Born in 1994, Alexander’s first musical achievement occurred at age 13 upon acceptance into the Applied Music Scholarship program at Moorpark Community College, a two-year program during which he worked with Professor Mona DeCesare. Prior to entering college, he studied under concert
pianist Robert Thies, before studying with Dmitry Rachmanov at California State University, Northridge. He completed his Masters Degree at Manhattan School of Music studying under Andre-Michel Schub. He has had master classes with many distinguished pianists including John Perry, Jeremy Denk, Conor Hanick, Robert McDonald, Jerome Lowenthal, Victor Rosenbaum, and Nina Lelchuk, among others. Alexander has attended numerous summer festivals, including—for summer 2020 and 2019—the Music Academy of the West, where he was one of eight solo piano fellows selected from hundreds of applications. He has previously attended the John Perry Institute, Adamant
Music Festival where he studied with Seta Tanyel, and the IKIF Piano Festival. Alexander has competed in various competitions, including the MTNA National Competition (2016) Mondavi National Competition (2016), Dallas International Piano Competition (2016), and in 2017 the Manhattan School of Music Balsam Duo Competition, and the Manhattan School of Music Munz Chopin Competition, for both of which he was awarded the top prize. Alexander was one of ten semi-finalist in the prestigious Naumburg International Piano Competition (2017) and most recently competed in the Sendai International Piano Competition (2019), and the Chopin National Competition (2020) and Suzhou Jinji Lake International Piano Competition, for both of which he reached the semi-final stage.

Born in South Korea, pianist Soyeon An actively represents herself as a soloist and a collaborator. Her recent achievement includes solo performance at Coachella Valley Repertory in Palm Springs. This event was associated with Virginia Waring International Competition as one of the Waring Artists.
She studied with Steinway Artist Heeguin Kim at Sunwha Arts High School and Hyungbae Kim during her undergraduate at Seoul National University in Korea. After earning Bachelor of Music, she moved to US and studied at Eastman School of Music where she earned Master of Music degree under prominent Italian Steinway Pianist Enrico Elisi.
As a soloist, she was nominated at numerous competitions and awards, including Fresno/Susan Torres Music Award, Virginia Waring International Competition, USC concerto competition which made her LA debut with Brahms piano concerto No. 1 in D minor under maestro Uriel Segal’s baton.
She is also a chair scholarship recipient at Korean American Scholarship Foundation. In 2012, she was singled out for a Faculty Merit Award at 17th Chautauqua Piano Competition in New York, USA. In Korea, she won several competitions including Seoul Music Competition, Korea Mozart Orchestra Competition, The New Arts Competition, and the Bucheon Scholarship Competition. At the age of 17, she got award from superintendent and mayor of Seoul.
As a collaborator, Soyeon completed her minor field in Keyboard Collaborative Arts under Kevin Fitz-Gerald at University of Southern California where she studies for DMA. Her trio ‘KoWA’ with flutist Sabrina Bounds and clarinetist Alexander Tu is actively performing in LA, and she is currently working with numerous musicians in voice, clarinet, flute and conducting studios at USC. She was hired for the second pianist at Virginia Waring International competition for piano concerto division. In 2012, Korea, she became a grand winner with a special prize at Korea Duo Piano Competition with pianist Inyoung Kim.
Her performance experience includes various venues in Korea and the United States. She performed at Seoul Arts Center Recital hall, Daegu Concert house, Yamaha hall, Woo-In Art hall, Young-San Art hall and many others in Korea. In the United States, she gave recitals in Hamptons in New York, Rochester in New York, San Antonio in Texas, Gainesville in Florida, Los Angeles, Fresno, Palm Springs, Palm Desert in California and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. When she performed Variations on a Theme of Paganini by Rachmaninoff with Round Rock Symphony in Texas in 2015 under the baton of Akiko Fujimoto, the audience seats were full and people gave her very positive comments. In 2018, she was praised for playing for International Committee of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association in LA.
She took part in many different music festivals including Pianofest in Hamptons, New York (2015 and 2018), Texas International Piano Festival in Texas (2015), San Juan International Piano Festival in Puerto Rico (2015), Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival in Florida (2014), Atlantic Music Festival in Maine (2013), Chautauqua Music Festival in New York (2012 and 2017) and Buam Society Piano Summer Festival in Korea (2011).
Her new project since she moved to LA includes organizing and having benefit concerts for Ronald McDonald House which is a charity organization whose mission is to provide support for sick children and their families. She finished her first charity concert which was her solo recital, in March 2018 in Gainesville, Florida. She is arranging for next RMH charity concert for LA region.
After receiving her Doctor of Musical Arts degree at University of Southern California under Stewart Gordon, she moved back to Korea and actively performing and teaching.

