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Contest/Event: Cleveland International Piano Competition

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Suah Ye

02/12/21

Suah Ye received her Bachelor of Music at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover, Germany while studying with Arie Vardi. She is the First Prize winner of […]

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Lin Ye

Pianist Lin Ye completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Piano Performance at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Hanover, Germany. His distinguished professors included Vladimir Krainev, Markus Groh, […]

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Takashi Yasunami

Born in 1992, Takashi Yasunami started playing piano at the age of three. He finished his Master’s Degree and Doctor of Musical Arts at the Tokyo College of Music and […]

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Lucas Thomazinho

Prize Winner in the Santander International Piano Competition in 2018, Brazilian pianist Lucas Thomazinho started his musical studies at age of eight, winning his first contest, the Souza Lima National […]

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Clayton Stephenson

Named the 2017 U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Clayton Stephenson has won top prizes in several competitions, including the 2015 Cliburn Junior International Piano Competition and the 2016 Cooper […]

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Vitaly Starikov

Vitaly Starikov began his piano career under the tutelage of Sergey Beloglazov at the Ural Music College in Yekaterinburg from 2002 until 2013. He pursued his Bachelor’s degree at the […]

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Rafael Skorka

Third Prize winner of the 1st International Music Competition Harbin China (2018), Rafael Skorka began learning the piano at the age of 8 with Mrs. Svetlana Pachter at the Karmiel […]

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Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner

“Mesmerizing artistry and extraordinary ability to communicate” (The Post-Standard), “Poetic, electrifying” (Michigan Live), “a gifted virtuoso” (San Francisco Chronicle), “masterful technique and a veritable deluge of sonorities” (La Presse Montreal), […]

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Daria Parkhomenko

Daria Parkhomenko was born in Rostov. She began her formal studies with Prof. Sergei Osipenko at the Rostov State Rachmaninov Conservatoire, studying with him for 12 years. She moved to […]

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Arsenii Mun

“Arsenii Mun communicated a sincere and unique sense of the poetry in the music” – © Dallas Magazine. A Yamaha Artist since 2019, Arsenii Mun started playing piano at 6 […]

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Lovre Marušić

AWARDS: Second Prize Lovre Marušić is currently studying at Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar under Grigory Gruzman. He has won several prizes, including First Prize at 20th Santa […]

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Anastasiya Magamedova

A 2016 National YoungArts Winner, Anastasiya Magamedova began piano at the age of 5 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and continues her studies at The Juilliard School with Julian Martin and with […]

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