Clarinetist Anoush Pogossian and pianist Amber Ginmi Scherer perform works by Reena Esmail and Johannes Brahms, as well as a piece by Amy Beach arranged by Anoush Pogossian herself.
Armenian-American clarinetist Anoush Pogossian is a performer and music educator based in New York City. A fellow in Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, Anoush is pursuing her Artist Diploma at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Anthony McGill and Alan R. Kay. Dedicated to commissioning and performing new music, Anoush was recently named recipient of the 2025 Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach for “Komitas and Friends: Armenian Folk Music, Then and Now,” an ongoing cultural exchange project to commission, record, and perform works for clarinet each based on a different Armenian folk song. Through Juilliard’s Office of Community Engagement, she worked with music classrooms across NYC public schools as a Morse Teaching Artist Fellow, and in the Music Advancement Program. She often performs and volunteers with Music for Food, and is also a performer and teaching artist for Project Music Heals Us.
Recent performances at chamber music festivals and series include Yellow Barn, Skaneateles, Norfolk, Green Room Ensemble, Sebago-Long Lake, Apple Hill, and with groups including Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Westside Chamber Players, Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, and Riverside Symphony. In recent chamber music appearances, she has performed alongside artists including Kim Kashkashian, Shai Wosner, Natasha Brofsky, Hsin-Yun Huang, Anthony Marwood, Frank Huang, Anthony McGill, and members of the Brentano and Katarina String Quartets.
Amber Scherer is a pianist and educator based in NYC. Her life and work are rooted in her love of collaboration and finding community in music.
Scherer works daily with operatic singers in art-song, recital, and opera. She loves studying language and literature in preparation for her vocal collaboration and has served as a repetiteur on operas at The Juilliard School, including Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, Manon by Massenet, and L’heure espagnol by Ravel. Scherer also enjoys playing with instrumentalists and will appear in recitals this season with violin, viola, cello, horn, clarinet, and wind quintet.
Scherer’s passion for education and community work was what first brought her to NYC, as a 2021-22 Teaching Artist with AmeriCorps. She simultaneously joined the faculty at Brooklyn Music School and has since taught private lessons, group classes, and outreach courses there.