Born in Phoenix, Arizona, Lily Ye won first prize in the Hong Kong International Youth Music Competition and placed second at the 19th International Violin Competition in Bari. Ms. Ye received her Bachelor of Music from Mannes College of Music where she studied with Ann Setzer. Ms. Ye currently studies with Isaac Malkin while pursuing a Dual Master’s Degree in Violin Performance and Music Education at Manhattan School of Music and Columbia University’s Teacher College.

 

 

 

Benjamin Goodman was born in Oxford, England in 1990 and made aliyah at the age of thirteen. He started playing both piano and violin at the age of five. But, soon after arriving in Israel, he decided to concentrate solely on piano.

 

It was then that his first serious study of the piano began, under the guidance of his teacher Esther Narkis. He served as an Exceptional Musician in the IDF for three years, where he initiated a series of explained concerts for trainee officers and combat soldiers and facilitated the donation of pianos to two army bases.

 

1. Bach: Sonata & Partitas for solo violin“Chaconne”
2. Schumann: Kreisleriana Op. 16
3. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in F major from Book II BWV 880
4. Rachmaninoff: Vocalise
5. Frank: violin sonata in A Major