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#meetourstudents Loa Cho is a 17-year-old cellist from Bowling Green, Ohio. She attends Columbia University and studies cello performance at The Juilliard School with Natasha Brofsky through the Columbia-Juilliard Joint Program. As a winner of the 2020 Toledo...

#meetourstudents Joseph Darcourt is 14-year-old Taiwanese-Peruvian cellist and is currently in the Juilliard Pre-College Program with Astrid Schween. As the first prize winner of the International American Protegé Music Talent and Concerto Competition, he made...

#meetourstudents David Caplan is a 20-year-old cellist from Chicago, Illinois, and is currently studying cello performance with Daniel McDonough at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As the winner of the 2016 Birch Creek Burton Concerto...

#meetourstudents Mia Kim Bernard is a 15-year-old from Hoboken, New Jersey, and currently studies with Madeleine Golz at the precollege division of the Manhattan School of Music. Mia performed at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as the winner of national...

#meetourstudents Elena Ariza is a 22 year old from Cupertino, California. She is currently pursuing her masters in cello performance at The Juilliard School, where she studies with Astrid Schween. Elena previously attended Columbia University where she majored...

#meetourstudents Andres Ayerbe is an 18 year old cellist from Houston, Texas. In the fall, Andres will be attending the University of Michigan, where he will study with Richard Aaron. He won the Fort Bend Symphony and the Clear Lake Symphony’s concerto...

#meetourstudents Layla Ballard is a 16 year old cellist studying at St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, where she studies with Duncan Strachan. The past two years, Layla was accepted into the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain where she...

#meetourstudents Bethany Bobbs is a 16 year old cellist and is currently in the Juilliard Pre-College Program, where she studies with Astrid Schween. She performed as a soloist with many orchestras including the New Jersey Orchestra, Delaware Symphony, and the...

#happeningtomorrow Immerse yourself in music from August 12 to 22! Join us daily from your home to watch our world-class faculty teach talented Vivace participants and join more than 20 special courses and panels! Music lives here! Cello Faculty and Guests...

#meetourstudents Nicole Yun is a 17-year-old violinist and a Junior at Dublin High School. Currently, she is a student of Ian Swensen at San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College Division and Eric Chin of the Telegraph Quartet. This year, Nicole won first...