Lucia Micarelli FRI / OCT 26 / 7:30 PM Lucia Micarelli VIOLIN / VOCALS Neel Hammond VIOLIN Zach Dellinger VIOLA Vanessa Freebairn-Smith CELLO / BACKING VOCALS Ian Walker BASS Robert Thies PIANO Tonight’s program and other musicians will be announced from stage. There will be one 15-minute intermission. PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 24 Photo by SolaimanFazel ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Queens, New York, LUCIA to attend the Manhattan School of critically acclaimed series, MICARELLI was immersed in the Music, where she studied with “Treme,” created by David Simon arts by the age of three, diligently celebrated international violinist and Eric Overmeyer, which ran for practicing dance, piano and violin. Pinchas Zukerman and began to four seasons and won a Peabody After moving to Hawaii at the age develop a growing interest in Award as well as a Primetime of five, she continued to refine non-classical music. She started Emmy Award. her skills on the violin with moonlighting with local jazz and Lucia has just finished her first teachers Kathryn Lucktenberg and rock bands and by the following PBS concert special which has Sheryl Shohet, and just a year year, she had accepted an offer to been airing throughout the US in later at the age of six, Lucia made tour with the Trans-Siberian 2018. This PBS event is an eclectic her debut as a soloist with the Orchestra as a featured violinist journey through her many musical Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. At and concertmaster. Since then, influences — from classical to jazz age eleven, Lucia was accepted Lucia’s profile has continued to to traditional fiddle music and into the prestigious Juilliard soar. She’s been a featured soloist Americana — all bound together School of Music’s Pre-College in two of Josh Groban’s world by her trademark emotional Division studying under the tours, toured extensively with vulnerability and technical renowned violin pedagogue Chris Botti and was featured in wizardry. Dorothy DeLay, and also took Barbra Streisand’s 2013 lessons with Itzhak Perlman. international tour. She also Within a year, she won the Pre- released two solo albums, “Music College Concerto Competition From A Farther Room” and and began appearing at the “Interlude,” but 2009 saw Lucia Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, broadening her career even and other prominent international further when she was cast in the venues. At 17, Lucia left Juilliard starring role of “Annie” in HBO’s Photo by SolaimanFazel PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 25.