Featured by ABC News and NPR News, Amelia has been awarded as an exceptional young musician and first-place winner in numerous international piano competitions. Her performances have illuminated some of the world’s most iconic stages, including Vienna’s Musikverein, London’s Royal Albert Hall, Paris Philharmonic’s Amphitheatre, Beethoven House in Bonn, and New York’s Carnegie Hall. Amelia was the Peoria Symphony Orchestra guest artist and collaborated with Orchestra Manhattan with Maestro David Wroe.
Amelia Ly is an eleven-year-old piano prodigy from Peoria, Illinois, currently residing in Nashville, Tennessee, whose musical journey began at age four. Her early foundation was shaped under Prof. Anna Nogaj, former dean of Bradley University’s Piano Preparatory School, and her daughter, Aneta Youngblood. In 2022, Amelia began studying with Dr. Craig Nies, a distinguished professor at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music and former student of the renowned pianist Mieczysław Horszowski at the Curtis Institute of Music—connecting Amelia to a musical lineage extending from Beethoven to Czerny to Chopin.
Featured by ABC News and NPR, Amelia has won top prizes in numerous international competitions and has performed on some of the world’s most iconic stages, including Vienna’s Musikverein, London’s Royal Albert Hall, the Amphitheatre of the Paris Philharmonic, Beethoven Haus in Bonn, and New York’s Carnegie Hall, where she has already appeared five times. She also performed as a guest artist with the Peoria Symphony Orchestra in 2021.
Deeply committed to community services, Amelia has volunteered at retirement communities since early childhood. Her outreach includes homes in the Peoria area as well as Richland Place and The Heritage at Brentwood in Nashville, where she performs solo recitals and holiday programs. She has additionally appeared at Ignite Peoria, OSF Healthcare, Peoria Women’s Club, Dream Center Peoria fundraisers, and other community events. In 2021, she gave her first ticketed solo recital at the Betty Jayne Brimmer Center for the Performing Arts.
In 2023, Amelia performed with Dr. Nies at Rachmaninoff’s 150th Birthday Celebration Concert, inaugurating Vanderbilt University’s Sesquicentennial celebrations, and returned in March 2025 for Ravel’s 150th Celebration Concert. In November 2024, she made her fifth Carnegie Hall appearance, performing with Orchestra Manhattan under Maestro David Wroe, a partnership that led to her featured appearance at the New Jersey Festival Orchestra’s 2025 Annual Gala. On January 16, 2026, Amelia performed with the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine under the baton of Maestro Theodore Kuchar, marking her Eastern European orchestral debut. Starting in 2026, she will collaborate with Maestro Gerard Schwarz in multiple appearances for all Beethoven programs at major performance centers, and she will join legendary pianist Dickran Atamian for Mozart in Harmony: A Journey Across Generations, performing Mozart’s Double Piano Concerto at major domestic and international venues.
In her spare time, Amelia is an avid reader and enjoys dancing, drawing, swimming, and singing while fiddling with her ukulele and guitar, and being part of the school choir, but the piano has remained the most precious heritage she cherishes. Amelia takes part in her public-school gifted program and is accepted into the Vanderbilt University Program for Talented Youth SAVVY program and American Mensa Club in 2021. With a luminous future ahead, Amelia Ly continues to weave her story through melodies, embodying the timeless beauty of music and the boundless spirit of artistry.
Upcoming Performances
2025
May 2nd, 2025, New Jersey Festival Orchestra with David Wroe
2026
January 16th, 2026, Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine with Theodore Kuchar
August 2026, Television Recording with AllStarOrchestra.com for PBS with Gerard Schwarz
October 11th, 2026, University City Symphony with Leon Burke and Dickran Atamian
October 31st, 2026, Palm Beach Symphony with Gerard Schwarz
November 7th,2026, Peoria Symphony Orchestra with George Stelluto
November 7th ,2026, Lincoln Hall-Allegheny River Stone Center
November 29th, 2026, Budapest Philharmonic with Rico Saccani and Dickran Atamian
2027
January 2027, EMMA Concert Association in St. Augustine with Gerard Schwarz and Orchestra Manhattan
January 2027, Barbara Mann Performing Arts Hall, Fort Myers, Florida, with Gerard Schwarz and Palm Beach Symphony
February 2027, AMES Center, Iowa, with Gerard Schwarz and Orchestra Manhattan
May 2027, Recital at Weinberg Center Series in Frederick, Maryland
Fall, 2027, New Jersey Festival Orchestra with David Wroe
Fall, 2027, National Philharmonic of Ukraine with Theodore Kuchar
Fall, 2027, Recording with the Royal Philharmonic and Gerard Schwarz
2028
2027-2028, Abilene Philharmonic with David Itkin and Dickran Atamian
2027-2028, Tokyo Sinfonietta with Robert Ryker
