The Oberlin Conservatory of Music and The extend heartfelt thanks to Thomas Cooper ’78 and Evon Cooper

for their generous sponsorship of the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Competition

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SATURDAY, JULY 21 WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 SEMIFINALS, ROUND I—15 competitors perform for 30 minutes each 9:30 - 10:30 am, Master Class—Alvin Chow, Kulas Recital Hall 9:30 am - 12:30 pm, Warner Concert Hall 10:45 am - 11:45 pm, Master Class—Franz Cheung-Yu Mo, Kulas Recital Hall 2:00 - 5:30 pm, Warner Concert Hall 1:30 - 2:30 pm, Master Class—Angela Cheng, Kulas Recital Hall 7:00 - 10:00 pm, Warner Concert Hall 2:45 - 3:45 pm, Master Class—Monique Duphil, Kulas Recital Hall

7:00 pm, RECITAL FINALS—Six competitors perform a 20-minute recital broadcast live on WCLV-FM, Warner Concert Hall SUNDAY, JULY 22 SEMIFINALS, ROUND I—15 competitors perform for 30 minutes each THREE CONCERTO FINALISTS, 4th PRIZE, 5th PRIZE, 6th PRIZE, and AUDIENCE 9:30 am - 12:30 pm, Warner Concert Hall PRIZE ANNOUNCEMENT: 10:30 PM 2:00 - 5:30 pm, Warner Concert Hall 7:00 - 10:00 pm, Warner Concert Hall THURSDAY, JULY 26 9:30 - 10:30 am, Master Class—Stanislav Ioudenitch, Kulas Recital Hall SEMIFINAL ROUND II ANNOUNCEMENT: 11 PM 10:45 - 11:45 am, Master Class—Haewon Song, Kulas Recital Hall

2:45 - 3:45 pm, Master Class—Dan-Wen Wei, Kulas Recital Hall 7:00 - 8:00 pm, Master Class—Seung Hye Choi, Kulas Recital Hall MONDAY, JULY 23 SEMIFINALS, ROUND II—15 competitors perform for 15 minutes each 10:00 am - 12:30 pm, Warner Concert Hall 2:00 - 5:30 pm, Warner Concert Hall FRIDAY, JULY 27 9:30 - 10:30 am, Master Class—Christopher Elton, Kulas Recital Hall CONCERTO ROUND ANNOUNCEMENT: 6 PM 10:45 - 11:45 am, Master Class—Jeremy Denk, Kulas Recital Hall 4:00 pm, Cooper Recital in Reinberger Chamber Hall (at Severance Hall) featuring outstanding performances from the Semifinal Rounds, free TUESDAY, JULY 24 8:00 pm, CONCERTO FINALS—Three competitors perform with The Cleveland Orchestra 9:00 - 10:30 am, Master Class—Robert Shannon, Kulas Recital Hall at Severance Hall 10:45 am - 12:15 pm, Master Class—Sanford Margolis, Kulas Recital Hall All competitors and family members receive complimentary tickets. 1:30 pm, CONCERTO ROUND—Five competitors perform a full concerto with piano, For all other tickets, please call the Severance Hall Box Office: W,arner Concert Hall 216 -231-111 o r 8 0 0 - 68 6 -1141 7:00 pm, CONCERTO ROUND—Five competitors perform a full concerto with piano, Warner Concert Hall SIX RECITAL FINALISTS ANNOUNCEMENT: 10:00 PM Artem Aleksanyan Tianxu An 4 5 16 years old, Las Vegas, NV, USA 13 years old, Baoding, China

rtem Aleksanyan was born in and 2009, he participated in the Green Valley ianxu An began studying piano in Donetsk, , in 1995. When Chamber Music Festival, where he worked 2004 at age 5. At age 8, he began study- Ahe was 9 years old, he began his with prominent teachers such as Taras Krysa Ting under Hua Chang at the Affiliated piano studies under the guidance of Russian and Mykola Suk, among others. Elementary School of Central Conservatory pedagogue Ekaterina Melkamini. Aleksanyan In January 2010, Aleksanyan performed of Music in China. In 2008, An enrolled in the showed a unique passion for music, which can Beethoven’s No. 1 with the Central Conservatory of Music Preparatory be seen not only through his rigorous studies at Henderson Symphony Orchestra under the ba- School, and in 2011, he was recommended the piano, but also in his general knowledge of ton of Taras Krysa. The following year, he col- for admission to the Affiliated High School of music and musicians. He has won several top laborated with maestro David Itkin and the Las Central Conservatory of Music. He is a 2010 prizes in competitions including the Bolognini Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he scholarship recipient from Partners Education Piano Competition and the MTNA State and performed Saint-Saens’ Piano Concerto No. 2. Foundation of Hong Kong. Regional Piano Competitions. In March 2012, after winning the Young Artist A third-prize winner of the 2008 Twelfth L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, In 2007, he made his orchestral debut as a Piano Concerto Competition, Aleksanyan Xinghai Cup National Piano Competition for Op. 31, No. 2 soloist by performing Haydn’s Piano Concerto performed Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Children (China), An went on the following year Largo–Allegro with the Nevada Chamber Orchestra. In 2008 the Henderson Symphony Orchestra. to win second prize in the IV Internationaler G. LIGETI Études, Book 2: No. 13, “L’escalier du diable” Klavierwettbewerb Wiesbaden (Germany). F. MENDELSSOHN , No. 25 in In 2010, he participated in the Shanghai G Major, Op. 62, No. 1 International Youth Piano Competition, and J. HAYDN Sonata in E-flat Major, Hob. XVI:52 F. LISZT Années de pèlerinage, 1st year: not only won the two top prizes for his age Allegro (Moderato) Switzerland, S160/R10: group, but also took the highest special gold Adagio No. 6, Vallée Finale: Presto medal for the teenager and youth groups. An d’Obermann F. MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words, No. 40 in competed in the 2011 China Central Television P. TCHAIKOVSKY Dumka: Russian rustic scene, D Major, Op. 85, No. 4 Piano and Violin Competition, where he won Op. 59 F. LISZT Mephisto Waltz No. 1, S.514 second place. Other notable competitions F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 16 in E–flat Major, O. MESSIAEN Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus and performances include the Xinghai Cup Op. 55, No. 2 No. 13, Noël National Finals, Ka Dansa Cup National Finals, S. RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, S. PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Winners Concerts, and the 70th anniversary of Op. 18 Moderato–Allegro Major, Op. 83 the Central Conservatory of Music, as well as Adagio sostenuto Allegro inquieto being a featured demonstrator of the Czerny 740 Andante caloroso Allegro scherzando Music Guide, published by China People’s Music Precipitato Publishing House. F. MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words, No. 34 in An’s solo piano recital was held in C Major, Op. 67, No. 4 S. RACHMANINOFF Études-Tableaux, No. 5 in Diangutang of Baoding City, Hebei Province on E-flat Minor, Op. 39 July 16, 2011. F. CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 Allegro maestoso Romanza: Larghetto Rondo: Vivace Rachel Breen Jun Hwi Cho 6 7 15 years old, Oakland, CA, USA 16 years old, Seoul, South Korea

J. HAYDN Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob. L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 24 in F–sharp Major, Op. 78 XVI: 50 Adagio cantabile– Allegro ma non troppo Allegro S. PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 28 F. MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words, No. 40 in F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 19 in E Minor, Op. 72, No. 1 D Major, Op. 85, No.4 F. LISZT Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year: , S161/R10b J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 16 in No. 7, Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata G Minor, BWV 885, Book II F. CHOPIN Polonaise No. 6 in A–flat Major, Op. 53, “Heroic” F. CHOPIN Scherzo No. 3 in C–sharp Minor, F. LISZT Grandes études de Paganini, No. 6 in A Minor, S141/R3b Op. 39 S. RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 J.S. BACH Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Moderato Variations 16-30, Aria Adagio sostenuto I. STRAVINSKY 3 Movements from Petrushka Allegro scherzando Chez Petrouchka L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 un Hwi Cho was born in Seoul, where he Allegro moderato began studying piano at age 9. In 2012, he Andante con moto graduated from Yewon Arts Middle School Rondo: Vivace J and was admitted to the Pre-College Division of the , where he will begin his studies this fall. Cho attended Korean National Institute for the Gifted in 2011 and completed four years of Preparatory Division at Korean ifteen-year-oldRachel Breen is a winner of the California Youth Symphony, Breen National University of Arts (2007–2010). He scholarship student at the San Francisco will perform Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4 with received the first prize in the Korean Chopin Conservatory of Music, where she the orchestra this season. Competition, Christian Broadcasting System Fstudies with Dr. Sharon Mann; until age 10, she Breen specializes in the music of Bach, and Nationwide Music Competition, Eumyoun was self-taught. Breen has won first prize in the has performed many times for the Junior Bach Music Competition, Yewon Nationwide Music Mondavi Young Artists’ Competition, MTAC Festival. Appearing frequently at openings for Competition, Korean Piano Duo Competition, solo competition, Etude Club’s Scholarship books about Glenn Gould, her musical idol, and the Prize of Seoul Metropolitan Children. competition, Diablo Valley Symphony she has presented a series of recitals for the Cho has presented recitals in the Kumho Competition, Oakland East Bay Symphony launching of author Katie Hafner’s book A Prodigy Concert twice, Korean Broadcasting Concerto Competition, and the United States Romance on Three Legs. System, BUTI Prodigy Concert, and Piano Open Music Competition, in addition to She is a five-year member of the Cerberus Trio Concert in Kumho Art Hall. He has capturing third prize in the International Piano Trio. Aside from piano, she is a student at collaborated with the W Philhamonic Russian Music Piano Competition. As the Miramonte High School, where she received the Orchestra and Bucheon Symphonia Orchestra winner of the Palo Alto Philharmonic Concerto first prize on the National Latin Exam and third in Seoul, Korea. Competition, she performed Tchaikovsky’s prize on the National French Exam. She hopes He currently studies with Choong Mo Kang first Piano Concerto with the Palo Alto to pursue a career as a performing and recording (the Juilliard School) and Shin Eun Jung (Seoul Philharmonic, which she also performed with artist. National University). the Oakland Civic Orchestra. As the first-prize Saeyoon Chon Leonardo Colafelice 8 9 16 years old, Seoul, South Korea 16 years old, Altamura, Bari, Italy

