Gracie Stone has performed with the CYSO and Merit Wind Ensemble and will be attending Princeton University in the fall.
Gracie Stone has been playing the flute since the age of eight. A private student of Susan Levitin, Gracie also plays with the Chicago Youth Symphony Concert Orchestra. This will be Gracie’s 4th performance on WFMT. She performed with her Flute Quartet in the spring of 2011, and with the Merit School of Music’s Wind Ensemble in 2009 and 2010. She is preparing some of her favorite works for her upcoming Introductions performance, varying from a flute duet version of Czardas to the Carmen Fantasie.
Gracie lives in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, where she has been homeschooled on the campus of the University of Chicago for the past 12 years. In addition to the flute, Gracie enjoys studying foreign languages, in particular Ancient Greek, Latin, and Arabic. She also is an accomplished sabre fencer, currently ranked #7 among all women in the U.S. Gracie represented the United States at recent World Cups in Italy and London, and she has amassed over 50 national and international fencing
awards.
Gracie will be attending Princeton University in the fall, where she hopes to major in Near Eastern Studies or Political Science, minor in flute, and fence with the varsity team.