IN HARMONY | CAROLINE SHAW In Conversation and Performance Artist Bios Jordan Bak, Viola A Sphinx Competition alum and MPower Artist grant recipient, Jamaican-American violist and Artist Diploma candidate Jordan Bak (MM, ’18, viola) won the 2017 Juilliard Concerto Competition and the special prize from the Verbier Festival Academy. Festivals include Juilliard ChamberFest, Taos School of Music, Four Seasons Winter Workshop, Lac Léman Music Masterclasses, and Encore Chamber Music. He has collaborated with musicians Colin Carr, Ioana Cristina Goicea, Ara Gregorian, Emanuel Gruber, and Dov Scheindlin, He holds a degree from the New England Conservatory, has studied with Hsin-Yun Huang and Dimitri Murrath, and currently studies with Samuel Rhodes. He teaches at Opportunity Music Project in New York City and Malverne School of Music on Long Island, and he’s a teaching assistant for ACHT Viola Studio. Celia Ascher Artist Diploma Fellowship, Kovner Fellowship Clare Bradford, Cello Philadelphia native Clare Bradford is pursuing her master’s degree at Juilliard, studying with Joel Krosnick. An alumnus of the Heifetz Music Institute, Bowdoin Music Festival, and Kyoto International Festival, she is a founding member of New York-based Ensemble 63 and has been heard at the Kimmel Center, Alice Tully Hall, National Sawdust, and Guggenheim Museum. She has toured with Heifetz on Tour, and she has performed and done outreach in the greater New England area and Staunton, Va. She received her Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory, where she worked with Paul Katz. Jody and Gerard Schwarz Scholarship, Michael and Ethel Cohen Scholarship Johanna Elisabeth Bufler, Piano Johanna Elisabeth Bufler (Pre-College, ’16) started to play piano at age 4. Three years later, she was the youngest student ever enrolled under Karl Heinz-Kämmerling at University Mozarteum in Salzburg and HMTM Hannover. She made her orchestral debut at age 10 with the Cincinnati Starling Chamber Orchestra. She is currently studying for her BM at Juilliard with Yoheved Kaplinsky. A prizewinner of the Hamburg International Steinway, International Ettlingen, and International Grotrian Steinweg piano competitions, she has appeared at the Kissinger Sommer, Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festpiele, Aspen Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West. Since 2001, she has been a scholarship artist of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben and a fellow at the Artemisia Academy at Yale and Music Academy of the West. Olga Samaroff Scholarship, Wertheimer Fellowship, Lolita Cabrera Gainsborg Scholarship Amelia Dietrich, Violin Violinist Amelia Dietrich is currently a master’s student at Juilliard studying with Ida Kavafian. She has performed with Robert McDonald, Alessio Bax, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Steve Tenenbom, Roger Tapping, Adam Neiman, Michael Kanen, and Marc Coppey. Dietrich was a founding member of the Calla Quartet, silver medalists of the 2015 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. She has given recitals throughout the U.S. and was a featured soloist at New Hampshire’s Concert on the Hill series. Dedicated to supporting new music, she has collaborated with L.A. contemporary chamber orchestra Wild Up and performs with Shattered Glass, the NYC conductorless chamber orchestra. She is a graduate of the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Robert Lipsett. Mary Duke Biddle Scholarship, C. V. Starr Scholarship, Helen-Mae Knafel Askin Scholarship Emma Frucht, Violin Native New Yorker Emma Frucht is a violin master’s student at Juilliard, studying with Naoko Tanaka and Daniel Phillips. Frucht majored in art history at Harvard, and studied violin privately with Lynn Chang. She has been concertmaster of ensembles including both the Harvard and Juilliard Orchestras. She performs at U.S. chamber music festivals and has collaborated with Jean-Michel Fonteneau, David Hardy, Michael Kannen, Seth Knopp, Violaine Melançon, Katherine Murdock, Irina Muresanu, Carol Rodland, Peter Stumpf, and Roger Tapping. She was a fellowship student at the Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Taos School of Music, and Yellow Barn, where she worked with the Takács, Borromeo, Miró, and Brentano String Quartets. She also was an artist at the Halcyon Music Festival, Kyoto International Music Festival, and Manchester Summer Chamber Music series in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass. Kovner Fellowship Alice Ivy-Pemberton, Violin Alice Ivy-Pemberton began playing at age 4 and studied violin with Nurit Pacht at the Kaufman Music Center. At age 10, she performed on NPR’s “From the Top” and was also a soloist on PBS’ “From the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall.” The Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau awarded her its Prix du Directeur in 2016; she also won the audience prize at the Conservatoire’s Prix Ravel