L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, native of Altamura (Bari), Italy, & Olufsen Piano RAMA Competition for Op. 57, “Appassionata” Leonardo Colafelice began study- Young , Rachmaninov International Allegro assai ing piano at age 8. Currently he is Piano Competition, and Luciano Luciani Andante con moto Aa student of Pasquale Iannone at N. Piccinni International Piano Competition. He also won Allegro ma non troppo Conservatory of Music in Bari. He has at- forth prize at the Val Tidone International F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 7 in C–sharp Minor, tended master classes and courses with Aquiles Piano Competition. Op. 27, No. 1 Delle Vigne, Ilja Scheps, Ovidiu Balan, Aldo He has collaborated as a soloist with J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 4 in C–sharp Minor, BWV 873, Book II Ciccolini, Tiziano Poli, and Riccardo Risaliti. many orchestras and conductors both in Italy H. DUTILLEUX Piano Sonata Between 2005 and 2011, he won nearly 50 na- and abroad, among them the N. Piccinni Choral et variations tional and international first prizes and awards. Conservatory Orchestra of Bari with Daniele L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 in E–flat In 2010, Colafelice was the first-prize Lonero, Saverio Mercadante Orchestra with Major, Op. 73, “Emperor” winner for piano performance at the Torneo Michele Marvulli, Collegium Musicum Allegro Internazionale di Musica in Verona. Numerous Orchestra with Rino Marrone, Balkan Festival Adagio un poco mosso other first prize wins include the 2011 Premio Orchestra with Rino Campanale, Orchestra Rondo: Allegro ma non Città di Padova (Padova, Italy), Young della Provincia di Bari with Silvia Casarin troppo of the North (Newcastle, U.K.), and Chopin Rizzolo, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto Piano Competition (Szafarnia, Poland). He with Massimo Mazza, and Balkan Festival was the second-prize winner at the Bang Orchestra with Ovidiu Balan.

L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 26 in E–flat Major, Op. 81a, orn in Jeonju, South Korea, Saeyoon No.5 with the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra “Les adieux” Chon began his piano studies at age 6. and received rave reviews. He had valuable Das Lebewohl: Adagio–Allegro After entering the Yewon Art Middle experiences as an invited competitor of the Abwesenheit: Andante espressivo BSchool, he went on to attend the Seoul Art High Hilton Head International Piano Competition Das Wiedersehn: Vivacissimamente School. He enjoys expanding his repertoire and and Minneapolis e-Piano Competition in 2011. S. PROKOFIEV Visions Fugitives, Op. 22 endeavors to build his career in music. This year, he won second prize in the Isidor R. SCHUMANN Romance in F–sharp Major, Op. 28, No. 2 In 2008 Chon was the winner of the piano Bajic Memorial Piano Competition in Novi Sad, I. ALBÉNIZ Iberia, No. 6, Triana concerto competition at the Junior Student Servia. J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 851, Seminar of Rocky Ridge Music Center Among his many recital appearances is Book I in Estespark, Colorado, where he played the Prodigy Recital held by Kumho Asiana F. CHOPIN Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54 I. STRAVINSKY 3 Movements from Petrushka Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1. Following Cultural Foundation, the most important Danse russe this achievement, he studied under Hyoung- and highly competitive event in Korea. Chon Chez Petrouchka Joon Chang and won numerous prizes in delights in the expressive quality of music, and La semaine grasse important piano competitions in Korea. As the he currently serves as a pianist in the Sunday S. RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 30 first-place winner of Suri Piano Competition, Chapel at his church. Allegro ma non tanto he performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto Intermezzo: Adagio Finale: Alla breve Aika Dan Jia Fang 10 11 16 years old, Tokyo, Japan 13 years old, Beijing, China

L.v. BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 ia Fang was born into a musical family two solo recitals, and at age 11, she earned Vivace ma non troppo in which both of her parents teach piano the gold medal in the fourth GuangRen Zhou Prestissimo at Taishan University, China. At age 3, Summer Piano Academy Piano Competition. Gesangvoll, mit innigster JFang won the piano special award at the 5th That same year, she enrolled at the China Empfindung: Andante molto Instrumental Musical Talent Competition at Central Conservatory of Music Talented cantabile ed espressivo Tai An City. She went on to win numerous top Elementary School Program. The following F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 13 in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1 prizes and awards in competitions, among them year, Fang won third prize at the 75th Steinway I. STRAVINSKY 3 Movements from Petrushka a gold medal in both the 2nd Star of the Century International Piano Competition, China trials. Danse russe Piano Competition in Shandong Province In 2012, she won first prize at both the Chez Petrouchka La semaine grasse and the China Kingsburg Cup National Piano Thomas and Evon Cooper International Piano F. LISZT Études d’exécution transcendante, No. 5 in Competition. Fang also received the gold Competition, China trials, and the Gold B–flat Major, “Feux Follets,” S139/R2b award and excellence in performance at the Sunflower National Piano Competition. Other W.A. MOZART Twelve Variations in C Major on “Ah vous Heintzmann National Piano Competition 2012 highlights included an invitation to dirai–je, Maman,” K. 265 hosted by the China Cultural Department and perform as a special guest at the National Centre J. BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 Music Middle School affiliated with the Central for the Performing Arts, the Beijing Concert Maestoso Conservatory of Music. Hall, and on China Central Television. Adagio At age 10, Fang had successfully performed Rondo: Allegro non troppo

J. HAYDN Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob.XVI:50 ika Dan, of Tokyo, Japan, has been prizes in competitions across the world. In Allegro studying the piano since age 8. After 2006, she won both the gold prize and Special F. CHOPIN Preludes, Nos. 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, two years of studying under Gary Jury Prize at the 7th International Chopin 17, & 18, Op. 28 AGraffman, Meng-chieh Liu, and Eleanor Piano Competition. 2007 was a major year for F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 5 in F–sharp Major, Sokoloff at the Curtis Institute of Music, Dan Dan, winning first prize in the 14th Amadeus Op. 15, No. 2 entered the Colburn School in Los Angeles, Piano Competition in Czech Republic, and F. CHOPIN Waltz No. 5 in A–flat Major, Op. 42 where she currently studies with Ory Shihor. first prize in the A Step Towards Mastery Piano F. LISZT Valse–impromptu, S213/R36 Dan has traveled extensively, performing as Competition in . Dan’s performances E. GRANADOS Allegro de concierto a soloist with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic have not gone overlooked in her home city of C. DEBUSSY Étude No. 7 Pour les degrés Orchestra in 2007 and twice with the Krakow Tokyo, where she received the Tokyo Board of chromatiques D. KABALEVSKY Rondo in A Minor, Op. 5 Philharmonic Orchestra. She also performed a Education Prize. F. CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 joint concert in St. Petersburg with the winner Maestoso of the International Tchaikovsky Competition. Larghetto Dan’s piano playing has reached beyond the Allegro vivace concert hall, presenting televised recitals in both China and Japan. Since age 10, Dan has won a number of Daniel Feng Sahun Hong 12 13 18 years old, Hong Kong, China 18 years old, Fort Worth, TX, USA

ince 2009, Hong Kong native Daniel orn in 1994 in Seoul, South Korea, young pianists from around the world. He Feng has studied piano performance Sahun Hong has studied piano since has won first prize in the Snowy Range Piano in the Pre-College Division at the age 4. At age 16, he graduated magna Competition in Wyoming (2011), Lennox SJulliard School. Before that, he was a student Bcum laude from Texas Christian University International Young Artist Competition at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music. Since (TCU) with a Bachelor of Music degree in (2010), Fort Worth Symphony Young Artist 2004, he has studied with Galyna Popova, the piano performance. A current student of John Competition (2009), and Leschetizky dean of piano faculty at the Odessa National Owings, he has also studied with Martin Competition for Gifted Young Pianists in New Conservatory of Music. Canin and Yoheved Kaplinsky of the Juilliard York (2009). He also won fourth prize in the Feng is a multiple award-winner in the School, and has performed in master classes for 2010 Thomas & Evon Cooper International Asia Piano Open Competition (2001 & 2005) , Nelita True, and Paul Badura- Competition. and the Hong Kong Schools Music and Speech Skoda. Prior to entering TCU at age 11, Hong Hong has performed with the Fort Worth, Association Competition (2003, 2005, & 2006), performed in 28 schools in the Fort Worth Camerata New York, Richardson, Waco, in addition to receiving top honors and awards Integrated School District through the Van Brazos Valley, and Galveston Symphony at the Xinghai Conservatory of Music. Cliburn Foundation’s Musical Awakenings orchestras. He has also been featured on the While at Julliard, Feng has studied with program. nationally broadcast radio show From the Juilan Martin, and is currently studying with Hong has won numerous prizes and awards. Top, as well as appearing at top U.S. venues Victoria Mushkatkol. In 2010, he was named a Young Steinway including Merkin Hall in New York. Artist, joining a select roster of talented

