Quincy performs on Show 450.

Quincy Eby (viola), 17, from Englewood, New Jersey, began his musical journey at the age of five as a violinist under the guidance of Dorothy Kaplan Roffman, the Executive Director of the Thurnauer School of Music. Quincy currently studies viola with Molly Carr and Yi-Fang Huang at Juilliard’s pre-college program.

Quincy is a 2024 Sphinx Competition Semi-Finalist and was a Finalist in the 2023 Adelphi Concerto Competition. He was the 2022 winner of the Kutztown International Music Festival’s concerto competition and made his international debut with the University of Macedonia’s Orchestra in Greece in the Spring of 2023. Quincy is a founding member of the award-winning Thurnauer Quartet coached by Francesca Silos. In 2021 the quartet won a gold medal at the Young Maestro International Music Competition, and in 2022, they were the recipients of the Grand Prize. In 2023, the quartet were quarter-finalists at Fischoff. Quincy has also received the New Jersey Governor’s Award in Arts Education and has received gold and silver medals in the classical instrument category and the bronze medal for vocal classical performance from the NAACP Act-So program.

Quincy is always looking for ways to share his music with others and has received a bronze medal for outstanding community service as part of the President’s National Youth Volunteer Service Recognition Program. After graduating from Dwight Englewood School where he is currently a senior, Quincy plans to attend a conservatory to continue his musical studies.

Orli has joined From the Top as Guest Host on Show 420, Show 422,  Show 404, Show 405, Show 390, Show 389, Show 379, Show 380, and Show 361.

A consummate musician recognized for her grace, subtlety, and brilliance, the pianist Orli Shaham is hailed by critics on four continents. The New York Times called her a “brilliant pianist,” The Chicago Tribune referred to her as “a first-rate Mozartean,” and London’s Guardian said Ms. Shaham’s playing at the Proms was “perfection.”

Orli Shaham has performed with many of the major orchestras around the world, and has appeared in recital internationally, from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. She is Artistic Director of Pacific Symphony’s chamber series Café Ludwig in California since 2007 and was Artist in Residence at Vancouver Symphony (USA) in 2022-2024.

Highlights of Ms. Shaham’s 2024-2025 concert season include performances of concertos written for her by David Robertson with Utah Symphony and by Steven Mackey at Tanglewood, and the Beethoven Triple Concerto with her brother, violinist Gil Shaham. Chamber recitals across the country include Dumbarton Oaks, Music at Menlo, La Jolla, and more.

In 2024, Orli Shaham released the final volumes of the complete piano sonatas by Mozart to high critical acclaim. Her discography includes over a dozen titles on Deutsche Gramophone, Sony, Canary Classics and other labels. Orli Shaham is on the piano and chamber music faculty at The Juilliard School and is a Co-Host and Creative for the national radio program From the Top. She is also Artistic Director of the interactive children’s concert series, Orli Shaham’s Bach Yard, which she founded in 2010, and is chair of the Board of Trustees of Kaufman Music Center.

Orli Shaham is a Steinway Artist

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