• Kirov International Music Festival 2020

    JUNIOR E-PIANO COMPETITION

    Semi-Final Round List


SEMI-FINALIST LIST

Junior Division & Young Artist Division


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Junior Division

AGES UP TO 13
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Ahn, Sihyeon

Sihyeon Ahn, age 13, began studying piano at age 5. She has been a student of Eunjung Shon since she got accepted to the Seoul Arts Center Music Academy at age of 9. Currently she is a 1st grade student in Yewon School. She has won numerous prizes in competitions including First Prize at Suri Music Concour, Eumaksekye Concour, Journal of Music Competition, and Second Prize at Segye Times Music Concour. She performed with Gunpo Prime Philharmonic Orchestra at Youngsan Art Hall.

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Chang, Matthew

Matthew Chang (b. 2008) is a student at the Kirov Academy’s Gifted and Talented Program. He has been studying piano with Dr. Kuei-I Wu for six years, and has received numerous accolades during his career, including winning first prizes in the Chopin Competition in Hartford, CT, the William Knabe International Piano Competition, the Great Washington Steinway Piano Competition, and the International Young Artist Piano Competition. Matthew was also a recipient of the Steinway Young Artist Grant and the Kern Foundation’s Aspiration Award in the Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition. Matthew has performed with the Washington Conservatory Orchestra and made his European debut in the Metallener Saal Muskkverein in Austria when he was seven years old. He has had six performances featured in Carnegie Hall and also performed in Poland and German Embassies in Washington D.C. as one of the winners of the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition.

Through the Kirov Academy’s Piano Legends Masterclass Series, he has attended numerous masterclasses and performed for world-renowned artists such as Gary Graffman, Jerome Lowenthal, and John Perry.

“He projected the life of each distinct phrase with a joyful and intense involvement. His rhythm was not merely solid, but also full of dance-like energy.”  - New York Concert Review -

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Giraudeau, Charlotte

12 years old, grade 7 student, Canadian International School, Singapore Born in 2008, Charlotte started piano journey at five with Mrs. Dornian in Calgary, Canada. Since 2018, she has been studying with professor Albert Tiu at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore. 

Charlotte achieved remarkable successes over the years. She was a finalist of the national Canadian Music Competition in 2016 and won a reward of the National Mary Gardiner Reward in 2017 in Canada. She was the youngest student of the Academy Program for Young Gift Artists in the Mount Royal University, Calgary in 2017. 

After moving to Singapore in 2018, She won gold in the 7th Singapore Performers Festival & Chamber Music Competition in July 2018 in Singapore. In 2019, She was rewarded the First prizes both in Singapore International Classical Piano competition, and in the International Piano Island Festival Competition Singapore. Internationally, she won the first place in Superior Category, 2019 21e Concours International de Piano Ile-de-France Maisons-Laffitte in Paris, France. ​In June 2020, Charlotte received a gold reward of Division III group in Steinway Canada, Young Artist Virtual Piano Competition. In addition to her intensive piano studies, she attends rhythmic gymnastics classes and won the third place in competition of the national level (10-year-old group Gymnastic 4B) in Singapore 2019.

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Han, Charm Hee

Cham Hee Han (13), born in Seoul, Korea, is currently in the second year of Yewon School majoring in Piano. He first started learning piano when he was 5 years old but seriously considered to be a pianist at his 11 years old. Since at a very young age Charm Hee learnt to play piano as well as violin and has earnestly learned to play and studied music. As he quickly improved his musical abilities, he was honored to receive the Education Minister's Award at the 22nd Yookyoung National Children's Music Competition in 2018. After entering Yewon School, he has developed and broaden his musical experiences through participating in concerts, competitions, and festivals. In 2019, Charm Hee won a Grand Prize at the Eum-ak Segye (Korea’s famous music publishing company) Competition and in 2020, he won the 1st place in the Eum-ak Choonchoo (Korea’s reputable music journal) Competition and 2nd place from the 5th Korea Steinway Competition and is recognized as one of the most valuable young artists in Korea. Along with these outstanding results, his endless effort has been rewarded with an outcome by earning the Excellence Award twice in a row from Yewon School, the award given to the best performer amongst all players. He has had various kinds of performance stages in Yewon and Trinity and attended the Jeju Euro Camp ended up getting new musical senses, confidence, and techniques as well. He has been studying with Jungwon Suh at Trinity School of Music, Seoul, Korea since August 2019.