Pianist Yanfeng Bai, 23, is an international prizewinner, recently taking first prize at the 4th China Shenzhen International Piano Concerto Competition, 3rd Prize of the Gotrian International piano competition in Germany and the 1st prize at the Concerto Competition of the Morningside Music Bridge International Music Festival. His performance got mentioned as “Gorgeous playing” in Strings Magazine. He is currently a Yangtze River Piano Artist and the Guest Pianist of Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra.

He was also awarded first prize in the China Central Television Piano Competition，the 4th Texas State International Piano Festival Classical Artists Development Foundation Emerging Artist Award-1st Prize, 1st prize at the China Youth Music Competition-Hummingbird Music Award , 1st prize and Grand prize of “KADANZA CUP” the national youth piano competition, 3rd prize of 4th Asian Youth Piano Competition in HongKong and was a prizewinner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. Mr. Bai has performed with numerous orchestras, including Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, China Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra Antonio Vivaldi and the New Russia State Symphony Orchestra. He has given multiple recitals in US, Italy and China, and has been featured in interviews by OMNI Television in Canada, The World Federation of International Music Competitions, China Central Television, China Piano Artistry Magazine and Parsons Music.

Mr.Bai was honored to perform at the CCTV Silk-Road New Year Concert; he was invited to perform at the legendary designer Frank Gehry’s 90's birthday celebration concert in Los Angeles; at the 100th anniversary celebration of Mr. Xia Zhiqiu, he successfuly given the world premiered of piano work "Xia Zhiqiu in Southern Sea" composed by Mr. Cui Shiguang; he also perform at the Aspen Music Festival in the United States, the Italian "Genius Piano Art Festival", Shenzhen Mozart Music Festival, the 250th Anniversary Series of Beethoven in Los Angeles, Grand Piano series in Florida, Zhongshan Concert Hall Liszt Marathon, Central Conservatory of Music Alumni Art Festival, Yangtze River Piano Music Festival, Central Conservatory of Music International Chamber Music Festival, Hubei Yangtze River Piano Art Festival, Pengzhou Citizens Music Festival, Beijing University Student Music Festival and other exciting performances.


In the 2021-22 season, Mr. Bai will be a guest soloist with the Chifeng Symphony Orchestra in China and the Colburn Orchestra in United States. He will also giving concerts as a soloist and with his piano quartet in Los Angeles and his Yangtze river piano artist recital tour in China.

Mr. Bai is currently a Masters of Music candidate at the Colburn School, where he studies with Fabio Bidini. Previously he graduate from the Colburn school as Bachelor of music, and the middle school attached to the China Central Conservatory of Music. Previous teachers include Jin Zhang, who he studied with in China before coming to Los Angeles.

