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Violinist ARIEL HOROWITZ will appear in recital on April 6, 2025 at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Allentown PA. Ariel will perform music by Clara Schuman, Kreisler, Szymanowski and Cesar Franck. The concert is sponsored by L’ARCHET Concert Group.

Hailed by The Washington Post as “sweetly lyrical,” violinist, composer, and community organizer Ariel Horowitz (they/them or she/her) cannot remember life before loving music. In 2020, Ariel joined the prestigious Concert Artists Guild roster for North American management as a winner of CAG’s Victor Elmaleh Competition. Ariel enjoys an active concert schedule performing their multimedia compositions alongside other contemporary works and beloved staples of the Western classical canon both as a soloist and as half of Vision Duo, an ensemble formed in 2021 with percussionist – and fellow CAG artist – Britton-René Collins. Ariel’s debut album Hearth, which features original compositions, poetry, and songs bookended by works of the Western classical canon, will be released in October 2024.

Recent and upcoming touring highlights include concerts at Chamber Music Detroit and the Kravis Center in Palm Beach, FL, a showcase at the Washington Performing Arts Society Annual Gala, educational residencies at Texas A&M University and Musical Masterworks’ MMModern series, concerti in New York City, Illinois, and Georgia, and premiering her original compositions for violin with voice at Carnegie Hall and The Kennedy Center. Ariel had their Merkin Hall concerto debut in early 2024, and with Vision Duo collaborated on an interactive and introspective mixed-media program entitled “Reflections: Past, Future, Present” with fellow CAG ensemble Chromic Duo.

Ariel is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Heartbeat Music Project, a tuition-free program offering music and Navajo (Diné) cultural education as well as direct aid resources to young people in grades K-12 living in the Navajo Nation and their families. HMP’s year-round programming features an in-person two-week Summer Academy, as well as a one-week Winter Workshop, and weekly in-person and virtual private lessons in disciplines including classical, jazz, and pop instrumental and vocal traditions, as well as electronic music production. In 2022, HMP was honored to receive the Lewis Prize for Music’s Accelerator Award in the amount of $500,000.

Ariel is a graduate of the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Ani Kavafian, and previously studied with Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho at The Juilliard School. They were a prizewinner at the Menuhin, Grumiaux, Stulberg, and Klein International Competitions. When they are not performing, composing, or organizing for HMP, Ariel enjoys dancing, practicing yoga, and listening to memoirs on Audible. Ariel a proud aunt to nephew Theo and niece Maxie, as well as a devoted cat-parent to feline child Roxy.

Visit Ariel's website here.