In light of President Reif’s announcement on March 10th regarding COVID-19, this event has been CANCELED.
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Grace is currently a master’s student at MIT studying computer science. She started playing the violin at the age of four and has studied at the New England Conservatory with Donald Weilerstein since she was 10 years old. She competed in the Louis Spohr International Violin Competition, earned a National Young Arts award, and was invited to perform at the former New Hampshire governor’s inauguration. She has played in the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, and has traveled to Vietnam and Hong Kong on a concert tour with the Phillips Exeter Academy Chamber Orchestra and Concert Choir.
At MIT, she has been an Emerson Fellow for the past four years. She participates actively in the Chamber Music Society, is the co-winner of the 2019 MIT Concerto Competition, and is the recipient of the 2019 Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts. She continues to take private lessons at the New England Conservatory, studying with Angelo Xiang Yu, a first prize winner of the Menuhin Competition.
Program
Zapateado Op. 23 No. 2 (1880) Pablo de Sarasate
(1844-1908)
Violin Sonata No. 21 in E minor, K. 304 (1778) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
- Allegro
- Tempo di Menuetto
Concert Variations on “The Last Rose of Summer” (1864) Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
(1812-1865)
Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano (1917) Claude Debussy
(1862-1918)
- Allegro vivo
- Intermède: fantasque et léger
- Finale: très animé
Scherzo-Tarantelle Op. 16 (1855) Henryk Wieniawski
(1835-1880)
Funded by the late Mr. Cherry L. Emerson, Jr. (SM, 1941) the Emerson Program offers merit-based financial assistance for private lessons to MIT students of outstanding achievement on their instrument or voice in classical, jazz or world music via competitive auditions. Each academic year, the Emerson program for private study offers half scholarships and full scholarships to approximately 50 qualified students out of about 100 who apply and audition for scholarships and fellowships. Auditions are held at the start of the fall semester. Private teacher selections, made in consultation with the music faculty, may include instructors from MIT or from the greater Boston musical community.
