Raquel Fisk

Music has always been a basic fact of life for eleven-year-old pianist Raquel Fisk. At the same time that she began to play the piano (at age 4) she also became acquainted with numerous operas beginning with Mozart’s Zauberflote, most of which she could soon sing by ear. For the past three years Raquel has studied piano with Valentina Lass at the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division school. In addition to classical music Raquel enjoys flamenco dancing, swimming, and various foreign languages (Spanish, French and German) and was recently selected from several hundred applicants for inclusion in the Boston Symphony’s prestigious summer DARTS program. Raquel writes poetry, enjoys oil- and water-color painting, and has taught herself some of the most advanced techniques of Japanese origami.