L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28, L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90 “Pastoral” Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck Allegro F. CHOPIN Prelude in C–sharp Minor, Op. 45 F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 16 in E–flat Major, Op. 55, No. 2 F. CHOPIN Piano Sonata No.2 in B–flat Minor, Op. 35, “Funeral March” A. DORMAN 3 Etudes for Piano Solo (2012) Grave– Doppio movimento Snakes and Ladders Scherzo Funeral March Marche funebre: Lento Sundrops Over Windy Water Finale: Presto F. CHOPIN Piano Sonata No. 2 in B–flat Minor, Op. 35, F. LISZT Études d’exécution transcendante, No. 7 in E–flat Major, “Eroica,” S139/R2b “Funeral March” F. LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 in D–flat Major, S244/R106 Grave– Doppio movimento B. BARTÓK Piano Sonata, Sz. 80 Scherzo Allegro moderato L. KIRCHNER Interlude II (2003) Sostenuto e pesante R. SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 Allegro molto In der Nacht C. SAINT–SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 S. PROKOFIEV Toccata in D Minor, Op. 11 Andante sostenuto S. RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 Allegro scherzando Moderato Presto Adagio sostenuto Allegro scherzando Yishan Hong Kimberly Hou 14 15 17 years old, Beijing, China 18 years old, Fairfax, VA, USA

eventeen-year-old Yishan Hong hails imberly Hou, 18, has been studying University Symphony Orchestra, the Richmond from Beijing, China, where she is an avid piano for 14 years, and is currently Symphony Orchestra, and the New River Valley performer and studies with Wei Zhang a student of Marjorie Lee. In 2012, Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared at Kshe was named a 2012 U.S. Presidential Scholar the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Carnegie Sat the Middle School affiliated with the Central Conservatory of Music. A numerous award-winner, in the Arts as well as a NFAA YoungArts Hall’s Weill Hall, the Hungarian and Bulgarian Hong won the Beijing Government Scholarship silver award winner. She won first prize in Embassies, the U.S. Department of State, and in 2010, and won first prize in the 2011 Yamaha the 2011 Lee University International Piano the 2009 National Conference on Keyboard Piano Competition at the Middle School affiliated Competition, the 2009 Music Teachers National Pedagogy, among others. with the Central Conservatory of Music. In 2012, Association Junior Piano Competition, the An avid chamber musician, Hou’s duo and she won second prize in the Steinway Piano 23rd and 25th International Young Artists trio ensembles have won top prizes in the D.C. Competition, Huabei Zone. Piano Competitions, and over 30 additional and Maryland competition arenas, including competitions. She also received second prize first place in the 2010 Levine Chamber Music in the inaugural William Kapell Young Artist Competition and the Horwitz Piano/Violin W.A. MOZART Piano Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K. 311 Piano Competition, and is a winner of the 2010 Duo Competition. Her trio also advanced to the Allegro con spirito Chopin Scholarship by the Chopin Foundation quarterfinals of the Fischoff National Chamber F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 9 in B Major, Op. 32, No. 1 of the United States. Music Competition. F. CHOPIN Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise Hou has appeared on NPR’s From the Top, Hou enjoys biology, debate, 3D animation, Brilliante, Op. 22 as well as on CBS Richmond’s Virginia This and foreign languages. She will attend the A. SCRIABIN Fantaisie in B Minor, Op. 28 Morning. Other recent engagements include -Juilliard School joint M. RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit performances with the Virginia Commonwealth degree program this fall. Ondine Scarbo F. CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 W.A. MOZART Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310 Allegro maestoso Allegro maestoso Romanza: Larghetto F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 8 in D–flat Major, Op. 27, Rondo: Vivace No. 2 J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 23 in B Major, BWV 892, Book II A. SCRIABIN Fantaisie in B Minor, Op. 28 F. CHOPIN Étude No. 24 in C Minor, Op. 25, No. 12 R. SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 S. BARBER Piano Sonata, Op. 26 Fuga: Allegro con spirito S. PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 1 in D–flat Major, Op. 10 Allegro brioso Andante assai Allegro scherzando Rixiang Huang Seika Ishida 16 17 17 years old, Beijing, China 15 years old, Yamaguchi, Japan

orn in Fujian, China, 17-year-old W.A. MOZART Piano Sonata No. 17 in B–flat major, K. 570 Rixiang Huang began taking Allegro F. MENDELSSOH Songs Without Words, No. 40 in D Major, Op. 85, No. 4 piano lessons at age 7. At age 10, he J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 13 in F–sharp Major, BWV 858, Book I Bentered the primary school attached to the F. CHOPIN Étude No. 18 in G–sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 6 Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, F. LISZT Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year: Italy supplement, S162/R10: Venezia e Napoli and at age 13 enrolled in the conservatory’s No. 3, Tarantella middle school. He has primarily studied with S. PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 1 professors Jin Zhang and Yameng Huang. F. SCHUBERT Impromptu No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 90, D. 899 Huang has won a number of prizes and F. CHOPIN Polonaise No. 6 in A–flat Major, Op. 53, “Heroic” awards including second prize in the 2nd F. LISZT Grandes études de Paganini, No. 6 in A Minor, S141/R3b Asian Youth Music Competition, third prizes VERDI/LISZT Rigoletto Paraphrase de Concert, S. 434/R267 in the 2009 Schumann International Piano F. CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 Competition and 56th Grotrian-Steinweg Maestoso International Piano Competition, first prize Larghetto Allegro vivace in the 1st Asian Competition, and Excellent Participant in the 2nd Beijing International Piano Festival. ifteen-year-old Seika Ishida began An avid performer, Huang has participated playing the piano at age 3, and has in concerts at the Beijing National Center for which commemorated the 200th anniversary studied with Masahi Katayama since of Chopin’s birth. The following summer, F Performing Arts, Beijing Concert Hall, and age 4. Ishida is currently a student at the the Forbidden City Concert Hall. In 2010, he Huang was invited to the International Piano junior high school affiliated with Yamaguchi performed in the Chopin Piano Marathon, Festival in Madrid. University. Since presenting her first European L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata” performance in 2007, Ishida has won a bronze Allegro assai medal in the Chopin International Piano F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 17 in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1 Competition, and second prize in Vienna’s I. SHAMO Morning in the forest International Rosario Marciano Piano A. SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No. 4 in F–sharp Major, Op. 30 Competition, where she also received Best Andante Schubert, Best New Piece, and Best Young Prestissimo volando Artist prizes. In 2010, Ishida won first prize A. GINASTERA Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 53 in the junior category of the International Allegramente Russian Music Piano Competition, held in Adagio sereno– Scorrevole– Ripresa dell’ Adagio California. Ostinato aymara Most recently, Ishida received an J. BRAHMS 4 Piano Pieces, Op. 119 honorable mention prize at the New S. RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 Moderato Orleans International Piano Competition Adagio sostenuto for Young Artists, and was a semifinalist in Allegro scherzando the Schimmel USASU International Piano Competition in Arizona. Fantee Jones Constance Kaita 18 19 18 years old, Roseville, CA, USA 17 years old, Manalapan, NJ, USA

W.A. MOZART Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, K. 310 eventeen-year-old Constance Kaita is Kaita was featured as a Rising Star in the Allegro maestoso a student of Chiu-Ling Lin and Chiu- 2004 Beijing Music Festival, performing in F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 8 in D–flat Major, Tze Lin. Kaita made her orchestral Chinese concert halls including the Forbidden Op. 27, No. 2 soloS debut with the Westfield Symphony City Concert Hall, People’s Congress Hall, R. SCHUMANN Theme and Variations on the name when she was 9 years old, and has since Shanghai Grand Theatre, and Shanghai “Abegg,” Op. 1 performed as a soloist with the Bravura Oriental Art Center. She was also invited to F. LISZT Rhapsodie espagnole, S254/R90, Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Chamber perform at the United Nations headquarters “Folies d’Espagne et jota aragonesa” Musicians Orchestra, Ambler Symphony, in in a performing arts gala R. SCHUMANN , Op. 9 Olney Symphony, and Biblical celebrating the 30th anniversary of U.S./China VERDI/LISZT Rigoletto Paraphrase de Concert, University Orchestra. A winner of the diplomatic relations, and has performed in S. 434/R267 Music Teachers National Association State concert halls in New York including Alice Tully GOUNOD/LISZT Valse de l’opéra Faust, S407/R166 Competition, Kaita has also won first prize Hall at , Weill Recital Hall, and N. KAPUSTIN Concert Étude No. 6 & 7, Op. 40 four times at the New Jersey Music Teachers Steinway Hall. Kaita has participated in master Pastoral Association Young Musicians Competition classes for Lang Lang, Gilbert Kalish, Enrique Intermezzo and three times at the Steinway Scholarship Graf, and Phillip Kawin. C. SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 22 Competition. Andante sostenuto Allegro scherzando Presto L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 3 in C Major, Op. 2, No. 3 Allegro con brio ighteen-year-old Fantee Jones of Carnegie Hall debut in May 2005. She has also F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 8 in D–flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 Roseville, California, began studying performed at the Mondavi Center in California, J.S. BACH Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829 the piano with her mother at age 3. At Temppeliaukion Kirkko in , and on Allemande Gigue Eage 7, she presented her first public performance Princess Cruise Lines. F. CHOPIN Andante spianato et Grande Polonaise at the Yamaha Music Exchange in Sacramento, In 2009, Jones won the International Brilliante, Op. 22 California. Soon after, she performed as a soloist Institute for Young Musicians Piano S. PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 82 with the Sacramento Youth Symphony Premier Competition. A gold medal winner in the Vivace Orchestra. collegiate division of the Seattle International V. HOROWITZ Variations on a Theme from Bizet’s “Carmen” Jones has won awards at international Piano Competition, Jones was also a prize L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58 competitions including the Bradshaw and Buono winner at the Louisiana International Piano Allegro moderato International Piano Competition, Los Angeles Competition, and won the Sacramento Youth Andante con moto Liszt International Competition, Music Teachers’ Symphony (SYS) Concerto Competition, Rondo: Vivace Association of California, Russian International where she performed the Rachmaninoff Piano Piano Competition, California and Southwest Concerto No. 2 with SYS in 2010. Division MTNA Baldwin Piano Competition, This past summer, Jones attended the Banff Seattle International Piano Competition, and Piano Master Class in Canada where she studied the Viardo International Piano Competition. As with Robert McDonald. She is currently a the first-prize winner of the Bradshaw & Buono scholarship student at the Manhattan School of International Piano Competition, Jones made her Music under the tutelage of Dr. Marc Silverman. Hyung-Do Kim Dong Won Lee 20 21 16 years old, Palisades Park, NJ, USA 18 years old, Redmond, WA, USA