Yishan Hong marks herself as a prize-winner in many piano competitions. The current highlights include first prize in the 2021 Canadian International Music Competition (online), first prize, and the best Chopin performance in the 2020 Paderewski International Piano Competition, Farmington, Connecticut (Special Online Edition). Other accolades include the second prize at Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition in 2017; the first prize at Ameri-China International Music Foundation Piano Competition in 2013; and the 3rd prize at the 2012 Oberlin Cooper Piano Competition-China Zone, as well as the 2011 YAMAHA Piano Competition in China Conservatory.
Ms. Hong has appeared on concert stages and given solo recitals throughout China, Europe, and the United States. The principal venues where Ms. Hong has performed are the Gulangsu Concert Hall in Xiamen, the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing, Paul Hall and Morris Hall at the Juilliard School, and Jordan Hall in Boston. Ms. Hong was a recipient of the "Beijing Government Scholarship," a government scholarship given to students who have outstanding abilities. Ms. Hong was one of 25 pianists to receive a full award attending the "Piano Texas International Academy & Festival" in 2016. And she was given the full
scholarship and horizon fellowship to attend the Aspen Music Festival in 2019. Besides playing solo, Ms. Hong has immersed herself in chamber music collaboration and as a presenter of Chinese piano works, which brought her performances in Forbidden City Concert Hall and the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing. In 2011, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Chinese-Austrian diplomatic relationship, she presented several selected Chinese piano works at "Mozarteum" in Salzburg. Ms. Hong was a founder of the Animato Trio, a professional piano trio formed at the New England Conservatory in 2018 with the violinists Liucong Feng and Jennifer Su. The Animato Trio performed at NEC's 2017 Chamber Music Gala in Jordan Hall. The trio group also appeared at Boston's Women Plaza for the "Music for Foods” non-benefit project in 2017.
Originally from China, Ms. Hong began her piano study at seven. Ms. Hong continued her study with Prof. Wei Zhang and Yun Guo at the Middle school affiliated with the China Conservatory of Music. She received her Bachelor of Music degree under the guidance of Meng-Chieh Liu from the New England Conservatory and was awarded membership into "Pi Kappa Lambda," for outstanding academic performance. After graduating from the New England Conservatory, Ms. Hong enrolled in The Juilliard School and studied piano performance with Hung-Kuan Chen. Currently, she is pursuing a Doctoral of Musical Arts (DMA) degree under Gila Goldstein and Pavel Nersessian and is appointed as a teaching assistant on Class Piano at Boston University.

Chinese pianist Yixiang Hou has appeared as soloist with the Taiwan Sanchong Orchestra, the Shanghai Conservatory Orchestra and NEC Philharmonia. He has worked with such conductors as Xiaoou Zhao, Jiahong Liao and Andrew Litton. In 2006, Yixiang made his debut recitals at the Shanghai Oriental Art Centre and Shanghai Conservatory Hall.
At only ten years of age, Yixiang became a prize winner of the 2004 Shanghai Haydn Piano Competition, and in 2009, Yixiang won the Wiesbaden Piano Competition in Shanghai. Yixiang has also received awards in the Tianjin “Flying Melody” Competition and the Steinway
Competition of China in Beijing. In 2016, he won the NEC Piano Concerto Competition and NEC Piano Honors Competition. In 2019, Yixiang won the first prize at the Robert Beardsley Piano Prize Competition and the third prize at the Los Angeles Young Musician International Competition. In 2021, he won the the first prize at the Charleston International Music Competition and GRAND PRIX“CROWN OF STARS”at the Music and Stars Awards. In 2022, Yixiang also won the first prize at the Golden Classical Music Awards and the fourth prize at the Wpta Spain international piano competition.
Born in China, Yixiang moved to Shanghai at the age of nine to study with pianists Qi Zhang, William Chen, Dachun You and Ting Zhou at the Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Yixiang moved to Boston in 2012, where he began his studies with Wha Kyung Byun at New England Conservatory. Yixiang completed his Bachelor of Music degree,
Master of Music degree and Graduate Diploma at NEC, as a recipient of the Carol and Robert Henderson Presidential Scholarship. He is currently enrolled in Doctor of Musical Arts program on a full tuition scholarship at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and studies with Ran Dank.

