Artist Faculty

Michelle Cann

Curtis Institute of Music

Lauded as “technically fearless with…an enormous, rich sound” (La Scena Musicale), pianist Michelle Cann made her orchestral debut at age fourteen and has since performed as a soloist with prominent orchestras such as the Atlanta and Cincinnati symphony orchestras, The Cleveland Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, and The Philadelphia Orchestra. (...more)

Enrico Elisi

Texas Christian University

Enrico Elisi, a laureate of the Oporto International Competition (Portugal) and the Premio Venezia (Italy), has earned international recognition for his solo, chamber, and orchestral performances across four continents. (...more)

Michael Esch

University of Toronto

Michael Esch holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from Rice University where his teachers included Robert Roux and Jon Kimura Parker. His other major influences include his first teacher, Rosemary Collins, and coachings with Rebecca Penneys, Lazar Berman and Anton Kuerti. (...more)

Arthur Greene

University of Michigan

Arthur Greene was born in New York City. He received degrees from Yale, Juilliard, and Stony Brook. He studied with Martin Canin. His mentors included Malcolm Frager and Paul Badura-Skoda. Until recent events, he has spent summers with his extended family in Ukraine.(...more)

Corey Hamm

University of British Columbia

Corey Hamm has established a unique musical profile performing widely in North America and in Asia as both soloist and chamber musician. His CD of Frederic Rzewski’s hour-long solo piano epic The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (Redshift Records TK431) won Spotify's Best Classical Recording 2014, and Best Classical Recording at the 2014 Western Canadian Music Awards. He has performed the work over 80 times all over the world. (...more)

Kyu Yeon Kim

Seoul National University

Kyu Yeon Kim is among the prize winners of Dublin International Piano Competition, Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, Cleveland International Piano Competition, Gina Bachauer International Young Artists Piano Competition, Geneva International Music Competition and Missouri Southern International Piano Competition. (...more)

Alexander Kobrin

Eastman School of Music

Gold medal winner of the 2005 Van Cliburn Piano Competition, distinguished pianist, Alexander Kobrin, has received wide acclaim for his emotional, technically inspired performances, placing him at the forefront of today’s performing musicians.(...more)

Myong-Joo Lee

Founder & Artistic Director
California State University, Fullerton

Pianist Myong-Joo Lee began her solo career at the age of fourteen with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and since then made her successful New York debut at the Carnegie Recital Hall and other appearances such as recitals at the Frick Collection, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Cleveland Museum of the Arts, Flagler Museum of Art in Palm Beach, Seoul Arts Center and Young San Art Hall in Seoul Korea among others.(...more)

Boris Slutsky

Yale School of Music

Since his orchestral debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York Symphony in 1980, Boris Slutsky has appeared on nearly every continent as soloist and recitalist. (...more)

Sasha Starcevich

Founder & Artistic Director

Pianist Sasha Starcevich is currently enjoying a rewarding career as an international performer and teacher with his engaging performances and passionate teaching, both at home and around the globe. As a recitalist, he has appeared in many renowned venues such as New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall, Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Hall, and in London’s Wigmore Hall. (...more)

Wayne Weng

Founder & Co-Artistic Director

Pianist Wayne Weng’s playing has been described as “vibrant and immensely musical,” and as having “delicacy amounting to almost reverence […] through gossamer touch” (Wiltshire Gazette & Herald). His “ability to modulate the piano’s sound […] coupled with his great ear easily gave him an edge” (Sioux City Journal) to win the first prize at the 2013 Iowa International Piano Competition.(...more)

Carol Wong

Private Studio

Carol Wong enjoys a flourishing career following performances at Carnegie’s Zankel and Weill Halls, the Wednesday at One Series at Alice Tully Hall (New York), the Kennedy Center, the Kreeger Museum (Washington, DC), the California Center for the Arts (San Diego), the Krannert Center (Illinois), the Pro Arte Musical (Puerto Rico), the Gardner Museum (Boston) and live broadcasts on WXQR in NYC, K-Mozart in Los Angeles and on NPR’s Performance Today. (...more)

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