J. HAYDN Keyboard Sonata No. 59 in E–flat L.v . BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 Major, Hob.XVI:49 Vivace ma non troppo–Adagio espressivo Allegro Prestissimo F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 18 in E Major, Gesangvoll, mit innigster Empfindung Op. 62, No. 2 Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo A. SCRIABIN Fantaisie in B Minor, Op. 28 R. SCHUMANN Romance No. 2 in F–sharp Major, Op. 28 F. CHOPIN Polonaise No. 7 in A–flat Major, J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in E–flat Minor, BWV 853, Book I Op. 61, “Polonaise–Fantasie” R. SCHUMANN Études Symphoniques, Op.13 J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 16 in G S. PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 7 in B–flat Major, Op. 83 Minor, BWV 861, Book I Allegro inquieto–Poco meno–Andantino S. RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, J. BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15 Op. 18 Maestoso Moderato Adagio Adagio sostenuto Rondo: Allegro non troppo Allegro scherzando

ong Won Lee studies with Dr. Sasha Starcevich, and his previous teachers have included Victoria DBogdashevskaya, Arthur Greene, Dmitri Vorobiev, and Claire Neiweem. As a 2012 Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist ixteen-year-old Hyung-Do Kim has Piano Congress Competition, International Award recipient, Lee has appeared as a soloist studied the piano since age 4. Born in Connecticut Music Competition, National in NPR’s From the Top. Also, he was awarded Korea, he currently studies with Choong Young Artists Competition, and Leschetitzky the Honorable Mention Award at the 2012 SMo Kang at the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Concerto Competition. A first-prize winner YoungArts program. In the summer of 2011, he Division. in the Juilliard Pre-College Concerto received a Lois Whitner Study Grant from the At age 8, Kim performed Haydn’s D Major Competition, Kim performed Mozart’s Piano Washington State Music Teachers Association to International Smetana Piano Competition. Piano Concerto with the Monroe Symphony Concerto No. 21 with the Juilliard Pre-College support his continued music studies and travels. Recently, Lee was selected as a winner of Orchestra in New York City. He performed his Orchestra. He has also appeared on WQXR’s In 2010 and 2011, Lee was the winner of the the Seattle Symphony Young Artist Audition debut recital in Merkin Recital Hall at age 10, Young Artists Showcase and NPR’s From the prestigious Festival Medal, the highest honor in to perform at a Discover Music Concert in June and has since given solo recitals at Carnegie Top. In 2010, From the Top selected Kim as a the Seattle Young Artists Music Festival. Also 2012. Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Steinway Hall, Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award winner in 2010, he participated as a finalist in the 5th Lee will continue his piano studies with Mannes College, the Summit Music Festival, and Jack Kent Cooke Young Scholar. New York International Piano Competition, Choong-Mo Kang in the Columbia-Juilliard New York’s National Arts Club, the Majestic In the summer of 2011, Kim attended the and in 2008, he earned second prize at the 28th Joint Program. Theater in Gettysburg, and the Benedict Music Aspen Music Festival and School where he Tent at the Aspen Music Festival. studied with Yoheved Kaplinsky. He has also Kim’s numerous awards include first participated in master classes with renowned prizes at the New York Music Competition, pianists Yefim Bronfman, Robert McDonald, Steinway Society Competition, New York Jerome Lowenthal, and Julian Martin. Xiaoyu Liu Micah McLaurin 22 23 15 years old, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 17 years old, Charleston, SC, USA

orn in , Xiaoyu Liu moved W.A. MOZART Piano Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K. 311 to Montreal at age 6 and began his Allegro con spirito piano studies the following year. Liu Andante con espressione Bcurrently studies with Richard Raymond at the Rondo: Allegro F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 8 in D–flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 Montreal Conservatory of Music. F. CHOPIN Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52 An international performer, Liu was a guest WAGNER/LISZT Isoldens Liebestod aus Tristan und Isolde, S447/R280 soloist at the 27th Maison Trestler Summer M. RAVEL La Valse Festival and 9th Festival Internazionale di S. RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No. 2 in B–flat Minor, Op. 36 Musica CIMA in Rome. He is a three-time Allegro agitato first-prize winner in the Canadian Music Non allegro Competition, and in 2010, he won first prize Allegro molto in the Grande Finale Desjardins at the Festival F. CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 de Musique Classique de Bas-Richelieu. That Maestoso same year, Liu performed Beethoven’s Choral Larghetto Fantasy Op. 80 with Orchestre Symphonique Allegro vivace de Longueuil under the baton of Marc David. In 2012, he performed Beethoven’s icah McLaurin, 17, began studying Charleston Symphony and Chopin’s Concerto Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Sinfonia de the piano at age 8 with Marsha No. 2 with the Montevideo Philharmonic. Lanaudieres, led by Stephane Laforest. Gerber. He currently studies In addition to performing in concerts, withM Enrique Graf on scholarship from McLaurin has won prizes and awards in the Charleston Academy of Music and the several international competitions, including Charleston Symphony Orchestra League. second prizes in the Ettlingen International L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein” McLaurin has been a soloist with the Competition for Young Pianists (Germany) Allegro con brio Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Hilton and International Institute for Young F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 20 in C–sharp Minor, Op. posth. J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 9 in E Major, BWV 854, Book I Head Symphony Orchestra, the South Carolina Musicians Competition (Kansas), and fifth F. LISZT Rhapsodie espagnole, S254/R90, “Folies d’Espagne et jota aragonesa” Philharmonic (as the winner of the Arthur prize at the Hilton Head International Piano S. RACHMANINOV Étude–Tableau No. 9 in D Major, Op. 39 Fraser International Concerto Competition), Competition. In 2011, McLaurin was the A. SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No. 4 in F–sharp Major, Op. 30 and the National Youth Orchestra of El youngest of eight pianists in the world selected Andante Salvador. He was the youngest pianist to ever to participate in the Verbier Festival Academy Prestissimo volando give a recital at the International Piano Series in Switzerland, where he performed in master D. GOUGEON “Piano–Soleil,” extrait de Six thèmes solaires in Charleston, and has appeared on South classes with Stephen Kovacevich, Ference S. RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 Carolina Educational Television and Kansas Rados, Ganbor Takacs Nagy, Lera Auerbach, Moderato Public Radio. On numerous occasions, he has and others. He also attended Music Fest Adagio sostenuto been a guest performer in the Piccolo Spoleto Perugia in Italy, where he performed with Allegro scherzando Festival, USA. This season, he will perform the Perugia Festival Orchestra and received Rachmaninov’s Concerto No. 2 with the instruction from Gary Graffman. Phoebe Pan Jinhyung Park 24 25 14 years old, Irvine, CA, USA 16 years old, Seoul, South Korea

hoebe Pan is a student at Pacific Center Spotlight Program in Los Angeles. She inhyung Park was born in Seoul and Academy in Irvine, California. She has also participated in master classes with began studying the piano at age 7. He is began her formal piano training when William Grant Naboré, Wha Kyung Byun, Jcurrently a student at Seoul Art High Pshe joined Opus119 School of Music in Irvine Myong-Joo Lee, and John Perry. School and studies with Yung-wook Yoo and at age 7, and currently studies with Yi Dong. Pan has appeared as a soloist with the Ji-Yoon Kim. Pan has won several piano competitions, Southwestern Youth Music Festival Orchestra After presenting his debut recital at including grand prize at the inaugural 2008 and the Seraphim Symphony. In addition the 2009 Kumho Prodigy Concert, Park Tureck International Bach Competition for to performances in concert halls including was invited back to perform the following Young Pianists, first prizes at the Bradshaw Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Walt Disney year. He participated in the 6th and 7th & Buono International piano competition, Concert Hall, and Dorothy Chandler International Tchaikovsky Competitions for Seattle International Piano Competition, and Pavilion, Pan enjoys performing at senior Young Musicians, which led to an opportunity the 2009 International Russian Music Piano centers and benefit concerts. She recently gave for Park to perform in Switzerland this past Competition. This year, she was awarded a solo recital to benefit the Lone Survivor year. A first-prize winner at the Ewha and first prize at the David D. Dubois Piano Foundation, raising funds for wounded Kyunghyang Competitions and the CBS Piano Competition, and grand prize in the Music soldiers and their families. Competition, Park recently performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the Yewon Orchestra at Seoul Art Center, and was a J. HAYDN Sonata No. 58 in C Major, Hob.XVI:48 featured soloist with the Miracle Chamber Andante con espressione Orchestra under the baton of Chi-yong Jeong. Rondo: Presto In his free time, Park enjoys playing soccer and F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 8 in D–flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 baseball. O. MESSIAEN Vingt regards sur l’enfant–Jésus Regard de l’Esprit de joie A. GRÜNFELD Soirée de Vienne: Konzertparaphrase über Johann Straußsche Walzermotive, Op. 56 L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata” from “Die Fledermaus” and others Allegro assai BACH/BUSONI Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004 F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 5 in F–sharp Major, Op. 15, No. 2 (arr. for piano) J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in C–sharp Major, BWV 848, Book I Chaconne W.A. MOZART Piano Sonata No. 9 in D Major, K. 311 R. SCHUMANN Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 Allegro con spirito Allegro affettuoso F. LISZT Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year: Italy supplement, S162/R10: Venezia e Napoli Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso No. 3 Tarantella Allegro vivace F. LISZT Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year: Italy, S161/R10b No. 7 Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata F. CHOPIN Barcarolle in F–sharp Major, Op.60 C. DEBUSSY L’isle joyeuse S. RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 Moderato Adagio sostenuto Allegro scherzando Prudence Hiu-Ying Poon Christopher Son Richardson 26 27 15 years old, Hong Kong, China 14 years old, Danville, CA, USA

