These Bloomington musical prodigies spend nearly every weekend in Chicago

Weekend plans?

For Lily Sullivan and Serge Kalinovsky, accomplished string-players who live in Bloomington, that’s rarely a question.

Lily plays the violin. Serge plays the cello. Most Saturdays they’re on their way to Chicago, where they meet Noah Kim, a pianist, and on Saturday and Sunday all three are making music as The Goya Piano Trio.

Lily, Serge, and Noah are weekend students at the Music Institute of Chicago, a training center for advanced pre-college musicians.

Lily and Serge are former students at Bloomington High School North who now do their high school work online. Serge said he is planning to continue studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Lily, 15, is a student of Grigory Kalinovsky. She was the third-prize winner of the 10th international Louis Spohr Competition and first-prize winner of the Bellegrande International Music Competition, among other honors.

Serge, 16, is a student of Susan Moses of the Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music faculty. He’s been recognized as first-prize winner of the 2020 Indianapolis Symphony Maurer Young Musicians Contest and the 2021 Philadelphia International Music Festival Competition.

In Chicago, Lily, Serge, and Noah are recognized as the Goya Piano Trio. They recently won first place at the Rembrandt Chamber Musicians annual competition.

This article originally appeared on The Herald-Times: Young Bloomington musicians win 1st at Rembrandt Chamber competition