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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!!💞🦃🥧 So thankful for all the really kind people I get to be with everyday!!💞 Here are some gifts I’ve gotten recently that I’m very grateful for - most of them generously sent by extremely nice people whom I have never met before!!!🎁🎈💌📦📭 Thank you all so much for your encouragement and support over the years!!!❤️🧡💛 #thanksgiving #happy #grateful #thankful #kindness #gift #joy #love #classicalmusic #pianist

Who’s looking forward to Thanksgiving?😋🍂🍁🤩 Looks like the turkeys are pretty excited!!!🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃😆...just a teeny bit early!🤫😝 Psst, Santa🎅🏻; you need to get these turkeys a calendar for Christmas!!💡🗓🌲😁 #turkey #thanksgiving #joy #grateful #wildlife #nature

Having so much #fun!!!🎉🎊🎉 I wasn’t really trying to dress up as this emoji💃🏻 hahaha!!!😆😝🤣 #dance #centennial #nyc #lincolncenter #gala #classicalmusic #juilliard #pianist

First snow this winter!!🌨 Who else is freezing up?☃️ (I feel like this emoji:🥶 came just in time in the latest IPhone update😝) I took this video on the first hour of my car ride when I was still very excited about the snow🤩...🕰 I did get home safe and sound at last...🏡 after 7 hours stuck in the snow...😱🥶❄️☃️ But it was a happy ending so I’m really grateful for that,😋🙏 especially after hearing from some friends that they have been stuck in the snow as well, a few even needing tow trucks that are anticipated to take hours to arrive or abandoning their cars...🥺🤞 Sending luck to everyone who’s still on the road and hope you are all able to get home as soon as possible!!💖💞💖

Happy ✨100th✨ Birthday to my FAVORITE school on earth!!!!!!!🎂🎂🎂 WOOHOO!!!!!!!🎊🎇🎉🎆💯🎆🎉🎇🎊 #juilliard #lincolncenter #nyc #classicalmusic #centennial #gala

Just had a fabulous rehearsal at Alice Tully Hall!!!❤️🎹 Anxiously waiting for the hours to go by until my performance tonight at the #Juilliard Pre-College #Centennial #Gala #Concert!!!😃🙌🎉🎊🎈 #classicalmusic #virtuoso #girlpower #pianist #rehearsal #youngsteinwayartist

“HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!” exclaims the happy HallowTWEEN😆🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻🎃👻 ...And nope, I didn’t dye my hair - although the candies have pretty much dyed my tongue already!!😝😛 🍭🍬🍭 #happyhalloween 🍭🍬🍭

Spending some quality time with one of my new favorite books📚 , “The Girl From Aleppo”; an inspiring true story about war, fear, pain, bravery, determination, and a girl’s incredible journey from war-torn Syria to Europe - and get ready for this - all in a wheelchair. . . . . . . #syriawar #goodreads #bravery #nujeenmustafa #favorite #refugees #summerreading

Does anyone know which piece this is?🤔👂🎵🎶 #commentbelow

Catching the tail end of summer!!🌈☀️<=🏃🏻‍♀️ Nothing’s better than being surrounded by nature on a perfectly peaceful day🍀🌷☘️🌸🌱🌻🍃🌺🌿🍄... anyway, I had a great picnic...😋

Thanks for the thumbs up, Maestro!!😆👍😋 #musicmaking #classicalmusic #concert #bernsteinat100

What I usually do 5 minutes before going onstage?🤔 Yawning🤭, stretching (anyone got reminded of a cat...?🐈🙃)... and... checking my phone of course!!😛😁 #Ravinia

Happy 100th Birthday, Mr. Bernstein!!!!!!!!!!🎂🎊🎂🎉🎂🥂🎂 (I wanted to do 100 exclamation points to fully express my enthusiasm, but decided it probably wouldn’t work that well...) It was such a great honor working with Jamie Bernstein to celebrate Bernstein’s Centennial at the Ravinia Festival !!!😀🎶💖🎂🎹🎻🎷🎺🥁👏 #bernsteinat100 Leonard Bernstein

Can you guess what I see most on the Ravinia Festival lawn? (Hint: you can actually find a bunch of them in the pictures...😜😋🤔) #commentbelow Pic #1: my daydreaming self😐 vs. my ultra-excited self😆...in other words, when I was investigating what new bird had started to chirp so loudly😶 vs. after someone told me there was an ice cream truck nearby...😐->😁🍦

Spinning away😌... on the absolutely gorgeous lawn of Ravinia Festival!!!🤪💃🏻 #ravinia #nature

Here’s some more Bernstein to start your day with a boost!🎶😁🎶

Best way to warm up for a performance at Ravinia?🤔🤔🤔 Ping pong of course!!🏓🤸‍♂️🏃‍♀️😝 #pingpong #ravinia #pianist #warmup #practice

Practicing Bernstein for my upcoming performance!!😝🌈🎉🌿🎶 ~feelin’ jazzy~😎 #music #bernsteinat100 #jazz

Arrived at Ravinia Festival to perform for the Bernstein Centennial!!🌈😃 So excited to make my Ravinia debut!!🤩🎶 #classicalmusic #bernstein #chicago #highlandpark

So happy to have made the cover of the Aspen Daily News!!☺️🗞 A huge thank you to Craig Turpin (Rising Sun Photog) who took the photo!!📸 #newspaper #piano #prodigy #red #coverpage #colorado #aspen #classicalmusic

Looking forward to performing with the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra!!🌈🎶🌈

Practicing a Chopin waltz for my performance coming up!!🎶🎹🎶 I played a lot of waltzes when I was very young, about 5 or 6, and always really loved playing them.😊Though I haven’t explored Waltz-land in the past 5 years or so, it still feels great to take a break from my usual repertoire every once in a while and play a delightful waltz like this one!!🧚🏻‍♀️ Hope you enjoy!!🌈☀️🌈

Had a real blast playing one of my favorite concerti at one of my favorite venues!!🎹🎻🎺🎷 The audience is so warm and enthusiastic; I love performing for them (Me: the red blob in the middle😜)!❤️

On my way to the parking lot after the rehearsal, I was so happy to bump into two of the most adorable dogs on earth, Scout and Atty!!❤️❣️❤️ In fact, Atty has amazing manners - she voluntarily shook my hand to greet me!!👏🐶🐾 When I first met Scout 3 years ago (yes, we have history) he was still an only pup, but last summer when Atty was born, he finally got a half sister!❤️😝 Stay tuned - I’ll try to dig out more pictures with them from before!😁 Now I need to get ready for my concert in a couple of hours!!🎹

Rehearsal!!!🎹🎻🎷🎺 (Me: the bright pink blob in the middle😌) #rehearsal #goodvibes #classicalmusic