Adam Jackson was born in the UK and began piano studies at the age of 7 when he moved with his family to the US. In 2017, Adam was accepted into the Kaufman Music Center High School, began studies with renowned pianist Orli Shaham in early 2018 and entered Juilliard Pre-College in 2019. Adam has performed with orchestras including the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra of Polish Radio in Poznan, Poland, the Siletz Bay, Oregon Festival Orchestra, the New York Chamber Players, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony, and the Symphony of Westchester. Adam has performed solo recitals in the US, UK and Poland. He has participated in master classes with Richard Goode, Mikhail Voskresensky, Alexandre Moutouzkine, Boris Slutsky, and Ilana Vered. At the age of 11, Adam won 1st prize in the Under-16 category at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, appearing live on British television. In 2017, Adam won the International Young Musicians competition at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, Wales, second prize in the Leschetizky International Concerto Competition, and third prize in the Kaufman International Youth Piano Competition, New York. In 2019, Adam won 1st place in the Special Music School Concerto Competition. Adam has attended summer festivals including, the 2018 Morningside Music Bridge at Fryderyk Chopin University, Warsaw, the 2019 “Music@Menlo” Chamber Institute, California, and studied with Arie Vardi and Hung-Kuan Chen at the 2022 Aspen Music Festival. Adam is pursuing piano performance studies at The Juilliard School of Music under the tutelage of Profs. Orli Shaham and Julian Martin.

Since his orchestral debut at age 11, pianist Alex McDonald has soloed with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de Mexico, Louisiana Philharmonic, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, and Utah Symphony Orchestra, among others. He has performed across the United States, as well as in Israel, Mexico, Canada, Japan, and South Korea; additionally, he has been a featured performer on PBS, WRR (Dallas/Fort Worth), NPR, and WQXR (New York City). Awards include second prizes at the 2007 New Orleans International Piano Competition and 2001 Gina Bachauer International Young Artist Piano Competition, and the 2008 Harvey Fellowship by the Mustard Seed Foundation. In 2013, he was a competitor in the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Mr. McDonald is currently the festival director for Basically Beethoven, a thriving summer concert series now approaching its 40th season in downtown Dallas’ Arts District. His program “Music for Animals” was hailed by Theater Jones as one of its “Concerts of the Year” in 2016. Equally passionate as a teacher, his private piano students have been admitted to Juilliard and Eastman, and have performed at Carnegie’s Weill Hall and on WRR. He has taught at Texas Woman’s University, Richland College, and The Juilliard School, where he also was a teaching fellow for both the Literature and Materials and Piano Minor departments. The Texas Music Teacher’s Association awarded him the 2017 Outstanding Achievement Award in teaching at the age of 34. Mr. McDonald received his pre-college training under Lois Nielson, his bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory with Academic Honors and Distinction in Performance under Russell Sherman, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Juilliard under Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin. His doctoral document, a source study on manuscripts and editions for Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor, has been cited in the most recent edition of the sonata by Alfred Publishers, edited by Nancy Bricard.

Alexander Agate, 21, began learning piano at age 11. At 13 he was accepted into the Applied Music Scholarship program at Moorpark Community College, a two-year program during which he worked with Professor Mona DeCesare. Prior to entering college, he studied under concert pianist Robert Thies for two and a half years. Currently, he is a senior Piano Performance major at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), studying under Professor Dmitry Rachmanov. He has had master classes with many distinguished pianists including John Perry, Norman Krieger, Jerome Lowenthal, Victor Rosenbaum and Nina Lelchuk, among others. The Summer of 2014 proved a busy one as he attended the John Perry institute, where he worked with John Perry, Wojciech Kocyan and Mina Perry before flying to Vermont to participate in the Adamant Festival, where he studied with Seta Tanyel. During the summer of 2015, he attended two summer festivals: the Southern California Music Institute (John Perry, Director), where he worked with John Perry, Sarkis Baltaian, Andrew Park and Edward Francis, and the IKIF Piano Festival in New York where he had lessons with Victor Rosenbaum, Nina Lelchuk and Jose Santana. In February of 2015 Alexander competed in the National Chopin Competition held in Miami, Florida before returning to his home state to perform the Prokofiev Concerto no. 1 with the Redlands Bowl Orchestra. After a successful performance, he played the Prokofiev Concerto once more with the Culver City Orchestra in December of 2015.

The innovative spirit of the Cambridge, MA, home of MIT and Harvard, resonates with the credo of Israeli pianist Anna Arazi. She has founded and been running several community and campus projects at Boston University, engaging Boston inhabitants and students in musical activities and discussions. Among others, she organized a Musical Marathon, joined by performers from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as from Brazil, China, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Korea, Russia and Spain to collect donations for the Boston Marathon bombing victims (Symphony Magazine, summer 2013). In April 2015, following her winning of the American Protégé International Competition of Romantic Music 2014, Ms. Arazi will make her Carnegie Hall debut. As a winner of the BU Concerto Competition last spring she made an acclaimed debut with the BU Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Arazi maintains a very active concert schedule, and frequently appears as a soloist and a chamber ensemble member, often playing contemporary music, but especially enamored with romantic and twentieth-century Soviet composers. One of her recent duo appearances with Piazzolla’s Fuga y Misterio was described by the Boston Musical Intelligencer (April 23 2013) as “a great fun” and “a theatrical flourish”. For the last two years she has been invited to perform and teach as a guest artist at the BU Tanglewood Institute. Ms. Arazi is currently finishing her doctorate at Boston University. She enthusiastically explores conducting from the piano for the standard romantic and modern piano concertos repertoire. In 2012 Ms. Arazi was granted a life-long membership in the Golden Key International Honour Society.

A native of Balashov, Russia, pianist Artem Kuznetsov is an award winning concert pianist, a vivid chamber musician hailed for his artistry, virtuosity, lyricism and exciting energy; he is extensively performing solo recitals as well as collaborating with orchestras in major concert halls around the world. He has been part of organisations and concert series that have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities including the “Multiple Sclerosis” society and “Direct relief Covid-19 response.” In 2020 he was appointed an Emissary of the Muses of the city of San Antonio by the Mayor Ron Nirenberg. Mr. Kuznetsov is a winner of more than ten international competitions including the Young Texas Artists Music Competition, the American International Competition, the Seattle International Piano Competition and the Dallas International Piano Competition among others. Throughout his career he performed in prestigious venues such as the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Benaroya Hall in Seattle, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Schloss Ettlingen and Asamsaal in Germany and the Muziekcentrum Enschede in the Netherlands. Mr. Kuznetsov was featured in several radio stations in the US including the “Texas Public Radio” in San Antonio and “King FM” in Seattle. He is actively involved in musical outreach for under-served communities, as well as educational events for young musicians with more than 10 outreach recitals in Texas and Washington, and gave more than 35 presentations and masterclasses for elementary, middle and high school students. His first LP on “Orpheus Classical” label was released on all the major streaming platforms.

