MUSIC: Piano Duo Ozel and Horowitz to Play at St. John’s Church on October 6

Description

Ariel Horowitz and Evren Ozel have been delighting audiences together for three years. American pianist Evren Ozel is a musician of “refined restraint” (Third Coast Review), combining fluent virtuosity with probing, thoughtful interpretations. He is the recipient of a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, 2022 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and is currently an Ambassador Prize Winner of the 2021 Victor Elmaleh Competition. Evren received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the New England Conservatory, and is a candidate in their prestigious Artist Diploma program, under the tutelage of Wha Kyung Byun. The Washington Post describes Ariel Horowitz as “sweetly lyrical.”

She proclaims a lifelong love of music. A recent graduate of the Yale School of Music under Ani Kavafian, Ariel previously studied with Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho at The Juilliard School. Prizewinner at the Menuhin, Grumiaux, Stulberg, and Klein International Competitions, Ariel also received a Salon De Virtuosi Career Grant in 2017 and Yale’s School of Music’s 2019 Broadus Erle Award in Violin and 2020 Philip F. Nelson Award for excellence in musicianship and entrepreneurship.