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

BEACH	Browning Songs Brett Michael Hunter, tenor
BARTÓK	Contrasts Bade Dastan, violin Chin-I Lee, clarinet Elijah Orlenko, piano
DEBUSSY	Sonata in D minor Carson Ling-Efird, cello Mark Livshits, piano
	Intermission
CHOPIN	Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20 Asta Dora Finnsdottir, piano
BACH	Well Tempered Clavier II Prelude & Fugue No. 5 D major, BWV 874
BEETHOVEN	Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 14 , No. 2
CHOPIN	Etudes, Op. 10, No. 12 Fiona Yangyue Cheen, piano

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

Bade Dastan, from Turkey, studying violin with Shmuel Ashkenasi, is a Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Fellow and entered Curtis in 2024.

Chin-I Lee, from Taipei, Taiwan, studying clarinet with Anthony McGill and YaoGuang Zhai, is the Ruth and Eugene Helmer Fellow and entered Curtis in 2024.

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.

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

Mark Livshits, staff pianist