Composers' Chamber Music

  • Department Recital, Free, Student Recital
  • Dec 10, 2025 @ 7:30 p.m.

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

Sarina KHALILI Five Guys

Maxence Dauriat, percussion
Xiang Ni, percussion
Rubén Acuña González, percussion
Zachary Thomas, percussion
Pengyu Bao, percussion

Isaiah SARANOW Rehearsal Study for String Quartet and Narrator

Maya Mor-Mitrani, voice
Na Hyun Della Kyun, violin
Zhenyi Jiang, violin
Samuel Tatsuki, viola
Romain-Olivier Gray, cello

Amane SAKAGUCHI unsung night music

Kei Saotome, violin
Elliot Sloss, cello
Adrian Zaragoza, piano

Intermission
Delfin DEMIRAY as an antidote to fear of death, I eat the stars

Emily DeNucci, flute
Shin Woo Kim, clarinet
Maxence Dauriat, percussion
Rubén Acuña González, percussion
Anaïs Feller, violin
Ania Lewis, cello
Yoann Combémorel, conductor

Sky YANG The Master and His Emissary

Yiyang Hou, violin
Zhiyuan Qian, violin
Nazeeh Shahid, viola
Jonah Kernis, cello

Isaac CREAGER Industrial Night Vignettes; Five Images from the Graveyard Shift

Anastasia Samsel, flute
Shin Woo Kim, clarinet
Zachary Thomas, percussion
Adrian Zaragoza, piano
Bade Dastan, violin
Romain-Olivier Gray, cello
Mariana Corichi Gómez, conductor

About the Artists

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.

Yoann Combémorel, from Lyon, France, studying conducting with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and James Ross, is a Rita E. Hauser Conducting Fellow and entered Curtis in 2024.

Mariana Corichi Gómez, from Mexico City, studying conducting with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and James Ross, is a Rita E. Hauser Conducting Fellow and entered Curtis in 2024.

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

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.

Emily DeNucci, from Somers, Conn., studying flute with Jeffrey Khaner and Chelsea Knox, is the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Anaïs Feller, from San Diego, studying violin with Midori and Erin Keefe, is the Tobe Amsterdam 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.

Romain-Olivier Gray, from Québec City and Woodbridge, Virginia, studying cello with Nicholas Canellakis, Yumi Kendall, Christine Lee, and Peter Wiley, is the Maurice Gendron Memorial Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Yiyang Hou, from Shanghai, studying violin with Benjamin Beilman and Ida Kavafian, is the Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Zhenyi Jiang, from Beijing, studying violin with Midori, is a Demeng Foundation Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Jonah Kernis, from New York City, studying cello with Yumi Kendall and Peter Wiley, is the Charles and Judith Freyer Fellow and entered Curtis in 2025.

Na Hyun Della Kyun, from Seoul, studying violin with Shmuel Ashkenasi and Benjamin Beilman, is a Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Ania Lewis (’25), from Cleveland, studying cello with Nicholas Canellakis, Yumi Kendall, Christine Lee, and Peter Wiley, is the Gie and Lisa Liem Fellow and first entered Curtis in 2021.

Maya Mor-Mitrani (Voice ’25), from Tzur Moshe, Israel, studying opera with Julia Faulkner and Amanda Majeski, is a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellow and first entered Curtis in 2021.

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.

Zhiyuan Qian, from Shanghai, studying violin with Erin Keefe, is a Curtis Institute of Music Fellow and entered Curtis in 2025.

Anastasia Samsel, from Guilford, Conn., studying flute with Jeffrey Khaner and Chelsea Knox, is the Julius Baker Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Kei Saotome, from Tokyo, studying violin with Erin Keefe, is the Shaun F. O’Malley Fellow and entered Curtis in 2024.

Nazeeh Shahid, from Chicago, studying viola with Roberto Díaz and Edward Gazouleas, is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Fellow and entered Curtis in 2024.

Elliot Sloss (’25), from Toronto, studying cello with Nicholas Canellakis, Yumi Kendall, Christine Lee, and Peter Wiley, is the Peter King Fellow and first entered Curtis in 2021.

Samuel Tatsuki, from Arcadia, Calif., studying viola with Roberto Díaz and Edward Gazouleas, is a Curtis Institute of Music Fellow and entered Curtis in 2025.

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.

Adrian Zaragoza, from Davis, Calif., studying piano with Michelle Cann, is the William A. Horn, M.D. Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Shin Woo Kim, guest artist

    • Date Dec 10, 2025
    • Time 7:30 p.m.
    • Location Curtis Institute of Music, Gould Rehearsal Hall