Jung-Eun Kim was born in Changwon, South Korea, and made her solo debut with the Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra at age 11. Since then, she has won several prizes both in the United States and Korea, including the 2019 San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition, 2019 Barbara Fritz Chamber Music Award, 2017 Berkeley Piano Club Dorothy Van Waynen Competition, 2014 Ceramic Palace Hall Concours and 2014 Music Education News Concours. She made solo appearances in the winners’ concerts of all of the above-mentioned competitions. She has concertized with numerous symphony orchestras, including the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra, Konkuk Symphony Orchestra, Changwon Philharmonic Orchestra, and Changwon Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. She has participated in master classes with legendary musicians such as Leon Fleisher, John Perry and Garrick Ohlsson. She is currently pursuing her Artist Diploma in piano performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where she received Master’s degrees both in solo and chamber piano under Yoshikazu Nagai and Jon Nakamatsu.

Born in Jeju, South Korea, Soojin Kim began studying piano at the age of seven. She graduated from Sunhwa Arts High school where she had won the excellence performance awards. She also earned Bachelor’s Degree at Ewha womans University under Won Kim with full scholarship. Afterwards, she moved to the US, and she is currently pursuing a master’s Music degree at Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University under the tutelage of José Ramón Mendez as a full scholarship recipient.

Ms. Kim has won prizes at many competitions in South Korea including International Student Competition, Youngsan Music Competition, Hwasung City Competition and Ewha Concerto Competition. She also has received numerous awards and scholarships including Eckstein Fund and Elizabeth Chinnock Scholarship. Ms. Kim has performed in prominent concert halls like Seogwipo Art Center in Jeju, South Korea, Kimyoungui Hall in Seoul, South Korea and Galvin Recital Hall in Evanston, IL.

In addition to performing, Ms. Kim is passionate about teaching. As an enthusiastic educator, Kim has worked as a music teacher for Seoul Metropolitan Education Office where she teaches general music and Korean traditional music, conducts orchestra for middle school students and gives piano lessons. Also, she currently teaches piano for non-major piano program at Northwestern University as a teaching intern.

Born in 1996 Linda Lee began her piano studies at the age of 5. She attended Yewon Arts school and Seoul Arts high school and graduated with honors. In 2017 Ms. Lee entered Seoul National University after being awarded scholarship for her outstanding academic performance. She studied piano with Professor Aviram Reichert in Seoul National University. And currently pursuing her Master with Professor Boris Berman and Professor Wei-yi Yang in Yale school of Music, with full scholarship. She has won prizes in numerous competitions including 1st prize at the 2019 Tel-Hai International Piano Masterclasses Concerto Competition, 2018 Kulangsu Piano Competition, the 48th Samick-Seiler Piano Competition, and the 6th Pia Tebaldini Piano competition. She performed in various venues in S. Korea, Israel, China, Italy, and Belgium.

Vietnamese pianist Nhi Luong has enjoyed an international career spanning over three continents. Born and raised in a musical family, Nhi started playing piano at the age of four. In 2014, Nhi Luong was the only candidate who got chosen to study at the Kunstuniversität Graz (Austria) with full scholarship. During her time in Austria, she was engaged in numerous performances throughout Europe, such as Bad Goisern (Austria), Karlsruhe (Germany) and Aarhus (Denmark).

In 2017 she took part in the Yong Siew Toh Concerto Competition, in which she attained first prize, and performed with the Conservatory Orchestra under the baton of Jason Lai. Following in the same year, Nhi won the 1st prize in the Best Saint-Saens Performance - Great Composers Competition. In recognition of her exceptional potential, she has been the recipient of the Steven Baxter Memorial Scholarship, Lyra Foundation Grant and the Yong Siew Toh Artistic Development Grant. Nhi obtained her Bachelor’s Degree in Piano Performance with full scholarship at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Singapore) and her Master of Music Degree in Piano Performance and Chamber Music at the University of Michigan (USA) under the tutelage of Prof. Christopher Harding.

