Molly Nguyen(US)

Molly Nguyen is a piano pedagogy specialist with three decades of experience in preparing students to successfully compete at the state, national and international level. As the founder and president of Little Chopin School of Music, she has overseen the school’s growth into one of the largest and most decorated musical institutions on the west …

Dr. Andrew Park (US)

Dr. Park is a renowned Korean-American solo pianist, chamber musician, and pedagogue. He is First Prize winner of Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition (currently known as Virginia Waring International Piano Competition). Dr. Park is a devoted performer of chamber music. He travels around to play chamber music with his own group, the Park Trio. He …

Thomas Rosenkranz(US)

Thomas Rosenkranz has charted a career that breaks through the conventional notion of what a classical pianist is.  Equally at home with the standard repertoire to the most recent developments in contemporary music, he has established himself as one of the most innovative pianists of his generation. He was named the recipient of the Classical Fellowship Awards …

Scott McBride Smith

Scott McBride Smith is a recognized leader in worldwide music education. As the Cordelia Brown Murphy Professor of Piano Pedagogy at the University of Kansas since 2010, he focuses on national issues of teacher training and piano pedagogy. As President and CEO of the International Institute for Young Musicians, he leads a summer program offering …

Lorenzo Di Bella

“Lorenzo Di Bella is a remarkable talented pianist, a brilliant virtuous, an exciting and refined musician. I was his teacher for three years and always admired his great technical skills and also his strong artistic personality, above all, his desire to “speak” to the public” …these were the words of Lazar Berman some months before he …

Ivy Lu Wang

Ivy Lu Wang is a versatile pianist and educator, specializing in healthy piano performance techniques. In collaboration with Chinese medical students, she created a grant-funded program named “How Pianists Coexist with Tenosynovitis” recognized as an honored program at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. She was invited to write a front-page article in “Music Weekly” one …