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SparkNight: Celebrating Disability Awareness Month ft. Yerko Difonis

In October, the Zimmerli Art Museum celebrated Disability Awareness Month at SparkNight featuring a piano performance by Yerko Difonis. - Yerko Difonis was born in Valparaíso, Chile, to a musical family. During the first seven years, they discovered in him a talent and interest in music. He was also diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa soon after beginning to walk, which would cause a progressive deterioration of his sight, which was stayed by eye surgery when he was five years old. He also began to experience hearing loss around the age of ten, for which reason he began to wear hearing aids. In 2000, due to a lack of resources available for schools in Chile, Yerko was taken to the US at the seven, in order that he might have the possibility to receive a general education. During the ten years he lived in the US, Yerko attended primary, and half of secondary school in New Jersey, and then New York. At the age of eleven, he also began music studies, along with studies of the piano, at the Filomen M. D'agostino Greenberb Music School in New York. His musical and academic studies converged when he attended LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Artsfrom 2008 to 2010, where he majored in piano, before returning to Chile. During the following ten years, Yerko continued his musical studies in Chile, during which time he also received a Bachelor's Degree in Education, with a concentration in English Pedagogy. He completed conservatory musical studies at the Sergei Prokofiev Music Conservatory, where he studied piano with Mario Cervantes. He also performed in various concerts, invited by Roberto Bravo, as well as in the series “The Art of Music”, organized by Mario Cervantes, among other performances. During this time, Yerko participated in the 2011 season of Chile’s Got Talent, in which he won third place, and the 2015 Maria Clara Cullell Piano Competition in Costa Rica.In 2018, Yerko began to applied to the US to begin a Master's Degree in music, and in 2020, was accepted at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where he began studies in September of that year, with Karina Bruk as his piano instructor. Yerko has just completed his third year of the Doctor of Musical Arts program at Mason Gross. During the last five years, Yerko has performed various concerts at Rutgers and other places, both as a soloist and in ensembles. He has performed with the Bella Music Foundation Symphony Orchestra in April of 2024, as well as one with the Bella Music Foundation International Symphony Orchestra in Paris, France, in September of 2025, as part of the BMF’s Festival for the Blind. He has also performed with the Rutgers Sinfonia in November of 2024.While in Paris, he also performed as a soloist as part of BMF’s community outreach. Yerko won second place in the 2024 Bella Music Foundation International Concerto Competition for the Blind, and honorable mention in the 2024 Rutgers concerto Competition. Learn more about Yerko Difonis: https://www.rutgers.edu/news/visually...