The Charles Wadsworth Piano Competition exists to provide unparalleled opportunity to tomorrow’s top artists.

The second biennial Charles Wadsworth Piano Competition will be held at the Wadsworth Auditorium in partnership with the University of West Georgia from March 18-22, 2020.

 A common deterrent for young musicians in pursuing competitions is all too often the practical, financial element. Our competitors will be treated as professional artists, and as such, no one will leave the competition without compensation for their time and hard work. All competitors invited to the live semi-final round will be granted a $1,000 award and will have their travel expenses covered. A total of $34,500 in prizes will be granted to the eight competitors in the live competition. Additionally, the application fee is a minimal $30.

We at the Wadsworth Competition are interested in promoting a diverse skill set in the upcoming generation of young pianists. The first live round of the competition will consist of two recitals, one of which will be made up of repertoire entirely of the competitor’s choosing. The competitors will be judged not only on the execution of the program, but also on the concept behind their programming. The second of these concerts will include a duo sonata, to be performed alongside a member of the Aeolus Quartet. The final three competitors will also be performing a piano quintet with the Aeolus Quartet. The sonata and quintet performances will give the jury an opportunity to assess competitors’ chamber music skills, which will likely be central to many of their professional performance careers.

Applications can be submitted at https://app.getacceptd.com/charleswadsworth.

contact

info@wadsworthpianocompetition.org

Location

Charles Wadsworth Auditorium
and
The University of West Georgia

Newnan, GA

dates

Application Deadline:
Dec 1, 2019

Competition:
March 24-27, 2022

APPLY

https://app.getacceptd.com/charleswadsworth

Travel and Lodging

Semi-final and final round competitors will each be reimbursed for one round-trip economy class plane ticket to Atlanta, GA from a city of their choice in the continental US. Competitors should plan to arrive on March 23 and depart on March 28, 2022. Special arrival/departure dates may be accommodated. Competitors will each be provided with a single occupancy hotel room in Newnan, GA, for the nights of March 23 - March 27, 2022.

Jury

Competition Jury

Gloria Chien terrence Wilson Stephen wogaman Susan Wadsworth

Preliminary Jury

henry kramer Navah Perlman Susan wadsworth

Pianist Gloria Chien has been picked by the Boston Globe as one of the Superior Pianists of the year, “… who appears to excel in everything.” Richard Dyer praises her for “a wondrously rich palette of colors, which she mixes with dashing bravado and with an uncanny precision of calibration…Chien’s performance had it all, and it was fabulous.”

Gloria made her orchestral debut at the age of 16 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has appeared as a soloist under the batons of Sergiu Comissiona, Keith Lockhart, Thomas Dausgaard, Irwin Hoffman, Benjamin Zander, and Robert Bernhardt. She is a prize winner of the World Piano Competition, Harvard Musical Association Award, as well as the San Antonio International Piano Competition, where she also received the prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work. Gloria has presented solo recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Harvard Musical Association, Sanibel Musical Festival, Caramoor Musical Festival, Salle Cortot in Paris, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan.

An avid chamber musician, Gloria has been the resident pianist with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston since 2000, a group known for its versatility and commitment to new music. Boston Herald praises her for “ [playing] phenomenally.” She recently recorded with clarinetist, Anthony McGill. Her CD with violinist, Joanna Kurkowicz, featuring music of Grazyna Bacewicz was released on Chandos Records. The International Record Review writes, “[the violinist] could ask for no more sensitive or supportive a pianist than Gloria Chien.” Harmonie Magazine writes, “…but it would be unfair not to mention the pianist, who is accompanying the soloist in an absolutely responsive, impressive and confident way. She is more than an accompanist — rather, she is an equivalent partner to the soloist.” The Strad praises her for “super performances…accompanied with great character.” She also received fantastic reviews in Gramophone, American Record Guide, and Muzyka 21. Gloria has participated in such festivals as Chamber Music Northwest, Music Academy of the West, Verbier Music Festival, and Music@Menlo, where she was appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute in 2010 by Artistic Directors, David Finckel and Wu Han.

Her recent performances include collaborations with the St. Lawrence, Miró, Borromeo, Daedalus and Jupiter String Quartets, David Shifrin, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Joseph Silverstein, Jaime Laredo, Cho-Liang Lin, Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Wu Han, Rob Kapilow, Paul Neubauer, Roberto Diaz, Andres Diaz, Sharon Robinson, James Ehnes, Nai-Yuan Hu, Bion Tsang, Soovin Kim, Carolin Widmann, Edward Arron and Anthony McGill.
In fall of 2009, Gloria launched String Theory, a chamber music series at the Hunter Museum of American Art in downtown Chattanooga, as its founder and artistic director.
Gloria began playing the piano at the age of five in her native Taiwan. She has a doctor of musical arts, a master’s and an undergraduate degree from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Her teachers have included Russell Sherman and Wha-Kyung Byun. Gloria is an Associate Professor at Lee University in Cleveland, TN, and is a member of the prestigious Chamber Music Society Two of Lincoln Center. Gloria is a Steinway Artist.

Acclaimed by the Baltimore Sun as “one of the biggest pianistic talents to have emerged in this country in the last 25 years” pianist Terrence Wilson has appeared as soloist with the symphony orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Washington, DC (National Symphony), San Francisco, St. Louis, and with the orchestras of Cleveland, Minnesota, and Philadelphia and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Conductors with whom he has worked include Christoph Eschenbach, Alan Gilbert, Neeme Järvi, Jesús López-Cobos, Lawrence Renes, Robert Spano, Yuri Temirkanov, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Gunther Herbig and Michael Morgan.

Abroad, Terrence Wilson has played concerti with such ensembles as the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra in Switzerland, the Malaysian Philharmonic, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Orquestra Sinfonica do Estado de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He has toured with orchestras in the US and abroad, including a tour of the US with the Sofia Festival Orchestra (Bulgaria) and in Europe with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yuri Temirkanov.