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Han, Victoria

Victoria Lahee Han was born on September 28, 2010 in New York. At the age of 4, she started to learn piano through her church in Hawaii. By age 6, under the tutelage of Dr. Thomas Yee, she made her competitive debut at the 2017 Aloha International Piano Competition coming in 2nd place. She later went on to earn 1st place finishes at the 2018 Steinway Piano Competition, 2018 Aloha International Piano Competition and a gold medal at the 2019 Seattle International Piano Competition. Currently a student of Konstantyn Travinskyy, she hopes to broaden her experiences so she may continue to share her love of music. As a 5th grader in Texas she spends her spare time curled up with a good book or dancing ballet.

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Kim, Dayou

Dayou started her piano studies at the age of six. She is currently a student of the Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists, The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada. Dayou won numerous awards and scholarships including 2020 Young Ludwig Youth Music Competition in Germany, 2020 Kiwanis Music Festival and CCC Music Festival in Canada, 2019 Korea-Asia Open Piano Competition, 2018 Tool Music Piano Competition, 2017 Suri Music Competition, 2017 Eumyoun Competition, 2017 Eumakchunchu Competition etc. in South Korea, and 2018 Osaka International Music Competition in Japan. She performed with Orchestra Toronto at Meridian Arts Centre, International Musical Arts Festival 'Master Legacy Concert' at Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, Steinway Young Artist Club Concert at Steinway Piano Gallery Toronto, and Show case Concert at Mazzoleni Concert Hall in Canada. She also performed 'Lang Lang 101 Pianists' at Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul, South Korea. Dayou participated in master classes with Michel Beroff, Alexander Mulenbach, Attila Nemety, and Lang Ning Liu. Besides music, Dayou loves to read, dance, and explore the art of mathematics.

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Kim, Jungmin

Born in September 2007, Jungmin started playing the piano at the age of 5 under the guidance of Dr. Mihyang Joo while living in Fairfax, Virginia. At the age of 8, she moved to her current home in Seoul, South Korea where she studies piano with Professor Jungwon Suh. She is currently a first year student at the Yewon School in Seoul.

Jungmin is fortunate to have received many accolades in piano, to include first place prizes at the 2020 Korea Steinway Competition, 2020 Piano League Piano Star Showcase competition, 2019 Korea Chopin Competition, 2019 Korean American Music Association Competition, 2018 Edward Auer Piano Workshop Solo Competition Junior Division, 2017 Eumyoun Concours, and many other piano competitions. She also achieved success with international piano competitions throughout Asia, winning second place at the 2018 Osaka International Music Competition, and was a prize winner at the 2018 International Chopin Competition in Asia and 2018 Hanoi International Piano Competition.

At 10 years old, Jungmin made her concerto debut playing Mozart Concerto No.20 in D minor K. 466 with the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra Korea in Seoul. At 11 years old she performed her first solo concert for the Kumho Prodigy Series at Kumho Yonsei Art Hall. She delighted her audience at her other piano performances including the 2019 Euro Music Festival in Halle, Germany, 2019 J&R Music Concours Prize Winner Concert, 2019 M Winners Gala Concert, 2018 Young Musicians Festival, 2018 Haneum Concours Winner's Recital, 2018 Win Art Hall Joint Recital, 2017 Music Education News Recital, 2016 Lang Lang 101 Pianists Workshop at Lotte Concert Hall, and Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall in 2014. She has participated in masterclasses with Attila Nemethy, Yoshikazu Nagai, Edward Auer, Corey Mcvica, and Julius-Jeongwon Kim.

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Lee, Hyo

Hyo Lee was born in 2007 in Seoul. At the age of 5 he started playing the piano and violin. In 2014. Moved to Moscow and entered Moscow Central Music School first as a violinist. But his talent for the piano was noticed - He began to study the piano professionally since September 2016 in the class of Prof. Vadym Rudenko. In April 2017, despite the fact that he started playing the piano only 6 months ago, he received 3rd prize at the 4th international competition "Astana Piano Passion", in Nur-Sultan (Astana) In April 2018. won 1st prize for piano and Grand Prix for violin at the International competition "Musical Diamond" in Moscow, Russia In December 2019. received 3rd prize in piano at the 1st International competition of Russian music in Ryazan, Russia Hyo Lee performed on the stages of the Moscow International House of Music, Yamaha-Hall in Japan, in Tula Philharmonic, Ryazan Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky Museum in Klin, etc. He takes part in various master classes like Moscow Rising Star Masterclass, International Master Classes in Hamburg, in Aachen, PyoengChang Summer Academy, etc.

