Taking Note

Taking Note is a new digital series spotlighting rising instrumentalists who have received Career Grant Awards from the Avery Fisher Artist Program. Each year, the program awards $25,000 to instrumentalists and chamber ensembles in support of professional music development.

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Great Performances

Taking Note — Dmitry Yudin

Pianist Dmitry Yudin immigrated from Moscow to the United States to follow his older sister.

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Great Performances

Taking Note — Nathan Meltzer

Nathan Meltzer first picked up the violin while living in Vienna and attending elementary school.

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Great Performances

Taking Note — Keila Wakao

First taking up the violin at age three, Keila Wakao was raised in a musical family.

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Major series funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, Jody and John Arnhold, the Abra Prentice Foundation, The Starr Foundation, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, the Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, Seton J. Melvin, the Estate of Worthington Mayo-Smith, the Jack Lawrence Charitable Remainder Trust Worchell Lawrence, and Ellen and James S. Marcus.

Major corporate funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES is provided by Raymond James Financial.