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Let your imagination dance to the music of violin and piano four hand at the Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan together with the Kolkata Classics! Kathryn Brown, Jennifer Heemstra and Julia Schilz will perform works by Massenet, Mozart, Piazzolla and more. Guaranteed to educate the young and enchant the young at heart.

Jennifer Heemstra, professional pianist and entrepreneur, received the College of Music Distinguished Alumni Award from Michigan State University and was the commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2017. She founded the Kolkata Classics trust in India which provides free health services for trafficked women, educates children from the slums and the elite and exposes the citizens of Kolkata to high quality classical music. She has put on 70 concerts and performed for and worked with over 65,000 adults/children in South Asia. For her work, she was presented with the Secretary of State Award for Outstanding Volunteerism Abroad from John Kerry.

Heemstra founded the Pitch Pipe Foundation, a Non-Profit Organization in the USA which links great artists to great need. Heemstra organized over 50 concerts to support National Salute week in February at Veterans Affairs medical facilities nationwide. 

She earned her Master of Music from The Cleveland Institute of Music and a Bachelor of Music with honors from Michigan State University. 

Kathryn Brown has appeared in recital at the Library of Congress, Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series, Columbia Artists’ Community Concerts Series, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Pianist and co-founder of the Myriad Chamber Players, Brown has also performed at the Marlboro Music Festival with members of the Guarneri String Quartet and Beaux Arts Trio. She performed at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC with the Verdehr Trio, and has participated in Ravinia’s Rising Stars series and the USIA Artistic Ambassadors Program. She has been featured on the British Broadcasting Network, Chicago’s WFMT- Radio, and NPR’s Performance Today. An accomplished singer, Brown was featured in a title role at the Aspen Music Festival and performed in the Phyllis Curtin Seminar at Tanglewood. She currently Heads the Piano Department and Keyboard Division at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Julia Schilz began her violin training at the age of four through the Sato Center for Suzuki Studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is a 15-year-old at Hathaway Brown School, and was recently seated as Concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. She currently studies with William Preucil.  Schilz performed Wieniawski’s 2nd Violin Concerto as first-prize winner of the 2016 Lakeland Civic Orchestra’s Young Artists Competition, and also won first prize in the Sigma Alpha Iota String Competition. Schilz was featured as concerto soloist with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra as winner of the 2017 Preparatory Concerto Competition. She has also studied piano for the past eleven years at CIM and is a current student of Gerardo Teissonniere. Schilz is passionate about sharing her love for music with the greater community.