The Northwest Council of the Chopin Foundation of the United States, an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization will continue the tradition of encouraging talented young American pianists to study and perform classical music, especially highlighting the music of Chopin. We will primarily focus on the Seattle competition and furthering young local talent. The NW Chopin Foundation holds a yearly competition featuring the finest youth talent in Washington state. Each succeeding year, the Festival has grown to becoming one of the region's largest and well-known piano competitions. The very first meeting of The Northwest Chapter of the Chopin Foundation was held September 20, 2001 at the Women's University Club in Seattle, Washington. President Dr. Steven Lagerberg opened a meeting with eight other Chopin enthusiasts in attendance. Steven presented his vision for the Chopin Foundation which was, very simply, to showcase Chopin and his beautiful music.
CHOPIN FOUNDATION OF THE UNITED STATES, NORTHWEST COUNCIL
Dr. Steven Lagerberg, Founder
Dr. Adam Aleksander, President
Dr. Hanna Cyba, Vice President
Allan Park, Registrar
Judy Baker, Artistic Co-Director
Cathy Carpenter, Recording Secretary
Dr. Mary Chandler, Treasurer, Co-Artistic Director
Dr. Yelena Balabanova, Co-Artistic Director
Yunbo Cassady, Board Member
Conney Vernall, Board Member
Dr. Nino Merabishvili, Board Member
Dr. Vladimir Balabanov, Board Member
Victor Ro, Board Member, Legal Advisor
Christopher Moorhead, Webmaster
Alison Bell, Past President
Helen Belvin, Past President
Phyllis Alpert Lehrer is known internationally as a teacher, performer, clinician, author and adjudicator. She has given master classes, workshops and enjoyed an active concert career as a soloist and collaborative artist in the United States, Canada, Central and South America, Asia and Europe.
Ms. Lehrer is professor emerita of piano at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, N.J. She now serves on the artist faculty of the Westminster Conservatory, the community music school associated with Westminster. A founding member of Young Audiences of New Jersey and the International Society for the Study of Tension in Performance, she has presented regularly at conferences of the Music Teachers National Association, National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy, the European Piano Teachers Association and New Jersey Music Teachers Association. Recent lectures, master classes and performances have taken place at the Music-Quest Festival in Pune, India, the International Society for Music Education in Glasgow, Scotland, Performing Arts and Medicine Conference in Colorado and New York City, Nebraska Music Teachers Association, Portland District Music Teachers Association, Delaware Music Teachers Association, Third Street Settlement in New York City, Brooklyn College Conservatory, the Steinway Society, New York Piano Teachers’ Congress, Greenwich Music House, Westminster Choir College, the Westminster Conservatory Beethoven Festival and the New School for Music Study Faculty Alumni Recital.
Articles, interviews and reviews on piano pedagogy, music and health by Ms. Lehrer have
been published in Clavier Companion, The American Music Teacher, and The European Piano Teachers Journal. Recent publications include five volumes of the great piano repertoire, Classics for the Developing Pianist, co-edited with Ingrid Clarfield, along with the Study Guides that accompany books 1, 2, 3, 4 published by Alfred, Inc. A fifth book, Study Guide 5 is available at Sheet Music Press. Personal Trainer, five volumes devoted to keyboard theory, sight playing, technique and repertoire with midi accompaniments, co-authored with Paul Sheftel, are published by YBK publications in New York City. Mr. Sheftel and Ms. Lehrer also co-edited 10 books of intermediate to early advanced piano literature with accompanying CD’s for Carl Fischer: Mastering Classic Favorites and More Mastering Classic Favorites as well as Debussy: An Album. Ms. Lehrer was author and editor of Chopin: An Album, also published by Carl Fischer. She wrote the practice suggestions for the four books of Piano Etudes for the Development of Musical Fingers selected and edited by Frances Clark, Louise Goss and Sam Holland. Among her other edited works are Fantasie-Variations and Sonata, No. 2, Op. 31 by Dianne Goolkasian- Rahbee, Outside the Box by Kevin Olson and Wynn-Anne Rossi, and Dance Preludes for Piano Duet by Timothy Brown, published by FJH.