An active recitalist, Terrence Wilson made his New York City recital debut at the 92nd Street Y, and his Washington, DC recital debut at the Kennedy Center. In Europe he has given recitals at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Lourvre in Paris, and countless other major venues. In the US he has given recitals at Lincoln Center in New York City (both Alice Tully Hall and Avery Fisher Hall), the Ravinia Festival in Chicago, the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, NY, San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre, and for the La Jolla Chamber Music Society. An avid chamber musician, he performs regularly with the Ritz Chamber Players. Festival appearances include the Blossom Festival, Tanglewood, Wolf Trap, with the San Francisco Symphony at Stern Grove Park, and an appearance with the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra on July 4, 2015 before an audience of over fifteen thousand.

In the 2019-2020 season, Wilson made his Boston (MA) recital debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to critical acclaim. In March, 2020, Wilson substituted for Andre Watts on short notice, performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Detroit Symphony. 

During the 2020-2021 season, Terrence Wilson appeared as a guest soloist with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in a video produced by the NJSO, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 467. He also appeared virtually on numerous online platforms due to Covic-19 pandemic restrictions. His first post-pandemic live performance was with the Brevard Symphony Orchestra (Melbourne, FL). Wilson was also a guest of the St. Augustine Music Festival where he played Beethoven's "Ghost" Trio with members of the St. Augustine Music Festival during an afternoon concert, followed by a performance of Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto later that evening at the St. Augustine Amphitheater. He also adjudicated in the World Bach Competition and the Music International Grand Prix and served on the faculty of the Brevard Music Center's Virtual Piano Institute in July. Also in July, he conducted a virtual masterclass for students of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute (BUTI) and in January, 2022, he will serve on the jury of the Heida Hermanns Piano Competition.

The 2021-2022 season will bring Wilson back as soloist with the Alabama and Nashville Symphony Orchestras. He will also make his debuts with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Boulder Philharmonic, and the Roanoke Symphony. In the fall, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit will present Wilson with the Escher Quartet performing Brahms' Piano Quintet in F minor. He also appears at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in April 2022 performing music by Julius Eastman and Clarence Barlow. In the spring of 2021, he was appointed to the piano faculty at Bard College Conservatory of Music in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

Terrence Wilson has received numerous awards and prizes, including the SONY ES Award for Musical Excellence, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the Juilliard Petschek Award. He has also been featured on several radio and television broadcasts, including NPR’s “Performance Today,” WQXR radio in New York, and programs on the BRAVO Network, the Arts & Entertainment Network, public television, and as a guest on late night network television. In 2011, Wilson was nominated for a Grammy in the category of “Best Instrumental Soloist With an Orchestra” for his (world premiere) recording with the Nashville Symphony conducted by Giancarlo Guerrero of Michael Daugherty’s Deus ex Machina for piano and orchestra - written for Wilson in 2007.

Terrence Wilson is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky. He has also enjoyed the invaluable mentorship of the Romanian pianist and teacher Zitta Zohar. A native of the Bronx, he resides in Montclair, New Jersey.

Stephen Wogaman, pianist, has performed as a recitalist, chamber musician and teaching artist since the early 1980’s. He was the founding pianist of the Whitney Trio, which made its debut in a critically acclaimed live radio broadcast concert in 1989 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Other performances include the Phillips Collection in Washington, the Weis Center for the Arts at Bucknell University, the Vassar College Chamber Music Series, and residencies in Costa Rica and Spain. Chamber colleagues have included members of the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Dallas Symphony, and the Orquestra Sinfonica de Gallicia. He was trained at the Eastman School of Music and the Indiana University School of Music, where he completed a Doctor of Music degree under the legendary chamber pianist, Menahem Pressler.

In May 2011 Stephen Wogaman became the fourth president of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. For seven years before that he served for seven years as the chief executive of two orchestras, establishing new chamber music series in both. He was Executive Director of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra, Allentown, Pennsylvania and its historic Symphony Hall. More recently, he was president and CEO of the Canton Symphony Orchestra in Canton, Ohio. In the 1990’s, Steve and his wife, Michele, developed New Performing Arts, a non-profit music outreach organization that has reached an audience of nearly two million Kentucky children with live performing arts programs in their schools. He also developed programmatic partnerships with the nation’s classical music training institutions, including the Eastman School of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, Indiana University Opera Theater, the New World Symphony and others.

Susan Wadsworth founded Young Concert Artists, Inc. in 1961, a unique non‑profit organization which has discovered and launched the careers of many of today’s most illustrious musicians including pianists Murray Perahia, Emanuel Ax, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and Jeremy Denk, violinists Pinchas Zukerman and Anne Akiko Meyers, soprano Julia Bullock, and composers Kevin Puts, Andrew Norman, and Mason Bates, to name a few. 

In 1993, at the request of Isaac Stern, Young Concert Artists presented a performance by YCA artists at the White House for President and Mrs. Clinton, in an evening honoring the recipients of the National Medal of Arts.  In 2005, Mrs. Wadsworth accepted the Angel Award presented to Young Concert Artists by the International Society of Performing Arts Administrators.  Mrs. Wadsworth has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Mannes College, the Manhattan School of Music, and the New England Conservatory; and honored with the Frances Riker Davis Alumnae Award of the Brearley School, and as a Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France. She enjoys serving on competition Juries, including concerto competitions at the Peabody Conservatory, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Yale School of Music.

Susan Wadsworth was born in New York City and studied piano and violin from an early age.  She earned a BA in English from Vassar College, continuing piano and violin studies.  Mrs. Wadsworth is married to the pianist and Artistic Director Charles Wadsworth.

