Pianist

Kirill Prokopov, Russia Kirill Prokopov is a young artist whose career has been rapidly developing in two directions—as an academic pianist and as a performer on historical keyboard instruments. His repertoire includes music from  four centuries: from the 17th century to the present. A graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, he studied from well-known

Willem Petrus De Beer, South Africa Willem de Beer originally hails from Bethlehem, South Africa.  He has been the winner of most of the music competitions South Africa has to offer. He most recently won the 6th UNISA National Piano Competition in July 2019. This competition is widely regarded to be South Africa’s

Young Sun Choi, Korea Young Sun Choi is a 26-year-old pianist from South Korea.  A piano student from age six, Choi graduated from Yewon Arts School then continued her musical studies at Seoul Arts High School under the tutelage of Jung Won Moon, an Indiana University Jacobs School of Music alumna. Choi earned

Mery Rui Xu, China Born in Beijing in 1996, Mery Rui Xu has dedicated her life to music from a young age, encouraged by her family, especially her dancer mother.  She began piano lessons at the age of four, entering the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music where she studied with Professor Zhao

HwaYoung An, Korea Pianist HwaYoung An was born in Seoul, South Korea, and began her piano studies at the age of four. In summer 2018, she had a solo recital at Ehrbar-Saal, in Vienna, Austria, as a Grand Prix winner at the 9th International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Vienna, Austria, and won

Chen Guang Winner of the Scriabin Prize and the Rome Prize, together with numerous other internationally renowned competitions, the twenty-one-year-old pianist Chen Guang combines his extraordinary technical capacity with a profound and mature musical sensibility and an exceptional on-stage charisma. Numerous concert associations of Europe, America, and Asia have hosted him both

Hyuk Lee, Korea Hyuk Lee was born in Seoul in 2000 and began his career in music when he was just three years old, studying violin and piano. From a very young age, he had great enthusiasm for listening to music and learning musical instruments and to better support his musical studies, he

Tetiana Shafran, Ukraine Born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1989, Tetiana Shafran started playing piano at the age of three.  She graduated from the Lysenko Special Music School and the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine with A. Vasin (2012) and O. Yablonskaya Piano Academy with Prof. Oxana Yablonskaya (USA-Israel), and from 2015-2017, studied

Aaron Kurz, United States Aaron Kurz is a concert pianist who is currently working toward an Artist Diploma at the Royal College of Music. He has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia, in venues including Carnegie Hall in New York, Salle Cortot in Paris, and the Palace of Peace and Harmony in

Sergey Belyavsky, Russia Sergey Belyavsky finished Central Music School in Moscow State Conservatory in 2011, and in 2016 finished Moscow State P.I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory.  He is currently studying in Tel-Aviv at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music. He has won many competition prizes such as First Prize in the 7th International Competition Dedication to