Tiler Peck. Photo: Bernardofoto
Tiler Peck, one of America’s most celebrated prima ballerinas, brings together five world-class artists from diverse artistic disciplines for an extraordinary, one-night-only performance. Curated by Peck, this innovative program blends music and dance in a bold exploration of artistic synergy and genre. Featuring masters of their craft alongside rising stars, the evening highlights the power of collaboration and the beauty of stepping beyond creative boundaries.
Joining Peck for the evening are her New York City Ballet colleagues Roman Mejia and India Bradley, Violinist Amaryn Olmeda, Pianist Jacek Mysinski, and additional artists to be announced.
Peck hopes this evening will take everyone on a unique journey where music and dance become one.
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Tiler Peck
Tiler Peck is celebrated as a leading American ballerina, distinguished not only as a principal dancer with New York City Ballet (NYCB) but also as an Olivier-nominated choreographer and multifaceted artist. Renowned for her extensive repertoire, Peck's career highlights include directing the inaugural Artists at the Center for New York City Center, which evolved into the acclaimed Turn it Out with Tiler Peck and Friends, captivating audiences at venues like London’s Sadler’s Wells and across California. She has choreographed for prestigious companies including Boston Ballet, Northern Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, and Ballet X, with her recent work for NYCB, Concerto For Two Pianos, marking another milestone in her choreographic journey. Beyond ballet, Peck is an author, designer, & actress, having made significant contributions to film and television, choreographing for John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum and appearing in productions such as The Barre Project, Netflix's Tiny Pretty Things, and Hulu’s documentary Ballet NOW. She currently appears in the Amazon Prime series, Étoile, from Amy Sherman-Palladino.
Photo: Ken Browar and Deborah Ory for NYC Dance Project
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ROMAN MEJIA
Roman Mejia was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and began studying ballet at age three with his mother and father. At age 13 he entered the Mejia Ballet Academy. Roman Mejia attended summer courses at the School of American Ballet (SAB), New York City Ballet’s official school, in 2014 and 2015, before entering SAB full-time for the 2015 winter term. In August 2017 he became an apprentice with NYCB, and he joined the company as a member of the corps de ballet in November 2017. He was promoted to the rank of soloist in October 2021 and Principal Dancer in February 2023.
In 2019 Dance Magazine featured Mejia as one of their “25 To Watch,” and he became a recipient of the prestigious Princess Grace Foundation-USA Dance Fellowship. In 2020 he was named a Clive Barnes finalist. His repertory includes leading roles in works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, William Forsythe, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky, and Christopher Wheeldon, among many others. Most recently, he starred in Twyla Tharp’s TWYLA NOW and Tiler Peck’s Artists at the Center at New York City Center. Roman Mejia joined Caili Quan as the Vail Dance Festival’s 2022 artist-in-residence.
Photo: Erin Baiano
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INDIA BRADLEY
India Bradley is a member of New York City Ballet’s Corps de Ballet. She was born in Detroit, Michigan and began her dance training at the age of four at The Link School of the Arts in Troy, Michigan. At the age of eleven, she attended the Academy of Russian Classical Ballet in Novi, Michigan, under the direction of Sergey Rayevitskey.
Ms. Bradley attended the summer program at Dance Theatre of Harlem in 2012,and entered DTH’s Professional Training Program under the direction of Andrea Long that fall. She attended the 2014 summer session at the School of American Ballet, NYCB’s official school, and enrolled as a full-time student later that year.
Ms. Bradley was named an apprentice in August 2017 and joined the Company as a member of the Corps de Ballet in August 2018. As an apprentice, she performed a featured role in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®.
Photo: Erin Baiano
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AMARYN OLMEDA
Winner of first prize and the audience choice award at the 24th Annual Sphinx Competition, violinist Amaryn Olmeda is a rising star sought after for her bold and expressive performances as a soloist and collaborator. Violinist.com says of Olmeda, “…her commanding stage presence, infallible technique, and interpretive ability already rival that of international concert stage veterans.”
