image: Soriano, Italy

            I first fell in love with Italy when in 2015, I had the wonderful opportunity  to visit the charming and magical city of Assisi, tucked away in the mountains of northeastern Italy, with the Assisi Performing Arts on scholarship. I was taken with the architecture, food, and people, and it quickly became one of my favorite places. I later visited the next year again, with ILAR Academy, the cities of Viterbo, Soriano, and Tarquinia.
​             In Assisi, I had the rare opportunity to premiere a solo violin composition composed by a very talented pianist and musician Valentin Bogdan. The piece is called "La Strada", and was written with the idea of someone sitting on a street and watching the many different types of people walking by.       

Assisi Music Festival, 2015

Assisi Music Festival, 2015: from left to right: Cassandra Marie Lambros, Amelia Muccia, Timothy Leonard, William Ford-Smith

As Second Lady in ILAR Academy's production of Die Zauberflöte, Soriano, ITALY

elaborate stage makeup

Cassandra Marie Lambros, Second Lady, Megan McCarthy, First Lady

In the chorus for Die Zauberflöte, Viterbo, Italy. From left to right: Alice Lind, Third Lady, Amy Elizabeth Stone, Papagena, Cassandra Marie Lambros

In choir for Assisi's Performing Art's production of Faure Requiem, Assisi, Italy

dramatic pose as Second Lady