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Shiraishi, Momone

Momone Shiraishi is 12 years old and a freshman at Kurakuen Junior High School in Hyogo, Japan. She started learning piano with Ms. Miyo Honya when she was four, since then she received numerous awards and performance opportunities including a appearance of the TV Asahi program.She has been actively performing in public, at competitions and various concerts, such as hospitals, nursery schools, nursing homes and Hotel Lobby Concerts. Momone is currently practicing pieces of the musicians from various periods in history, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schuman, Rakhmaninov, Ravel, and so on. In the 2019 summer, she had her first opportunity to play abroad in the “Imora international competition” in Italy, where she won second place. In addition, she performed two concerts in Italy. It has been a great opportunity for her to experience the world, and to get a deeper appreciation of the wonderfulness of music without words. In the 2020 summer, Momone attended Chethamʼs International Piano Summer school, where she took master classes and private lessons with Prof.Noriko Ogawa, Prof.Pascal Nemirovski, Prof.Murray McLachlan. Drawing an illustration and watching youtube are her favorite pastimes.

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Yoo, Eunseo

Born on 4 Jan. 2008 in Seoul, South Korea, Eunseo Yoo began her piano studies at the age six and gave her debut when she was nine years old in the Win Arthall in Seoul. She had passed Kumho Prodigy audition, representative music prodigy stage in Korea, as the youngest at nine and had successful recital in Oct, 2018. She won 1st prizes in the several piano competitions such as Korea Liszt competition, Teenager piano completion, Kookmin Newspaper ∙ Hansei University Music Competition. She also won 3rd Prize at Astana Piano Passion in Kazakhstan, in 2019. She is studying in the Seoul Taerang Elementary school 6th Grade. Piano is like a friend who gives special strength in her life. She loves music and has a passion for piano. She enjoys reading books especially for history and various field, also likes draw a picture and swimming for hobby. She currently has the honor of studying piano with Seoul National University emeritus Professor SooJung Shin and pianist Hyosun Lim gives great influence to her as a mentor to grow a good pianist. She loves playing piano and it becomes part of her life although she is young. Stage is like a rest and travel space to her. She wants be a pianist to deliver inspiring impression and communicate with people through music.

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Yoo, Seoyeong

1st place at the J&R National Music Competition the 36th Young People's Music Festival(Korea) 2nd place at the 2018 Music Chunchu Competition Korean List Concours Winner and Winner's Concert 2nd place at the Ewha Kyunghyang Music Competition 1st place in Beyond Classic Music Competition 1st place of the Sungjeong National Music Competition Korea Chopin Competition 2nd place Yewon Music Competition Silver Prize Samik–Zaylor Piano Competition Winner and Winner Concert Korea German Brahms Association National Competition Winner Gold Medal of the Sungjeong National Music Competition Vienna Youth Music Competition Student Award and National Final Vienna Grand Prize

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Zhou, Yaoyao

“We thought we were listening to Steinway Spiro piano playing records of old masters, then we saw this little girl at the piano. She had phenomenal facility and taste.” --- Gary Graffman “She is already an important player and people will soon discover that.” ---Menahem Pressler “She has beautiful ears and soul. Her timing and color is superb for her age. She is an absolutely amazing child.” --- Sergei Babayan “A musical talent rarely encountered. Yaoyao’s potential is unlimited.” —-Haochen Zhang Yaoyao is from Zhejiang Province, China. She is a scholarship student at Juilliard Pre-College and lives in New York City. Yaoyao’s music journey is truly a journey of love and curiosity for music. Born and raised in a farming family, Yaoyao started learning music on an electric keyboard. It was her impressive progress and determination that left her mother with no choice but to take her to study music intensely at Shanghai Conservatory and Juilliard’s Pre-College. Since her arrival to New York more than a year ago, she has won Juilliard audition, New York City top competitions, and had performed alongside Juilliard and Curtis piano faculties at Carnegie Hall. All, with her newly generated repertoire of several recital programs. She was also the youngest participant at Oxford Piano Festival and was the youngest participant and alternate winner at Juilliard’s Prokofiev 3rd Piano Concerto Competition. After being discovered by and earning high praises from the esteemed pianist and pedagogue Gary Graffman at a reception at Steinway Hall in New York City early 2019, Yaoyao is very fortunate to have gained the support and guidance from another legendary pianist and pedagogue Menahem Pressler, with whom she was invited to study with last summer. Equally important is that she now has Sergei Babayan’s invitation, the world’s most sought after pianist and teacher, to observe his studio lessons. One can only imagine what remarkable influences these masters must leave on Yaoyao. Due to Coronavirus, Yaoyao’s New York debut recital at Rockefeller University, radio interview with Robert Sherman at WQXR and numerous recitals in the tri-state area, have been postponed to a later date. Besides expanding her repertoire, Yaoyao is a top student at her school and enjoys improvisation, composition, writing and basketball. She also hopes to play rock music again soon with her drums.