Preliminary Jury

Praised by The Cleveland Classical Review for his “astonishingly confident technique” and The New York Times for “thrilling [and] triumphant” performances, pianist Henry Kramer is developing a reputation as a musician of rare sensitivity who combines stylish programming with insightful and exuberant interpretations.  In 2016, he garnered international recognition with a Second Prize win in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Most recently, he was awarded a 2019 Avery Fisher Career Grant by Lincoln Center – one of the most coveted honors bestowed on young American soloists.

Kramer began playing piano at the relatively late age of 11 in his hometown of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. One day, he found himself entranced by the sound of film melodies as a friend played them on the piano, inspiring him to teach himself on his family’s old upright. His parents enrolled him in lessons shortly thereafter, and within weeks, he was playing Chopin and Mozart.

Henry emerged as a winner in the National Chopin Competition in 2010, the Montreal International Competition in 2011 and the China Shanghai International Piano Competition in 2012.  In 2014 he was added to the roster of Astral Artists, an organization that annually selects a handful of rising stars among strings, piano, woodwinds and voice candidates. The following year, he earned a top prize in the Honens International Piano Competition.  

Kramer has performed “stunning” solo recital debuts, most notably at Alice Tully Hall as the recipient of the Juilliard School’s William Petschek Award, as well as at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw.  At his Philadelphia debut, Peter Dobrin of The Philadelphia Inquirer remarked, “the 31-year-old pianist personalized interpretations to such a degree that works emerged anew. He is a big personality.”  

A versatile performer, Kramer has soloed in concertos with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, among many others, collaborating with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Gerard Schwarz, Stéphane Denève, Jan Pascal Tortelier and Hans Graf. Upcoming performances in the 2019-20 season include a return engagement with the National Orchestra of Belgium performing Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4, as well as debuts with the Columbus and Hartford Symphony Orchestras playing Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3.

His love for the chamber music repertoire began early in his studies while a young teenager.  A sought-after collaborator, he has appeared in recitals at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Mainly Mozart Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest.  His recording with violinist Jiyoon Lee on the Champs Hill label received four stars from BBC Music Magazine. This year, Gramophone UK praised Kramer’s performance on a recording collaboration (Cedille Records) with violist Matthew Lipman for “exemplary flexible partnership.”  Henry has also performed alongside Emmanuel Pahud, the Calidore and Pacifica Quartets, Miriam Fried, as well as members of the Berlin Philharmonic and Orchestra of St. Luke’s.  

Teaching ranks among his greatest joys.  Since 2018, Kramer has held the L. Rexford Distinguished Chair in Piano at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia.  Throughout his multifaceted career, he has also had positions at Smith College and the University of Missouri Kansas City Conservatory of Dance and Music.

Kramer graduated from the Juilliard School, where he worked with Julian Martin and Robert McDonald. He received his Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Yale School of Music under the guidance of Boris Berman.  His teachers trace a pedagogical lineage extending back to Beethoven, Chopin and Busoni. Kramer is a Steinway Artist.

Navah Perlman is building an important career as a solo pianist and chamber player. Like her father, the illustrious violinist Itzhak Perlman, she has had to surmount a physical disability to do so. With violinists Toby and Itzhak Perlman as parents, it was natural that Navah was drawn to music and performing. She began asking for piano lessons at the age of five, but they waited a year for her hands to grow before granting that wish.

From the age of 11, Navah began playing in public. By the time she was ready to begin college, she had already been signed by her father's management agency. She recognizes that being her father's daughter opened the door for her but, as she told Providence, RI, Journal Bulletin reporter Channing Gray in 1997, her mother warned her that people would do her a favor once, but thereafter she would have to earn her own way. "That was something I had to make peace with when I was about 14, otherwise I would have tortured myself."

Navah's bookings were usually in smaller towns, but they were consistent. By the time she enrolled in Brown University, as a freshman at the age of 18, she was gone about every two weeks to play a concert or recital.

She had elected to go to Brown rather than Juilliard because music had been at the center of her studies all her life, and this was, she realized, her last opportunity to get a liberal arts education. But then, she started having trouble moving her shoulders outward to reach notes at either end of the keyboard. At first, she thought this problem was minor and cancelled her next performance. But by the time summer came around and she was playing at Aspen, the pain and swelling in her joints had affected her knees, neck and, most worrisomely, her wrist, which affected her playing. The family suspected Lyme disease, but Itzhak's friend Dr. Allen Steere (one of the discoverers of the cause of the disease) ruled that out. Instead, the culprit was a rare form of rheumatoid arthritis. She was given a regimen of drugs to control it and told to keep away from the piano. Now her choice of a liberal arts college became a lifeline. She threw herself into her arts history curriculum. By the time she had graduated, she had recovered enough to begin cautiously practicing, ten minutes a day to start. Ultimately, she regained her technique. Fortunately, the disease had not reached her fingers. Although she had avoided performing with her famous father before, now, she worked back into concert life with his help. Being scheduled to perform with Itzhak Perlman overcame a confidence problem: She was worried that, performing on her own, she might cause disappointment if she had to cancel. But, sharing the billing with her father meant that if she did cancel, all that would happen would be that the audience would have a longer Itzhak Perlman concert to enjoy. After two years, she realized that her health was reliable enough that she could perform on her own, and the two Perlmans have mainly dropped their double appearances, though they do appear together for benefit concerts. Navah has co-founded a piano trio with violinist Kurt Nikkanen and cellist Zuill Bailey, and they play chamber concerts regularly, frequently performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto with orchestra. She lives in New York with her husband, Robert Frost.

Past Winners

Aristo sham

First Prize
Wadsworth Prize
Chamber Music Prize

Aristo Sham has already dazzled audiences on five continents, in countries ranging from Singapore and Argentina, to Slovenia and Morocco, to China and Iceland. Mr. Sham’s upcoming appearances include the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3 with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in Hong Kong and the Mozart Concerto No. 23 with the Utah Symphony. He has previously performed as soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edo de Waart, English Chamber Orchestra under Raymond Leppard, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, and the Minnesota Orchestra. In addition, he has given recitals for the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago and the Salle Cortot in Paris, and performed for royalty and dignitaries such as Prince Charles, the Queen of Belgium, and ex-President Hu of China.