Born on 25 November 1999 in China, Sihao Qin has received several awards including the first prize of the 4th Shenzhen Piano Open Competition in China and the second prize of the Young Musicians International Competition in Los Angeles, etc. He has performed in many countries including the United States, Italy, Netherland, Uzbekistan and China. He has performed Rachmaninoff 3rd Piano Concerto as his orchestral debut in 2018, with Jilin Symphony Orchestra (China) under the baton of Sha Liu, and also has collaborated with National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan, conducted by Shah Sadikov in 2019.
He has participated in Lake Como International Summer Piano School, Art of the Piano, and Imola Summer Music Academy and Festival, where he has received masterclasses from Dimitri Bashkirov, Dang Thai Son, and Leon Fleisher, etc.
Qin began playing the piano at the age of 5. Later he was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music Middle School in Beijing, China; and studied under Zhiwei Zhang and Qifang Li. At the age of 17, Qin moved to the United States, attending The Barstow School and Young Artists Music Academy in Kansas City, Missouri, where he studied under Stanislav Ioudenitch, the Gold Medalist of the 11th Cliburn, as well as the guidance of William Grant Naboré, the president of International Piano Academy Lake Como.
Currently he is earning his Bachelor’s degree of Music under Stanislav Ioudenitch at the International Music Center at Park University in Parkville, Missouri.

Chinese pianist Hongzhen Wang was born in 1997 in Shenyang, China. He began playing the piano at the age of five. In 2015, he graduated from the Middle Music School Affiliate of Shenyang Conservatory under the guidance of renowned pianist, educator, and conductor Prof. Danwen Wei, Chair of the Piano Department at Central Conservatory in Beijing. As a Dean’s Scholarship and Emil Danenberg Scholarship recipient, he completed both B.M. and M.M. degrees with academic honors from New England Conservatory under the tutelage of renowned American pianist and educator Prof. Bruce Brubaker, Chair of the Piano Department. Currently, Hongzhen continues his D.M.A. studies with Prof. Brubaker at New England Conservatory as a Dean’s Scholarship and Tan Family Grant Scholarship recipient. As a soloist, he has been featured at many major concert venues across North America, Europe, and Asia such as Jordan Hall in Boston, Meany Center for the Performing Arts in Seattle, Shalin Liu Performance Center in Rockport, and Casa Da Música in Porto. Recent performances include the NEC Piano Department Concert Series at Jordan Hall in January 2022, Connections-Chamber Music Series at Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theater in October 2021, and the 250th Anniversary Celebration of Beethoven at Jordan Hall in 2020. As the Winner of NEC Honors Competition, his Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier performance in Jordan Hall has been filmed by NEC and is featured internationally at many online media platforms in 2018. He was also invited by Aspen Music Festival and Seattle Piano Institute Music Festival. He has received guidance from many distinguished artists such as Mitsuko Uchida, Jonathan Biss, Shai Wosner, Wha Kyung Byun, Hung-Kuan Chen, Kevin Kenner, Alexander Kobrin, and Antonio Pompa-Baldi. World-renowned piano master Ms. Uchida highly praised his performance of the Mozart Piano Concerto KV 488 and said: “Very touching, he is a fine musician.” American pianist Jonathan Biss from Curtis Institute also highly praised and expressed the admiration of his Schumann Piano Sonata No.1. Israeli-American pianist Shai Wosner said: “Hongzhen is a sensitive and serious musician with solid and effortless technique, his interpretations and understanding of music are exceptionally mature, his playing are sincere and imaginative.” As an active chamber musician, he frequently worked with many other musicians in chamber music concerts. He also gained instructions from many chamber musicians including Miriam Fried, Paul Katz, Nicholas Kitchen, Kristopher Tong, Mai Motobuchi, Max Levinson, and Vivian Weilerstein. In May 2021, his piano trio performed Schubert Piano Trio in E flat Major in Jordan Hall as excellent chamber group of the year. This performance was selected by NEC and it broadcasted by Music for Food in 2021. Recent years, he also won many international piano competitions such as the Finalist of 2019 American International Piano Competition in Washington D.C., Second Prize of Boston Symphony Orchestra Pops Concerto Competition in 2019, Second Prize of PSA Young ArtistCompetition in 2019, and Second Prize of 2019 BMI International Music Competition. He is also a two-time First Prize winner of NEC Marion Rubin Berman Piano Honors Competition in 2018 and 2019.

