Musicians for Equality is a student-led non-profit that advocates for equality and equity across the globe. Musicians for Equality strives to bring justice to unheard voices, educate ourselves and each other, and spread awareness through music.
About Isabelle Wolpert: Eighteen-year-old classical pianist Isabelle Wolpert is from Stillwater, Minnesota. She currently studies with her one and only teacher, Dr. Reid Smith. Wolpert has taken masterclasses from Alexander Yakovlev and participated in his international piano festival, Grand Piano in the Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia during the summer of 2019. While in St. Petersburg, Wolpert received masterclasses from notable Russian and Japanese pianists. Isabelle is a senior at St. Paul Academy and Summit School where she is the founder and co-president of The Music Lab, a student club that experiments and exposes students to different types of music, and continues to be a section leader for four years in Honors Sinfonia and Academy Symphony. This fall, Isabelle was planning on being the music director for a student-directed musical along with assistant music director for one in during the summer of 2021. Outside of music, Isabelle is an avid downhill ski racer, ultimate frisbee player, and enjoys spending time with her dogs, Ivan and Igor.
About Nate Strothkamp: Nate Strothkamp is a sixteen year-old violinist from Portland, Oregon. He serves as co-concertmaster in the Portland Youth Philharmonic and plays with the PYP Camerata chamber orchestra. Nate participated in the 2019 Boston University Tanglewood Institute, where he was a concertmaster of the Young Artists Orchestra and selected to play in a masterclass with Hilary Hahn. He has also had the opportunity to play for renowned artists including Ida Kavafian, Bella Hristova, Charlie Castleman, Janet Guggenheim, and Mimi Zweig. Nate was chosen as the winner of the 2019 PYP Concerto Competition and performed the entire Korngold Violin Concerto with PYP at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. He won the Beaverton Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition and will be performing with the orchestra in 2021. Nate is the Executive Director of Project Prelude, an organization that aims to expand the accessibility of music education to students from economically disadvantaged schools through free music lessons. He is currently a junior at the Oregon Episcopal School where he enjoys running cross-country and track.
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