Percussion Department Recital

Pengyu Bao, from Seattle, studying timpani and percussion with Ji Su Jung, Don Liuzzi, and Eric Millstein, is the Felix Meyer Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.

Fiona Yangyue Cheen, from Jingzhou City, China, studying piano with Ignat Solzhenitsyn, is the Eileen Flissler Memorial Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.

Alexandra Cooreman (’25), from Brussels, studying violin with Ida Kavafian and Erin Keefe, is a Milka Violin Artist Fellow and first entered Curtis in 2021.

Maxence Dauriat, from Combs-la-Ville, France, studying timpani and percussion with Ji Su Jung, Don Liuzzi, and Eric Millstein, is the Richard A. Doran Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.

Rubén Acuña González, from Tampico, Mexico, studying timpani and percussion with Ji Su Jung, Don Liuzzi, and Eric Millstein, is an Edwin B. Garrigues Fellow and entered Curtis in 2024.

Hwaseop Jeong, from Seoul, studying clarinet with Anthony McGill and YaoGuang Zhai, is the Mark and Esther Kramer Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Xiang Ni, from Jiangsu, China, studying timpani and percussion with Ji Su Jung, Don Liuzzi, and Eric Millstein, is a Curtis Institute of Music Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.

Elijah Orlenko, from Toronto, studying piano with Michelle Cann, is the Wike Family Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.

Zachary Thomas, from Tucson, Ariz., studying timpani and percussion with Ji Su Jung, Don Liuzzi, and Eric Millstein, is the J. Oliver Lewis Memorial Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.