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Senior Selected for LA Phil Composer Fellowship
Congratulations to Alexis Farahi ’19, who was accepted into the prestigious LA Phil’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship. The intensive program offers exceptionally talented high school students the exciting opportunity to focus on the process and production of music composition. Students work with acclaimed musicians and composers and have their works performed by the LA Phil or other professional ensembles. Milken alumnus Noah Daniel was a 2016 Fellow.
A member of Milken’s Chamber Orchestra, Concert Orchestra, and Independent Study Orchestral Trio, Farahi has been playing piano for seven years and took up percussion in the Orchestra last year. She learned music composition in AP Music Theory as a freshman and started composing in the Witnessing History program, a class where students compose music based on the narratives of Holocaust survivors, which she helped teach this summer along with other Milken students.
“My favorite part of composing is being able to watch an idea of mine go from my imagination to reality and being able to hear my own creation,” said Farahi. She intends to continue studying music in college and credits Dr. David Brown, director of Milken’s Concert Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble, for her accomplishments and helping her to hone her skills.
Farahi is thrilled to receive the fellowship. “I am beyond excited and honored to have been selected for this program she remarked. “It is really an unbelievable and rare opportunity to work with incredible and successful composers and conductors from all around the world, as well as the iconic LA Philharmonic Orchestra.”
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