Steinway Piano Gallery - Plano Proudly Presents
Please join us for an evening of exquisite musical performances featuring physicians & medical professionals who generously donate their time and artistry, performing masterpieces by the great composers Bach, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Kreisler, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Saint-Seäns, and Medtner. Each artist possesses a profound love for music and steadfast dedication to the patients they serve.
The Artists:
Avi Chavda, David Daly, Francois DeAsis, Noah DeGarmo, Sing-Yi Feng, Joel Goodman, Doohi Lee, Samantha Nagel, Matthias Solomon. (Read more about the artist below).
STEINWAY PIANO GALLERY
5813 Preston Rd. Suite 570
Plano, Texas 75093
Recital Begins: 7:30 p.m. • Reception to Follow • Complimentary Admission
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Dr. Avi Chavda is an interventional spine and pain management specialist. A Dallas native, he graduated from St. Mark’s School of Texas, and earned a B.A. in Neuroscience from Vanderbilt. He became the first student in school history to receive an M.D. with Distinction in Quality Improvement & Patient Safety from UT Southwestern, where he completed his residency, followed by an Interventional Spine fellowship at Johns Hopkins. Simultaneously, he earned a Master of Public Health from Harvard. He keeps a piano in his private practice, Virtuoso Spine & Joint, where he plays often for his patients. Dr. Chavda has been taking piano lessons since age seven and currently studies with the renowned Madame Ruth Slenczynska. He regards music and medicine as his two greatest and most complementary passions, equal in their healing powers.
Dr. David T. Daly has a lifelong love of classical music and the piano. After retiring from a rewarding career in Otolaryngology, he returned to formal study with concert pianist Alessandro Mazzamuto. David’s hope is to share the joy that beautiful sound can bring to us. David lives in Plano, TX with his husband Christopher and three Great Danes that critique his playing daily.
Dr. François DeAsis, founder of Medicine for Musicians, is a physical medicine & rehabilitation physician fellowship-trained in performing arts medicine. With the aim of making performing arts medicine more accessible, he has a special interest in outreach and education at the conservatory and university level. At the age of 4, he began learning violin and piano at the Betty Haag Academy, eventually going on to study violin with Dr. MingHuan Xu, now of the Chicago College of Performing Arts. Dr. DeAsis also enjoys collecting passport stamps, learning new languages, and climbing really tall rocks (both real and synthetic). A native of Chicago, Illinois, he is currently based in Fort Worth, Texas.
Dr. Noah DeGarmo began piano studies at age seven and now trains with concert pianist Alessandro Mazzamuto. He has performed in masterclasses with Tong-Il Han, Leon Fleisher, and Fabio Bidini, and in concerts across the U.S. and Europe, including New York, Chicago, Milan, and Dallas. Recent highlights include the 2024 Basically Beethoven Festival, a debut with the World Doctors Orchestra in Gershwin’s Second Rhapsody, the Orchestra Prize at the PianoLink Mi Amor Festival in Milan, Italy, and First Prize in an international competition for his performance of Liszt’s transcription of Schumann’s Widmung. A passionate chamber musician, Noah co-founded the Boulangier Quintet, composed of fellow physicians. He also practices full-time as an Emergency Medicine physician and is delighted to return to Japan for his debut with Les Amateurs Virtuoses in the fall of 2025.
Dr. Sing-Yi Feng is a pediatric emergency physician and medical toxicologist on faculty at UT Southwestern who rediscovered her love of the violin after a fifteen-year hiatus. She was a member of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra and winner of the Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, performing Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnol with the Landsdowne Symphony. Since 2014, she has participated in the Baltimore Symphony Academy, the Curtis Institute of Music Summerfest Chamber Music for Adults and the Manhattan String Quartet workshops. She plays violin and viola for the Boulanger Piano Quintet of physician and scientist musicians in Dallas. Dr. Feng is a member of the World Doctors Orchestra, the New Texas Symphony Orchestra, and currently serves as the Vice President & Treasurer of World Doctors Orchestra USA. She loves to cook and bake for friends and family, learning about fine wines, knitting, traveling and running.
Dr. Joel Goodman is a professor emeritus at UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. He directed a research program in cell biology. Although he stopped maintaining a lab in 2023, he continues to be involved in teaching & research, and is a co-author of an article coming out this month (Nov, 2025) in Science. In addition, Goodman directed the outreach office of Southwestern to secondary school science (the STARS program). Joel studied the piano as a child and young man through the mid-1970s, lapsed to focus on his science career, and then started performing again in 2000. He has participated in the Berlin Amateur Competition and three times in the Cliburn Amateur Competition. As a winner of several concerto competitions at Piano Texas Festival, he performed with the Ft Worth Symphony. He has played in master classes with Christina Ortiz, Arie Vardi, Olga Kern, John Nakamatsu, and Paul Badura-Skoda. Besides piano and science, Joel enjoys traveling, reading, and coding.
Dr. Doohi Lee is a pianist, conductor, and physician. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Fontainebleau School in France, he studied under renowned teachers including Gaby Casadesus and Narcis Bonet. As a pianist, he has performed with orchestras and in recitals across North America, Europe, and South America, and appeared in the Van Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition. His conducting experience spans ensembles in the U.S. and Europe, including the Bohemian Theater and Opera Orchestra and the National Philharmonic of Ukraine. Based in Dallas, he directs Camerata Dallas and is collaborating with fellow physicians to found the Dallas Medical Orchestra, while serving on the boards of the Plano and Dallas Symphony Texas Orchestras.
Samantha Nagel is a Clinical Project Manager in oncology at a global firm. She earned her Master of Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Dallas. She studied piano from ages six to twenty at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Texas Christian University, Interlochen Arts Academy, and Occidental College. After a 25-year hiatus from the instrument, she recently returned to her first passion and has spent the past year studying under acclaimed pianist Alessandro Mazzamuto.
Dr. Matthias Solomon is a triple board certified plastic surgeon, having trained at the Mayo Clinic and currently practicing in Frisco. His medical practice, Solomon Plastic Surgery, focuses on cosmetic surgery of the face and body, but his passion is the romantic piano repertoire. He took piano lessons in childhood but since then has been an entirely self taught pianist.
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