
Frost Summer Experience
Inesa Gegprifti
Director, Youth Day Camp
Albanian-born pianist Inesa Gegprifti enjoys a varied musical life as a performer, teacher, and coordinator of artistic events. She is an avid lover of chamber music and has appeared at Festival Baltimore, Vivace Vilnius Festival, and Portogruaro Festival, as well as with the National Radio Television Orchestra of Albania and Indian Hill Orchestra. She has been a guest speaker at the University of North Texas, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico, and Heidelberg University.
Dr. Gegprifti is a graduate of the United World College of the Adriatic, The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Jacobs School of Music - Indiana University, and Frost School of Music - University of Miami. Her mentors over the years have included Valbona Kasaj, Max Levinson, Alberto Miodini, Igor Cognolato, Trio di Trieste, Evelyne Brancart, Santiago Rodriguez, and Naoko Takao.
After her doctoral studies at Frost, Dr. Gegprifti made Miami her home, where she resides with her husband, pianist Redi Llupa. Together they form Duo Spektra, an ensemble that aims to promote music by Albanian composers among others. In 2022-23, Duo Spektra gave two U.S. premieres and collaborated with Dranoff 2 Piano Foundation in their most recent Piano Slam production. Dr. Gegprifti is on the faculty of the Frost Preparatory Program. She is a program coordinator at the Frost Summer Experience, and an adjunct faculty member for the Keyboard Department at Frost School, where she also enjoys performing with Frost Chamber Players. Since 2021, she has also served as the program coordinator of the Frost Chopin Festival with artistic director, Kevin Kenner.