Phyllis Lehrer has contributed several chapters to A Symposium for Pianists and Teachers: Strategies to Develop the Mind and Body for Optimal Performance and co-authored The Inner Game of Music Keyboard Workbook with Barry Green. Her collaboration of over 35 years with piano partner, Ena Bronstein Barton, includes two CDs, featuring duets and duo piano works.
Dr. Susan Boettger has been very active as a performer, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. Her genre- defying trio Take 3 has an active upcoming season as they embark in their upcoming tour across the US. She is currently the Director of Education in Lyceum Village, SPC, a position which creates a Conservatory experience for pre-college students. She is also the Executive Director and Founder of the Junior Chamber Music program, a program which provides chamber music coaching, tours, and performances to Southern California. She is Director of Keyboard Studies at Irvine Valley College. As a soloist, she was a winner of the Juilliard Contemporary Concerto competition. She has performed concertos with the Ventura Symphony, New West Symphony, Peninsula Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, and the Orange County Chamber Orchestra. Susan received her DMA in piano performance at USC, minoring in composition, business and music education. She received her MM from Juilliard and her BM (piano) and BA (mathematics) from Rice University.
First prize winner of the 2010 Naumburg International Piano Competition and the 2004 Concert Artist Guild International Competition, Korean-American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee has been lauded by The New York Times as a pianist with “a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style,” and by the Washington Post for her “stunning command of the keyboard.”
Highlights of recent seasons included appearances at the National Gallery where she will give the world premiere of Marc-Hamelin’s “Tango” for four-hands with her husband and pianist, Ran Dank, Purdue Convocations, Rockefeller University, Hawaii Concert Society, Corning Civic Music, and Cleveland Art Museum. She also returned to the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Carlos Miguel Prieto, and collaborated in concert with the Escher and Daedalus String Quartets.
Lee has been rapturously received as guest soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, symphony orchestras of Columbus, Bangor, Boca Raton, Eugene, Wyoming, Bozeman, Hawaii, Wheeling, Cheyenne, Napa Valley, Scottsdale, Abilene, Naples, Santa Fe and Shreveport in the United States; the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra (South Korea), Ulsan Symphony Orchestra (South Korea), Orquesta de Valencia (Spain) and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Dominican Republic), including performances under the batons of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jahja Ling, Jorge Mester and Otto-Werner Mueller.
Past recital appearances include New York City programs at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Art’s Alice Tully Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland’s Severance Hall, the Ravinia Festival’s “Rising Stars” series, Auditorio de Musica de Nacional in Madrid, tour of the Hawaiian Islands, Krannert Center, Herbst Theatre, and Finland’s Maanta Music Festival.
A Naxos recording artist, her discography spans two volumes of Scarlatti Sonatas, Liszt Opera Transcriptions, and two volumes of Scriabin works, with upcoming release of Clementi Sonatas. Ms. Lee’s recording of Re!nvented under the E1/Entertainment One (formerly Koch Classics) label garnered her a feature review in the Gramophone Magazine and the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year Award.
A second prize and Mozart Prize winner of the 2003 Cleveland International Piano Competition and a laureate of the Santander International Piano Competition in Spain, Ms. Lee has worked extensively with Richard Goode, Robert McDonald, Ursula Oppens, and Jerome Lowenthal. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Ms. Lee was awarded the William Petschek Piano Debut Award at Lincoln Center and the Arthur Rubinstein Award and received her Doctor of Musical Arts from The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Ms. Lee is the co-founder and artistic director of Music by the Glass, a concert series dedicated to bringing together young professionals in New York City. A Yamaha Artist, Ms. Lee is an Associate Professor of Music in Piano at the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music where she received the 2021 University of Cincinnati Mrs. AB Dolly Cohen Award for Excellence in Teaching, and serves on the piano faculty of the Bowdoin International Music Festival. She lives in Cincinnati with her husband, pianist Ran Dank and their children Noah and Ella.