Mr. Sham won First Prize at the 2018 Young Concert Artists International Auditions at the age of twenty-two, and numerous special prizes: the Hayden’s Ferry Chamber Music Prize, Vancouver Recital Society Prize, John Browning Memorial Prize, Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize, the Rhoda Walker Teagle New York Debut Prize, and Korean Concert Society Kennedy Center Debut Prize. The Young Concert Artists Series will present his debut recitals in New York at Merkin Concert Hall and in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center Theater in April 2020.

He also won First Prize at the 2019 Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition in Italy, the Silver Medal at the 2018 Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition, First Prize at the 2018 Charles Wadsworth International Piano Competition, First Prize and the Barenreiter Urtext Special Prize at Germany’s Ettlingen International Piano Competition, First Prize at the New York International Piano Competition, and top prizes at the Viseu (Portugal), Wideman, PianoArts, Clara Haskil, Saint-Priest and Viotti Piano Competitions as well as the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.

A native of Hong Kong, Mr. Sham began playing the piano at three, and entered the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts at six. He attended the Harrow School in London, and at the age of twelve was featured in the documentary “The World’s Greatest Musical Prodigies,” broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK.

Aristo Sham is currently completing a joint program of Harvard University and the New England Conservatory. Harvard granted him a B.A. in Economics with a minor in French in 2019, and he will earn an M.Mus. in Piano Performance from the New England Conservatory in 2020. He also travels to Sweden for independent studies at the Ingesund School of Music, and has attended the Harrow School in the United Kingdom and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. In his free time, Mr. Sham enjoys travelling, languages, gastronomy and oenology.

Domenic Cheli

Second Prize (shared)

Dominic Cheli’s playing has been described as “spontaneous yet perfect, the best of how a young person can play.” (Symphony Magazine). He enjoys a rapidly advancing career, including his Walt Disney Concert Hall Debut with legendary conductor Valery Gergiev, his Carnegie Hall Recital Debut, as well as upcoming CDs on the Naxos label. In July 2017, Cheli’s first CD, featuring the music of Muzio Clementi and released by Naxos, was hailed as “definitive performances, that match splendid playing with an appreciation of Clementi’s diverse, classically based style.” Also in 2017, Dominic was named 1st prize winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition in New York City.

Winner of the 2017 Music Academy of the West Concerto Competition, Dominic performed Prokofiev’s 2nd Piano concerto with conductor, composer and MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, Matthew Aucoin. Described as a “barnstorming Goliath” Mr. Cheli’s performance of Prokofiev’s 2nd concerto “roared like a locomotive, shot firebrands of energy this way and that, while the piano strained to keep in one piece under the thrall of Cheli’s glorious technique.” (Santa Barbara Voice Magazine).

A native of St. Louis, Dominic has performed with the Metropolitan Orchestra of St. Louis, as well as orchestras all across the country and abroad including the DuPage Symphony, Columbus Symphony, Princeton Symphony, Colburn Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Germany), and the Great Falls Symphony. He has worked with conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Markus Huber, Rossen Milanov, Arthur Fagen, Matthew Aucoin, and many others. Dominic recently debuted at several major festivals across the United States including the Ravinia Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival, and the Virginia Arts Festival. Upcoming engagements included appearances at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, performances with the San Diego Symphony, and recitals at the Samos Artists Festival in Greece.

Committed to engaging with his surrounding community, Dominic regularly performs at high schools, retirement homes, and gives both masterclasses and lectures for his younger audiences. Upon invitation, he has performed with Paul Coletti at ViolaFest in Los Angeles for younger students, and “Baby Got Bach” with Pianist Orli Shaham at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC. Dominic has also performed as an artist for Project: Music Heals Us, a non-profit organization that presents interactive classical music performances to diverse audiences in order to provide encouragement, education, and healing with a focus on elderly, disabled, rehabilitating, incarcerated, and homeless populations.

In 2018, Dominic was invited by his mentor, Andre-Michel Schub to perform at the Virginia Arts Festival, both as a soloist and collaborator, in concerts centered around the music of Mozart. They collaborated in Mozart’s Double and Triple Piano Concertos with the Virginia Symphony, as well as in recital where “Cheli delivered one brilliant performance…it was a dazzling moment by a pianist whose name is destined for Schub-ian heights.” (Virginia Gazette) Mr. Cheli received his Bachelor’s Degree from the Manhattan School of Music, Master’s Degree from Yale University and most recently, an Artist Diploma from the Colburn School. Andre-Michel Schub, Peter Frankl, Fabio Bidini, Zena Ilyashov, and Sylvia Rosenberg are individuals who have been especially influential on his development as an artist.

Angela zhang

Second prize (shared)

Described as a “valuable advocate for classical music from her generation” by NY Concert Review, pianist Angie Zhang, 20, is a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship at Juilliard and a senior studying with Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky. An active member of her school community, she has been Chair of Juilliard Student Council, a writer and photographer for the Juilliard Journal, a Student Ambassador, Admissions Tour Guide and Panelist, and a student in the Barnard-Columbia-Juilliard Exchange Program.  Angie was also chosen to be Murray Perahia’s Commencement Escort in 2015.

Charming audiences with her sensitive and thoughtful playing, she has performed extensively as a soloist with orchestras since she made her debut playing under Grammy-nominated conductor Niel DePonte at the age of ten. Angie recently made her debut with the Juilliard Orchestra under Maestro Fabio Luisi, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra under Andrews Sill, and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra under Matthew Kraemer, and was also re-engaged by the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic, Missouri Symphony Orchestra and the Olympia Symphony Orchestra, which marked her fifth collaboration with Maestro Huw Edwards. She has also performed with the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony, Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble 212 of NYC and the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen Orchestra, among others.

