Broadcast: Chamber Music of Black Composers

  • Broadcast, Free
  • Feb 15, 2024 @ 1:00 P.M.

Join us for a special Black History Month broadcast performance featuring chamber music of Black composers. Subscribe to Curtis on YouTube to be notified when the broadcast begins—and enjoy a catalog of incredible Curtis performances.

Program

ALBERGA Quartet No. 2

Alexandra Cooreman, violin
Haerim Oh, violin
Annis Cheuk Lam Ma, viola
Romain-Olivier Gray, cello

WALKER Quartet No. 1

Na Hyun Della Kyun, violin
Hairui Lei, violin
Dillon Scott, viola
Nygel Witherspoon, cello

BAKER Roots II

Sameer Agrawal, violin
Carson Ling-Efird, cello
Adrian Zaragoza, piano

About the Performers

Sameer Agrawal, from Chicago, a student of Midori, is the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.   

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

Corina Deng, from Vancouver, British Columbia, a student of Ida Kavafian, is a Curtis Institute of Music 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.   

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.   

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

Hairui Lei, from Shanghai, a student of Shmuel Ashkenasi and Pamela Frank, is the Jean J. Sterne Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.   

Carson Ling-Efird, from Seattle, a student of Gary Hoffman and Peter Wiley, is a Curtis Institute of Music Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.   

Annis Cheuk Lam Ma, from Hong Kong, a student of Misha Amory and Hsin-Yun Huang, is the Bernice and Howard Levinson Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.   

Davin Mar, from Vancouver, British Columbia, a student of Misha Amory and Hsin-Yun Huang, is a Curtis Institute of Music Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.   

Haerim Oh, from Korea, a student of Midori, is the Mundheim Family Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.   

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

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

Tzu-Yi Yu, from Taoyuan City, Taiwan, a student of Anthony McGill, is the Valerija and Ladislaus Medveckis Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.   

Adrian Zaragoza, from Davis, Calif., a student of Michelle Cann, is the Hirsig Family Fellow and entered Curtis in 2022.