competition. This year she won Juilliard’s Violin Concerto Competition and performed John Corigliano’s Red Violin Concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra led by Jeffrey Milarsky at Alice Tully Hall. In April, she played the world premiere of Juilliard composer Marc Migo’s Nocturne for violin, piano, and orchestra, at Alice Tully Hall led by Milarsky. She has performed as a soloist in many New York venues, including Bargemusic, Zankel Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and Carnegie Hall. She is pursuing her BM at Juilliard under Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho. Kovner Fellowship Sarah Kay Sarah Kay is a New Yorker; a poetry writer and reader; an educator; founder and co-director of Project VOICE; a witty banter enthusiast; a postcard lover; a foodie; a playwright; a singer; a songwriter; a photographer; a best-selling author of four books of poetry: B, No Matter the Wreckage, The Type, and All Our Wild Wonder; a celebrated performer in over 25 countries; an editor for Write Bloody Publishing; a Gemini; a mediocre driver at best; a musical theater geek; a smoothie expert; the daughter of a Taoist mother and a Brooklynese father; a hapa; less cool than her little brother; an alum of the United Nations International School and a graduate of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program; an alum of Brown University; an alum of Brown University Graduate School’s master’s program in the Art of Teaching Secondary English; and a recipient of an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Grinnell College. Emily Liu, Viola San Francisco native Emily Liu is pursuing her MM with Heidi Castleman and Cynthia Phelps at Juilliard, where she completed her BM studying with Hsin-Yun Huang and Misha Amory. She is a principal violist of the Juilliard Orchestra and has performed in master classes with the Borromeo and Miró quartets. For Juilliard’s ChamberFest, she has performed the Mendelssohn Piano Sextet, Arensky String Quartet, and Enescu Octet. She has attended Music@Menlo, Aspen Music Festival, Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, Thomas Riebl’s International Summer Academy (Bad Leonfelden, Austria), and the Heifetz International Music Institute, and toured with the Juilliard Orchestra and Sibelius Academy to Finland and Stockholm. This past summer, she attended Music Academy of the West and played at the Kyoto Music Festival in Japan. Mary Bianco Scholarship, Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship Thapelo Masita, Cello Thapelo Masita is passionate about connecting people with music and promoting social change in his community. He works closely with young musicians in Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program and with women in shelters alongside his colleagues in the Uhuru Quartet. He was first introduced to classical music through the Mangaung String Program in Bloemgontein, South Africa, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree under Natasha Brofsky at Juilliard. Susan W. Rose Graduate Fellowship Manami Mizumoto, Violin New York native Manami Mizumoto (Pre-College ’13; BM ’18, violin) started her relationship with music at age 3. Early exposure to chamber music at home and later in her studies sparked a devoted love of this art. A turning point was with the New York Youth Symphony chamber music program when she premiered Jude Vaclavik’s piano trio Mechanisms at Weill Recital Hall. This started a fascination with performing contemporary music and working with living composers, which most recently led to a project to benefit women’s shelters in NYC. With the Uhuru Quartet, of which she is a founding member, Mizumoto co-created and led a songwriting workshop with composer Sato Matsui at the Women in Need shelter, and hopes to continue this project with more composer-collaborators and shelters in the future. She is studying for her MM at Juilliard. Historical Performance Scholarship Philip Sheegog, Cello Drawing from classical, pop, rock, and electronic influences, California native Philip Sheegog (BM ’17, cello) has performed in projects from all ends of the musical spectrum, from Juilliard’s contemporary ensemble AXIOM to the Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses video game tour. He has premiered over 50 new works written by many composers and commissioned more than 20 others. Collaborative projects include the hip- hop/classical collective ShoutHouse, International Contemporary Ensemble, and the Steve Miller Band. A master’s student, he is co-principal cellist of the Juilliard Orchestra and was an inaugural member of Juilliard’s Honors Chamber Music program. Sheegog seeks to use art to encourage, empower, and inspire through community engagement and context-specific programming in both Southern California and New York City. Jim Wargowsky Scholarship, Joseph F. McCrindle Scholarship, Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship Lauren Siess, Viola