Praised by the Washington Post for his “sparkling, highly musical” playing and by the Huffington Post for his “dazzling fireworks”, American pianist Christopher Goodpasture has established himself as a musician of inimitable and refined style. He has performed to great acclaim in some of North America’s finest concert halls including the Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), Benaroya Hall (Seattle), Koerner Recital Hall (Toronto), The DiMenna Center (New York), Weill Recital Hall (New York), Bing Concert Hall (San Francisco), Ingle Auditorium (Rochester), the Nixon Library and the LACMA (Los Angeles). Recent concert series engagements include recitals at Chicago’s PianoForte Salon Series, the Colouratura Gallery in Nova Scotia, San Diego’s Music by the Sea, and Los Angeles’ Classical Underground with culminating radio broadcasts on Classical KUSC 91.5 and 88.5 KCSN. Christopher’s awards include 1st prize and audience prize in the 2015 Seattle International Piano Competition, 2nd Prize in the 2015 Iowa International Piano Competition, and top prizes in the Los Angeles Liszt Competition, The Glenn Gould Chamber Music Competition, and the Susan Torres Competition for pianists. Festival appearances include performances at the Banff Centre, the Sarasota Music Festival, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the International Holland Music Sessions, and the Music Academy of the West. He has had the opportunity to work with a number of influential pianistsAs an active chamber musician, he has collaborated with the Schubert Ensemble of London and members of the Takacs, Ysaye, St. Lawrence, Amenda, Guarneri, and Tokyo String Quartets. Born in Los Angeles, California, Christopher completed his Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music where he studied with John Perry and Stewart Gordon and was the recipient of the Most Outstanding Undergraduate Award. He furthered his studies with John Perry, earning an Artist Diploma from the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Ontario, on a Colleen Sexsmith full scholarship. Christopher is currently pursuing his Master’s Degree as a student of Hung-Kuan Chen and Jerome Lowenthal at the Juilliard School in New York City, where he was awarded the Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship.

As a prize winner in 53rd Sorantin International Competition, Chai has participated in piano masterclasses and private lessons conducted by Leslie Howard, Paul Badura-Skoda, Malcolm Bilson,Yoheved Kaplinsky, Matti Raekallio andVladimir Krainev,to name just a few.He has performed in Lawrence,FortWorth,Grand Junction, Hong Kong, Macau, Shang Hai, Shenzhen, and Zhu Hai. His performances have included varied repertoire for solo piano, two pianos, and piano concertos. He enjoys an association with the conductors RobertWard andYondani Butt,collaborating in performances of Beethoven 4th Piano Concerto,the Yellow River Piano Concerto and GriegPiano Concerto in A minor.The festivals he attended in 2012 summer including PianoTexas International Academy & Festival and Concerto FestVienna.As a recipient of numerous scholarships, Chai has been awarded the Lee Shuk-chee Memorial Scholarship,The Society of APA Non-Local Scholarship,Tom Lee Music Scholarship, CE Scholarship, Baring Private Equity Asia Scholarship, HKAPA Piano Alumni Scholarship, Capps Rogers Scholarship and David & Gunda Hiebert Piano Scholarship. Born in Xian, China, Chai Congcong started learning piano with his mother at a young age. He studied at the DongFang XingZhi Piano School with Prof. Zheng Shu Xing, and ShenZhen Art School with Dan Zhao Yi and Miao Xiao Yan. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts to study with Prof. Eleanor Wong for his Diploma, Bachelor, and Master degrees. As a Graduate Teaching Assistant of University of Kansas, he is currently in his second year of the DMA programme at KU with Dr. Jack Winerock.

HanQing Zhou is a rising figure of the 80s generation pianist who is committed to connect to today’s audiences by offering strong interpretations of the historical and contemporary repertoire.As a soloist he has performed in orchestral and recital settings. His debut was with the Firelands Symphony Orchestra, performing the Prokofiev’sThird Piano Concerto under James Feddeck.He has given solo and chamber performance at Warner Concert Hall, Kulas Recital Hall in Ohio, Neier Recital Hall in Chengdu, and Duncan Recital Hall in Houston. Hanqing completed his Bachelor’s Degree of Piano performance at Oberlin conservatory of music with Professor Peter Takacs. He achieved his Master’s Music Degree at Rice University, Shepherd School of Music under Dr. Robert Roux. Now, He pursues his Artist Diploma in University of Houston with Nancy Weems. He have also participated to many music festivals and master classes including working with Leon Fleisher, Paul Badura-Skoda, John Lill, Nalita True,Yoheved Kaplinsky,Vladimir Fletsman and so on. HanQing received a full scholarship from Oberlin Conservatory and is a recipient of the Dr. Margaret Ann Goldstein Prize from Rice University He is also a prize winner of many competitions including the Hong Kong Mozart Piano Competition, Firelands Symphony Orchestra Concerto Completion, Gu LangYu National Competition (in the Sichuan region).

Hsin-Hao Yang was born in Changhua, Taiwan. With his father being a manager, mother being a social worker, Hsin-Hao Yang started piano at the age of 7 and showed great talent and passion for music. Throughout his music career, Hsin-Hao has won numerous awards including first prize of National Music Competition in 2009, 2011 and 2016. He also participated in the 2011 International Youth Piano Festival in Taiwan, the 2013 Interharmony Music Festival in Italy and the 2016 Music@Menlo Festival in San Francisco. Hsin-Hao gave his first piano solo recital in January 2015 at the Tainan National University of the Arts and the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Hsin-Hao was a student of Pei-Chun Liao and Grace Chung and has been instructed in master classes by Artemis Yen, Chun-Chieh Yen, Tai-Cheng Chen, and Vitali Berzon. Hsin-Hao is currently studying under Ning An’s instruction at California State University Fullerton.

