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Rutgers’ First Blind Pianist To Pursue Doctorate In Classical Performance Gets Support Rutgers’ First Blind Pianist To Pursue Doctorate In Classical Performance Gets Support
Rutgers’ First Blind Pianist To Pursue Doctorate In Classical Performance Gets Support The first blind and partially deaf pianist to pursue a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Classical Piano Performance from Rutgers University is getting a wave of community support. Yerko Difonis had a full scholarship at Rutgers from 2020 through 2022, according to a GoFundMe launched by Jerry Falk for the masterful musician’s student loan debt. Difonis is now striving for a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Classical Piano Performance, and if successful, he “may also be the first blind and partially deaf person in the United States to achieve such a feat,” Falk writes. But Difonis, a Chilea…

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