Highlights of 2024-2025 include season-opening concerts in debut with the Boulder Philharmonic and the Alabama Symphony, as well as debut performances with the Charlotte Symphony, Albany Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Omaha Symphony, and Sarasota Orchestra. Olmeda will also debut in recital at the Kravis Center’s Young Artists Classical Series in West Palm Beach, FL and the University of Florida Performing Arts in Gainesville, FL.
Olmeda made her Lincoln Center debut during the 2024 Summer for the City Series. She made her Carnegie Hall solo debut on the Sphinx Virtuosi tour at the age of 14, garnering rave reviews. At 13, Olmeda was named the initial member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Opus 3 Artist’s Artist Apprentice Program.
Highlights of previous seasons include debuts as soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra at their New Year’s Concert Series, earning her a nomination for the San Francisco Classical Voice Audience Choice Awards. Olmeda also performed in recital at the Bouchaine Young Artist Series at Festival Napa Valley as well as at the National Arts Club in New York City.
In 2023, Olmeda made her recording debut as the featured soloist of Carlos Simon’s Between Worlds on the Sphinx Virtuosi’s inaugural recording with Deutsche Grammophon. The Strad Magazine said of Olmeda’s performance, “…it receives an impressive reading here by the young musician [and] she shows why she has garnered the word 'prodigy’.”
Other career highlights include selection as an NPR From the Top Fellow, receiving the National Arts Club’s Herman and Mary Neuman Music Award, being named a Young Artist Soloist by the Seattle Symphony, and being featured in a solo performance with the Sacramento Philharmonic and VITA Academy in the video production, The Extraordinary Life of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. In 2022 Olmeda performed for the San Francisco Conservatory Gala with pianist Yuja Wang. She has performed for numerous school and community outreach events including with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Richmond Symphony, Auburn Symphony, and Oakland Symphony.
Born in Melbourne, Australia in 2008, Olmeda currently studies at the New England Conservatory of Music with Miriam Fried. She previously studied with Ian Swensen at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Amaryn Olmeda performs on a violin made by J.B. Vuillaume in 1864.
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JACEK MYSINSKI
Born in Warsaw, Poland and hailing from a family of musical traditions spanning generations, Jacek Mysinski has won prestigious awards and scholarships including the Vladimir Horowitz and J.S. & B.P Johnsohn scholarships, the Polish Ministry of Culture and the Frederic Chopin Society Artistic Achievement Scholarships, the Grand Prix at the Frederic Chopin International Piano Competition, and Grand Prix at the Polish National Competition in Plock, Poland.
A graduate of the prestigious Juilliard School of Music in New York City, he has performed in engagements at Alice Tully Hall, the Museum of Modern Art, Peter J. Sharp Theater, Focus! Festival, Steinway Hall in New York, Frederic Chopin Society, the National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, Poland, a tour of Japan, The Pacific Symphony, and numerous performances throughout USA and Great Britain. He has collaborated with many accomplished artists and organizations, including the American Ballet Theatre, the Vail Dance Festival, ABT Across America Tour culminating at Rockefeller Center, Lincoln Center’s BAAND Together Festival, The Mark Morris Dance Group, Sarasota Orchestra, Orli Shaham, Taylor Eigsti, Miranda Cuckson, Kinga Augustyn, Vasko Dukovski and Ismail Lumanovski, among others.
Photo: Jade Young
Sponsors
Performing Arts programming is supported in part by funding from Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, Henry and Peggy Schleiff, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, and Monica and Peter Tessler. Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming.
Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: John and Joan D’Addario, Natascia Ayers and Jim Ciquera, Christine and Bill Campbell, Gabrielle and Gianpaolo de Felice, Lena Kaplan, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Michèle and Steve Pesner, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Jayne Baron Sherman and Deborah Zum, Stacey and Oliver Stanton, Leila Straus, Susi and Peter Wunsch, and Andrew Yuder and Kyle Glaeser.