Music of the Holocaust

Student Recital | April 25, 2023 12:45 p.m.

Curtis Institute of Music students perform over 100 free recitals during the semester, 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
HERMANN Grand Duo No. 1

Maya Anjali Buchanan, violin
Nygel Witherspoon, cello

KRÁSA Passacaglia and Fugue

EunSeo Lee, violin
Alyssa Warcup, viola
Hun Choi, cello

SCHULHOFF Concertino

Julin Cheung, flute
Jack Kessler, viola
Tobias Vigneau, double bass

HAAS Quartet No. 2, Op. 7 ("From the Monkey Mountains")

Alexandra Cooreman, violin
Yiyang Hou, violin
Dillon Scott, viola
Romain-Olivier Gray, cello

  • April 25, 2023
  • 12:45 p.m.
Saint Mark's Church

1625 Locust St.
Philadelphia, PA 19125

About the Performers

Maya Anjali Buchanan, from Rapid City, S.D., a student of Ida Kavafian, is the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Fellow and entered Curtis in 2018.

Nygel Witherspoon, from Minneapolis, Minn., a student of Peter Wiley, is the Richard A. Doran Fellow and entered Curtis in 2019.

EunSeo Lee, from Daejeon, Korea, a student of Benjamin Beilman and Ida Kavafian, is the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Fellow and entered Curtis in 2017.

Alyssa Warcup, from Geneva, Ill., a student of Hsin-Yun Huang, is the Edward Montgomery Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Hun Choi, from Seoul, a student of Gary Hoffman and Peter Wiley, is the Jacqueline du Pré Memorial Fellow and entered Curtis in 2017.

Julin Cheung, from Seattle, a student of Jeffrey Khaner, is the Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest Fellow and entered Curtis in 2020.

Jack Kessler, from Miami, Fla., a student of Roberto Díaz and Edward Gazouleas, is the Anthony B. Creamer III Fellow and entered Curtis in 2019.

Tobias Vigneau, from Albuquerque, N.M., a student of Edgar Meyer and Harold Hall Robinson, is the Gie and Lisa Liem Fellow and entered Curtis in 2020.

Alexandra Cooreman, from Brussels, Belgium, a student of Ida Kavafian, is the Milka Violin Artist Fellow and entered Curtis in 2021.

Yiyang Hou, from Shanghai, a student of Benjamin Beilman and Ida Kavafian, is the Herbert R. and Evelyn Axelrod Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Dillon Scott, from Lansdale, Pa., a student of Roberto Díaz and Edward Gazouleas, is the Mark E. Rubenstein Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Romain-Olivier Gray, from Québec City and Woodbridge, Va., a student of Gary Hoffman and Peter Wiley, is the Maurice Gendron Memorial Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

Special Thanks

The Curtis Institute of Music received funding from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Edith L. and Robert Prostkoff Memorial Concert Series.

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