A top prizewinner in numerous competitions, including the 2014 Aspen Music Festival and School’s Piano Concerto Competition, Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition, Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competition, Juilliard Pre-College Nordmann Scholarship Competition, New Orleans International Piano Competition for Young Artists and the New York Ensemble 212 Young Artist Concerto Competition, she also won the 2016 Juilliard Concerto Competition and earned top prizes in both the PianoArts and New York International Piano Competition.

Notable radio features include the National Public Radio’s popular show From the Top, Aspen Public Radio, WQXR, Portland’s All Classical 89.9 KQAC, Seattle’s KING FM 98.1 and WGBH in Boston.

Angie has not only proven herself a versatile solo and chamber musician but also a passionate educator. She was selected as a teaching fellow and gave private lessons and masterclasses to local students for three summers at the Aspen Music Festival and School. She also holds the 2016-17 Keyboard Skills Departmental Assistantship Position and teaches Keyboard Sight-Reading and Secondary Piano at Juilliard.

She has been a Maxwell Gluck Community Service Fellow for the past two years at Juilliard and gave interactive concerts with musicians, actors and dancers in all five boroughs. Angie has also worked with choreographers Aszure Barton and Katarzyna Skarpetowska, and has been featured on the Juilliard Open Studios app numerous times.

Prizes

The finalists will compete for the three top prizes of $15,000, $7,500, and $5,000. The five semi-finalists who do not advance to the final round will receive a cash award of $1,000, and all eight competitors will be considered for the Contemporary Music Award and Chamber Music Award, each valued at $1,000.

 2022 Semifinalists

Yang Gao was born in Dalian, China. He started to study the piano at the age of four. Mr. Gao entered the Attached Middle School of Shenyang Conservatory of Music Dalian Campus in 2010. Mr. Gao is a prizewinner of several competitions including the first prize of Steinway Junior Piano Competition in China Northeast area, CCM Scholarship Competition, and Matinee Musicale Nancy F. Walker Scholarship Competition. He was a full scholarship participant of Art of the Piano, Eastern Music Festival, and PianoSummer at New Paltz. He is also one of a few students selected as a festival fellow of the 2022 Gilmore Piano Festival.

He has recently performed Beethoven’s first piano concerto with the Camerata New York Orchestra. He will perform at German Consulate General New York, Steinway Hall New York, and Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall during the rest of the season.

He received his bachelor’s degree from College-Conservatory of Music in University of Cincinnati under Awadagin Pratt. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree at the Mannes School of Music with Vladimir Feltsman.

Hilda Huang began her international performing career upon receiving first prize at the Leipzig Bach

Competition at 18 years of age. She is the first American to receive the honor. Since presenting her debut

recital on the Steinway and Sons Prizewinners’ Concert Network at the Leipzig Gewandhaus in

partnership with the Leipzig Bach Archive, she has been invited to perform Bach at the Leipzig Bach

Festival, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Montreal Bach Festival. She is

an advocate for modern performance of historical music, appearing worldwide on modern piano,

fortepiano, and harpsichord.

As a young artist, Hilda’s association with Bach’s music was shared in the documentary film Bach and

Friends alongside Hilary Hahn, Bobby McFerrin, and the Emerson String Quartet. Her interest in Bach’s

music led her to the harpsichord, on which her small hands, flair for articulation, and energetic playing

style encouraged exploration of a wide range of early music. Hilda’s orchestral debuts saw her on both

modern and historical instruments, recording the Bach F minor concerto on the modern piano with Erich

Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for TELARC (2008) and appearing as harpsichord soloist in

the Bach D Major concerto with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque.

During the 2020-21 season, Hilda was invited to perform across Europe and the United States in

celebration of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary, including invitations to contribute to Carnegie Hall’s

Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle, work with Kristian Bezuidenhout on fortepiano at Carnegie Hall’s

Beethoven Discovery Week, and appear in Beethoven-Frühling’s Sonata Cycle at the Bösendorfer Salon

of the Vienna Musikverein. Hilda culminates her season with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra in

their 2021-22 New Year’s Concerts and in return recital appearances at San Francisco Noontime Concerts.

In addition to performing, Hilda was recently appointed the Community Lead for the piano division of the

classical music education platform, tonebase.

Hilda Huang receives musical guidance from Hung Kuan Chen, Richard Egarr, Richard Goode, John

McCarthy, Anton Nel and Peter Sykes and has appeared in masterclasses with Kristian Bezuidenhout,

Angela Hewitt, and Robert Levin. She has also practiced conducting, singing, and organ-playing. Hilda

currently pursues the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School. Her studies are supported by

a 2019 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, the Kingsley Trust Association, and the Celia Ascher Doctoral

Fellowship. Hilda is a 2013 Presidential Scholar in the Arts, a Gold Award recipient from the National

Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts’ YoungArts Week, and a winner of the 2021 Astral National

Auditions. Hilda Huang has been a Steinway Artist since 2021.

Praised by the New York Concert Review as "in a word, superb,” pianist Rixiang  Huang has inspired glowing acclaim from audiences and critics alike for his superb  artistry and passionate, charismatic performances on four continents. Since winning  the first prize at the 12th Chopin International Piano Competition in Hartford and Los Angeles International Liszt Piano Competition in 2021, Huang has rapidly established  for himself an international reputation. His first CD album, French Romance, released  in April 2020, has already earned accolades from audiences and critics; Steinway  Artist Rorianne Schrade remarked that his Debussy "reflect[ed] a special sensitivity,  grace, and delicate tonal shading" and his Bartók "may be one of this listener’s most  enjoyable Bartók Sonata performances to date" (New York Concert Review). 

