Meet the team

Founder, Co-Artistic Director

Natalie Vargas Nedvetsky is a pianist, poet, and communicator dedicated to the intertwining of words and music through creative mediums. Originally from Chicago, she studied piano performance at The Juilliard School and creative writing/linguistics at Columbia University in the City of New York and has just obtained her masters degree at The Johns Hopkins University/Peabody Institute. She has been a laureate of several major international piano competitions, and has performed across the US and Europe, in halls such as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Chicago Symphony Orchestra Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Concert Noble Brussels, and more. In each of her solo piano performances, she combines poems and piano repertoire, creating a rich and surprising artistic journey for her audience.

With a following of over 260k+ on Tiktok, Natalie creates videos championing music, music education, and spoken word. In February 2023, she was featured in her own segment and interviewed on Fox 5 Good Day New York.

Her first poetry collection, “I quiet the world”, was released in August 2020. Her next 2 books will be published in 2024 and 2026 from Cider Press Review.

Co-Artistic Director

Born in New York City, violinist Tristan Siegel, is traveling the world earning a reputation as a new exciting young classical musician. As an avid and active chamber musician, Tristan recorded chamber works by Beethoven in the Spring of 2019 on the NAXOS Label as part of their 250th Anniversary Collection of Complete Beethoven Works. He is also a member of the Apex Ensemble (formerly the Montclair Orchestra), and has played with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Symphony, and the New World Symphony.

Tristan has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in numerous New York venues including Steinway Hall, Merkin Hall, Alice Tully Hall, WMP Concert Hall, and Weill, Zankel and Perelman Stages at Carnegie Hall. Tristan was a semi-finalist in the 2016 Stulberg International String Competition.

Tristan holds a Masters of Music degree from the Yale School of Music, a BM from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and a BA in Chinese with a focus in business and political science.

Tristan has been generously granted extended use of a 1945 Arturo Fracassi violin by the Chimei Museum in Tainan, Taiwan.