As a pianist, Sophie Scolnik-Brower has performed across the United States and abroad, including at Perlman Music Program, La Jolla Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, Pablo Casals Festival, and on WGBH Radio (Boston). Having completed her graduate studies in the studio of Vivian Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory in 2016, she has received guidance from luminaries such as Kim Kashkashian, Donald Weilerstein, Robert Levin, Cho-Liang Lin, and Itzhak Perlman. In 2019 she placed as a finalist with her piano trio in the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition, and she currently performs frequently with Mistral Music.
Scolnik-Brower’s passion for social justice and community engagement both domestically and abroad has grown over the past decade. After graduating magna cum laude in 2012 from Harvard University with a B.A. in psychology, she spent a year as an AmeriCorps volunteer for underserved New York City high school students. For parts of the summers of 2015, ‘16, and ’18, she taught piano and music theory in Haiti with BLUME (Building Leaders Using Music Education). Scolnik-Brower earned her Master’s in Social Work from Boston College in 2022 with a concentration in mental health and internships at Somerville Police Department and at Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown. She spent last year volunteering with Partners in Health in Chiapas, Mexico, helping support mental health care in rural mountain communities.
As a writer Scolnik-Brower has long loved poetry and creative non-fiction. Her work has appeared in Hippocampus Magazine, Sky Island Journal, Willowdown Books, and ang(st), linked above.