Twenty-three years old Hyun Jung Kim is one of the leading and most decorated South-Korean pianists of her generation. Kim has been a frequent First prize winner in the international competitions. Including the 9th Asia Chopin International Piano Competition in Japan 2008, the grandprix at the 20th KBS International Music Competition in 2010 (where she was the youngest of all competitors), the 35th Bechstein-Samik National Piano Competition. And other major prize winners at the 7th Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition in United States 2004, the 14th Taiwan International Chopin Piano Competition in 2008, the 7th Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan 2009, the 8th Paderewski International Piano Competition in 2010, the 4th Rhodes International Piano Competition in Greece, and the 7th Seoul International Piano Competition in Korea 2011. Since Kim made her debut with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra at the age of 10, she has appeared on nearly every continent as soloist with major orchestras and recitalist. Ms. Kim has performed the KBS Symphony Orchestra in South Korea, Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic Orchestra in Poland, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in Japan, IASI Philharmonic Orchestra in Czech Republic, Kaoshung Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, Seoul Symphony Orchestra, Sungnam Philharmonic Orchestra and Suwon Symphony Orchestra in South Korea. Ms.Kim has been heard on recital series throughout Asia, Europe and United States. She has Performed at Yamaha Artist Service Seoul as a soloist of their rising artist series and at Kumho Art Hall as a soloist of Kumho Young Artist Concert Recital, the Seoul Recital Hall in South Korea, the Taipei National Concert Hall in Taiwan, the ACT City Hamamatsu Main Hall in Japan, the Ongakudo Concert Hall among many. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Kim has performed with many renowned artists in the most major music festivals including Aspen International Music Festival in U.S, Euro Summer International Music Festival in Germany, Ishikawa Music Academy and Hamamtsu International piano Academy in Japan. Born in South Korea, Ms. Kim received early training at Korea National University of Arts with Professor Choong-Mo Kang, selected as talented artist and skipped 2 years of high school curriculum. In 2013, Ms. Kim moved to the United States. Currently, she is pursuing her Master’s degree at the Peabody Conservatory of Music with Yong Hi Moon.

Inyoung Kim was born in 1991 in Seoul, South Korea. She started to play the piano at the age of 7, and graduated from the Sunhwa Arts School in 2007 and Sunhwa Arts High School, summa cum laude, in 2010. From 2010 until 2014, she studied at Seoul National University in Korea with Hyung Bae Kim, and later with Jong Hwa Park, also, she received a Bachelor’s degree from the University, cum laude. She is continuing her studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in USA with Alexander Korsantia. Since 2003, Kim has won many famous competitions in Korea, such as the KookMin Journal Hansei Competition, Teenager Piano Competition, EumAk Journal Music Competition and SamIk Piano Music Competition. Additionally, while studying in Korea, she received an Excellence Award from SunHwa Arts High School. She has performed recitals at Seoul National University Concert Hall, Seoul City Hall, KumHo Art Hall, and YoungSan Arts Hall. She was also chosen as a student on a scholarship at Seoul National University, SungNam City Association, Artsylvia Foundation, Great Mountain Festival, and New England Conservatory. She is very interested in chamber music, and has performed as a chamber musician in the Trio S-callia, Vol Piano Duo, BP Piano Duo, and Quintet K. Also, she is very talented as an accompanist, and accompanies the SunHwa Arts Choir and New England Conservatory Concert Choir. She has taken master classes from worldwide musicians, such as Nykola Suk, Boris Slutsky, Victor Rosenbaum, Alexander Braginsky, Robert MacDonald, and Chiara Quartet. In 2014, Inyoung Kim began studying toward a Master’s Degree at the New England Conservatory.

Jeannette Fang is an imaginative and expressive pianist whose dynamic performances have attracted the attention of both professionals as well as the concert going public. She most recently was the 2nd place Young Artist Performance National winner of the MTNAYoung Artist Competition. From an early age her creative pianism was recognized through many awards such as first prize in the 20th International Young Artists’ Piano Competition in Washington, D.C., second prize in the 2003 Oberlin International Piano Competition, top honors in various MTNA competitions, awards from the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts and the National Alliance for the Arts, and first prize in the 2000 Steinway Society Scholarship competition. She is the recipient of the Elizabeth J. Parisot award from Yale School of Music, the winner of the Karlfried Nordman Scholarship Piano Competition at Juilliard, and was named a National Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 2003. An active presence on the concert stage, Ms. Fang performs regularly in such settings as Alice Tully Hall, John F. Kennedy Center, Zankel Hall, Bargemusic, Peter J. Sharp Theater, Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, Sprague Recital Hall, and many others. She has been a featured performer on the McGraw-Hill Young Artist’s Showcase onWQXR-NewYork,and on NPR’s“From theTop”broadcast from the Disney Institute in California. She has soloed with numerous orchestras including the New Jersey Philharmonic, Battleground Symphony, and St. Mary’s Chamber Orchestra, and has won concerto competitions resulting in orchestra performances at both Juilliard Pre-College and Manhattan School of Music. She has served as Artist-In- Residence for two years at St. Mary’s Church Concert Series in South Amboy, NJ, and has performed as a guest artist at Boston Conservatory, Jacob’s Pillow Festival, the Watchung Arts Center, as well as others. In addition to her long-standing commitment to solo piano performance, Ms. Fang is a passionate and experienced chamber musician.She was a young artist at theTaos Music Festival in the summer of 2012, and has spent three summers at the prestigious YellowBarn Festival in Vermont. She has performed with faculty and various new music groups in such venues as Zankel Hall, Bargemusic, Chamberfest at Juiliiard, and Le Poisson Rouge. She enjoys working in the world of contemporary music through active and ongoing collaborations with prominent composers such as David Lang, Shulamit Ran, Aaron Jay Kernis, Philippe Hersant, and Stephan Cox. Ms. Fang holds degrees from the Juilliard School,Yale School of Music, and is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Michigan. Her principal teachers have included Peter Frankl, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Robert McDonald, Julian Martin, and Logan Skelton. Her first piano teacher was her mother, Dr. Julia Lam.

An Indonesian-American and native of Southern California, pianist and educator Jonathan Mamora strives to uplift and positively influence others using music as a means for service through churches, homes, schools, community centers, and the concert hall. Jonathan’s performances have taken him throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and he is a prize-winner of several regional and international competitions, most recently winning first prize in the 2022 Virginia Waring International Piano Competition and the 2022 Eastman Piano Concerto Competition. Recent performances include Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1 with the Eastman Philharmonia and the Waring Festival Orchestra, and Olivier Messiaen’s Oiseaux exotiques with the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He was recently a featured artist for the LA Phil Affiliates in the Desert. He has previously performed in masterclass by pianists as Olga Kern, Jerome Lowenthal, Robert Levin, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, and Stanislav Ioudenitch. Jonathan holds graduate assistantships in accompanying and in music theory at the Eastman School of Music and has received the Eastman Excellence in Accompanying Award. Jonathan also teaches piano for the Eastman Community Music School. Jonathan is pursuing his Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music, studying with and serving as studio assistant for Douglas Humpherys. He received his Bachelor of Music from La Sierra University and his Master of Music from The Juilliard School. His previous teachers include Elvin Rodríguez and Hung-Kuan Chen.

