Bartók, Beethoven, and Chopin

  • Student Recital, Free
  • Feb 25, 2026 @ 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

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

About the Artists

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

    • Date Feb 25, 2026
    • Time 7:30 p.m.
    • Location Curtis Institute of Music, Field Concert Hall