L.v . BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 18 in E–flat Major, Op. 31, No. 3, “La Chasse” L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op.31, No. 2, Allegro “Tempest” F. MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words, No. 18 in A–flat Major, Op. 38, No. 6 Largo– Allegro F. CHOPIN Scherzo No. 2 in B–flat Minor, Op. 31 F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 8 in D–flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 A. GINASTERA Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2 F. CHOPIN Étude No. 4 in C–sharp Minor, Op. 10 Danza del viejo boyero F. LISZT Zwei Konzertetüden, No. 2 Gnomenreigen Danza de la moza donosa (Dance of the Gnomes), S145/R6 Danza del gaucho matrero F. LISZT Années de pèlerinage, 1st year: Switzerland, M. RAVEL Jeux d’eau S160/R10 P. TCHAIKOVSKY Dumka: Russian rustic scene, Op. 59 No. 4 Au bord d’une source F. CHOPIN Étude No. 19 in C–sharp Minor, Op. 25, No. 7 F. LISZT Liebesträume No. 3 Nocturne in A–flat Major, W.A. MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor, K. 466 S541/R221 Allegro A. GINASTERA Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2 Romance Danza del viejo boyero Rondo: Allegro assai Danza de la moza donosa Danza del gaucho matrero R. MUCZYNSKI Toccata, Op. 15 J.S. BACH English Suite No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 807 orn in Hong Kong, Prudence Poon Prelude is currently a student at the Diocesan R. SCHUMANN Theme and Variations on the name “Abegg,” Girls’ School. Poon has also studied at Op. 1 Bthe Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts S. PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 29 as a scholarship recipient in 2003. Allegro con brio, ma non leggiere Since beginning her piano studies at age 3, L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 Allegro con brio she has won prizes in numerous competitions Largo including first prizes in the Junior Exhibitioner Rondo–Finale: Allegro Award and Tom Lee Music Scholarship, and third prizes in the 75th Steinway & Sons International Youth Piano Competition ourteen-year-old Christopher International Piano Competition, Pacific Amateur Class, and Hong Kong Schools Music Richardson is a student of Frederick Musical Society Piano Competition, Sylvia Festival. This year, Poon was awarded the Weldy at Stanford University, and a M. Ghiglieri Piano Competition, and U.S. licentiate diploma with distinction in piano Fscholarship student of John O’Conor at the Open Music Competition. This past year, performance from the Royal Schools of Music. Aspen Music Festival and School. Richardson Richardson won the California State MTNA In addition to her studies with Yim also studies chamber music as a scholarship Competition and received third place at the Wan, Poon has been fortunate to work with student at the San Francisco Conservatory. Lennox International Young Artists Concerto renowned pianists such as Lang Lang, Gary A 2010 gold medal winner at the Competition. His numerous U.S. performances Graffman, and Pascal Roge. International Young Musician Festival, include engagements at Weill Recital Hall at held at Carnegie Hall, Richardson went on Carnegie Hall, the McCallum Theater in Palm in 2011 to receive first prize in the Seattle Springs, and the Harris Concert Hall at Aspen. Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner Trenton Takaki 28 29 15 years old, New York, NY, USA 17 years old, Wilmette, IL, USA

ifteen-year-oldLlewellyn Sanchez- renton Takaki is a senior at New Trier as one of seven national finalists in the 2010 Werner enrolled at Ventura College at High School in Winnetka, Illinois. MTNA Junior Performance Competition in age 5, and began studying at Juilliard at He has studied with Sueanne Metz for Albuquerque, New Mexico. Most recently, Fage 14. Following his orchestral debut at age 6 T12 years, and also studies with Alan Chow at Takaki won first place in the 2012 Civic and with the Ventura College Symphony, the New Northwestern University. Arts Foundation Annual Classical Music West Symphony selected Sanchez-Werner as the Takaki has received prizes in competitions Scholarship Auditions at Roosevelt University youngest-ever Discovery Artist. across the country, including the Aloha in Chicago. In 2009, a solo performance at the White International Piano Competition, Bradshaw A featured artist in the Young Steinway House and meeting President and First Lady Buono International Piano Competition, Concert Series, Takaki has performed at Weill Obama cemented his commitment to public Walgreens Concerto Competition, Hope Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Symphony service through the arts. That same year, College Young Artist Piano Competition, Center in Chicago, and the IIYM Summer he performed in Rwanda for President Paul Sejong Music Competition, Steinway Young Academy Honors Recital at the University Kagame and a gathering of humanitarian and Artists Competition, and DePaul Concerto of Kansas. He has also performed in master economic leaders. Sanchez-Werner flew into Festival. After winning the MTNA State classes led by Julian Martin, Mary Sauer, Hans war-torn Baghdad in 2010, becoming the first Competition at Eastern Illinois University Boepple, Svetlana Belsky, and George Le Pauw, American soloist to perform there with the Iraqi and the MTNA Division Competition at among others. National Symphony Orchestra. the University of Wisconsin, he competed Sanchez-Werner has performed in concert halls throughout the world, including Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Smetana Hall in L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31, Prague, Czech Republic, Salon de Virtuosi, No. 2, “Tempest” Steinway Hall, the Gijon International Piano Festival in New York. Sanchez-Werner currently Largo–Allegro F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 13 in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1 Festival in Spain, Ashford Castle in Ireland, the studies piano with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Ilya S. PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 82 Aspen Music Festival, and the Banff Summer Itin, jazz with Frank Kimbrough, conducting Vivace Arts Festival in Canada. He also served as artist- with George Stelluto, and composition with S. RACHMANINOV Études–tableaux, No. 9 in D Major, Op. 39 in-residence at the Canandaigua Lake Music Lowell Liebermann. O. MESSIAEN Vingt regards sur l’enfant–Jésus No. 2, Regard de l’étoile L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein” F. CHOPIN Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 20 Allegro con brio J. HAYDN Sonata No. 46 in E Major, Hob.XVI:31 F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 13 in C Minor, Op. 48, No. 1 Moderato F. CHOPIN Polonaise No. 7 in A–flat Major, Op. 61, “Polonaise–Fantasie” L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 F. LISZT Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year: Italy, S161/R10b Allegro con brio No. 7 Après une lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata Largo S. BARBER Piano Sonata in E–flat Minor, Op. 26 Rondo–Finale: Allegro Fuga: Allegro con spirito F. CHOPIN Preludes, Nos. 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24, Op. 28 S. RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 Moderato Adagio sostenuto Allegro scherzando Aleksandr Voinov Jingquan Xie 30 31 14 years old, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 16 years old, Shanghai, China

L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein” ince beginning her piano studies at age Allegro con brio 2 ½, Jingquan Xie has developed into F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 8 in D–flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 an award-winning performer. She is J.S. BACH Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in D Major, BWV 850, Book I Scurrently a student at the Music Middle School F. CHOPIN Polonaise No. 6 in A–flat Major, Op. 53, “Heroic” affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory F. CHOPIN Étude No. 12 in C Minor, Op. 10, “Revolutionary” of Music, where she studies with Xiao Lou. F. MENDELSSOHN Rondo capriccioso in E Major, Op. 14 Equally at home as a chamber musician M. MOLEIRO Joropo N. KAPUSTIN Variations, Op. 41 and soloist, Xie has won prizes in China P. TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 in B–flat Minor, Op. 23 and abroad. In 2009, she won third prize in Allegro non troppo–Allegro con spirito the 1st Asia-Pacific International Chopin Andantino simplice–Prestissimo–Tempo Primo Piano Competition in Korea, and in 2010, Allegro con fuoco Xie performed as a soloist with the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra.