Mr. Dank has received his Bachelors of Music the from Tel-Aviv University, his Masters of Music and Artist Diploma from the Juilliard School, and his Doctorate of Music from the Graduate Center in CUNY. His teachers and mentors include Emanuel Ax, Joseph Kalichstein, Robert McDonald, Richard Goode, and Ursula Oppens. He is the recipient of numerous honors, including prizes in the Naumburg, Sydney, Cleveland, and the Hilton Head International Piano Competitions. He serves as an assistant professor of piano at the University of Cincinnati, College Conservatory of Music, and is on the faculty of the Bowdoin International Music Festival.
Notable performances during Mr. Dank’s 2019/2020 season include appearances at the National Gallery in DC, the Hawaii Concert Society, Purdue Convocations, Gina Bachauer Concert Series, two consecutive recitals at the Pro Musica series in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, and a collaboration with Jayce Ogren and the Westchester Philharmonic. In addition, he returns to the Chanel Chamber Music Festival in Tokyo and to the Portland Symphony for a performance of Saint Saens’ 2nd Piano Concerto under the baton of Eckart Preu.
Ran’s recent performances have included recitals at the San Francisco Performances Series, Gilmore, Ravinia, Carnegie Hall’s Zankel and Weill Halls, Steinway Hall, Gardner Museum, Kennedy Center, Town Hall, Yale School of Music, Philips Collection, Morgan Library, Pro Musica in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Portland Ovations, and have garnered critical acclaim from the New York Times and The Washington Post. Mr. Dank has performed as a soloist with the orchestras of Cleveland, Sydney, St. Luke’s, Portland, Eugene, Toledo, Hawaii, Kansas City, Vermont, Charleston, Jerusalem, Valencia, Phoenix, Hilton Head, among others, working under the batons such as Michael Stern, Jahja Ling, Michael Christie, Kirill Karabits, Jun Märkl, Pinchas Zukerman, Jorge Mester, Jaime Laredo, and Ken-David Masur. His chamber music festival appearances have included Santa Fe, Seattle, Chanel in Tokyo, Great Lakes, Bridgehampton, Cooperstown, Mänttä, Bowdoin, Maverick, Skaneateles, and Montreal, and he has collaborated with luminaries of the field such as Paul Watkins, Augustin Hadelich, Eugene Drucker, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, James Ehnes, and The Orion, Shanghai, Takács, and Dover String Quartets. Mr. Dank’s recent performance of the monumental set of variations “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” at the University of Chicago has been selected as one of the top ten performances of 2017 by the Chicago Classical Review.
Mr. Dank is an ardent advocate for contemporary music, and has performed in recent seasons Kevin Puts’ piano concerto “Night,” the Tobias Picker concerto, “Keys to the City,” Frederic Rzewski’s “The People United Will Never Be Defeated,” William Bolcom’s Pulitzer-winning set of “Twelve New Etudes,” and has given, alongside pianist and wife, Soyeon Kate Lee, the world premieres of Frederic Rzewski’s “Four Hands,” and Alexander Goehr’s “Seven Impromptus.” This season Mr. Dank and Soyeon Kate lee will feature the world premiere of multiple grammy-nominated pianist and composer’s Marc-André Hamelin’s “Tango” for piano four-hands.
Ran Dank and Soyeon Kate Lee have established a series of concerts, Music by the Glass, held in a New York SoHo art gallery, where the audience of young professionals listen, mix and mingle with performing artists who play solo pieces and chamber works accompanied by treats sweet and savory, paired with wines by the glass.
Ran Dank is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Naumburg Piano Competition and the Sydney International Piano Competition, and First Prize winner of the Hilton Head International Piano Competition.