Hong Kong born Canadian pianist Victoria Wong first made her orchestral debut at the age of five, and has since then performed on tour with orchestras including the Hong Kong Symphonia, Canadian Sinfonietta, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, and the Millersville University Symphony Orchestra. Victoria has frequently performed as soloist throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, at venues including, notably, Hong Kong City Hall, Palace of Grazia and Terezza a Mare in Italy, Shenzhen Performing Arts Theatre, Shenzhen Concert Hall in China, Jordan Hall in the United States, and Koerner Hall and Glenn Gould Studio in Canada. Currently a Masters student at the Juilliard School of Music, she recently participated in the 18th Chopin Competition in Warsaw, 2021.


Frequently performing as concerto soloist with orchestras, Victoria has toured China with the Hong Kong Symphonia performing the Rachmaninov Second Concerto, and has also toured Italy as soloist with the Canadian Sinfonietta. Throughout the years, she has been invited back to perform multiple concertos with the Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, and is often invited as a guest artist to perform at notable festivals including the 5th Shenzhen Piano Music Festival in China (as concerto soloist with the Hong Kong Symphonia), Note in Citta Festival in Italy, and Westben Arts Festival and Mississauga Polish Festival in Canada. Her various tours in China have covered cities such as Chengdu, Chongqing, Xinxiang, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong to name a few, where one of the recent venues she was invited to perform at was the Chongqing Huangjueping Piano Museum – the world’s largest piano museum – which houses pianos of musical giants such as Liszt and Saint-Saëns.


Amongst her numerous awards, Victoria is the First Prize winner of the Lancaster International Piano Competition, International Fringe Award, and 8th EPTA International Piano Competition, and is also a top prizewinner at the 4th Canadian Chopin Competition and the 9th Russian Music International Piano Competition. Victoria has interviewed for and performed on broadcast stations including Radio Television Hong Kong Channel 4 (RTHK 4) in Hong Kong, and has also been featured on televised interviews for Fairchild TV and OMNI 2 in Canada, and Polskie Radio in Poland. She was the guest star on a televised interview show for Guangdong Radio and Television Station, “Zhujiang Meeting Room”, in China, and her music video was also broadcasted nationwide on Shenzhen Satellite TV in China as part of the “Global Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival” program. As part of their 2021 Lunar New Year program, Victoria was also exclusively featured on American television channel Sino TV, and is also a Pianist Star Member of the Hong Kong Piano Music Association.

Beginning her musical training in Canada, at the age of 9 she traveled to China to study with renowned pedagogue Dan Zhao Yi at the Shenzhen Arts School, and later returned to Canada to study at the Glenn Gould School’s pre-college program. She received her Bachelors of Music degree at the New England Conservatory of Music under Meng-Chieh Liu, and is now pursuing her Masters of Music degree at The Juilliard School of Music where her teachers have included Matti Raekallio and Hung-Kuan Chen.

Andrzej Wierciński’s adventure with the piano began at the age of six. Initially motivated by his parents, with time, playing the instrument gave him more and more joy and became his life's passion. His efforts resulted in a number of impressive awards at prestigious international piano competitions. He performs both solo and chamber music.

In Poland Andrzej has played many recitals at the birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin in Żelazowa Wola, at the Łazienki Królewskie (Chopin’s statue) and also at the Chopin Museum in Warsaw.

Concerts with the best orchestras in the country, such as the National Philharmonic Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Elbląg, Arthur Rubinstein Philharmonic Orchestra of Łódź, Symphonic Orchestra of the Szczecin Philharmonic and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra.

One of the most important and prestigious performances during the Polish Festival at the EXPO in Milan at the Theatre Auditorium di Milano Findazione Cariplo, where he performed the Fryderyk Chopin Piano Concerto in E-minor Op.11 with the National Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of maestro Jacek Kasprzyk.