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Young Artist

BETWEEN AGES 14 -17
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Dwyer, Madelyn

Madelyn Dwyer (17) is a rising senior in Glenelg High School in Maryland, USA. A piano student of Dr. Bok Hwa Kim since the age of six, she has been a repeat winner of the 2014, 2016 and 2018 Brown Concerto Competitions. Madelyn has also won first-prizes in the Gottlieb Competition (2017, 2019) and the MSMTA High School Performance Award, Howard County (Junior Division, 2019), to name a few, and has recently been chosen to perform in a master class with the renowned pianist Gary Graffman. Aside from the piano, Madelyn is currently a member of the first violin section of the Howard County G.T. Orchestra and will also participate as a first violin in the Maryland All State Senior Orchestra.

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Jung, Yeji

Yeji Jeong was born in May 2004 in Pyeongtaek. She is 16 years old and is majoring in piano under Professor Kim Na-jung. Jeong Ye-ji is a freshman at Sunhwa Arts High School and graduated from Sunhwa Arts Middle School. Yeji Jeong started playing the piano when she was 7 years old and she continued to play the piano because she liked it, and she entered Sunhwa Arts Middle School. When she was an elementary student, she worked as an orchestra member, a piano, a violin, and a flute member, and she played a lot as an orchestra member, so she developed a lot of musicality. And she had a talent show at 2019 Sunhwa Arts Middle School. Yeji Jeong won first place in the practical examination for the first semester of 2020. And she has played various piano concerts in Korea. Yeji Jung has a great passion for piano. She tries to spread her imagination and play the piano.

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Kaeng, Michael A.

Michae Abimanyu Kaeng was born in Jakarta on 19th May 2004. He started learning piano at the age of five under the guidance of Mr. Oerip Santoso. Michael has played in the concerts or piano competitions in several countries, such as Indonesia, Singapore, Hongkong, Japan, Netherlands, Czech Republic and Germany. He has won more than 25 prizes in piano competitions and attended masterclasses with Pascal Roge, Diego Caetano, Jean Louis Haguenauer, Ananda Sukarlan, Nicollo Ronchi, Jairo Geronymo, Debora Martin, Jana & Debashish Chaudhauri, etc. In 2018 he won La Pianista piano competition in Singapore and got the scholarship to attend some master classes in Europe. Recently named the prize winners of both Avila International Music Festival and WPTA Finland, Michael was also the top 6 at Napolinova World Piano Competition Italy.

 

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Kim, Jiwoo

Jiwoo Kim was born in Seoul in January 2004. She is 16 years old and currently studies piano under Professor Jungwon Suh in first grade at Seoul Arts High School after graduated from Yewon School. Jiwoo started playing the piano at the age of five. She has won the top prize in numerous piano competitions in Korea and performed winner concerts. In 2017, she also had a concert with the Seoul National Symphony Orchestra at New Year's concert. With her passion for music, she also participated in the Summer Academy at the Mozarteum in Austria, Summer Workshop at Indiana University of Music in the USA, and the Euro Music Festival in Germany. Through these opportunities, she participated in masterclasses and concerts by Daejin Kim, Edward Auer, and professors to receive diplomas annually. Jiwoo has been participating in several chamber music concerts through a selection process while attending Yewon School and she is constantly learning and working hard to grow into a performer. Her goal and dream are to become an appealing performer who can share the emotions that she received through music with the audience.

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Lee, Seongyeong

Seongyeong Lee (15) born in March 2005 and is studying piano under professors Park Hoon-ju and Lee Seung-hye. Seongyeong won first prize at various art high school music competitions in Korea. She will also take part in the Mozart International Competition in Germany by winning the first prize at the Mozart Korea Competition. She has also won numerous piano competition and international competitions. And she played at Youngsan Art Hall, Scc Hall and collaborated with Lux Philharmonic Orchestra. She has a passion for music and her goal is to be a great performer.

