republic as the overall winner of the Anemos music competition in Rome. Andrea has given guitar masterclasses in Mexico City at the Escuela Nacional de Música and the Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes. He holds a degree in Music Didactics and teaches in public schools. He is also a composer. His album "The Lover’s Suitcase”, published by World Fonogram Records in 2023, received international acclaim. He is author of soundtracks for movies and music for theatre production. The passion for theatre led him to found the collective "Il Teatro Invisibile” in 2017 and in 2021 his project Siamo Tutti Lupi Cattivi was a finalist at the Rome Fringe Festival, Tube section. In 2024, he debuted with the play Tungsteno by Antonio Mocciola.

< Back Fred Karpoff Piano Learn More Videos About After recovering from a career-threatening injury, Fred Karpoff continues to develop his multi-dimensional approach to piano teaching and technique through a wide range of experience. Initial mentoring by Yoheved Kaplinsky helped him rethink his approach to piano playing–which now combines elements of Tai chi, the Alexander Technique, and the Feldenkrais Method® with the work of many piano pedagogues, past and present. A master clinician, Fred is highly sought-after for workshops throughout the world. He guides teachers and students toward more efficient, healthful, and expressive piano playing as Artistic Producer of Entrada Piano. An international Steinway Artist, Fred has performed as both soloist and collaborative pianist in China, India, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and throughout North America and Europe. As guest artist at major music festivals in the U.S. and Europe, he has collaborated with many of America’s foremost musicians. With a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Peabody Conservatory, he has been fortunate to study with Ann Schein, Leon Fleisher, and Robert Weirich, and to have had extensive coachings with Karl Ulrich Schnabel and Richard Goode. A former USIA Artistic Ambassador, Visiting Professor at the Eastman School of Music, and current Professor of Piano at Syracuse University, he was named the winner of MTNA’s Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award for 3-D Piano: The Three-Dimensional Pianist. Fred’s Story More than thirty years ago, I was a graduate student at the Peabody Conservatory. At the end of a grueling academic year, without papers to write or students to teach, I greedily devoured big repertoire like it was going out of style, practicing for six or more hours a day. After two weeks, I began to feel fatigued at night. My arms felt hot and sore. But this was still the era of “ No pain, no gain ,” so I figured this had to be a sign that my hard work was paying off! Then one morning, after only fifteen minutes at the piano, I felt a sharp, searing pain on the underside of my arm, and stopped playing right away. I rested for a few days and tried practicing again, but the pain immediately returned. The same thing happened each time I rested and tried to resume my work. A specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital gave me the bad news: I had tendonitis, synovitis, and myositis in my arms and, later, bursitis in my shoulder. He prescribed anti-inflammatory drugs and recommended that I take up swimming. I took two blue pills and swam a half-mile a day for two weeks. This helped some but the pain returned as soon I resumed practicing. I stopped again. This time I was really down. Was this the end of my music career? Fred Karpoff Presenting a teacher’s workshop in Mumbai, India, 2017 A few weeks later, during a routine vision exam, my eye doctor asserted that postural problems tend to precede vision problems. He suggested I meet with a Feldenkrais® practitioner to deal with these issues. The Feldenkrais Method® helps clients develop their sensory skills and promote more efficient, agile body movement. Indeed, this helped me improve my posture and the quality of movement throughout my body. Around the same time I met a new instructor at Peabody, Julian Martin, who had been reexamining his own piano technique under the guidance of Dorothy Taubman. Over the course of a month, Julian patiently tutored me on very basic pianistic movements. My progress was steady but slow; I still worried that I might reinjure myself. And focusing repeatedly on the C Major scale and simple rotary movements was pretty dull–I yearned to play real music again, without pain or fear. After a few more months of working on my own, Julian introduced me to Yoheved (“Veda”) Kaplinsky, who showed me a systematic way of understanding the faults in my technique. Time and again, Veda demonstrated why I experienced specific pains. She offered alternatives that dramatically changed my approach to the piano, including new ways of listening and responding to music. I was grateful to return to inspired artistic study with Ann Schein and Leon Fleisher and soon began playing professionally. Veda accepted a position at Peabody and I completed my final semester at Peabody with her as my major teacher, and it was my great good fortune to study with Karl Ulrich Schnabel in the lead-up to my doctoral comprehensive and oral exams, incorporating new input on balancing resonance and clarity with artistic pedaling and a wide range of other artistic insights. Emerging from those dark days at Peabody, I not only became healthy again, but also grew as a musician. I learned to explore new sound possibilities and express myself more fully. In many ways, however, my journey as an artist and teacher was just beginning. Fred Karpoff performing the Brahms D Minor Concerto with Leon Fleisher conducting, 2015. As a young university professor, I encountered a wide range of challenges in helping students of many levels to play better. Whether it was the beginning student in piano class or the piano major working on virtuoso repertoire, the concept of three-dimensional movement quickly emerged as a constant theme to address the challenges I and my students faced together. Though my developing views were at odds with many of the prevailing teaching paradigms of the past two hundred years, the results for students at all levels were consistently positive. My studies of Tai Chi and the Alexander Technique inspired more insights on integrating three-dimensional principles at the piano, including mobility in the hips, and the cycling motion of the vibrato technique and trills. Over several years, I was privileged to have a series of extensive lessons with Richard Goode, whose artistic insights into music of Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, and Mozart were revelatory; Mr. Goode’s powerful imagination combined with penetrating demonstrations produced new technical tools to express myself more deeply. Later still I resumed lessons with Leon Fleisher, which ultimately led to a rich collaboration with him conducting me and my university’s orchestra in a performance of the Brahms D Minor Concerto. Mr. Fleisher’s approach to technique, sound, and pedaling had evolved tremendously from my student days, and he generously and enthusiastically shared his latest discoveries, with the same sharply-attuned ears as ever. Around the same time, Seymour Bernstein agreed to work with me and fired my imagination in new and exciting ways, particularly by enlightening me on the true meaning of hairpins as well as Chopin’s pedal markings. Fred Karpoff With Seymour Bernstein after Ann Schein’s recital, 2015. As I reflect, I am increasingly aware of my good fortune to work with, and learn from, many musicians who have influenced me. Private and masterclass sessions with prominent pianists, singers, and string players, including Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, Lazar Berman, Carol Webber, Janos Starker, Michael Tree, Franco Gulli, and Earl Carlyss provided invaluable insights which have been synthesized into my pedagogy. Playing professionally with many outstanding partners has infused a chamber-music ethos into my life’s work that is central to my playing and teaching of solo piano as well. There is an inseparable link between artistry and technique that I espouse at every moment: although we often need to isolate technical gestures to fully understand whole-body movement, it’s only through a profound integration of movement and artistry–grounded in rich and varied piano sound–that the study of technique holds true meaning. Entrada Piano is not a one-size-fits-all method. Pianists apply these concepts to fit their hand size, body, technical level and playing style. In Skills videos featuring students, note that each one applies Entrada concepts in their own way. Summary reviews, musical examples, and marked scores that accompany Masterclasses help guide your experience and invite you to adapt these principles to your work at the piano in everything you play, so that your music flows effortlessly with your enhanced coordination. And Insights provide targeted instruction on problem spots in repertoire and other responses to members’ questions. I hope Entrada will bring you what three-dimensional playing has given me – the means to discover new and rich pathways of expression while enjoying a physical approach that promotes freedom, longevity, and health in the body. Previous Next