Andrzej has performed concerts in most European countries as well as in Canada, Japan, Indonesia and Hong Kong.

Andrzej has also performed at the prestigious “Music Fest Perugia” Festival in Italy, where he performed a recital consisting of works by Rachmaninov, Liszt and Chopin. In addition, he cooperated with maestro Alexander Liebriech, Mirosław Błaszczyk, and Marek Moś.

In 2015, during the visit of the President of Poland Bronisław Komorowski in Japan, Andrzej played a Chopin recital in Tokyo in the presence of Japanese Princess Masako Owada.

In April 2019 Andrzej performed a special recital for the Cobbe Collection Trust of historic instruments at Hatchlands Park in the UK, playing on the 1845 Erard used by Sigismond Thalberg.

In October 2020, during the 24th Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival, he became famous performing Chopin's Piano Concerto in E minor, Op. 11, accompanied by the Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra conducted by Dawid Runtz, and with bravado during the Festival's finale, performing Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 with the Sinfonia Varsovia Orchestra conducted by Professor Krzysztof Penderecki's long-standing student, Maestro Maciej Tworek.

Andrzej Wierciński “Chopin Schumann Scarlatti”. The album was recorded for the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, on a Steinway concert piano in the Polish Radio Witold Lutosławski Concert Studio in Warsaw. It contains compositions by Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann and Domenico Scarlatti.

Born in Fukushima, Japan, Ryota Yamazaki began his piano studies at age seven. He has won numerous awards including 1st prize in the Thomas & Evon Cooper International Competition (2016), Grand Prize and the audience prize in the PTNA Piano Competition (2014), 1st prize at the Yasuko Fukuda Scholarship Audition (2013) and 1st prize in the Gina Bachauer International Junior Piano Competition (2012). He has performed with several orchestra including Cleveland Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra and VYO Youth Orchestra. In 2015-2016 seasons, he has given solo recitals in several places including Tokyo, Osaka, Hawaii and Italy. 2017-2018 seasons, he has givin solo recitals in Fukushima, and he recorded Chopin's complete Etudes Op.25. In 2020-2021 seasons, he recorded Franz Liszt's complete transcendental etudes S.139, Frederic Chopin's compelete Ballades and 24 Preludes. In 2017, he eniolled Toho Gakuen School of Music with Full Scholarship ane studied with Yuko Ninomiya. He is currently studying with Mr. Fabio Bidini at Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angels.

Quanzhou Yan has performed in concerts and solo recitals as well as national and international festivals around the world. He has won top awards in many competitions, including first prize at the National Bakhchiyeva Piano Competition (2013, Russia), the 10th Way to Master International Piano Competition (2014, Russia), and the Semper Music International Competition (2018, Italy). He is also the winner of the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Steinway Young Artist Piano Competition in the south-central division in both 2020 and 2021.
Mr. Yan attended the Semper Music International Festival in 2018 and the PianoTexas International Festival in 2019 and 2021, where he received instruction from internationally recognized pianists and pedagogues including Pascal Rogé, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Jacob Katsnelson, Arie Vardi and Stephen Hough.
He was a winner in 2016 of the Texas Christian University Concerto Competition with the TCU Orchestra under the baton of Alexander Fokkens. Mr. Yan has also composed a cadenza for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.21 which he performed with the Rostov Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Alexander Mileikovsky.
Mr. Yan began studying piano at age five. In 2011 he was accepted to the Central Conservatory of Music in China and the Rostov State Rachmaninov Conservatory in Russia. During his five years at the Rachmaninov Conservatory, he successfully completed his Bachelor of Music degree in the studio of critically acclaimed professor and People’s Artist of Russia, Rimma Skolohodova. He then graduated with a Master of Music degree at Texas Christian University in 2018 under the guidance of esteemed pianist and pedagogue Dr. Tamás Ungár. Following graduation, he was awarded a full scholarship and will pursue his Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at TCU.

