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Justus Friedrich Eichhorn studies with Grigory Gruzman at the Liszt School of Music in Weimar, where he also studies composition and conducting. In 2020, Justus was a pupil of Matti Raekallio at The Juilliard School during his family’s stay abroad for several months. He made his debut at age ten with Haydn’s Concerto in D. […]

Jialin Yao studies with Sergei Babayan at the Juilliard School in New York. In 2021, he graduated from the China Conservatory of Music where he studied with Hong Fu. Since 2020, he has also been under the guidance of Ruoyu Huang. Jialin has performed with orchestras across China, including Orchestra academia China and the Wuhan […]

Violinist Jaewon Wee recently won the First and Audience Prizes at the 2022 Washington International Competition and the Second and Best Performance of the Commissioned Work Prizes at the 37th Klein International Competition. Last year, she was also awarded the Second & the Special iPalpiti Prizes at the George Enescu International Competition and, in 2019, […]

Canadian pianist Tong Wang explores a variety of genres and mediums to bring creative initiatives to the community. As a soloist, Tong has performed with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and Red Deer Symphony Orchestra. She has won awards including the International Chopin Golden Ring Competition, the Canadian Music Competition, and the Queen’s Jubilee Medal of […]

Akilan Sankaran is a ninth grade student attending Albuquerque Academy. He has played piano for nearly ten years and has won several piano competitions and awards on both the state and national level. “I love the piano because it allows me to express the full scope of a whole orchestra using only 88 keys,” says […]

Jack Kessler is a bachelor’s student at the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studies viola with Roberto Diaz and Edward Gazouleas. He previously worked with Michael Klotz at Florida International University. Jack performed with fellows of the New World Symphony, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas from 2015 to 2019. He was a National YoungArts […]

American violist Brian Isaacs attended Yale University, where he received his master’s degree in Viola Performance as a student of Ettore Causa and his bachelor’s degree in Sociology. He will be based in Berlin starting September 2023 as a member of the Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker. Brian received several awards while at Yale and won […]

Misi Boros started playing piano at age 4. As a child, he won first prizes in all national and international piano competitions he entered. In 2013, he took part in Lang Lang’s first Junior Music Camp in Munich and, a year later, he was the First Prize winner of the Virtuosos Classical Music Talent Show […]

Giovanni Bertolazzi is currently studying with Epifanio Comis. In addition to winning Second Prize and five special awards at the 2021 Franz Liszt International Piano Competiton in Budpest, Giovanni has won more than 40 prizes in international piano competitions. These include First Prizes at the S. Weishaupt Piano Competition and the S. Thalberg Piano Competition, […]

Amy Goto began the cello at age three and has studied with Philippe Muller since the age of 12. In 2020 she became the youngest member of the Classe d’Excellence de Violoncelle de Gautier Capuçon at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Her debut as soloist with orchestra took place at age 9 with the Charleston Symphony […]