"An unusually gifted violinist who in addition to her artistry, brings her excellent technical facility to all she plays…[with] a great deal of temperament as well as sensitivity.”      
-Itzhak Perlman

Awards, Competitions​, and Reviews

2025 City of Auburn Arts Commission Postmark Programming Grant Winner: “Sound Worlds”

2024-2025 City of Burien Arts and Culture Grants and Kent City of Arts and Culture Awardee: “Sound Worlds

Seattle Symphony 2023-2024 Season Brochure

Cascade Symphony Solo Debut January 2024

Performance on KING-FM National Public Radio August 2023

Seattle Symphony official Press Release, April 2023

The Colorful Library Featured in Yale Today, March 2023

Seed Grant recipient, Yale Women Faculty Forum, The History of Concertmasters (documentary film), Nov 2022-May 2023

Selected Performer for the 2023 Guilford Performing Arts Festival (September 2023)

Ilana Zaks Featured in Yale Today December 2022


Prize winner, Ravel Competition-Fontainebleau France Music and Arts Schools July 2022

Winner of Broadus Erle Prize, for Outstanding Violinists, Yale, May 2022

Office of Secretary and Vice President for Yale University, Wellness Grant, 2022

Center for Collaborative Arts and Media Fellow, Yale University, 2020-2022

Young Concert Artists, Semifinalist, New York, NY 2021

BMOP-NEC Concerto Competition, Winner, Boston, MA 2020

Boston opportunity Fund, winner, Flying Forward, MA 2020

Featured Performer: Celebrity Series of Boston: Concert for One, 2019

Concert Artist Guild, Semi-Finalist, New York City, 2019

New England Conservatory Entrepreneurial Musician Grant, Winner, Persistence of Memory, the first classical music visual album released on Amazon Prime; Boston, 2018-2019. Album Review

Yehudi Menuhin Competition, Finalist, Junior Division, Austin, TX 2014



Fellowships and Festivals

Perlman Music Program, Littles, Israel, Shelter Island and Sarasota Residencies

2023 Featured Guest, Concerts in The Barn (WA)

Perlman Music Program Chamber Workshop

Keshet Eilon

Fontainebleau Music Festival

Guilford Performing Arts Festival

Presidential Public Service Fellow 2021 (Yale)

Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media 2020-2022

Yale Music In Schools and Secondary Lessons Violin Teacher

Yale Daily News Arts Editor 2022-2023

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“…Fearless, refreshing and commanding…”    

-Boston Music Intelligencer

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