Having just made her Carnegie Hall debut and released her debut album “Reflections” on the Steinway & Sons label, Avery Gagliano captures audiences with her sensitivity, emotional depth, and musical expression. Avery gained international attention as the First Prize and Best Concerto Prize winner of the 2020 10th U.S. National Chopin Piano Competition. Most recently, she was selected as one of this year’s two Bravo!Vail Piano Fellows.

Avery received the Audience Prize at the 2019 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and was the winner of the Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition, MostArts Festival Piano Competition, and National YoungArts Competition. She is an alumna of the Lang Lang International Music Foundation’s Young Scholars Program and Verbier Festival and Academy, and a recipient of the U.S. Chopin Foundation Scholarship. Avery has made numerous appearances on Philadelphia’s WRTI classical radio and the From the Top program on National Public Radio (NPR).

Avery’s recognition at home and abroad is reflected in solo performances with orchestras including the Warsaw Philharmonic, and appearances at the Verbier Festival, Gilmore Festival, Ravinia Festival, Aspen Music Festival, WQXR Greene Space, WRTI Performance Studio, GRAMMY Salute to Classical Music at Carnegie Hall, Louis Vuitton Foundation, and the Salle Cortot in Paris.

Avery is originally from Washington, D.C., where she studied with Marina Alekseyeva. Avery currently resides in Philadelphia and studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with Robert McDonald. She also studied with Gary Graffman and Jonathan Biss during her time at Curtis.