Welcome Annalisa!

Annalisa Boerner, Viola Fellow, hails from Columbus,
Ohio, where she grew up studying viola, playing chamber music and loving Ohio
State football. She spent six years in Cleveland, gaining her Bachelor of Music
degree and most recently completed her Master of Music degree at the Cleveland
Institute of Music. Annalisa grew up playing chamber music at the Chamber Music
Connection in Columbus. From 2010 to 2012, Annalisa served as the organization's Assistant Artistic Director.

Despite Cleveland's cliched mediocre
reputation, Annalisa will defend her favorite city to anyone who will listen,
and this year will be the first time living outside of her home state. In addition
to playing music, Annalisa enjoys cooking, and makes a
mean soup.  She can also be found playing ultimate frisbee, painting,
thrifting, and drinking about six cups of coffee a day.

Annalisa’s
thoughts about the beginning of the Fellowship:

“I feel that I have thus far led a life of incredible
opportunity, and in my professional life I want to use my skills and experience
to create what opportunity I can for kids who were not given the same
advantages. Community-based non-profit
work appears to me to be a personally and artistically rewarding context for the practice of any of the fine arts, and in particular I
have come to believe that music has a unique capacity to unlock and reveal
potential in those who study and perform it.

I am happy to be entering a position where I can both play
music and act as a creative, thinking individual. I look forward to having the
opportunity to work with private students consistently over the next two
years.”

We're delighted to welcome Annalisa to CMW and the Fellowship Program!

-Minna Choi, Fellowship Program Director