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RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE
PIANO AND STRINGS FELLOWS
RSMI
Audrey Chen
, cello
Bogert-Marshall Fellowship*,
Jane W. and Irving H. Goldberg
Memorial Fellowship*, Susan
and Roger Stone Fellowship*
Anative of Redmond, Washington,
cellist Audrey Chen is currently in
her fifth year in the Harvard/NEC dual degree joint
program. She studies under Laurence Lesser and
recently graduated with a Bachelor’s in Molecular
and Cellular Biology from Harvard. As a chamber
musician, Audrey has performed as a guest artist
alongside the Silk Road Ensemble, the Parker Quartet,
andtheBorromeoQuartet.Sheisaproudmemberofthe
Ravos Quartet, a Boston-based string quartet focused
on community outreach and performing classical and
contemporary works. Audrey has also performed on
NPR’s From the Top, featuring America’s best young
classical musicians, and has given solo concerts
with the Seattle Symphony, Eastside Symphony,
the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Institute
Orchestra, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Over
the summers, Audrey has been a participant at the
Tanglewood Music Center, the Taos School of Music,
the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Schleswig-
Holstein Musik Festival Orchestra Academy. She has
served as principal cellist for Carnegie Hall’s 2013
and 2014 National Youth Orchestra (NYO-USA)
in concert halls around the world, including the
Moscow Conservatory, Mariinsky Theatre, Kennedy
Center, Walt Disney Hall, and Royal Albert Hall at
the London BBC Proms. More recently, Audrey was
principal cellist of the inaugural 2017 Youth Music
Culture Guangdong orchestra and the 2017 New York
String Orchestra Seminar.
Grace Clifford
, violin
Thoresen Foundation Fellowship*
Grace is 19 years old and has
completed four years of study in
the Bachelor of Music program
at the Curtis Institute, studying
with Pamela Frank and Ida
Kavafian and, immediately prior, with the late
Joseph Silverstein. In 2018 Grace has the privilege
of performing violin concertos with the West
Australian Symphony, the Canberra Symphony and
the Adelaide Symphony, where she will also give
recitals asASO’s first EmergingArtist inAssociation
for the 2018 and 2019 seasons. In March of 2017 and
2018 she performed piano trios with Kathryn Selby
and Clancy Newman on six-concert Australian tours
with Selby & Friends. During the 2016–17 season
she performed with the Adelaide Symphony, Sydney
Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, and Melbourne
Chamber Orchestra. Grace was a fellow at Ravinia’s
Steans Music Institute for the summer of 2017. A
highlight in the 2015–16 year was playing violin
and viola in performances of Schoenberg’s
Pierrot
Lunaire
in Philadelphia and Washington as part of
Curtis on Tour, and in New York with renowned
soprano Lucy Shelton. From 2009 to 2014 Grace
was in the pre-college program at the Sydney
Conservatorium of Music, studying with Dr Robin
Wilson, who continues to be a mentor. During
this time Grace had many wonderful performance
experiences in Australia, culminating in winning
the 2014 ABC Symphony Australia Young
Performer of the Year and three performances of the
Beethoven Concerto with the Adelaide Symphony.
In 2013, Grace was chosen by audition to study
with Professor Ana Chumachenco at the Kronberg
Academy Masterclasses in Germany. In 2012, she
was awarded 4th prize in the Junior Section of the
Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition
in Beijing.
Clémence de Forceville
, violin
A gift from Betsey and Dale
R. Pinkert in honor of George
Perlman and Betty Haag*,
Sachs Family Fellowship, Esther
W. and Saul Stone Memorial
Fellowship* from Donna and
Tom Stone and family
Clémence de Forceville was born in Paris in 1991
and started playing the violin at the age of four. She
obtained a master degree with highest distinction
from Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP) and studied
then with Antje Weithaas at Hochschule für Musik
Hanns Eisler in Berlin, where she graduated with
a second master. She now continues her studies
with Mihaela Martin at the prestigious Barenboim-
Said academy in Berlin. Her career as a soloist
and chamber musician brought her across Europe,
Japan, and the United States. Second Prize winner
of the Vasco Abidjiev International Competition
and Laureate of Torùn International Competition
and the Lausanne Duo Academy, she performed
with the Nouvelle Europe Orchestra, Orchestre
des Universités de Paris, the Philarmonie Süd-
Westphalie, and Sofia Philarmonic Orchestra. She
has played at festivals such as
Les Folles Journées
,
Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival,
Pablò Casals festival, Rencontres Internationales
of Enghien in Belgium, Schiermonnikoog Chamber
Music Festival in Holland,
La Roque d’Anthéron,
festival Consonnances, Les Estivales de Megèves,
and Festival de Deauville. She gave concerts with
members of the Eben Quartett and Wanderer Trio,
and played as first violin with the Zaide String
Quartett. Besides she has been playing as First
Concertmaster of the Lille, and has been the first
violin of the Hieronymus Quartett since 2015.