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Moon, Heesun

Heesun Moon is a student at Sunwha Arts High School in Seoul, Korea. Currently, Moon has been studying piano with Prof. Dajung Cho since 2015. Heesun began playing the piano at the age of four. Born in Daejeon, a quite suburban city in South Korea, Heesun always seeked for better educational opportunity. Heesun participated in several programs, such as Daejeon Arts Center Academy in 2018-2019, and XV Festival Y Academia de Musica in Tenerife, Spain. She also has attended masterclasses by Aurélien Pontier and Jeongwon-Kim. Heesun's outstanding passion towards music earned her the top prizes in numerous piano competitions, including Shinye Music Competition and DMAK (Daejeon Music Association of Korea) Music Competition, and opportunity for following winner concerts. In 2018 and 2019, she performed the piano in Daejeon Arts Hall. In 2020, she was admitted to Sunwha Arts High School with the highest honors.

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Park, Jinyoung

Born in South Korea in 2003. He first started playing the piano at the age of seven. In 2016 he entered one of South Korea's finest art schools; Sunhwa Arts Middle School. In 2019 he entered the prestigious Korea National Institute for the Gifted in Arts where he continues his studies in piano. Jinyoung participated in the 2017 Korea Young Artist Music Festival in Gukje Hall in Seoul. Since 2019 he has focused solely on piano whilst homeschooling. This year he has had great success in many Korean piano competitions. As a recipient of the Yongin City Gifted Artist Scholarship. He had a solo recital at SCC Hall in Seoul, South Korea. He won the Minister of Culture and Sports Tourism Award in 2020. He won the grand prize at the 2020 Overseas Dispatch Competition in Korea among all musical instruments. He won The 39th Korea Music Association Competition 1st Prize Winner & placed first overall- The Youngest Winner in history. So the live performance is on MEZZO TV. He has been studying with Professor Hunjae Kim since 2018.

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Shin, Yunsun

Yunsun Shin (14) is attending her third year of YEWON School, majoring in Piano. She has been studying with Jungwon Suh at the Trinity School of Music since February 2015. Always passionate and hardworking, Yunsun has won numerous awards and competitions that proves her excellence. She won the grand prize at the 2020 Korean Steinway Competition and won the International Chopin Piano Competition that was held in Yokohama Japan. Yunsun has also had opportunities to perform and participate in numerous recitals, such as the Euro Music Festival Opening, and the On Dream Ensemble Concert. The fact that the music scene is playing attention to Yunsun is shown as she has been selected for the Kumho Prodigy Support program, renowned for producing world-class musicians. She has had various musical opportunities to perform, and recently, she has been selected for the Chung Mong-Koo scholarship program funded by Hundai Motor Company for her musical talents, and will receive full support for her musical education and experiences for three years. While participating in concerts and competitions, Yunsun has also put in great time participating in Master classes with musicians such as Steven Osborne, Fabio Bidni, and Soojung Shin to improve her musical capabilities.

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Wang, Shiqin

My name is Wang Shiqin. I am a sixteen year-old student at Tianjin Conservatory of Music Middle School. I have been studying music, in particular piano since I was four. I’ve learnt many composers’ piano works in every period, such as Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn to Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt and Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, especially for baroque, classical and 20th century music works, which all are my favorite. In November 2019, my piano recital performed in Tianjin Conservatory of Music Middle School; In May 2019, participated in the Sino-Russia Tchaikovsky Piano Invitation Competition and won the 1st Prize for Professional Category Group C in Tianjin; In April 2018, participated in the Qualification Trials of Tianjin Division of The 63rd International Grotrian Piano Competition and won the 2nd Prize for Group M2 in Tianjin; In November 2017, participated in the Qualification Trials of Tianjin Division of Hong Kong International Piano Invitation Competition and won the 1st Prize for Professional Category Junior Group in Tianjin; In August 2015, participated in the American International Open Tournament China Region Qualification Trials and won the 1st Prize for Junior Group and 1st Prize for Bach Group in Beijing. Additional, I Participated in public welfare activities, In October 2015, I was invited to perform on stage on behalf of the rare disease patients to thank those institutions, companies and individuals that donated generously to rare disease patients in Rare Disease Public Welfare Activity Appreciation Banquet. In May 2015, I donated the whole copyright payment of 20,000 RMB given by People’s Publishing House to the Tianjin Visual Impairment school. In August 2012, I was awarded the Top Ten Self-improvement Teenager by Tianjin City Government and won a scholarship, which I donated to students in Jizhou mountains areas in Tianjin city of China. Music gives me the motivation in life and I am prepared to devote the rest of my life to it. I want to be a professional pianist, composer, and cantor in the future, I wish to be a prominent music educator like Leon Fleisher, Boris Berman, Robert McDonald, a shocking composer as Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, etc as well as an outstanding cantor as Karajan and Furtwangler. I know the way ahead will be steeper. But nothing could stop my pace of progress, which will become more and more steadfast.