Kenny Broberg was born in 1993, and has studied the piano since age six. He plays “with an emotional sophistication far beyond his years” (Duluth News Tribune). Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kenny studied for nine years with Dr. Joseph Zins. Currently, he studies at the University of Houston Moores School of Music with Professor Nancy Weems. He has also taken private lessons and classes with Abbey Simon, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Menahem Pressler, and Arie Vardi, among others. Kenny has played concerti with a number of orchestras, including the Minnesota Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, the Moores School Symphony Orchestra, the Moores School Wind Ensemble, the New Orleans Civic Symphony. Conductors he has worked with include Carlos Miguel Prieto, Ludovic Morlot, and Franz Anton Krager. Notable awards include the Second Prize and Audience Favorite at the Seattle Symphony International Piano Competition, Bronze Medal at the 2014 New Orleans International Piano Competition, Silver and Bronze Medals at the Wideman International Piano Competition, the Gold Medal at the Mika Hasler Young Artist Competition, and the Silver Medal at the Young Texas Artists Competition. He has taught and given masterclasses in the U.S. and in South America. Solo, concerto, and chamber performances have been aired on the radio on NPR and KUHF 91.7 Houston.

“…Excellent Technique and Spirit …” (The Miami Herald) “…his commitment, talent, imagination, drive, passion and intelligence make Kristhyan an outstanding Musician and Performer…” (Phillippe Entremont) This young pianist belongs to the new generation of Venezuelan musicians who stand out internationally. Born in Caracas, 30-year-old Kristhyan Benitez began his steps toward a musical career at the age of four with Olga Lopez, pupil of the legendary Magda Tagliaferro. Three months later, he played for an audience of 2000 people at one of the most important musical venues in Venezuela, The Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex. Jose Antonio Abreu, Founder Director of “El Sistema” describes Kristhyan as “one of the most important and brilliant leaders of the Musical Movement in Venezuela and the whole Continent”. He has won top prizes in several national and international piano competitions, including countries such as Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, France, Venezuela, USA, Germany, and Austria among others. At the 1996 National Philharmonic Orchestra Soloist Competition in Caracas, Venezuela, plastic artist Jesús Soto crafted and awarded him a unique medal for the First prize. Kristhyan Received the “Jose Felix Ribas Award”, the highest honor given by the President of Venezuela in 1998, for his cultural contribution and enhancement of his country overseas. Kristhyan has appeared at some of the world’s most prestigious stages such as Philarmonie Hall (Berlin), Davies Symphony Hall (San Francisco), Town Hall (New York), Ehrbar Saal (Vienna), Salle Cortot (Paris), Amadeo Roldan Theater (Havana) and Rios Reyna at the Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex (Caracas), with performances throughout Europe, South America and the United States. He has performed under the baton of Claudio Abbado, Alondra de la Parra, Carlos Riazuelo, Felipe Izcaray, Giancarlo Guerrero, Piero Gamba, Gustavo Dudamel, Patrick Lange, James Orent, Benjamin Zander, and Eduardo Marturet. His orchestral engagements include the Simon Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, San Francisco Symphony, La Havana Symphony, Berliner Symphoniker, Miami Symphony, among others. His Festival participations include the 1999 VIP Academy in Vienna, 2001 New World Academy, 2001, “The Piano From Bach to Chick Corea” festival, 2003 Beethoven festival where he played for the director of Beethoven’s House in Bohn, Germany, 2006 Steinway Festival and 2008 Palm Beach Atlantic International Piano Festival in USA.

Hailed as “spine-tingling” (Fort Worth Star-Telegram) and “breathtaking” (Boston Musical Intelligencer), American pianist Kyle Orth possesses unusual virtuosity and artistic sensitivity. He has distinguished himself globally as a captivating soloist and chamber musician, passionately reviving lesser-known works while offering intriguing interpretations of pieces within the standard repertoire. The Dallas Morning News praised his complete musicianship for being “thoughtfully proportioned and detailed, with plenty of virtuosity when called for.” Orth made his orchestral debut at the age of fifteen, playing Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Plano Symphony Orchestra. Since then, he has appeared as a soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Israel Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Oaxaca (Mexico), Dallas Chamber Symphony, Missouri Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Arequipa (Peru), Orquesta Sinfónica de Cusco, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, and the Richardson Symphony Orchestra, performing under the batons of Jaap van Zweden, Vahagn Papian, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Hugh Wolff, Anshel Brusilow, Hector Guzman, and others. He recently joined Osmo Vänskä and the Minnesota Orchestra on their subscription series “Tchaikovsky Marathon” to present Tchaikovsky’s underplayed Piano Concerto No. 2. His “unbuttoned enthusiasm” left a “sparkling impression” on critics, and the Star Tribune further commended his playing for its “thrillingly visceral” impact. As a chamber musician, Orth has studied and performed in prominent international festivals including the Perlman Music Program, the Ravinia Steans Music Institute, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the Pablo Casals Festival-Academie in France. He was a founding member of the Caspian Quartet, a competitively selected honors ensemble at the New England Conservatory. The quartet’s 2017 recital in Boston’s Jordan Hall attracted special attention for their performance of the Saint-Saëns Piano Quartet in E major, a work that remained unpublished until 1992. Orth has collaborated with artists including Donald Weilerstein, Jing Wang, Angelo Xiang Yu, and Rachel Lee Priday, and often appears as a violin-piano duo with his wife, Rachel Arcega Orth. ​ An internationally recognized competitor, Orth holds over twenty first-place wins in local, national, and international music competitions. Triumphs include Grand Prize in the Friends of the Minnesota Orchestra Young Artist Competition, as well as First Prize in the Dallas International Piano Competition and Hellam Young Artists Competition. He received top prizes at the Corpus Christi International Piano Competition and Wideman International Competition, as well as the Audience Award at the finals of the Washington International Piano Competition. Recordings of Orth’s concerto and chamber performances have been broadcasted on WGBH-WCRB classical 99.5 in Boston and New Hampshire, as well as WRR radio, classical 101.1 in Dallas. During the coronavirus outbreak, he appeared in a long-distance collaboration recital with violinist Sean Lee for Salon de Virtuosi in New York, which was streamed live on The Violin Channel. A deeply committed educator, Orth spent several seasons with Cliburn in the Classroom, a program that brings live presentations of classical music to thousands of children in public schools across the DFW metroplex. He now serves on the faculty of Musicians for the World, a non-profit organization that provides lessons and masterclasses to vulnerable communities around the globe. He was a founding member and artist-faculty for the first MFW International Festival Peru (2022), a three-week festival featuring concerts and masterclasses in Lima, Cusco, and Arequipa. Born in California in 1990, Orth spent much of his childhood in Texas and received a B.M. from Texas Christian University as a Nordan Young Artist. He holds a M.M. from New England Conservatory, and is now a doctoral candidate in NEC’s highly selective DMA program. During his time at NEC, he was awarded the Presser Foundation Graduate Music Award (2018) and a Presidential Scholarship (2016-2018); he also won the piano department concerto competition and performed Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto in Jordan Hall. His primary mentors were Wha Kyung Byun, John Owings, Alex McDonald, and Marcy McDonald; he also received coaching from Russell Sherman, Miriam Fried, Natasha Brofsky, Merry Peckham, and Vivian Weilerstein. Other meaningful contributions to his artistry include a love of nature, literature, poetry, religion, and his Latino-Jewish heritage. Orth is currently on the piano faculty at Wheaton College Conservatory of Music in Wheaton, Illinois.

