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

RIKAKO WATANABE	Trois miniatures
ALEXANDRE ESPERET	Ceci n'est pas une balle Maxence Dauriat, percussion
PAGANINI	Caprice in E major, Op. 1, No. 9
WIENIAWSKI	L'École Moderne, Op. 10, No. 5 ("Alla Saltarella") Dandan Jingfei Wang, violin
GRANT STILL	Incantation and Dance Izaiah Cheeran, oboe Yoni Levyatov, piano
PAGANINI	Caprice in C Major, Op. 1, No. 11 Dongyoung Jake Shim, violin
SCHUBERT	Fantasy in C Major, D. 934 Dongyoung Jake Shim, violin Yoni Levyatov, piano

Izaiah Cheeran, from Apple Valley, Minn., a student of Katherine Needleman and Philippe Tondre, is the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.

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

Dongyoung Jake Shim (‘24), from Seoul, a student of Shmuel Ashkenasi and Ida Kavafian, is the Dorothea and Ray Posel Fellow and first entered Curtis in 2022.

Dandan Jingfei Wang, from Changsha, China, a student of Midori, is the Nina von Maltzahn Fellow and entered Curtis in 2021.

Yoni Levyatov, staff pianist

The Edith L. and Robert Prostkoff Memorial Concert Series.

Curtis Institute of Music receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.