Fellow Biographies Cellist JOHN BELK is going into his third year as a master’s student at Rice University, where he studies with Desmond Hoebig. He recently performed the Walton Cello Concerto with The Orchestra Now led by Leon Botstein. He has had the opportunity to collaborate with distinguished musicians and composers including Peter Serkin, David Shifrin, and Joan Tower. Belk completed bachelor’s degrees in music performance and computer science at the Bard College Conservatory, where he studied with Peter Wiley. When he’s not practicing, Belk can usually be found spending time with his extremely lazy and extremely lovable golden retriever Hobbes. | Clement Clarke Moore Scholarship Originally from Philadelphia, CLARE BRADFORD has studied cello since the age of four. She enjoyed her first solo debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony at the age of seven, and since then has appeared in chamber and solo performances in Alice Tully Hall, The Guggenheim, Heinz Hall, Jordan Hall, the Kimmel Center, and the Tobin Center. Bradford has spent her summers at the Aspen Music Festival, Heifetz International Music Institute, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Kyoto International Music Festival. Bradford received her Bachelor of Music in cello performance at New England Conservatory and has recently completed her master’s degree at The Juilliard School as a student of Joel Krosnick. | Aldo And Elizabeth Parisot Scholarship In Memory Of Harris Goldsmith | clarebradford.com Praised by the Huffington Post for her “lithe and penetrating line,” SARRAH BUSHARA is an oboe performance student of Richard Woodhams and a composition student of David Ludwig at the Curtis Institute of Music. A native of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Bushara has won prizes in competitions locally, nationally, and internationally. She was a member of the 2015 and 2016 National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, performing multi-city tours of China and Europe. Other recent summer engagements include the Cuban American Youth Orchestra, the Colorado College Summer Music Festival, and the Atlantic Music Festival. Bushara currently serves as co-principal oboe of the Curtis Symphony orchestra and as a substitute oboist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. | Paul And Susan Hawkshaw Scholarship
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TIFFANY CHANG, age 20, is currently studying at the New England Conservatory with Miriam Fried. Born in Arizona, Chang began playing the violin at the age of three after seeing her older brother playing the instrument. She has been a prize winner for various state competitions as well as concerto competitions at summer festivals. In addition to competing, Chang was a member of Music For Cure, a volunteer club at her high school where she performed hour-long concerts with her classmates at local senior homes. Outside of music, she enjoys binging her favorite shows and going to the gym. | Clement Clarke Moore Scholarship HUDSON YE-HYUNG CHUNG, born in Jerusalem into a Korean family, began playing the violin at age six, and at 12, made his debut with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Israel’s fifth president, Itzhak Navon, became Chung’s patron for his studies at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance. Chung appeared with the Sejong Soloists in 2009, for its 10 Annual Benefit Concert alongside with guest artist, Gil Shaham. He has won first place awards in the Israeli-American Foundation Sharett scholarship program (Tel Aviv, 2006); Kukmin Daily News, (Seoul); Youngsan Young Artist (Seoul); and New York International Music Competitions. Having studied at The Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music, he currently studies with Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory. MICHAEL DAVIDMAN started piano lessons at five years old at the Greenwich House Music School, from 2005-2015 piano performance with Efrem Briskin at Manhattan School of Music, conducting with Jonathan Strasser (2009-2015), and conducting with David Gilbert (2013-2015). Davidman is presently studying piano with Robert McDonald at Curtis Institute of Music. As soloist, he has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Symphonicity, and Monterey Symphony, Millikin Decatur Symphony Orchestra, West Point Orchestra, Ithaca College Orchestra, Summit Music Festival Orchestra, and Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, amongst others. Davidman completed his fourth and final year of The Chopin Foundation of the United States Scholarship program. | 2006 Centenary Committee Scholarship | pianistmichael.instantencore.com/web/home.aspx
