WESTON PUBLIC LIBRARY MUSIC COMMITTEE V I R T U A L C O N C E R T S E R I E S Julie Reimann, Cello Ellyses Kuan, Piano Sunday, January 31, 2021 at 3:00 P.M. Duo Amie is a cello & piano duo dedicated to inspiring and bringing diverse people together with programs that capture the imagination through musical expression and visual thematic elements, and to supporting the mission of non-profits by organizing and performing benefit concerts. A native of Hong Kong, Ellyses Kuan began playing piano at age 3. She received a full scholarship for her master’s degree, studying with Barry Snyder at Eastman School of Music, and was selected to represent Hong Kong at the International Kirishima Music Festival, Japan. As a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed throughout the United States, and in Canada, Japan and Hong Kong, and in 2017 performed at the 42nd Annual Classical Music Festival at Esterhazy Schloss (Austria). Ellyses is also founder and music director of EKS Music School (Quincy, MA). Her goal is to build community, promote performing arts awareness, and support local young musicians through advocacy and performances (including through a music scholarship fund for students in need, at her school). In 2014, she was an invited panelist on the Boston Guitar Fest Roundtable on Making a Career in Music Work, and her school was featured in the Boston Globe the same year. In 2017, she was an invited speaker at the Piano Seminar Teacher’s Roundtable at the Eisenstadt Summer Academy. She received a Steinway & Sons Top Music Teacher award 2 years in a row (2017 & 2018) and is also immediate past president of the Massachusetts Music Teacher Association. Julie Reimann started playing the cello at age 9, and was a student of Aldo Parisot, performing throughout the United States, Canada, and Brazil, and winning a number of competitions, including Gold Medal (New Haven Youth Symphony Young Artists Competition), 1st Prize (Connecticut Chamber Orchestra Young Artists Competition), and 2nd Prize (Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition Junior Division). She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Curtis Institute of Music, studying with David Soyer. During Curtis, Julie performed in the Nationale Academie de Violoncelle in France, Banff Music Festival, Rencontres Musicales d’Evian, Musicorda Music Festival, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and won 1st Place in the Alliance Auditions National Music Competition. Julie graduated from Bryn Mawr College’s Post-baccalaureate Premedical Program and received the Horace Alwyn Prize for music there. Julie continued to perform recitals while pursuing her M.D. and Ph.D. in Biophysics, at Stanford University, and during her residency and fellowship in Boston. She continues to perform as a soloist and chamber musician in various venues, including as soloist with the Waltham Symphony Orchestra (2016), soloist with Longwood Symphony Orchestra (2018), and as a guest artist with Boston Music Institute. She is also a dermatopathologist in the Boston Area, and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. https://www.duoamie.org The Music Committee Friends of Weston Public Library In Support of the Weston Public Library.