2021
NEW YORK

“Dear Alvise,

What a remarkable, beautiful and healing concert last night. Thank you so very much for making it available to the MSK community. Sitting in the audience with my colleagues was a joy. We all left feeling much lighter. I don’t know how the orchestra, vocalists and you managed to deliver such divine music in the extreme heat. You are all exceptional.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!”
— Karen Popkin, LCAT, MT-BC Memorial Sloan Kettering
“Dear Maestro Casellati,

Thank you so much for all the work that went into my piece. I thought the concert was a huge success, and my family and I are all very happy with how it turned out. I appreciate your kindness and respect during rehearsals. It was such an honor to have worked with you and the orchestra, and I’m so grateful to have had this opportunity. ”
— Mondriana Villegas, composer | the Very Young Composers New York Philharmonic
“Dear Maestro Casellati -

What a joyous and wonderful concert you gave at the Naumberg bandshell this past week!

On behalf of the Very Young Composers of the New York Philharmonic and especially the young people themselves, I wish to congratulate you and thank you profoundly for the great work you have done, and for your inclusion of our youngest generation of composers.”
— Jon Deak, Founder and director, the Very Young Composers New York Philharmonic
 

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