Vivac-e Blog

#meetourstudents Xiaoxuan Li, a native of Zhejiang, China, began playing the piano at 4 and currently studies with Andrzej Jasinski and Piotr Paleczny. He has performed with orchestras around the world, including the Canton Symphony Orchestra, Hilton Head...

#meetourstudents Cristian Makhuli from Charlotte, North Carolina, currently studies piano with Dmitri Vorobiev and Paul Nitsch. He has played with many orchestras, including the Winston Salem Symphony (2018, 2020), Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Myers Park...

#meetourstudents Andrew Zhao, 19, currently attends Pomona College and studies with Genevieve Lee. He attended the Colburn Music Academy (2013-16) and then studied privately with Inessa Litvin in San Diego. Andrew’s orchestral debut was at age 11 with the San...

#meetourstudents Clara Gabrielle Haslop, 17, is currently studying under Rufus Choi. She will attend the Manhattan School of Music in the fall of 2020 and study under Jeffery Cohen. Clara has performed with the Los Angeles Doctors Symphony, the Kostroma...

#introducing our new faculty! We are thrilled to introduce a new faculty member, Xiao-Dong Wang! Violinist Xiao-­Dong Wang entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at the age of ten. Wang was first prize winner in the Menuhin International Violin Competition...

#meetourstudents Natalie Zhang, 15, started her piano studies at age 4 and is currently under the tutelage of Michael Lewin. Since her solo debut at Carnegie Hall at age 6, Natalie has performed at venues such as Boston Symphony Hall, Seattle Symphony Hall,...

#meetourstudents Grant Smith attends California Polytechnic State University as a music and civil engineering major. He is currently studying piano under Dr. W. Terrence Spiller and is on scholarship for both music performance and engineering. Grant won the...

#meetourstudents Issay Niki grew up in Iowa City and has been playing piano since he was 3 years old. He is now a sophomore at the Bronx High School of Science in New York, currently studying with Igal Kesselman. His previous teachers include Feilin Lin,...

#meetourstudents Gabrielle Hsu, 21, currently studies Piano Performance at the New England Conservatory of Music under Victor Rosenbaum. She was the winner of the Music Club of Princeton Scholarship Competition (2017) and the two-time winner of the Northern...

#meetourstudents Victoria Frances Young is an 18-year-old classical pianist and composer. She is currently a Composition Major at Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University studying with Professor Oscar Bettison. As a pianist, She has performed at...