Pianist

Akemi Alink Akemi Alink was born in Japan. She has won prizes in national and international piano competitions and has performed in many esteemed halls. She is a sought-after soloist and is also active in chamber music and lieder accompaniment. In 2012, she formed a duo with German mezzo-soprano Stephanie Gericke.

David Earl The pianist and composer David Earl was born in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 1951. Growing up in Cape Town, he attended Rondebosch Boys' Preparatory and High Schools, during which time he studied the piano with the British émigré Sona Whiteman, a disciple of Tobias Matthay. At 16 he broadcast a

Christiana M. Perai Christiana M. Perai was born in Graz, Austria. Her teachers and major influences have been Walter Kamper, Eugen Jakab, David Burge, Jürgen Uhde, and Alexander Satz. Since 1981, she has taught piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG). She is a sought-after contemporary music

Logan Skelton Logan Skelton is a much sought-after pianist, teacher, and composer whose work has received international critical acclaim. As a performer, Skelton has concertized widely in the United States, Europe, and Asia and has been featured on many national public radio and television stations, as well as on radio in

Anastasiya Naplekova Ukrainian-born pianist Anastasiya Naplekova has a unique voice in the world of music, performing with “effortless virtuosity” (Cincinnati Enquirer) and delivering the most challenging works of the piano repertoire with “strongly personal performance(s)” (The Miami Herald). Winner of the Rudolf Firkusny International Piano Competition in Prague, she has recently

Yundi Xu Born in 1998, Yundi started to play the piano at the age of three under the guidance of her maternal grandfather (himself a pianist and pedagogue) in Beijing, China. In 2002, she won her first piano competition "MIDO" in Paris, and, after a series of concerts, her success brought her

Yevgeny Yontov Israeli pianist Yevgeny Yontov began his musical studies at the age of six with Adela Umansky. He later received his B.Mus degree summa cum laude from the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music in Tel-Aviv University, where he studied with Prof. Arie Vardi. He then moved to the US to study with

Xu Rui Xu Rui was born in May 1996 in Beijing, China. She showed her talent when she was four years old and then began the study of piano under the guidance of the most distinguished piano professor in China, M ̊ Zhao Pingguo. She has been the top-prize winner of many

Willem de Beer Described as “mature beyond his age” and a “… bright and shining star in the firmament of the South African music scene,” by newspaper Beeld, Willem de Beer is quickly becoming one of the foremost South African concert pianists. Willem de Beer was the winner of various competitions, including

Wenting Shi Wenting Shi was born in 1992 and began her piano study at the age of four. At the age of five, she made her debut by receiving the first prize in a national piano competition. She entered the elementary school of Shanghai Conservatory of Music at the age of eight