Winner of an impressive array of prizes, Huang was a top prizewinner of the  Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition, Dallas International Piano  Competition, New York International Artists Piano Competition, International Piano  Competition La Palma d'Oro in Italy, along with the WPTA International Piano  Competition. 

Highlights of the 2021-22 season include a five city solo recital tour in China; solo  recital at University of Southern California; chamber music performance at Sarasota  Music Festival in Florida; and concerto performance with Chautauqua Symphony  Orchestra. An immersive and versatile soloist, Huang has performed extensively all  over the world in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Alice Tully  Hall at the Lincoln Center, Universität Mozarteum – Solitär in Austria; Santander 

Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria in Spain; Hamamatsu ACT Concert Hall in Japan; National Center for the Performing Arts and Beijing Concert Hall in China. His  performances have been broadcast by WQXR-FM, Classic FM, Cleveland WCLV 104.9,  Sarasota WSMR 89.1 & 103.9, and Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española. Mr. Huang is represented by Get Classical Music Management. 

As an active soloist, Huang has appeared with leading orchestras around the  world including Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London; China National Symphony  Orchestra; Indonesia National Symphony Orchestra; Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in New York; and Eastern Music Festival Orchestra in North Carolina. He  has also appeared as a guest artist with acclaimed string quartet Cuarteto Quiroga  and was selected to participate in the Advanced Piano Trio Program by the  acclaimed Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. 

In addition, Huang has been a featured artist at Salzburg Summer Academy  Mozarteum, Orford Music Academy, Bowdoin International Music Festival in Maine, Chautauqua Music Festival, Art of the Piano at the University of Cincinnati, Piano  Texas, and Pianofest in the Hamptons. He has performed alongside preeminent  conductors such as Jac Van Steen, Joel Smirnoff, Earl Lee, Eric Garcia, and has  performed in master classes with Sergei Babayan, Stephen Hough, Arie Vardi, Veda  Kaplinsky, Dimitry Alexeev, Pavel Gililov, among others. 

Huang is the founder of Empire Music Academy in California. He is currently a  DMA candidate and graduate teaching assistant at the USC Thornton School of Music, studying with prestigious conductor and pianist, Jeffrey Kahane. He is currently a  member of MTNA (Music Teachers National Association). Huang received a Master  of Music in Piano Performance at The Juilliard School, studying with legendary  pianists, Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio. Previously, he worked with world renowned pianists, 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. For more information on Huang’s concert  schedule, please visit: http://www.rixianghuangpianist.com/

A multi-faceted pianist hailing from North Carolina, Ryan Jung is currently finishing his graduate studies with Hung Kuan Chen and Jerome Lowenthal at the Juilliard School, having obtained his Bachelor of Music from the New England Conservatory. Ryan is an active performer of repertoire spanning four centuries across North America, with a powerful commitment to the music of the 20th and 21st century. In the past years he has worked closely with composers Nico Muhly, Eric Tanguy, Betsy Jolas and played for notable pianists Shai Wosner and Conor Hanick, among many others. Recent performances include his Lincoln Center solo debut this year in Alice Tully Hall, performing Messaien’s Sept Haikai with Maestro Milarsky. Ryan is currently working on recording the complete Ligeti Etudes. Outside of school, he devotes his free time teaching students in the community, running and hiking, and playing competitive chess hustlers in the park.

Praised for the “power and vividness” of her playing and commit ment to rarely-heard repertoire, Russian-American pianist Aleksandra (Sasha) Kasman is in demand as a soloist and teacher with engagements across the USA, Italy, Russia, Ukraine, France,  and Japan. 

Named a 2019-2020 Young Artist in Residence of NPR’s Perfor mance Today, Ms. Kasman is the First Prize and Audience Award  winner of the 2017 Premio Roberto Melini International Competi tion. She has won first prizes at the NFMC National Collegiate Piano Competition, High Point University Inaugural Piano Competi tion, and IKIF’s Dorothy Mackenzie Awards. Other awards include  top prizes at the Seattle, Wideman, Vladimir Horowitz (Ukraine),  and Arthur Fraser international piano competitions. 

Born into a musical family in Moscow, Ms. Kasman grew up in  Birmingham, Alabama, where she studied piano with her father  and later duo partner Yakov Kasman. Together they have per formed across the USA, Russia, and South Korea. Ms. Kasman is  a graduate of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where  she studied music and French and was a member of the Universi ty Honors Program. She holds an M.M. degree from Juilliard,  where she studied with Robert McDonald, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan (studio of Logan Skelton), where she won the School of Music’s concerto competi tion performing Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. 

Ms. Kasman made her concerto debuts at thirteen performing Mozart with the Symphonic Orchestra of the National Philharmon ic of Ukraine and the Alabama Symphony. She has since worked  with numerous orchestras in the USA and abroad. Ms. Kasman enjoys a longstanding collaboration with the National Symphony  Orchestra of Ukraine, having performed seven different concertos with the ensemble. In 2018, Ms. Kasman premiered Marc Migo’s Double Concerto for Piano and Violin with the Juilliard Orchestra in New York’s Alice Tully Hall.  

Ms. Kasman appears as a guest artist at the invitation of such fes tivals as International Keyboard Institute and Festival, Southeast ern Piano Festival, Busan International Music Academy, and Pi anoCity Milano, and has given recitals at Steinway Hall in NYC,  Yamaha Ginza Hall in Tokyo, Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, and  Salle Cortot in Paris. Ms. Kasman’s most recent international tour  featured eleven solo recitals across Italy, where her playing was  lauded by the press for its “rock solid technique” and “singing  every sentence with an expressive logic of extraordinary  maturity”. In 2022 Ms. Kasman appears as the host of the virtual  semifinal and live final rounds of the PianoArts North American  Piano Competition. Upcoming performances include engage ments with the Dayton Philharmonic and U of M’s University Philharmonia Orchestra, and a European tour alongside violinist  Blake Pouliot and NPR’s Fred Child, as well as an Artist-in-Residence position at pianoSonoma. 

