Ifetayo Ali-Landing is a 15-year-old cello prodigy from Chicago who has won top honors at competitions and performed with the Detroit Symphony. She comes from a musical family – her mother founded the music school where she studies, the Hyde Park Suzuki Institute.
Ali-Landing makes her Chicago professional debut in a pair of concerts with the Chicago Sinfonietta next month – one of which is at Symphony Center.
Video: Ifetayo Ali-Landing performs “Song of the Black Swan” by Heitor Villa-Lobos.
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