< Back Previous Stacey Kim Next Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall July 1, 2024 WATCH VIDEO Stacey Kim – Biography Education & Private Studies: Attending Manhattan School of Music (MSM) Pre-College Division Private lessons with Prof. Elizabeth Faidley, MSM, 2022–present Private lessons with Prof. Michael Avagliano, Drew University, 2021–present Studied with Grace Lee, Scherzo Music Studio, 2016–2020 Orchestral Experience: School District of Chathams Orchestra, 2019–present Pops Orchestra, 2021–present New Jersey Youth Symphony (NJYS), New Providence, NJ: After-School Orchestra (Level 5/6), 2021–2023 – Assistant Concertmaster, 4 concerts/yea Philharmonia (Level 4/6), 2020–2021 – First Violin, 3 concerts/year Sinfonia (Level 3/6), 2019–2020 – First Violin, 3 concerts/year Primo (Level 1/6), 2018–2019 – Assistant Concertmaster, 3 concerts/year Chamber Music: Prelude Performance, Lyrica Chamber Music Concert, Chatham, NJ, Oct 2022 – String Trio Prelude Performance, Lyrica Chamber Music Concert, Chatham, NJ, Oct 2021 – String Quartet Other Performance Opportunities Board of Education Meeting, Dec 2022 Chatham Farmer’s Market, Oct 2022 School District Art Show, May 2022 & May 2023 Chatham Middle School Talent Show, May 2022 Orchestra Recruiting Event for 4th Graders, Apr 2019 Awards & Honors New Jersey Regional Intermediate Orchestra (Region 1), 2022, 2023 New Jersey All-State Intermediate Orchestra, 2022, 2023

< Back Previous Hally Graves Next Gala at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall June 28, 2026 WATCH VIDEO Hally is incredibly honored to be here today. Sixteen years old, she has been studying voice for the past six years and began training in opera this year. Passionate about both music and theater, she has performed in eight productions with her school and local community. This concert, held at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on June 28, 2026, marks Hally’s debut performance, and she is deeply grateful to everyone who has supported her journey, as well as to all the organizers and performers involved in the gala.