Leon Bernsdorf (*1992 in Hamburg, Germany) received his first piano lessons at the age of five. Already one year later, he received a scholarship by the Hamburg youth music foundation, and as taught by the renowned piano pedagogue, Carol Tainton. In 2007, Leon became a pre-college student at the HfMT Hamburg under the tutelage of Prof. Volker Banfield. After his graduation, he continued his studies with Prof. Boaz Sharon at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. He received his Bachelor degree “cum laude” in May 2014. Since fall 2014, Leon is studying with Prof. Pavel Nersessian at Boston University, pursuing a Masters Degree. In addition to his studies he participated in master classes by Karl-Heinz Kaemmerling, John Perry, John O’Connor, and Ian Hobson. At the age of six, Leon participated in the renowned German youth competition “Jugend musiziert” for the first time. In the following years, he reached enormous success in various categories of the contest and in other competitions, including a first prize at the Grotrian Steinweg Competition, and a first prize at the Steinway Competition in Hamburg. In 2007 and 2008, Leon won first prizes on the federal level of “Jugend Musizert”, for which he was granted a scholarship by the “Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben” In November 2010, Leon won the second prize at the “Dedication to Ferenc Liszt” Competition at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, playing Rachmaninoff’s second concerto in the final round. As a result of this success, Leon was granted various performances throughout Europe, including appearances at the international music festivals in Bergamo and Verona, Italy. In April 2014, Leon won the “Richmond Piano Competition” at Boston University, which was followed by a solo recital at the Tsai Performance Center.

Pianist Lizhen Wu was born in 1988 in the town of Yue Yang in the People’s Republic of China. He began studying the piano at the age of 5. Because of his promising musical gifts, he was accepted into the Wuhan Conservatory, which necessitated moving away from home. He studied at the Conservatory with Wang Xian, who remained his teacher until he came to the United States in 2006. Mr. Wu – known to his American friends as Rick – won First Prize in the Hazimen Piano Competition in China and was invited to the United States to perform at four universities, including the University of North Texas. He auditioned for the Bachelor of Performing Arts degree at the UNT College of Music, and was accepted as a freshman performance major in the fall of 2006 on a scholarship, and studying with Dr. Pamela Mia Paul. In 2012, Mr Wu was accepted as a graduate student at SMU with full scholarship. He is currently studing with Joaquin Achucarro. Lizhen participated was also a quarterfinalist in the Dallas International Piano Competition 2013.

Moye Chen has performed extensively as a concert pianist in Asia and United States. He has performed in the renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, Finney Chapel, Benaroya Concert Hall, Krannert Center for PerformingArts,Beijing Concert Hall,Shanghai Concert Hall,and Shanghai GrandTheatre;he has been invited to perform in the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Beijing International Contemporary Music Festival, Shanghai Spring Music Festival, and Tongyeong International Music Festival. Chen was a winner of many competitions, including Seattle International Piano Competition, Heida Hermanns International Piano Competition, Buono and Bradshaw International Piano Competition, Krannert Debut Artist Competition, and Palatino Piano and Composition Competition; in addition, he is a recipient of Charles Ross Fellowship Awards in 2012 and 2013. A native of Beijing, Chen began his piano study at the age of seven; in 1997, he moved to Shanghai and had the great honor of performing during the ceremony of Macao’s return to China in 1999.This performance has been broadcasted by CCTV and SHTV. He has also performed as a soloist with Beijing Symphony Orchestra, Oberlin Chamber Orchestra, Oberlin Orchestra and Asian Ensemble Orchestra. Chen earned his Bachelor and Master’s Degree from Shanghai Conservatory of Music under the guidance of Hung- Kuan Chen. He also received Artist Diploma from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Angela Cheng. Other teachers include Tema Blackstone, Alvin Chow, Dennis Helmrich, Cheung-Yu Mo, and Xiaosheng Zhao.He has performed in the master classes of FouT’song,Anton Kuerti,Christopher Elton, Mingqiang Li, Lazar Berman, Constance Keene, Anatol Ugorski, Zhong Xu, Earl Wild, and Volker Banfield. Chen is currently pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts at University of Illinois.

Korean-born pianist Narae Lee began to play the piano at the age of seven and made her official debut at the Rising Young Stars Concert a year later. She has won numerous prizes and participated in competitions, festivals both nationally and internationally, including Wideman Piano Competition, Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Delta Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Concerto Competition, Coeur d’Alene Symphony Young Artists Competition, the World Piano Competition, Art of the Piano, Chautauqua Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival as an assistant of Piano and Collaborative Piano faculties, New Paltz Piano Summer, Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, Samick-Seiler Piano Competition, the Mayor of Seoul City Prize, and the Grand Prix Round Prize, the 21st Century Artist Special Prize at Osaka International Piano Competition in Japan. She has recently won the top prize at the International Young Artist Piano Competition in Washington DC. As a winner of the Seoul Philharmonic Concerto Competition, Ms. Lee made her orchestral debut with Seoul Philharmonic the 18th Annual Concert at the National Theater of Korea in 2009. Also, she has performed with CCM Philharmonia Orchestra and CCM Concert Orchestra as a winner of CCM Piano Concerto Competition (Left Hand Piano Concerto by M. Ravel). As a soloist, she has appeared at the Piano Gala Concert at Eastern Music Festival with the piano faculty, the New Artists Series Recital, and the Samick-Seiler New Artists Concert at Youngsan Art Hall. She has performed international masterclasses given by Richard Goode, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Andreas Haeflinger, Jerome Lowenthal, Robert McDonald, Kevin Kenner, Jerome Rose, Alexander Toradze, and Blanca Uribe. Ms. Lee studied at Sunhwa Arts High School with Dr. Jeeyoung Shin and Yonsei University with Dr. Misha Kim in South Korea. She has earned her Bachelor of Music degree with a Cum Laude studying under the tutelage of Awadagin Pratt from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Ms. Lee was a recipient of Honors Scholarship and William Black Award. After her Bachelor of Music degree, she moved to Baltimore, Maryland to study further for her Master of Music degree at the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University under the tutelage of Boris Slutsky. Currently, she is pursuing her Doctoral of Musical Arts at the Peabody Conservatory. Most recently, she was awarded the second prize from the Yale Gordon Competition at the Peabody Conservatory as well as she was participating in the Brahms Piano Competition in Pörtschach, Austria, Seattle International Piano Competition, the Olga Kern Piano Competition, and the Washington International Piano Competition.

