First season with the SO: 2008
Hometown: Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
Degrees / Colleges: Bachelor of Music at the Curtis Institute before going on to start a Master’s program at Juilliard School for the Arts.
Award / Musical Accomplishment you are most proud of:
Playing Mahler 5 with Valery Gergiev at the Verbier Festival Orchestra
on a live broadcast, which my family and friends were able to watch all
over the country.
Hobbies / interests: Spending time in or out with
friends; playing basketball, soccer or Frisbee (all very poorly); and
rotting my brain with video games.
My dream is to: truly leave my mark on music in some way.
Personal Fact / Something you would like people to know about you: My father is a chef, and he makes tons and tons of the world's greatest baclava every Christmas.