Curtis Institute of Music students perform over 100 free recitals during the school year, held on most Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings. Admission requires advance registration and is complimentary.

Please note: Performance programs are subject to last-minute changes and cancellations.

Program

HINDEMITH	Sonata, Op. 25, No. 3 Carson Ling-Efird, cello
	Der Schwanendreher: Konzert nach alten Volksliedern Emad Zolfaghari, viola Elena Jivaeva, piano
YSAŸE	Sonata in D minor, Op. 27, No. 3 (“Ballade”) Dindin Jingyi Wang, violin
	Intermission
BRAHMS	Variations on a Theme by Schumann in F-sharp minor, Op. 9 Yenfei Wang, piano
RAVEL	Selections, Miroirs
BEETHOVEN	Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110 Nachuan Tao, piano

Carson Ling-Efird, from Seattle, studying cello with Nicholas Canellakis, Yumi Kendall, Christine Lee, and Peter Wiley, is the Arthur and Hilda Stander Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.

Nachuan Tao, from Xiamen, China, studying piano with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, is the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Fellow in Piano and entered Curtis in 2022.

Dindin Jingyi Wang, from Changsha, China, studying violin with Shmuel Ashkenasi and Pamela Frank, is the Stanley and Bertha Rogasner Fellow and entered Curtis in 2021.

Yenfei Wang, from Taipei, Taiwan, studying piano with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, is the Nancy Maruyama, M.D. Fellow and entered Curtis in 2024.

Emad Zolfaghari, from Oakville, Ontario, studying viola with Misha Amory and Hsin-Yun Huang, is the Elaine W. Camarda and A. Morris Williams Jr. Fellow and entered Curtis in 2021.

Elena Jivaeva, staff pianist