ourteen-year-old Aleksandr (Sasha) performances in solo and theory events. His Voinov began playing piano at age ragtime-inflected composition Master Rag, L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2, No. 2 5, and soon after began composing written when Voinov was just 8 years old, won Allegro vivace Fhis own music. By age 9, Voinov had first place in the Regional and second place in Largo appassionato already won three Golden Cups from the the National Junior Composers Contest. Scherzo: Allegretto–Trio National Federation of Music Clubs for his Voinov enrolled in the City Music Center Rondo: Grazioso of Duquesne University in 2007, where F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 4 in F Major, Op. 15, No. 1 Prelude and Fugue No. 22 in B–flat Minor, BWV 867, Book I he currently studies piano, violin, music J.S. BACH C. DEBUSSY Estampes theory, and composition. In 2008, he won the Pagodes Duquesne Young Artist National Competition La soirée dans Grenade for piano performance, and earned an Jardins sous la pluie honorable mention among the finalists in J. BRAHMS Ballade Nos. 1 and 2, Op. 10 the 23rd International Young Artist Piano I. ALBÉNIZ Iberia, Book 1 Competition in Washington, D.C. Voinov has Evocación since won the Duquesne competition twice El Puerto more, most recently winning the 16-to 18-year- F. CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 old division at age 13. He has performed on Maestoso NPR’s From the Top and in that show’s 2012 Larghetto Gala Concert. His solo appearances include Allegro vivace the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Erie Philharmonic Orchestra, and Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra. Voinov’s compositions have been performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as well as by area chamber groups. Yan Cai Min Joo Yi 32 33 15 years old, Hangzhou, China 18 years old, Bellevue, WA, USA

orn in Hangzhou, China, Yan Cai L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata” devoted himself to piano at age 4, and Allegro assai began his studies with Dan Zhaoyi at F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 1 in B–flat Minor, Op. 9 No. 1 Bage 7. He currently attends the Middle School F. LISZT Rhapsodie espagnole, S254/R90, “Folies d’Espagne et jota aragonesa” D. SCARLATTI Sonata in B Minor, K. 87 affiliated with the Shanghai Conservatory of D. SCARLATTI Sonata in G Major, K. 427 Music, where he studies with William Chen. S. RACHMANINOV Études–tableaux, No. 5 in E–flat Minor, Op. 39 A first-prize winner in the Zhejiang Piano C. DEBUSSY Prélude No. 5, Book 1, “Les collines d’Anacapri” Competition, Cai gave his first public recital P. TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 in B–flat Minor, Op. 23 at age 9, and in 2010, won third prize in the Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso–Allegro con spirito Third Kawai Asia Piano Competition. He Andantino semplice. Prestissimo. Andantino semplice has performed both solo recitals and with Allegro con fuoco the Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra in major concert halls across China, including the Shanghai Concert Hall, Shanghai Grand Theater, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, and ighteen-year-old Min Joo Yi is Hangzhou Grand Theater. currently a student of Duane Hulbert, and will begin studying at Princeton EUniversity this fall. She began playing the piano at age 6, and has since received numerous awards, including the bronze medal W.A. MOZART Sonata No. 14 in C Minor, K. 457 in the 2011 Schimmel USASU International Molto allegro Piano Competition, and second place at F. MENDELSSOHN Songs Without Words, No. 25 in G Major, Op. 62, No. 1 the national level of both the 2008 Junior O. MESSIAEN Catalogue d’oiseaux: No. 2, Le Loriot Piano and 2010 Senior Piano Music Teachers F. LISZT Etudes d’exécution transcendante, No. 4 in D Minor, “Mazeppa,” S139/R2b National Association divisions. A. GRÜNFELD Soirée de Vienne: Konzertparaphrase über A 2012 recipient of the Merit Award from Johann Straußsche Walzermotive, Op. 56 the YoungArts Foundation, Yi was a finalist from “Die Fledermaus” and others in the 2009 International Institute for Young N. KAPUSTIN Toccatina, Op. 36 Musicians Piano Competition and the 2010 M. RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales New York International Piano Competition, E. GRIEG Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 benefit concert sponsored by the Polyclinic and a semifinalist in the 2011 New Orleans Allegro molto moderato Community Health Foundation, Sherman International Piano Competition. Adagio Clay , and Seattle Young Artists Music She has appeared on the Seattle Channel Allegro moderato molto e marcato– Quasi presto– Andante maes Festival. She has performed with the University Art Zone in 2009 and 2011, and on Kansas of Puget Sound Symphony Orchestra and the Public Radio in 2008 and 2009. In 2009, New World Youth Symphony Orchestra. In her Yi performed in the Music for Medicine free time, Yi enjoys drawing. Amiran Zenaishvili Sarina Zhang 34 35 16 years old, Moscow, Russian Federation 16 years old, San Diego, CA, USA

miran Zenaishvili began his piano amed a 2009 Davidson Fellow by Competition, International Russian Piano studies at age 5 with Ada Traub and the Davidson Institute for Talent Music Competition, State Solo Competition Tatiana Vorobieva at the Gnessin Development, Sarina Zhang is for cello (California), and the San Diego Nan 11th-grade student at the California Symphony’s Young Artists Competition. ASpecial Music College in Moscow. Zenaishvili has performed internationally Virtual Academy. She is also enrolled in the In 2011, Zhang presented her New York from an early age, including a 2003 Pre-College Division at the Juilliard School Philharmonic debut. She has appeared four performance at Cambridge University in with a double major in piano (with Yoheved times on the NPR’s From the Top, and has England for the Young Russian Talents Kaplinsky) and cello (with Richard Aaron). performed as a soloist on both piano and program. In 2006, he won first prize at the A finalist at the 2011 Stulberg International cello with the Prague Youth Philharmonic 7th Concorso Internazionale Valsesia Musica String competition, Zhang has earned top Symphony at the Rudolfinum in Prague. Since juniores in Italy, and performed the following awards at numerous competitions, including 2010, she has been invited twice as a guest year as a soloist with the St. Petersburg State the Aspen Music Festival’s Low Strings artist at the Emirates International Peace Academic Capella Symphony Orchestra. Competition (2010), the Juilliard Pre- Music Festival in Dubai. She has performed He was also a third-prize winner at the 6th College Dvorak Cello Concerto Competition with the St. Louis Symphony, the San Diego International “A Step Towards Mastery” (2009), the New York Ensemble Young Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Competition in St. Petersburg. In 2008, he Artist Competition (2012), the Connecticut Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Corpus Christi received Grand Prize and Special Diploma International Young Artist Competition for Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony and at the 8th International Balys Dvarionas piano (2008), the MTAC California Piano Solo California Symphony Orchestra. Competition for Young Pianists and Violinists L.v. BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, in Vilnius, Lithuania. Op. 31, No. 2, “Tempest” J. HAYDN Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob.XVI:50 Since 2009, Zenaishvili has studied at Largo– Allegro Allegro Nocturne No. 8 in D–flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 the Central Music School of Moscow State Adagio F. CHOPIN Allegretto MOZART/LISZT Réminiscences de Don Juan, S418/R228 Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Alexandr R. SCHUMANN 3 Romanzen, No. 2 in F–sharp M. CLEMENTI Sonata in F–sharp Minor Op. 25, No. 5 Mndoyants. In 2011, he was awarded a Major, Op. 28 Allegro con espressione scholarship by the Yuri Rozum International J. BRAHMS Rhapsody, No. 1 in B Minor, Lento e patetico Charitable Foundation and won first prize Op. 79 Presto that same year at the International Carl Filtsch D. SHOSTAKOVICH Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in S. RACHMANINOV Prelude No. 5 in G Major, Op. 32 Competition in Hermannstadt, Romania. D Minor, Op. 87 S. RACHMANINOV Prelude No. 2 in B–flat Major, Op. 23 Zenaishvili continues to perform as a soloist F. LISZT Rhapsodie espagnole, S254/ F. CHOPIN Scherzo No. 4 in E Major, Op. 54 and with chamber ensembles in Russia, as well R90, “Folies d’Espagne et jota M. RAVEL Jeux d’eau as in Denmark, Germany, and Croatia. When aragonesa” G. LIGETI Musica ricercata he is not performing, he enjoys conducting and F. LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1 in E–flat Allegro con spirito reading. Major, S124/R455 Tempo di Valse Allegro maestoso Vivace–Capriccioso Quasi adagio A. VOLODOS Concert Paraphrase on Mozart’s “Turkish Allegretto vivace March” Allegro animato S. RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18 Moderato Adagio sostenuto Allegro scherzando Annie Zhou 36 37 14 years old, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Judges

ourteen-year-old Annie Zhou is a Symphony Hall in Montreal, Orchestra Hall in Robert Shannon, Director scholarship student at the Young Artists Minneapolis, and Carnegie Hall in New York. Performance Academy at the Royal Since age 11, she has performed in Italy every Robert Shannon is professor of piano at the Oberlin FConservatory of Music, where she studies with year, sponsored by Festival Assisi nel Mondo. Conservatory of Music, director of the Division Marietta Orlov. She began her piano lessons She has also appeared on local and national of Keyboard Studies, and director and founder at age 4 with Tanya Tkachenko. At ages 5 television and radio, including performances of the Oberlin International Piano Festival and and 6, Zhou was the youngest student of any with Lang Lang on CTVís Canada AM and Competition, now known as the Thomas & Evon discipline to be awarded scholarships from the Classical 96.3 FM. As a chamber musician, Cooper International Competition. He joined the Royal Conservatory School. She has won three she performed on WNED Classical 94.5 FM Oberlin faculty in 1976. consecutive first prizes at the national finals of Buffalo. Shannon has presented solo recitals, ensemble the annual Canadian Music Competition, and Since her orchestral debut at age 8, Zhou concerts, and master classes throughout the was a top winner at the 2010 Canadian Chopin has performed with the , United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. In Piano Competition. In 2011, she became the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra, recent seasons, he has appeared in London, Paris, the youngest prize-winner at the Minnesota the Toronto Sinfonietta, and the Montreal Glasgow, Rome, Stuttgart, New York, San Francisco, International e-Piano Junior Competition. Symphony Orchestra. She will perform with Columbia (South America), Taiwan, and Beijing. Zhou has performed in many prestigious the Toronto Symphony Orchestra this fall. His repertoire ranges from Bach to Adams, and concert halls throughout Canada and the he has been especially noted for his penetrating United States, including Glenn Gould interpretations of recent American music. His recent Studio and Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, recordings of sonatas by Charles Ives on Bridge Records have received rave reviews worldwide. His recordings of Ives’ complete works for violin and J. HAYDN Sonata No. 59 in E–flat Major, Hob.XVI:49 piano, and works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Allegro George Crumb, are also available on Bridge Records. F. MENDELSSOHN Variations sérieuses in D Minor, Op. 54 An Oberlin alumnus of both the conservatory F. CHOPIN Nocturne No. 8 in D–flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 and the college, Shannon earned a Master of Music S. PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 28 degree at the Juilliard School. He has studied with C. DEBUSSY L’isle joyeuse F. CHOPIN Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 23 Jack Radunsky, Ania Dorfmann, Dorothy Taubman F. CHOPIN Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 and Vladimir Ashkenazy. Maestoso Larghetto Allegro vivace 38 39