Nathan Ryland began playing piano at the age of five, studying with Dr. Grace Long from age six through high school. He progressed quickly, and was soon winning numerous local competitions. He moved on to larger competitions, eventually winning the state and regional levels of the MTNA performance contest during his senior year of high school, competing as a finalist at the 2013 national convention. During this past summer, Nathan was selected as a winner of the Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition at the Brevard Music Center, as well as the second place winner of the BMC Piano Competition. He also competed in the Budapest Concert Division of the LA International Liszt Competition, receiving third prize. Nathan was selected as the piano winner of this year’s UNT Concerto Competition, earning a performance with the UNT Symphony Orchestra. He has participated in summer study with Elisabeth Pridonoff and Norman Krieger at the Brevard Music Center Institute, and has received masterclass instruction from internationally acclaimed artists such as Boris Slutsky and Haochen Zhang. He also enjoys composition, and was awarded the first prize in the Large Ensemble division of the TMTA Original Composition Contest for his orchestral piece “Forever.” Nathan is a sophomore at the University of North Texas, where he studies with Dr. Pamela Mia Paul.

Chinese pianist Rixiang Huang was the gold medalist of 2016 New York International Artists Piano Competition and is praised by audiences and critics for his superb artistry and passionate, charismatic performance style on three continents. Mr. Huang’s performances have earned high accolades of audiences and critics alike. The Voice of North Carolina wrote of his performance “… Rixiang Huang, who gave a bang-up performance…He was brilliant and rose to every challenge…” As an immersive and versatile soloist, Mr. Huang has performed extensively all over the world in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Chautauqua Amphitheater, Japan Hamamatsu ACT Concert Hall, Indonesia Aula Sinfonia Jakarta, Brunswick Concert Hall in Germany, Spain Torrelodones Teatro Bulevar, China National Center for the Performing Arts, and the Beijing Concert Hall. Additionally, he has appeared as a guest soloist with orchestras around the world including China National Symphony Orchestra, Indonesia National Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Music Festival Orchestra, and Eastern Music Festival Orchestra. His performances have been broadcast by China Radio International, Radio Online Indonesia and Channel 5. Mr. Huang has been a featured artist at the International Piano Festival at Torrelodones, Spain, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Chautauqua International Music Festival, Art of the Piano at the University of Cincinnati, Pianofest in the Hamptons and many others. He has performed in master classes with Sergei Babayan, John Perry, Robert Levin, Stephen Hough, Vladimir Feltsman, Boris Slutsky, Solomon Mikowsky, and many other world-renowned pianists and pedagogues. As an avid chamber performer, he was selected to participate in the Advanced Piano Trio Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, directed by cellist Sharon Robinson of the acclaimed Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. A laureate of many International Competitions, his honors include first prizes in New York International Artists Piano Competition, Asian Classical Music Competition in Japan, Eastern Music Festival’s Young Artist Piano Competition as well as Piano Concerto Competition. He also won second prizes in the Fifth ASEAN International Concerto Competition, First United States Virtuoso International Piano Competition, Chautauqua Music Festival Piano Competition, and High Point University International Piano Competition. Mr. Huang is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Piano Performance at The Juilliard School, where he is studying with legendary pianist Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio. Previously, he worked with world-renowned pianist Antonio Pompa-Baldi and Paul Schenly at The Cleveland Institute of Music, where he was awarded the Arthur Loesser Memorial Prize for outstanding achievement in piano performance.

Born and raised in La Jolla, California, Rossina began piano studies at the age of four. After achieving international recognition within the first few years of her career, Italo-Shanghainese prodigy wunderkind Rossina, made her formal soloist debut. At eight years old, Copley Hall sold out for the youngest pianist to ever grace it’s stage with the San Diego Symphony. Critics hailed her as a prodigy “well beyond her years”, citing that Rossina was “an absolute star, bringing audiences to their feet.” Sina was then accepted to the Juilliard School of Music, at eleven years of age, where she premiered at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, with standing ovations to her performance of Chopin’s First Piano Concerto. Sina continued to tour extensively throughout Europe and Asia. She has received reception and recognition from illustrious artists such as Gary Graffman(Curtis Institute), Dmitri Bashkirov(Tchaikovsky Competition, Reina Sofia School), Dame Fanny Waterman DBE(Leeds Competition), Gábor Takács-Nagy(Takács Quartet, Verbier Festival) and Yu Long(China Philharmonic). She was then unanimously chosen to attend the Glenn Gould School. Rossina is the longest-standing recipient and only female winner of the Ihnatowycz Prize in piano, an award previously held by Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki. During her studies, Rossina developed almost 60 hours of solo, chamber, and concerti repertoire whilst debuting six albums across all streaming platforms. Signing a two year contract with British boutique management, Polyphony Arts, Rossina continues her artistic pursuits, and is happily married.

Saetbyeol Kim, from South Korea, began her musical studies at the age of five. Ten years later she began taking part in several piano competitions in her home country, including the 40th Music Educational Competition (1st prize), the 1st Liszt competition, in Seoul and the Daegu 10th TBC Broadcast competition. After a successful debut with the Pohang Philharmonic Orchestra, at the age of sixteen, she received the Talented Teenagers National Award in 2005. In addition, Saetbyeol participated in a number of festivals, including the Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival (2013), Tong-Yeong International Music Festival (2011) and the Beijing International Music Festival & Academy (2010). Ms. Kim won the 2012 Rochester Philharmonic Concerto Competition and had two concerts with Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. She was invited as the guest artist to perform a solo recital at ‘Rising Star Concert’ at Texas State International Piano Festival (2014). Saetbyeol completed her Master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music, where she held an accompanying assistantship and served as the teaching assistant Enrico Elisi. Saetbyeol is currently pursuing her Artist Diploma at The Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory under Professor Marietta Orlov.

Bostonian pianist Seho Young is a rapidly emerging international artist, whose playing has been described as “very intelligent and mature, […] thoughtful and polished” by the Musical Arts Society of New Orleans. Seho is an acclaimed performer, having won first prize and the chamber music award at the 2022 Charles Wadsworth Competition and third prize at the 28th New Orleans International Piano Competition. He has appeared with the Louisiana Philharmonic, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Brockton Symphony Orchestra, and the Princeton University Orchestra. Recently he was invited to present a recital of all American composers for The Bohemians New York Musicians’ Club at the Kosciuszko Foundation, and was featured in Tulane University’s Concert Piano Series. Hosted by the International Holland Music Sessions, he performed across Europe at iconic venues including the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Philharmonic Hall in Bratislava. He has studied with James Giles, Boris Berman, Francine Kay, Yoheved Kaplinsky, and Wha Kyung Byun, and has performed in masterclasses for Stanislav Ioudenitch, Jeffrey Kahane, William Naboré, and Maria Joao Pires. In addition to piano, he is also a passionate chamber musician and harpsichordist Seho holds degrees from Princeton University and Yale University, and is currently pursuing his doctorate at Northwestern’s Bienen School of Music. Seho is also a passionate composer and arranger, having written works for piano, orchestras, acapella groups, film, and musical theater. He is a competitive ultimate frisbee player, chess and Brazilian jiu-jitsu enthusiast, and life-long supporter of the New England Patriots.

