Sophia Cornicello is a fourth-yearstudent at Bard Conservatory of Music, where she studies piano with RiekoAizawa, and harpsichord and organ with Renée Anne Louprette. She is alsoc ompleting a second degree in mathematics. A member of the Bard Baroque ensemble since 2023, Sophia’s musical interests are the historical performance of early music and new music, which has led to her premiering several pieces on both piano and harpsichord. Recent premieres include the US Premiere of Toñu Kōrvits’ la folia for harpsichord and works by Jess Turner and Shuying Li as a featured soloist with the Greater Hartford Youth Wind Ensemble. In April 2025, she performed Bach’s Concerto for Two Harpsichords in C minor with the BardBaroque Ensemble at the Fisher Center. Sophia has received the Evelyn Bonar Storrs Undergraduate Piano Scholarship every year since 2023 and is the 2025-26Kenneth Bush '36 Memorial Scholar in Mathematics at Bard. In 2025, she received an Early Music America Workshop Scholarship to attend Tafelmusik Baroque SummerInstitute. Sophia was a finalist in the 2025 Rosalyn Tureck International BachCompetition. She currently serves as an organist at Fair Street Reformed Church in Kingston and is the teaching assistant for Bard Baroque Ensemble. 

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