Announcing the 2023-2024 Trenton Arts Fellows

Trenton Arts at Princeton has announced Avaneque Pennant, Charlotte Defriez, Jenia Marquez, Sydney Hwang, and Elena Milliken as the 2023/24 Trenton Arts fellows. Beginning in 2019, a grant from the Dudamel Foundation supports a Trenton Arts Music Fellow to serve as a Student Leader for one of TYO’s four Saturday Morning Arts groups. Charlotte Defriez is the 2023-2024 Fellow supported by the Dudamel Foundation.

Charlotte Defriez, 2023-2024 Trenton Arts Fellow.

Excerpt from Trenton Arts at Princeton News, published Sept. 7, 2023

“Charlotte Defriez ’26 will serve as the student leader for Trenton Youth Orchestra, working alongside TYO director Lou Chen and faculty fellow Anna Lim. Her fellowship is supported by the Gustavo Dudamel Foundation. 

“Defriez is a sophomore from London, England, hoping to study philosophy with a minor in the humanities. She has been playing the violin since she was four years old, and developed a love for chamber music through her involvement in quartets and orchestras over the years.  She has been teaching violin for over five years, and is excited to continue doing so in her role as the TYO student leader this year. Outside TYO, Defriez is an avid member of Princeton University Sinfonia,  and also works at Richardson Auditorium, where she has the privilege of exploring all that goes on musically around campus. She spent her most recent summer studying in Copenhagen and subsequently interning at a school in Boston, where she also worked on her personal goal of reading at least five works by her favorite author, Virginia Woolf. Beyond academics and music, Defriez loves going on walks, especially with her dogs, reading a book, and finding new places to explore! You might find her studying in East Pyne, her favourite campus building, or huddling around coffee and cookies with friends in the Murray-Dodge Cafe. She is looking forward to continuing to expand the TYO community and seeing all that can be accomplished this year!”