Taiwanese pianist Shih-Man Weng has been enjoying performing as a soloist and a chamber musician since her early ages. Her talent in making every performance unique and colorful were quickly recognized when she was in her teen years performing at concerts presented and sponsored by Yamaha. In 2011, she moved to Boston, United States to pursue her undergraduate and graduate studies at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee under the guidance of Professor Ya-Fei Chuang. In May 2019, Shih-Man gained her Artist Diploma from Cleveland Institute of Music with the tutorial of Prof. Antonio Pompa-Baldi. In 2019, Shih-Man was awarded a full scholarship to attend University of Miami: Frost School of Music, for her doctoral degree. She is now in her third year of D.M.A in piano performance and she studies with Prof. Kevin Kenner. Shih-Man also serves as a teaching assistant at the school. In fall 2019, she has won the Frost School of Music Concerto Competition with the Rachmaninov First Piano Concerto. During her studies in Boston, she was the first piano student in the school history who won the Piano Honors Competition for four consecutive years and was also the first to win three top prizes the W. Churchill Scholarship Piano Competition, the most prestigious and most highly awarded piano competition at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. In 2013, her performance of Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky won her the ‘Young Talent’ Piano Competition in Salzburg, associated with the Salzburger Festspiele.

Twenty-one-year-old pianist Soeun Lee, was born in Wonju, South Korea and began playing at age 4. She has earned awards in several piano competitions including the 37th Teenager National Piano Competition (1st prize), the 13th Korean Chopin Competition, the 15th Seoul National Symphony Orchestra Piano Competition (1st prize), the 1st Korean Franz Liszt Piano Competition, the 11th TBC Daegu Broadcast Competition, the 9th Eumakchunchu National Piano Competition (1st prize), 2010 International Joseph Haydn Piano Competition (2nd prize).After winning the young artist competition inWonju,Soeun made her debut at age 10 performing as soloist with the Wonju Philarmonic Orchestra in Wonju and was invited to perform several concerts with that orchestra after her debut. She appeared at the 24thYoung Musicians Festival (2007) and the 2013 Superior Musician Concert. She also performed in many cities in Korea. In addition, Soeun participated in a number of music festivals and workshops, including 2007 Courchevel Music Alp Festival in France, 2011 International Indiana University Auer Music Workshop for Beethoven in United States, 2012 Seoul National University International Piano Academy. Soeun studied music at Seoul Arts Center Musical Prodigy Academy, and Music Academy run by Korea National University of Arts. She entered to Seoul National University, one of the top South Korean music institutions, as the youngest at her age of sixteen and completed her Bachelor’s degree in Piano Performance, studying with Professor Kwui Hyun Kim. She was awarded a scholarship of academic achievement in every semester. In addition, she was selected as a talented artist by GangwonTalent Rearing Foundation–an association that has offered yearly support to Soeun since 2009. She graduated Seoul National University summa cum laude and is studying her Master at Eastman School of Music with Professor Enrico Elisi and holding an accompanying assistantship as well.

Thomas Steigerwald recently captured the Silver Medal at the 62nd Wideman International Piano Competition with a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3.As the only American pianist chosen for the 2012 Round Top Festival Summer Institute, his performances included Balakirev’s Islamey and Roussel’s Joueurs de Flute with flutist RansomWilson His appearances with the RoundTopTexas Festival Orchestra included a performance of Griffes’The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan under the baton of Micheal Stern. As Winner of the 2011 Future Stars Competition, he made his orchestral debut with the San Antonio Symphony performing Prokofiev’s Concerto No.3.At the 2012 Dakota Sky International Piano Festival,Mr. Steigerwald performances included Brahm’s Cello Sonata No. 2 with Maxim Kozlov, and Ravel’s Piano Trio with the Delphi Trio. He studied in Italy at the 2011 Schlern Music Festival where he performed the Brahms Piano Trio No.1 in B Major and was a Finalist in the Schlern International Music Festival Piano Competition. He has also studied at the Aspen Music Festival, where his performances included Ravel’s La valse (poème choréographique) for two pianos, and Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor. He has performed numerous solo recitals including performances at theTuesday Musical Club of San Antonio, the Musical Arts Center of San Antonio, and the Uvalde Grand Opera House. He has had coaching and masterclasses with Eteri Andjaparidze, Rita Sloan, James Dick, Anton Nel, Petronel Malan, Adam Golka, Gregory DeTurck,Tamas Ungar, Nancy Weems, Carolyn True,Timothy Hester, Kasandra Keeling, Alessio Bax, and Lucille Chung. Mr. Steigerwald is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Music degree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, studying with Douglas Humpherys. He is the recipient of the Howard Hanson, the Liliian Miller Loos, and the Texas Music Teachers Assn. Whitlock Memorial Scholarships.

Zhao Wanting was born in Shenyang, Northeast China, and began her piano studies at the age of four. At fifteen, her first place performance on the entrance examination earned her direct admission to the ultra prestigious Middle School attached to the China Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Wanting had been a finalist in many national and international piano competitions and in 2006 won first prize at the eleventh “Xing Hai” Cup China National Piano Competition (Professional Group) and at the Fourteenth Hong Kong-Asia Piano Open Competition (in Beijing). The next year she received first place (Beethoven Sonata class) and third place (Open Class) at the Hong Kong-Asia Piano Open Competition (Final Round), first place at the Second “KAWAI” China National Piano Competition (Beijing), and second prize in the Second “Cadenza” Cup China National Piano Competition (Professional Senior Group). In 2008, she won third place at the Oberlin International Piano Competition and the same year was selected as a finalist at the Eastman International Piano Competition for Young Artists. In 2009, Wanting was admitted at TCU School of Music as a winner of the prestigious Nordan Music Scholarship, to study with the Cliburn Gold Medalist and TCU Artist in Residence, Jose Feghali. In 2012 Wanting won first prize and audience favorite award at the Young Texas Artists Music Competition, and was invited to perform with Conroe Symphony Orchestra the following year. She is currently an Artist Diploma student at Texas Christian University, where she studies with the head of the Piano Department, John Owings.