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Yang, Olivia

Olivia Yang, age 16, began her musical journey at an early age. Originally from Charlotte, North Carolina, Olivia has continued on to win several national and international awards. Recently, she received Grand Prix in the 2020 Sempre Musick Piano Competition and Future Stars International Piano Competition. She also received second prize in the Lyra Competition based in New York and Artistic Director’s Award in the Chopin International Piano Competition based in Hartford. She made her orchestral debut with the Charlotte Symphony as the winner of the Young Artist Symphony Guild Concerto Competition at age 12. Olivia was awarded first prize in the 2018 International Muse Competition as well as first place and Judge’s Distinction Award at the American Protege International Concerto Competition. She is the first prize winner in multiple Piano Solo State NCFMC Scholarship Competitions. She has played in venues such as Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and Sanatorium Marconi in Poland, and attended the Philadelphia Young Pianist’s Academy and Lato Chopin Festival in summer of 2019. Olivia currently studies with Mila Filatova, and attends school at Phillips Academy Andover.

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Zhang, Edward

Edward Zhang, 17, began studying piano at the age of five and is a student of Dr. Duane Hulbert in Tacoma, WA. He has previously studied with James Chen, Peter Mack, and Sasha Starcevich. Edward has been recognized in a number of competitions, including winning the silver medal in the 8th Bösendorfer and Yamaha International Piano Competition and the Grand Prize in 98.1 KING FM’s Young Artist Awards. He was a semi-finalist in the 2017 Minnesota International E-Piano Junior Competition and competed in the 2020 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. He has also won gold medals in the 2016 Seattle Young Artists Music Festival, the 2011 Seattle International Piano Competition, and a gold medal each year since 2012 in the Chopin Festival of the Northwest. Edward also won first prize in the 2014 Outstanding Artist Competition in Washington State and the 2015 Russian Chamber Music Festival of Seattle. He has performed in Benaroya’s Nordstrom Recital Hall, Katzin Concert Hall in Arizona and on Classical King FM. Edward made his orchestra debut at the age of 11 with Philharmonia Northwest Orchestra as one of the 2014 SYAMFA concerto winners. First prizes in the concerto division in the 2016 and 2018 Chopin Festivals of the Northwest gave Edward the opportunity to perform the Chopin e-minor Concerto with Orchestra Seattle. Recently, Edward performed Chopin’s e- minor piano concerto with the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra. Edward is a senior at Redmond High School in Redmond, WA. He also loves math, programming, and performing music for senior residencies. He has attended the John Perry Academy Summer Festival and the Aspen Music Festival, where he studied with Hung-Kuan Chen and Julian Martin. Edward has had masterclasses with Fabio Bidini, Ilana Vered, Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, John Perry, Daejin Kim, and Yong-Hi Moon.

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Zhang, Elizabeth

Elizabeth Zhang is a junior at Phillips Academy Andover. Born in Toronto, Canada, and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, Elizabeth started learning piano at age six and currently studies with Alexander Korsantia and Natalia Harlap. After winning first prize in both the MTNA Utah State and Southwest Regional competitions, Elizabeth performed as a finalist in the MTNA National Competition. Over the past year, she was awarded Grand Prix at the Padewerski International Competition, first prize and the Margaret C. Bachelder Romantic Music Award in the New England Piano Teachers’ Association (NEPTA) Competition, and was the winner of the Seven Hills Symphony Concerto Competition. Elizabeth has participated in festivals such as the Cincinnati Art of the Piano Festival and the Gina Bachauer Piano Festival and performed with the American Fork and American West symphonies. Aside from music, Elizabeth is part of her school’s cross-country, track, and tennis teams and enjoys hiking and skiing with her sister.

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