Angela Cheng Seung Hae Choi

Canadian pianist Angela Cheng is one of her As a performer and educator, Seung Hae Choi has country’s national treasures. In addition to regular traveled across the world, from the bustling streets guest appearances with most every orchestra in of Seoul, South Korea, to the American arts-Mecca Canada, she has performed with the orchestras of New York City where she relocated as a teenager of Buffalo, Colorado, Houston, Indianapolis, Saint to attend the Julliard School’s Pre-College program. Louis, San Diego, Utah, and others. Cheng has She went on at Juilliard to earn bachelor’s and mas- worked extensively with the great musician- ter’s degrees, and undertook professional studies pedagogue Menahem Pressler. at Mannes College the New School for Music. She At the invitation of Pinchas Zukerman, in has won Julliard’s Beethoven Competition, as well 2009, Cheng toured China with the Zukerman as the Hankook Young Artists International Chamber ChamberPlayers and subsequent seasons have Music, and Ewha Kyunghyang competitions. She has included tours in the United States, Europe, and performed in Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and South America. Cheng’s debut recording of two with the Julliard Orchestra and the Korean National Mozart concerti with Mario Bernardi and the CBC Symphony Orchestra. Vancouver Orchestra received glowing reviews. Choi has recorded for the Korean Broadcasting Other CDs include Clara Schumann’s Concerto System’s Honorable Artists’ Series and has accom- with JoAnn Falletta and the Women’s Philharmonic panied several world-renowned performers. She cur- for Koch International; for CBC Records, Spanish rently holds professorships at Kyungwon University concerti with and the Calgary in Seoul, South Korea, and serves as an instructor Philharmonic, Shostakovich concerti with Mario at the Yewon, Seoul, and Sunhwa arts schools. Bernardi and the CBC Radio Orchestra. Cheng has Her students have won and placed well in such recorded a solo disc of works by Clara and Robert competitions as the Yewon Arts School Concerto Schumann, and an all-Chopin CD released by Competition, the Oberlin Conservatory of Music Universal Music Canada. International Piano Competition, the South Korean Cheng was a gold medalist of the Arthur Education Minister’s Student Music Competition, Rubinstein International Piano Masters Competition, and the Ye-Eum Festival Concerto Competition. and the first Canadian to win the Montreal International Piano Competition. Prior to her appointment to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1999, she was on faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Judges 40 41

Alvin Chow Jeremy Denk

Alvin Chow has ap- Gorodnitzki, and held the Joseph Battista Memorial An active soloist and chamber musician, pianist Spoleto festivals. For his 2008 recital in Zankel peared throughout Scholarship at Indiana University as a student of Jeremy Denk’s repertoire ranges from the standard Hall, Denk paired two of the repertoire’s most North America and Menahem Pressler. works of the 18th and 19th centuries to 20th- daunting masterworks—Ives’s “Concord Sonata” in Asia as orchestral Chow received top prizes in the University of century masters such as Ives, Ligeti, Lutoslawski, and Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier”—a highlight soloist and recitalist. Maryland International Piano Competition and the and Messiaen. He also delves into new works by of the concert season. He played a sold-out He has performed ex- New York Piano Teachers Congress International leading composers of today. recital in Zankel Hall in February 2011, performing tensively in duo-piano Piano Competition. He has performed in the Kennedy After graduating from Oberlin College and Ligeti’s Études, Books 1 and 2 and Bach’s Goldberg recitals with his wife, Center in Washington, D.C., Orchestra Hall in Conservatory of Music with a double degree in piano Variations. Angela Cheng, and Chicago, Weill Recital Hall in New York City, and the performance and chemistry in 1990, Denk earned a Denk released his first solo recording, Jeremy his twin brother, Alan. Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria. master’s degree in music at Indiana University as Denk Plays Ives, which includes Charles Ives’s Piano A native of Miami, Florida, he graduated as co- He has presented masterclasses and lectures a pupil of György Sebök, and a doctorate in piano Sonatas 1 and 2, on his Think Denk Media label. He valedictorian at the University of Maryland, where throughout the United States and abroad. He chairs performance at the Juilliard School, where he worked lives in New York City. he was a student of Nelita True. Chow received the the piano department at the Oberlin Conservatory with Herbert Stessin. Victor Herbert Prize in Piano upon graduation from of Music. He has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia the Juilliard School, where he studied with Sascha Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Indiana Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and many others. In March 2011, Denk made his long-awaited Los Angeles Philharmonic debut with conductor Gustavo Dudamel. In the same month, Denk replaced Maurizio Pollini in recital. The performance marked his Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall in New York. Denk has premiered works by Jake Heggie, Libby Larsen, Kevin Putz, and Ned Rorem, and, as an avid chamber musician, he has performed at Marlboro Music, toured with Musicians from Marlboro, and played at the Santa Fe, Seattle, Verbier, and Judges 42 43

Monique Duphil Christopher Elton

Monique Duphil made her debut at 15, performing with the Philadelphia Pianist and cellist Christopher Elton has received Mendelssohn’s G Minor Piano Concerto with Orchestra, highest honors in his studies of both instruments Orchestre de la Société des Concerts (now substituting on a few at London’s . He was a Orchestre de París), and soon earned prizes in four hour’s notice for cellist prizewinner in several British and international international competitions, including the Chopin M. Rostropovich, piano competitions and continued his studies with Competition in Warsaw. Duphil was reengaged Maria Curcio-Diamand, playing and broadcasting She has performed in more than 2,000 recitals, by to regularly both as a soloist and in chamber music. chamber music concerts, and with orchestras appear with him four Elton has gained widespread recognition for worldwide. The duo she formed in 1976 with more times. the successes of his students. Many have won her husband, Jay Humeston, formerly the Hong Duphil was on international awards, including first prizes in the Kong Philharmonic’s principal cellist, was highly the faculty of the Van Cliburn and London World International Piano successful in America, Europe, and throughout Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts, competitions, as well as in Jaen, Newport, Dudley, Asia. and senior lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist College and New Orleans. One of his students has been a Duphil has partnered with many renowned before being appointed a professor of pianoforte prizewinner in each of three recent concurrent Leeds artists: Henryk Szeryng, Ruggiero Ricci, Karl at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in 1994. International Piano competitions. Leister, Pierre Fournier, Regis Pasquier, Gerard She has given masterclasses in many countries, Elton has served on juries for competitions in his Poulet, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Hermann Baumann, particularly in Asia, where she is regularly invited native United Kingdom, and in Russia (Tchaikovsky), Cho-Liang Lin, Michel Debost, and Alex Klein. to hold piano seminars, and is invited to serve on China, Ireland, Italy (Busoni), Austria, Germany, She has played with the Chester, Portland, the juries of international piano competitions. Japan, Romania, Taiwan, and the United States. He St. Petersburg, Haydn, Vienna Philharmonic, Duphil has recorded for the Polydor, Avila, is currently head of keyboard at the Royal Academy Musikverein and the American String Quartets, as Telefunken, Marco Polo, and Naxos labels. of Music, London, where he was elected a fellow well as the Salzburg Mozarteum Trío. In recognition in 1983. In 2012 he will also serve on the Dublin, of her spectacular debut in the United States Ettlingen, and Leeds International Competition juries. Judges 44 45