Admired as an exciting performer, pianist Yang Ding, a native of China, is a prize winner in major piano competitions. He won the top prizes in the 11th Los Angeles Liszt International Piano Competition, the 54th Cincinnati World Piano Competition, as well as the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition. In addition, he is a prizewinner of New York Five Towns Young Musician Competition, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition, Kansas City Musical Club competition, the Isabel Scionti Piano Scholarship Competition. Recently, Ding won 2nd place at 19th Jacob Flier International Piano Competition. As a solo performer, Ding has performed throughout the U.S., Korea and China. The venues have included Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall, Hewlett Woodmere Public Library, NY, Thayer Hall in Los Angeles, Le Petit Trianon Theatre in San Jose, CA, Crighton Theatre at Conroe, Voertman Hall, Denton, Texas, Cincinnati Arts Museum, Werner Hall and Corbetter Auditorium in Cincinnati, OH, Benaroya Hall in Seattle, WA, Grant Hall and White Recital Hall in Kansas City, MO, Seoul Arts Center, Korea, Tsuen Wan Town Hall in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Xi’ An, Tianjin, Shenyang, Haerbin, and Xiamen in China. Because of his achievement on piano, Ding was awarded Honorary Citizenship of Flower Mound by Tom Hayden, Mayor of Flower Mound, TX in 2013. His oncoming solo recitals in 2015 are in Germany, Italy, Portugal, Costa Rico, Beijing, Tianjin, and Nanjing in China. Now Ding is a doctor student at the University Of North Texas College Of Music, with a teaching fellow award and a special GATS Award from the Toulouse Graduate School. Major teachers include Pamela Mia Paul, Robert Weirich, Eugene Pridonoff, Rosemary Platt and Yuanji Fan.

Invited by the Annual Velia International Music Festival, pianist Yejin Lee performed her New York Solo Debut Recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in May 2015. Before her Debut, Yejin’s music credits include concerto performance with the Korean Symphony Orchestra at the Seoul Arts Center, solo performances at rising star series at Kumho, Hoan, and Boan Art Halls, and performances at the Upcoming Starts in the Classics’ invitation in Cleveland. Yejin competed and claimed awards at number of national and international competitions, such as, Kingsville International Piano Competition, Wideman International Piano Competition, Oberlin International Piano Competition, MTNA Piano Competition, and Korean Chopin Piano Competition. She also performed at various music festivals and master classes, including Piano Texas International Academy & Festival and Banff Music Festival, where she shared musical inspiration with great pedagogues and pianists in this century like Richard Goode, Dmitry Bashkirov, Stephen Hough, John O’Conor, John Perry and Karl-Heinz Kammering. Yejin graduated with Honors in Piano Performance under Haewon Song from Oberlin Conservatory. Oberlin Conservatory’s Piano Honors program has invited only a few pianists since its inception, and Yejin was the second recipient only to two others in the program’s history. While enrolled in the Honors program, Yejin recorded Schubert’s entire Impromptus and three Schubert-Lizst song transcriptions, all at the Oberlin Conservatory’s sponsorship. Also as an avid collaborative musician, Yejin shows her passion for ensemble music. Not only she pursued additional Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Accompanying under Philip Highfill while at Oberlin Conservatory, Yejin also actively collaborate with musicians from vocalists to instrumentalists in recitals and concerts throughout the US and Korea. In addition, during her undergraduate study, her piano trio performed a number of concerts and taught at schools in Arezzo, Italy. Yejin received her Master of Music at the Peabody Institute where she is continuing her studies with Boris Slutsky in the Doctor of Musical Arts program.

Pianist Yi-Chen Feng is the recipient of numerous prizes from competitions such as the New York Liszt International Piano Competition, the Grand Canal International Piano Art Festival, the San Jose International Piano Competition, and the Virginia Waring International Piano Competition. Feng made his Carnegie debut in 2022, performing Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 with Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the Stern Auditorium. He is the first prize winner of the first International Maestro Piano Competition in Taiwan, earning concert engagements and a record deal with the Universal Music Group label for the 2021-2022 season. A vivid concert pianist, Feng has been featured in various venues as a soloist, including the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Saint John’s Cathedral in Denver, National Recital Hall and Weiwuying National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan, the Hangzhou Grand Theater in China and the Galerie dorée de la Banque de France in Paris. Feng has participated in prestigious festivals, including Art of the Piano, the Banff Center, the Oxford Piano Festival, and the Chautauqua Music Festival. He has participated in masterclasses with Angela Cheng, Alexander Kobrin, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Awadagin Pratt, James Giles, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, John Perry, and Matti Raekallio. Originally from Taiwan, Feng began his piano studies at the age of seven. He earned his Bachelor’s degree at the Peabody Conservatory, Master of Music and Artist Diploma degree at the Yale School of Music where he studied with Boris Slutsky. Feng is currently pursuing his Artist Diploma at the San Francisco Conservatory under the tutelage of Yoshikazu Nagai.

Yibing Zhang Began studying piano at the age of three in his native China. In 2008, he won third prize in the China Central Television Cup Piano Competition and performed with renowned violinist Mr.Sheng Zhongguo in a new year ’s concert at the Chinese National Center for Performing Arts. Also in 2008, he appeared with the China Philharmonic Orchestra. After completing a Bachelor’s Degree at the prestigious Central Conservatory in Beijing and a Master’s Degree at New England Conservatory, Mr. Zhang is pursuing a graduate artist certificate at the University of North Texas College of Music, with a teaching fellow award. In Spring 2015, he won second prize in the Young Texas Artist Competition.

Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Yuri Noh began her musical studies on the piano at the age of five. Ms. Noh has been the top prizewinner of numerous international and national competitions, including the Silver Medal at the Louisiana International Piano Competition and the first prize at Mieczyslaw Munz Piano Competition, Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition, Busan MBC Music Competition, Korea Times Music Competition, Samick-Seiler piano Competition, and Seoul National University Concerto Competition. Ms. Noh has also appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras, including Rapides Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, Bucheon Philharmonic Orchestra, Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul National University Orchestra and Prime Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition, Ms. Noh has performed at the prestigious concert venues in Korea, United States, Austria, and Italy, some of which include Severance Hall, Steinway Hall, Harvard Club of New York, Kumho Art Hall, and Sejong Center for Performing Center. Recently, her Bartok Concerto No. 3 was broadcast by WCLV 104.9, and she appeared on the “First Friday Show” of WCLV 104.9. Ms. Noh is also an active chamber musician. Her chamber group, Autana Trio, received the Bronze Medal at the 2015 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and has performed throughout the United States. Ms. Noh finished her Bachelor with top honors at Seoul National University. And she moved to United States and completed her Master’s Degree and Professional Studies as the President’s Scholarship and Roy Rubinstein Award Student at Manhattan School of Music.