Peter Eom
, cello
Richard Byron Stevens Memorial
Fellowship
A U.S. Presidential Scholar in
the Arts and an Americans for
the Arts Roundtable Fellow,
cellist Peter Eom is recognized
for bringing together a unique synthesis of thoughts
into musical actualization. As soloist, Peter has
interacted as soloist with a variety of artists and
arts organizations including the National Symphony
Orchestra, YoungArts, Bill T. Jones, Americans
for the Arts, and Universal Music Group. An avid
chamber musician, he has also found expansion
through work with artists including Joshua Bell,
Augustin Hadelich, Peter Frankl, Robert McDonald,
and members of the Emerson, Brentano, Miró,
Borromeo, and Tokyo String Quartets. A proponent
of sharing exciting and otherworldly sounds, Peter
also strives to involve himself in the Historically
Informed Performance practice as well as in
the world of modern composers. In addition to
performing music by composers such as Carter,
Ives, Marsalis, Mellits, Saariaho, and Zorn, his
premiers include works by Pál Hermann, Atli
Sveinsson, Jonas Tarm, Warren Cohen, and even an
experimental cello concerto written by famed news
anchor Hugh Downs. Peter recently finished his
undergraduate studies with Clive Greensmith at the
Colburn Conservatory of Music.
Motti Fang-Bentov
, piano
Mrs. C.F. Andes Music
Fellowship*, Gitta Gradova
Cottle and Maurice H. Cottle
Memorial Fellowship* from Mr.
and Mrs. H. George Mann, Jack
Harris Memorial Fellowship*
from the Chicago Corporation and family and
friends of Jack Harris, Carl and Frances Korn
Motti was born in 1997 in Beijing, China, to an
Israeli father and a Chinese mother. He grew up
in Israel, starting his musical education at the age
of 5, when he took his first piano lessons. In his
youth and adolescent years he studied with two
prominent musical figures that established the base
of his pianistic craftsmanship and cultivated his
passion and devotion for music: Ms. Hanah Shalgi
and Prof. Vadim Monastyski. At the high school and
early collegiate stage, Motti continued his musical
education under Prof. Tomer Lev at the Buchmann-
Mehta School of Music at the Tel-Aviv University,
joining his studio in 2012. Under their guidance he
went on to win numerous national prizes, including
first prizes at the Ashdod Piano Competition, The
Pnina Zaltsman Piano Competition and the Chopin
Competition in Tel Aviv. During that period he
also appeared in solo performances with numerous
orchestras, such as the Israeli Philharmonic
Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphonic Orchestra and
Haifa Symphonic Orchestra. In May of 2017, during
his freshman year at the Buchmann-Mehta School
of Music, he was chosen to play in the school’s
annual Gala concert in Heichal Hatarbut Tel-Aviv,
performing Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Concerto with
the BMSOM Symphonic Orchestra, under the baton
of Maestro Zubin Mehta. He is now continuing his
artistic path at the New England Conservatory with
Prof. Alexander Korsantia, under the mentorship of
whom he won the NEC Concerto Competition and
subsequently performed Ravel’s Concerto in G with
the NEC Philharmonia and Maestro David Loebel
in March 2018.
Brandon Garbot
, violin
Fellowship in Memory of Sally
and Ernest A. Grunsfeld III*
Brandon Garbot has appeared in
solo and chamber performances
in venues including Carnegie’s
Weill Recital Hall, Severance
Hall, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Hall, the
Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, the Kennedy
Center, and in Tainan, Taiwan. He has soloed with
the Oregon Symphony, Jefferson Symphony, and
on tour with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra. Mr.
Garbot is a substitute violinist with the Philadelphia
Orchestra, and has been a guest musician with
the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber
musician, he has performed and collaborated with
members the Artemis and Belcea Quartets, as well
as Shmuel Ashkenasi, Timothy Eddy, Viviane