Presented by the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Solo Recital Series
Program
Beethoven: Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Debussy: Images, Book 2, L. 111
Chopin:
- Berceuse, Op. 57
- Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39
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About the Performer
Jeffery Yu is a fourth-year undergraduate at MIT studying math and physics. Music has been close to his heart since a young age, having played piano for 16 years and violin for 10. He initially studied with Larissa Korkina at the Westminster Conservatory of Music, where he was a four-time scholarship recipient and a winner of the Westminster Conservatory Concerto Competition where he performed the Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor with the Princeton Community Orchestra in 2013 at Alexander Hall in Princeton University. Since moving to Virginia, he has studied with Marjorie Lee. He has won awards for both solo and duet performances, including winning the 2017 Virginia MTA Piano Concerto Competition and the 2016 Young Musicians Inspiring Change Chamber Music Competition.
He currently studies with Yukiko Sekino and has participated in the Emerson/Harris Program all four years at MIT. This is his second year as an Emerson fellow performing a solo recital. In addition to solo piano, he enjoys playing with others in ensembles including MIT’s Chamber Music Society and Symphony Orchestra. Outside of piano, he also plays violin in the MIT Symphony Orchestra and the Video Game Orchestra. He is also an aspiring conductor, having recently conducted the musical Pippin through MIT’s Musical Theater Guild, and is currently the music director for Next Act’s production of The Drowsy Chaperone.
About the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study
Funded by the late Mr. Cherry L. Emerson, Jr. (SM, 1941) in response to an appeal from Associate Provost Ellen T. Harris (Class of 1949 Professor Emeritus of Music), the Emerson/Harris Program offers merit-based financial awards for private study in music to students of outstanding achievement on their instruments in classical, jazz or world music. Each academic year, the Emerson/Harris Program awards Scholarships and Fellowships to nearly fifty students who commit to a full year’s study and participate in the musical life of MIT. Private teacher selections, made in consultation with the music faculty, may include instructors from MIT staff and throughout Greater Boston.