Ms. Kasman is an advocate and experienced performer of contemporary music. She has given premieres of works by Nathan  Daughtrey, Marc Migo, Zachary Detrick, and Eric Mobley (recently  performing a full recital of Mobley’s music). 

Ms. Kasman inherited a passion for teaching piano from her par ents (both graduates of the Moscow State Conservatory and her  own former teachers), and is a dedicated music teacher herself.  In addition to giving private lessons, Ms. Kasman is a Graduate  

Student Instructor at the University of Michigan and formerly a  Teaching Fellow and Gluck Fellow at Juilliard. She has given  masterclasses at Lee University and the Wisconsin Conservatory  of Music and lectured at Bowling Green State University. She es pecially enjoys serving as a PianoArts Fellow since 2015, giving yearly teaching and performing tours to thousands of children in  Milwaukee schools and the community. She teaches in English,  Russian, and French.

Engaging audiences with his charismatic and moving performances, Aaron Kurz enjoys a  burgeoning career. He has captivated audiences across three continents, in venues ranging  from Carnegie Hall in New York to the Palace of Peace and Harmony in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Mr. Kurz’s performances have been lauded, with Belgium’s Le Soir stating, “We’ll  remember…the musical journeys of a nuanced Aaron Kurz.” 

Mr. Kurz’s playing has also garnered acclaim in competitions, winning top prizes in the New  York International Piano Competition, Los Angeles International Piano Competition, Virginia  Waring International Piano Competition, and World Piano Teachers Association International  Piano Competition, among others. An avid performer, he has played extensively in North  America, Europe, and Asia. In recent years, his playing took him to China, where he had  performing and speaking engagements at the Xi’an Conservatory along with an orchestral  performance.  

After watching classical music videos at the age of two, Kurz became interested in playing the piano. Soon after, he began his studies with Ethel Fang at the Suzuki Institute, and at age nine,  he became a student of Dr. Carol Leone. A year later, Mr. Kurz attended the Mozart Festival in  Vienna and attended the Bösendorfer International Piano Academy, held at the University of  Music. Since then, he has participated in countless festivals, such as the Aspen Music Festival,  the Bowdoin International Music Festival, PianoTexas, and the Gijón International Piano  Festival. He is grateful for receiving additional instruction and guidance from many renowned pianists and pedagogues, including Stephen Hough, Paul Lewis, Yoheved Kaplinksy, Julian  Martin, John O’Conor, and Earl Wild. 

Mr. Kurz believes artists have an obligation to use their craft to improve the world, and he has  worked significantly in this capacity. Alongside concertizing, Kurz spent two years working for  the Van Cliburn Foundation’s “Cliburn in the Classroom,” a program which teaches classical  music principles to children in underprivileged school districts. The goal of the program’s  interactive seminars – to inspire a love of music in children and help educate the next  generation of classical musicians – spoke to him. Through his playing, he hoped to connect with  them and provide an experience they could enjoy and benefit from. He has also worked with  the Lift Music Foundation, which provide mini-grants to help underserved musicians afford the  costs of a musical education. 

Mr. Kurz also wishes to expand the reach of classical music, something he has worked towards  in a greater role since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. To that end, has performed in  various live-streamed series in an attempt to connect with greater audiences around the world.  He also believes in the importance of understanding the music to better appreciate and enjoy  it, and whenever possible, he speaks alongside his programs to help audiences with this goal.  

Mr. Kurz is currently pursuing a Master of Musical Arts at the Yale School of Music, studying  with Boris Berman. He recently completed his Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of Ian Jones and Norma Fisher. Additionally, Aaron holds a Master of Music  from the Eastman School of Music and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Michigan, 

where he studied with Alexander Kobrin and Logan Skelton, respectively. During his second and  final year at Eastman, Kurz served as Alexander Kobrin’s Teaching Assistant, giving lessons to  undergraduates in the studio. He enjoys both playing and watching sports in his spare time,  never missing a Dallas Cowboys football game.

Alexander Yau, an eminent Australian pianist, has developed himself into a versatile musician incorporating his many musical talents as a chamber musician, vocalist, clarinetist, conductor, composer and music arranger. Pianist Balazs Szokolay describes "his artistic taste is good enough not to make any kind of "show" even in the most brilliant parts of great masterworks". 

His major concerto appearances as soloist include the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Rachmaninoff’s Concerto no.3, the Queensland Symphony Orchestra with Rachmaninoff’s Concerto no. 1 and a major tour with the SBS Youth Orchestra in Australia, with Rachmaninov’s Concerto no. 2. He was the winner of Sydney Conservatorium Concerto Competition, which led him to perform the mighty Brahms’ Piano Concerto no. 2 with Eduardo Diazmunoz at the Conservatory Gala Concert to huge reception. He has been invited to perform in the Canberra International Music Festival, prestigious and unique venues such as Phoenix Central Park and City Recital Hall in Sydney, Troldhaugen Grieg's home in Bergen, Alice Tully Hall in NYC, Google Headquarters in the San Jose, Yamaha Ginza in Tokyo, Australian Pavilion at Shanghai Expo, and the Villa Mosconi Bertani on the outskirts of Verona. He has been award numerous prizes such as 6th Prize at the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition, 3rd Prize at the Teresa Carreno International Masters Piano Competition and special prizes at the Australian International Chopin Piano Competition. He also won major special prizes at national competitions in Australia, namely the Sydney Kawai Piano Scholarship, Australian National Piano Award and the Lev Vlassenko Piano Competition. 