Deemed by The San Francisco Examiner as "a prodigy, [running] the emotional gamut from brooding introspection to manic exuberance”, American pianist and composer, Andrew J. Yang, has an active international performance career across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Yang currently resides in Patreksfjörður, a small town in the Westfjords region of northwest Iceland, where he teaches on the piano and violin faculty at Tónlistarskóla Vesturbyggðar. Yang is the founder and artistic director of the International Westfjords Piano Festival and the co-founder of the Icelandic Schumann Society. Recent engagements have included solo recitals for major festivals and venues such as at the Mozarthaus in Vienna, Harpa in Reykjavík, North Carolina Museum of History for the Paderewski Festival in Raleigh, Krakow Jewish Cultural Center, and the Hoheikan in Sapporo in Japan. Yang has also performed in most of the major New York venues including Victor Borge Hall, Carnegie Hall, Museum of Modern Art, Doctorow Center of the Arts, Steinway Hall, and the German Consulate in NYC.

In 2019, Yang was awarded the top prize at the 30th FLAME International Piano Competition in Paris, France. In 2018, he was awarded the "White Rose" Medal of Honor from the President of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, for musical excellence. Yang was a finalist in the 2018 Serge & Olga Koussevitzky Piano Competition in New York City and has also been awarded various prizes and awards at the Metropolitan International Piano Competition, Euregio Piano International Competition in Germany, Five Towns Piano Competition, International Heida Hermanns Piano Competition, Thaviu-Issac Piano Competition, Los Angeles International Liszt Competition, Evanston Music Club Competition, and the San Francisco Chopin Competition for Young Pianists. His performances have been heard over radio broadcast on WUSF 89.7 and WIOX 93.1, and television broadcast on N1 Neiderosterreich (Austria).

Born and raised in California, Yang’s unbounded energy and disdain for sleep led his parents to enroll him in many sports and extracurricular activities, including piano lessons at the age of five with Sumi Nagasawa. After taking a break from piano, he rediscovered a passion for playing the piano at the age of 13 when he began studying with an important musical influence and mentor to date, William Wellborn, at the San Francisco Conservatory Preparatory Division. Yang then received a B.A. in Economics and B.M. in Piano Performance in the five-year dual-degree program at Northwestern University as a student of James Giles. Upon graduation with a M.M. in Piano Performance from Mannes School of Music while studying with Pavlina Dokovska, he received the 2017 Steinway & Sons Award, a top distinction given to an outstanding pianist which came with a monetary award sponsored by Steinway. In 2019, Yang began studies with Antoinette Perry at USC Thornton School of Music, pursuing a D.M.A. doctoral degree on full tuition scholarship and stipend as a graduate teaching assistant. He currently holds one of the two Studio TA positions which entails in teaching private studio lessons to piano performance majors at USC. Other teachers and mentors include Ruth Slenczynska, Dang Thai Son, Audrey Axinn, and Julian Dawson. He has also received numerous scholarships to study and perform at many summer festivals, including the Berkshire High Peaks Festival, Austrian International Piano Festival and Seminar, Krakow Piano Summer, Academy of Fortepiano Performance, Rebecca Penneys Piano Festival, Gijon International Piano Festival, Centre d’Arts Orford, and Banff Centre.

A former competitive athlete, Yang pursued an amateur boxing career, training out of John's Boxing Gym in the Bronx, NY, with "Shabazz" Lorenzo Sidberry, coach of multiple IBF world champions. Yang also trains M.M.A., most recently at Modern Martial Arts and Fitness in Pasadena, C.A., with Justen Hamilton and Savannah Em. He was on the Northwestern Boxing Team (2010-2011) and his high school basketball and badminton teams as an all-county athlete. Yang was the coordinator of the inaugural 2019 SFZP International Fortepiano Project and Competition in New York City. When not practicing piano or composing, he enjoys watching (almost) every UFC fight card, cooking, and reading.