Alissa Mori graduated at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in 2016. She was a Jack Kent Cooke Young Scholar and studied with Masao Kawasaki at The Juilliard Pre-College Division. She studies at Barnard College at Columbia University.

 

Alissa began studying the violin at the age of three. Two years later, she entered the Special Music School at Kaufman Music Center, New York City's only K-12 public school for musically gifted children, and studied with Viktor Basis. At the age of seven, she took second place at the New York Music Competition, after which she was invited to perform at Weill Recital hall at Carnegie Hall. Still at the young age of nine, she performed in a concert with Joshua Bell to benefit Kaufman Center.

 

Alissa made her orchestral debut in 2008 at the age of ten in Merkin Concert Hall after winning the Special Music School Concerto Competition, which she won again in 2012. Additional competition successes include second place in the 2010 New York International Music Competition and alternate winner in the 2013 Juilliard Pre-College Division Concerto Competition.

 

She attended the Aspen Music Festival in 2013, 2014 and 2015. She slso attended the Stringfest in 2013 and 2014.

 

She was selected to participate to the Juilliard ChamberFest in January, 2016. Her chamber group had  great opportunities to study with Sylvia Rosenberg and Timothy Eddy.

 

From a young age, despite her busy concert and competition schedule, Alissa has found numerous opportunities to bring her music to a wider community. At the age of seven, she played in a concert to benefit victims of the Sumatra earthquake. She has given annual recitals at the Isabella Geriatric Center since 2010, and in 2011 she played in a benefit concert for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. She frequently gives community service concerts with her friends from Juilliard at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan.

 

She appeared in NBC's TV series Believe as Margaret, a talented young violinist in May, 2014. She also appeared in Radio Show "From the Top" in June, 2014.

 

She received the Jack Kent Cooke Young Scholar, Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award scholarship, 2015 and 2016 YoungArts Honorable Mention.

 

She is recently named a 2016 Jack Kent Cooke College Scholar.