He graduated his masters degree at the Juilliard School under prof. Matti Raekallio. He has performed recitals and chamber ensembles at the Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Centre with the New Juilliard Ensemble and notably at the FOCUS Festivals 2019 and

20 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, the latter year he gave a US Premiere of a long lost treasured piano sonata (1928) by Grete von Zieritz. He completed his Bachelor of Music piano performance at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of 

Sydney, with first class honours studying with Daniel Herscovitch and Elizabeth Powell. He is now working as a frequent collaborative artist at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. 

Other than the piano, Alexander studied conducting with Christopher Seamens and Jeffery Milarsky at the Juilliard School. He has made conducting appearances at the Sydney Opera House with the Conservatorium High School Orchestra, Voces Celestium Chorus and Orchestra. He founded the Ole Bohn Chamber Orchestra, comprising of talented young Australian musicians, where he conducted a virtual concert of Brahms’s Symphony no. 3, Mozart’s Concerto no. 23 conducting at the piano and gave the Australian Premiere of young Australian composer, Pavle Cajic’s Octet ‘San’.  

Alexander is also a fine clarinetist, vocalist, composer and music arranger. He studied clarinet with Deborah de Graaff and composition with Dr. Trevor Pearce at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music He was awarded his AMusA diploma for clarinet in 2012 and the James Easton Memorial Award for composition in 2013. His work Grand Passacaglia for Clarinet and piano is performed and recorded by his teacher Deborah de Graaff at the ABC classic fm. His first String Quartet no. 1 “The Asian” will be premiered by Ole Bohn and Friends in 2022. In recent years he turned his focus on music arrangements for multiple musical styles from jazz to tango to lieder orchestrations to film music. He will premiere his newly written virtuosic transcription of “Dance of the Seven Veils from Richard’s Strauss’ Salome” for solo piano in the Charles Wadsworth Competition and Honens Competition. He has also been invited to give lieder recitals whilst accompanying himself on piano at the Sydney Schubert Society in 2022.

Korean-Japanese-American pianist Seho Young has performed in venues across the US, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Millenium Stage at the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall in Boston, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has given recitals in Japan, Italy, Poland, and the Netherlands. He has appeared with the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Toruń Symphony Orchestra, and the Princeton University Orchestra. In April 2022 he is scheduled to perform in the International Holland Music Sessions New Masters on Tour concert series, playing in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Philharmonic Hall in Bratislava, among other locations. Seho was a semi-finalist at the 2021 Clara Haskil International Piano Competition, and has won top awards at the Five Towns Music and Arts Foundation Competition, Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition and Arthur Fraser International Piano Competition. His past mentors include Francine Kay, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Wha Kyung Byun, and William Naboré, and he has received masterclasses from Stanislav Ioudenitch, Tamás Vásáry, Jeffrey Kahane, and Jon Kimura Parker. He has studied at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and The Juilliard School Pre-College, and has participated in the Aspen Music Festival and School, Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School, and International Piano Academy Lake Como. He is currently pursuing a Masters degree at Yale University, under the tutelage of Boris Berman.

Other engagements as a pianist include musical theater productions of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years and Pasek & Paul’s Dogfight, and music directing Quipfire! Improv Comedy, which often involved completely improvising full one-hour musicals. He has been part of several jazz and rock bands, has produced mixtapes, and has a sweet spot for Christmas songs and Disney ballads. Some of his favorite non-classical artists include Jacob Collier, Porter Robinson, Earth, Wind & Fire, and MAMAMOO.

As a passionate composer and arranger, Seho has written music for ensembles, film scores, and musical theater, and arranged works for piano, chamber groups, bands, and acapella groups. His compositions have been performed in New England Conservatory’s Contemporary Music Festival. In 2012, he won first place in the Japan International Junior Classic Composition Competition, and in 2010 won an honorable mention for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Award. During his undergrad he wrote and orchestrated songs for the Princeton Triangle Club, the oldest touring collegiate musical comedy troupe in the United States, where he was also the conductor of the pit orchestra. Seho is planning several ambitious projects for the near future, including arranging Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” for solo piano. He has studied composition with Alla Elana Cohen and counterpoint and improvisation with Steve Mackey.

Seho received his Bachelor’s degree in computer science and a certificate in musical performance from Princeton University, where he was the recipient of the Isidore and Helen Sacks Memorial Award. He has worked at robotics startups in the Boston area, focusing on developing software for autonomous vehicle navigation, and enjoys creating websites and mobile apps. Seho is an avid ultimate frisbee player, and has played with Princeton Clockwork, Yale Süperfly, and Boston Big Wrench. He also loves to play chess and watch American football, specifically the New England Patriots.

Competition Schedule

Semifinal Day 1: Thursday, March 24, 2022

9:30AM Rixiang Huang

10:25AM Alexander Yau

11:30AM Seho Young

12:25PM Aleksandra Kasman

Break

2:15PM Hilda Huang

3:10PM Yang Gao

4:15PM Aaron Kurz

5:10PM Ryan Jung

Semifinal Day 2: Friday, March 25, 2022

9:30AM Yang Gao with Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin

10:25AM Hilda Huang with Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin

11:30AM Ryan Jung with Rachel Shapiro

12:25PM Aaron Kurz with Nicholas Tavani

Break

2:15PM Alexander Yau with Nicholas Tavani

3:10PM Aleksandra Kasman with Timotheos Gavriilidis-Petrin

4:15PM Rixiang Huang with Nicholas Tavani

5:10PM Seho Young with Rachel Shapiro

~7 PM Announcement of Finalists

Competition Finals: Sunday, March 27, 2022 @ 2PM

2:00 PM Ryan Jung
Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Aeolus Quartet

3:10 PM Seho Young
Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178
Dvorak: Piano Quintet in A Major, Op 81
Aeolus Quartet

4:20 PM Aleksandra Kasman
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Aeolus Quartet

All competition rounds will take place at the Charles Wadsworth Auditorium in Newnan, GA.