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Avery Fisher Career Grants

“Musicians of outstanding ability are such an important part of our culture. But they are like flowers that must bloom at a particular time. They have to be helped at the right moments.”
—Avery Fisher

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Avery Fisher Career Grants

Grant Recipients with NEC Affiliations

2025

Joshua Brown ’22, ’24 MM, 26 AD, violinist
Dr. Tommy Mesa, Prep ’22, ’24 MM, cellist

2024

Balourdet Quartet
Julian Rhee ’22, ’24 MM, violinist
Clayton Stephenson ’23 Harvard/NEC, ’25 GD, pianist

2023

Evren Ozel ’15 NEC Prep, ’21, ’23 MM, ’25 AD, pianist
Emi Ferguson ’05 NEC Prep, flutist

2022

Jonathan Swensen ’22 GD, cellist

2021

Geneva Lewis ’20, ’22 AD, violinist
Eric Lu ’13 NEC Prep, pianist

2020

Stella Chen ’16 Harvard/NEC, violinist
Zlatomir Fung ’13 NEC Prep, cellist

2019

Angelo Xiang Yu ’12, ’14 AD, ‘17 DMA, violinist

2016

Alexi Kenney ’15, ’17 AD, violinist
Tessa Lark ’11, ’12 MM, violinist
George Li ’13 NEC Prep, ’19 Harvard/NEC, ’22 AD, pianist

2014

Charlie Albright ’12 Harvard/NEC, pianist
Calder Quartet (members include violinist Andrew Bulbrook ’97 NEC Prep and violist Jonathan Moerschel ’97 NEC Prep)
Dimitri Murrath ’08 AD, violist

2011

Caroline Goulding ’13, violinist

2008

Jupiter String Quartet ’06 Professional String Quartet Program
Karen Gomyo ’05 Dip., ’07 AD, violinist

2007

Borromeo String Quartet ’92 AD
Yura Lee, violinist ’05 AD

2005

Priscilla Lee ’07 Professional Piano Trio Program, cellist

2002

Stefan Jackiw ’03 NEC Prep, ’06, violinist
Meng-Chieh Liu, pianist (faculty)

2001

Daniel Lee ’03 AD, cellist


2000

Alisa Weilerstein, cellist

1999

Jennifer Frautschi ’94 NEC Prep, ’96, violinist
Max Levinson ’95 AD, pianist

1998

Andrés Díaz ’85 MM, ’87 AD, cellist
Soovin Kim, violinist (faculty)

1996

Christopher Taylor ’00 DMA, pianist

1991

Hung-Kuan Chen ’88 AD, pianist

1989

Allison Eldredge ’17 NEC Prep, cellist
Daniel McKelway ’86, ’89 AD, clarinetist

1985

Peter Zazofsky, violinist (faculty)

1982

Christopher O’Riley ’81 AD, pianist

1977

Richard Stoltzman, clarinetist (faculty)