Nogales native Evan Kory holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the Manhattan School of Music and a Masters of Music in Historical Performance from The Juilliard School. Dr. Kory has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral keyboardist in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center Alice Tully Hall, Leipzig Bach Archive, the Kosciuszko Foundation, Lyceum of Arts Recital Hall in St. Petersburg Russia, and the Beijing International Music Festival. Dr. Kory is a former faculty member of the Interlochen Center for the Arts and is an Artist-in-Residence at the Santa Cruz Foundation for the Performing Arts in Patagonia, Arizona.