Rachel Goodwin Stanislav Ioudenitch

Rachel Goodwin has been the artistic director, Pianist Stanislav Ioudenitch is widely regarded James DePreist, Günther Herbig, Asher Fisch, founder, and core member pianist of Ashmont Hill for his strong individuality and musical conviction. Stefan Sanderling, Michael Stern, Carl St. Clair, Chamber Music since 1985. She is a performer, His artistry won him the Gold Medal at the 11th and Justus Franz, and with such orchestras as the a teacher, and a resident of Ashmont Hill in Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, where Munich Philharmonic, the National Symphony in Boston, Massachusetts, who is committed to the he also took home the Steven De Groote Memorial Washington, D.C., the Rochester Philharmonic, the community’s cultural growth. As artistic director, Award for Best Performance of Chamber Music. Honolulu Symphony, and the National Philharmonic over the past season she designed, implemented, Born in 1971 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, of Russia. He has also performed with the Takács, and performed in a residency and concert program Ioudenitch has netted prizes at the Busoni, Prazák, Borromeo, and Accorda quartets and is a titled Music, Poetry and American Identity in two Kapell, Maria Callas, and New Orleans founding member of the Park Piano Trio. Boston-area high schools. The project was funded competitions, among others. A former student He has performed at Carnegie Hall in New by the National Endowment for the Arts under of Dmitri Bashkirov, he also studied with Leon York, the Kennedy Center, the Gasteig in Munich, the category American Masterpieces Chamber Fleisher, Murray Perahia, , the Conservatorio Verdi in Milan, the International Music, and featured the music of Ruth Crawford William Grant Naboré, and Rosalyn Tureck at the Performing Arts Center in Moscow, Forbidden City Seeger (poetry by Carl Sandburg). In 2002, the International Piano Foundation in Como, Italy, now Concert Hall in Beijing, the Théâtre du Châtelet in Boston Cultural Council named Goodwin an Artist/ the International Piano Academy Lake Como. He Paris, Bass Hall in Fort Worth, Jordan Hall at the Humanist Fellow in the City of Boston for the quality Conservatory’s Schools of Preparatory and subsequently became the youngest teacher ever New England Conservatory, the Orange County of her creative work, her dedication over time, her Continuing Education. She has presented lecture- invited to give master classes at the academy. Performing Arts Center in California, and the community building efforts, and her outreach to the recitals on works of Bartók and Ravel for the Ioudenitch has collaborated with James Conlon, Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. public at large. Longy School of Music’s graduate seminar in Ioudenitch’s recordings include Stanislav Goodwin has appeared in solo recitals and as analysis and performance, a masterclass for the Ioudenitch, Gold Medalist, 11th Van Cliburn a chamber musician throughout the eastern United Longy’s (Preparatory Division) Performance Hour, International Piano Competition for Harmonia States and California, including at the New England and lectures for Longy’s (College Division) piano Mundi, and Trois Mouvements de Petrouchka Conservatory, Mannes College of Music, Gardner pedagogy classes on the integration of music theory produced by Thomas Frost. He also appeared and DeCordova Museums, Harvard University, Longy into piano teaching. Active as a music theorist in Playing on the Edge, Peter Rosen’s Peabody School of Music, Weston Public Library, University of as well as a performer, Goodwin has presented Award-winning documentary for PBS about the California at Santa Cruz and Riverside, in addition a lecture-recital on Bartók that was the featured 2001 Van Cliburn competition and in the PBS to being heard on radio stations WGBH, WCRB, and event at a joint meeting of two music theory Concerto series. In addition to Lake Como, he WUMB, and in Boston’s First Night Celebration. As a societies. has led masterclasses at the Cliburn-TCU Piano chamber musician, Goodwin performs regularly with Goodwin holds a Master of Music degree (with Institute in Fort Worth, at Stanford University, musicians from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and honors) from the New England Conservatory and Cornell University, the National University in Seoul, faculty from Boston University and New England a Diploma in piano performance from the Mannes and Miami’s International Institute for Young Conservatory. She has participated in summer College of Music in New York. Her piano teachers Musicians. music festivals at Ernen Musikdorf (Switzerland), include Edith Oppens, Barbara Shearer, Vally Gara Aspen, the Banff Centre, and New College. and Alexander Lieberman, and she has performed Goodwin recently joined the piano faculty at extensively in master classes for Karl Ulrich the College of the Holy Cross. She has served Schnabel and György Sebök. Her chamber music as a chamber music coach for the New England coaches have included Eugene Lehner, Luis Battle, John Graham and Lorand Fenyves. Judges 46 47

Sanford Margolis Cheung-Yu Mo

Sanford Margolis, professor of piano at the One of China’s most intriguing pianistic voices, Oberlin Conservatory of Music since 1972, has Cheung-yu Mo received early musical training at performed throughout the United States, Spain, the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts as a and Israel. He has performed as concerto soloist pupil of Danish pianist John Winther. He furthered with such conductors as Anton Dorati, Stanislas his studies at Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Skrowaczewski, Arthur Fiedler, , and Robert Shannon, graduating in 1995, and with Robert Spano. Yoheved Kaplinsky of the Juilliard School from Margolis has judged the Oberlin International which he graduated with a Doctorate of Musical Piano Competition since its inception, as well as Arts. the Minnesota Orchestral Artist Competition, the A pianist noted for the poetry, passion, and Indiana University Concerto Competition, and panache of his art, Mo made his Severance Hall others. debut with the Oberlin Orchestra under Peter Jaffe while a student at Oberlin. Since then, he has given highly acclaimed performances across North America, in Japan, mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, in recitals, chamber music concerts, concerto engagements, as well as the Gambit and Focus contemporary music festivals. Mo’s rendition of works by Schubert, Schumann, Liszt, various Spanish composers, and the contemporary Chinese composer Cui Shi-guang can be heard on the Poly Culture label. Judges 48 49

Haewon Song Frances Walker-Slocum

Haewon Song is a member of the acclaimed performances with the KBS Orchestra in Seoul, Frances Walker- in the junior division of the Howard University Oberlin Trio along with Oberlin faculty David the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Slocum of Department of Music. A 1945 graduate of the Bowlin, violin, and Amir Eldan, cello. An Chamber Symphony, and such Oberlin conservatory Washington, D.C. Oberlin Conservatory of Music, with further studies internationally recognized artist and pedagogue, ensembles as the Chamber Orchestra, College joined the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music and Columbia Song has performed and taught at top venues Community Strings, and Wind Ensemble. She often at the Oberlin University Teacher’s College, her distinguished throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. performs in duo piano recitals with her husband Conservatory of teaching career began in 1947 at Barber-Scotia Her frequent appearances include concerto and fellow Oberlin faculty member Robert Shannon. Music in 1976. In College in Concord, North Carolina. Since then, she Song has appeared in Mexico’s Cervantino 1979, she became has been a member of the faculties of Tougaloo Festival, the All-American Music Festival in the first African College in Mississippi, Third Street Settlement Stuttgart, Grand Teton Music Festival, Aria American woman at Oberlin College to receive School in New York, and Rutgers University. She Festival, Canada’s Institute of Musical Arts, tenure. She retired from the college in 1991. served as pianist in residence at Lincoln University Festival de Nice in France, the Oberlin Summer Performing to critical acclaim in countries in Pennsylvania. Piano Festival, and the Tonghai Music Festival in around the world including England, Germany, Her students have received significant Taiwan. , and the Philippines, she has appeared recognition in both national and international A native of South Korea, Song attended the in top venues throughout the United States. competitions, and they have appeared as Toho School in Tokyo, the Peabody Preparatory She made her New York Carnegie Hall debut in orchestral soloists and in recitals worldwide. School, and the Juilliard School, where her major 1959 and has performed at the Kennedy Center, Praised for her strength, intelligence, and love of teachers were Julian Martin, Martin Canin, Corcoran Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Alice music, as well as her emphasis on music by black and Shuku Iwasaki. She has taught at Tunghai Tully Hall, and in numerous recitals at Weill Hall, composers, Walker-Slocum was twice honored University in Taiwan, Kyung Won University in most notably the 1975 Concert of Black American for her contribution to music by the National Seoul, and has been a member of the Oberlin piano Composers. Association of Negro Musicians. In 2004 she department since 1991. Walker-Slocum began her musical training at received the Alumni Medal from Oberlin College. Many of her students have won major prizes in age 4 and later received additional instruction She lives in Oberlin. national and international competitions including MTNA Nationals, Wideman, Kingsville, Oberlin International Piano, Walgreen, World, and Corpus Christie, and regularly appear with significant orchestras in the United States and Asia. 50

Dan Wen Wei

Dan-Wen Wei, a native of China, is considered Center. As a recitalist, Wei has performed in cities one of the most outstanding musicians of his throughout the United States and Europe, and has generation. A soloist with numerous orchestras in performed in such festivals as the Ravinia Festival the United States and China, he has collaborated in Chicago, the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, with conductors such as Gerard Schwarz, Raymond the Beijing Music Festival, and the Tuscan Sun Leppard, Olaf Koch, Catherine Comet, Yong-Yan Hu, Festival in Cortona, Italy. Lan Shui, and Marion Alsop. Wei released a debut solo recording on the 3D Wei made his critically acclaimed New York Classics label that includes work by Liszt, Chopin, debut in 1991, performing with the New York and Schubert. His world premiere recording of a Philharmonic for the Mozart Bicentennial at Lincoln concerto by Chinese composer Zhang Zhao was released by China Recording Corp. in 2000. His second solo album Love’s Memory, which consists of short pieces by Tchaikovsky, Chopin, and Liszt, was released in 2005. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Wei was among the last pupils of the legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz. Wei has won prizes in numerous piano competitions including the Montreal International Piano Competition, the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition, and the Marguerite Long International Piano Competition. A much sought-after teacher and a frequent adjudicator in China, Wei collaborated with Shenyang Conservatory of Music to create the International Music Education Center. Wei is the founder and artistic director of International Concert Alliance, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making classical music reach more people by presenting a quality concert series as well as an annual Young People’s Piano Competition in the New York area. GEORGE LI, winner of the inaugural Cooper International Competition (Piano 2010)

George Li presents a stellar performance of Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with The Cleveland Orchestra to capture first prize in the inaugural Cooper International Competition (2010). (Photo by Roger Mastroianni)

“[We] would like to express our greatest gratitude to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and The Cleveland Orchestra. The Cooper International Competition has provided George with the great opportunity for making music in front of the world and to be recognized by the music community.” –Mr. Jian Li (George Li’s father)

ince winning First Prize in the Sinaugural Cooper International Competition (2010), here are just a few of George Li’s spectacular achievements and performances: • Performance at the White House State Dinner for President and Mrs. Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel (June 2011) • 2012 Gilmore Young Artist Award (June 2011) • Recital at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, George Li recently performed at a White House State Dinner honoring Germany (June 2011) German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Seen in a White House photo signed by President and Mrs. Obama are: Katie Li; Dr. Joachim Sauer, • First Prize, Young Concert husband of the Chancellor, First Lady Michelle Obama, Dr. Angela Artists International Auditions Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, President Barack Obama, and Jian Li. In front row: Andrew Li and George Li, (November 2010) 2010 Cooper Competition winner.