DIVISION A, 8 YEARS AND YOUNGER:
GOLD:
Alexander Wang, Brian Wu, Dana Wang, Emma Lu, Gavin Xi, Victoria Marie Ramos
SILVER:
Brandon Yang, Rei Yamazono, Cara Fan, Lingxi Chen, Sydney Cui, Vince Lee
BRONZE:
Daniel Chiang, Nicole Wang, Caiden Kim, Yelin Liu, Yihan Li, Yvaine Wang
DIVISION B, 9-10 YEARS OF AGE:
GOLD:
Jimmy Huang, Joyce Ye, Eli Antony, Leonardo Zhou
SILVER:
Emily (Jiayao) Zhang, Arabelle Grote, Audrey Cui, Joshua Kwan, Nicolette Yang, Rebecca Li, Stephanie Cheng
BRONZE:
Lenka Dzunic, Amy Wang, Angie Wang, Connor Wang, Sophia Kong, Hanen Guo
DIVISION C, 11 AND 12 YEARS OF AGE:
GOLD:
David Gatien, Emily Qi, Itamar Adam, Melanie Yutong Liu, Nicholas Grote, Vivian Jiang
SILVER:
Anne Xu, Enzo Zhao, Grace Li, Ruohan Huang
BRONZE:
Vivian Chang, Zelin Cen, Allison Lin, Leah Im, Leslie Park
DIVISION D, 13 AND 14 YEARS OF AGE:
GOLD:
Brian Li, Kaitlyn Gia Lee, Michelle Cao, William Wang, Chloe Song, Christina Hahn, Meredith Nam
SILVER:
Angelina Xu, Courtney Tam, Harrison Li, Jason Nam, Ella Sumanaseni, Haolin Cong, Jonathan Li
BRONZE:
Chiara Rogers, Corey Zhang, Daniel Hsu, Todd Miao, Kelvin Wang, Olivia Qi, Penelope Keep
DIVISION E, 15 AND 16 YEARS OF AGE:
GOLD:
Daniel Jung, Elsie Lu, Jonathan Zheng, Daniella Tsang, Dora-Ziyan Chen, Lily Jonsson
SILVER:
August Baik, Grace Wang, Xuxuan Jin, Alan Ying, Benjamin Yu, Noah Martinez
BRONZE:
Lucas Tam, Mia Chen, Stefan Chita, Ana Howland, Kyra Li, Samuel Wang, Sanjay Akam
DIVISION F, 17 and 18 YEARS OF AGE:
GOLD:
Alice Zhang, Terri Ji
SILVER:
Cherry Yuan, Jaden Zhang, Nicole Wang
BRONZE:
John Meneses, Sherri Xu
DIVISION G1, 19+ PROFESSIONAL:
GOLD:
Juo-Hsuan Liu
SILVER:
Trinity Gof
BRONZE:
Jeonghyun Lim
DIVISION G2, ages 19+, AMATEUR:
GOLD:
Jennifer Siney
SILVER:
Eva Aw
DIVISION H, 12 TO 18 YEARS OF AGE:
GRAND PRIZE GOLD:
Earnest Wheelwright
GOLD ALTERNATE:
Elsie Lu, Jonathan Shu
SILVER:
Courtney Tam, Lucas Tam
BRONZE:
Jer-Shyan Chang, Kaitlyn Gia Lee, Ruohan Huang
DIVISION A: 8 YEARS AND YOUNGER
GOLD:
Vince Lee, Moxi Zhu
SILVER:
Sydney Cui, Jimmy Huang
BRONZE:
Dana Wang, Yihan Li
DIVISION B: 9-10 YEARS OF AGE
GOLD:
Audrey Cui, Leonardo Zhou, Enzo Zhao, David Gatien
SILVER:
Eli Antony, Seohwon (Ted) Yun, Joshua Kwan, Rebecca Li, Jingyan Ren, Isabel Kaempfer, Albert Zhang
DIVISION C: 11-12 YEARS OF AGE
GOLD:
Eunrae Kim, Ashley Zong, Ella Cho, William Wang, Courtney Tam
SILVER:
Melanie Yutong Liu, Naomi Elsing, Leslie Park, Benicia Zhu, Liam Krol, Kaitlyn Gia Lee, Jens Otterness
BRONZE:
Jeffrey Zhao, Jer-Shyan Chang
DIVISION D: 13-14 YEARS OF AGE
GOLD:
Minjae Kim, Earnest Wheelwright, Meredith Nam, Mia Chen, Daniel Jung, August Baik
SILVER:
Olivia Qi, Christina Hahn, Sarah Kuang, Ryan Chung, Hanjia Guo, Ivory Wang, Stefan Chita,
BRONZE:
Minoo Jang, Jerry Li
DIVISION E: 15-16 YEARS OF AGE
GOLD:
Noah Martinez, Ethan Sun, Nicole Wang, Adrian King
SILVER:
Sandy Huang
BRONZE:
Jeffery Zhang, Dora-Ziyan Chen, Jonathan Shu, Estella Xu
DIVISION F: 17-18 YEARS OF AGE
GOLD:
Anthony Sun
SILVER:
Andrea Liao
BRONZE:
Christopher Marley
DIVISION G: 19 YEARS AND OLDER
GOLD:
Caleb Winslow
SILVER:
Godwin Hong
DIVISION H: CONCERTO
GOLD:
Nicole Wang
GOLD ALTERNATE:
Dora-Ziyan Chen
SILVER:
Hyun Yoon
DIVISION A (ages 9 and under)
GOLD
David Gatien, Emily Qi , Yuna Yamagami, Eli Antony
SILVER:
Amour Luo, Isabel Kaempfer, Dana Wang, Elaina Guan, Ila Lu, Jimmy Huang, Joshua Kwan, Julian Huang, Leonardo Zhou, Moxi Zhu, Natalie Gan, Stephanie Cheng
DIVISION B (ages 10 and 11)
GOLD
Nathaniel Zhang, Liam Krol, Ella Cho, Paul Wang, Corey Zhang, William Wang
SILVER:
Arthur Gong, Ashley Zong, Avery Pun, Brett Zhang, Chloe Woo, Corlan Costello, Grace Li, Harrison Li, Jeffrey Zhao, Jiaqi Chen, Kaitlyn Gia Lee, Kayla Suherman, Roxy Jones, Ruohan Huang, Todd Miao, Tyler Regala, Zixi Nan, Ye-Eun Hong
DIVISION C (ages 12 and 13)
GOLD:
Stefan Chita, Lucas Tam, Constantina Tsang, Earnest Wheelwright, Ray Zhang
SILVER:
Adriana Patala, August Baik, Chloe Song, Christina Hahn, Elsie Liu, Elvin Li, Grace Wang, Haolin Cong, Hyun Yoon, Ian Schuler, Hyunjae Kim, James Huang, Jason Kim, Jeffrey Kwan, Zhirui Jerry Li, Katie Xiao, Kevin Luo, Meredith Nam, Minjae Kim, Nathan Yi, Minoo Jang, Olivia Qi, Rishitha Ravi, Ruslan Kim, Alison Tan
DIVISION D (ages 14 and 15)
GOLD:
Claire Kim, Edward Zhang, Young Park, Jonathan Shu
SILVER:
Adrian King, Alan Ying, Andrew Shaw, Angela Hu, Connor Yoon, Daniel Chen, Daniella Tsang, Devian Shukla, Ellen Li, Jesse Morris, Jacqueline Loeliger, John Meneses, Julia Liu, Julia Schraml, Nathan Hu, Nicole Wang, Sherri Xu, Samuel Wang, Noah Kim, Sandy Huang
DIVISION E (ages 16 to 18)
GOLD:
Janet Phang , Quennie Nguyen, Jiongmin (Owen) Wang, Karen Haining
SILVER:
Kevin Yip, Christopher Marley, Elise Winkler, Lily Bai, Paige Wiesinger, Anthony Sun
DIVISION F (19 and up)
GOLD:
Reid Wolch
SILVER:
Britanee Wong, Eva Aw
CONCERTO DIVISION:
GOLD:
Young Park, Benjamin Yu,
CONCERTO DIVISION ALTERNATE:
Edward Zhang
CONCERTO DIVISION:
SILVER:
Alan Ying, Anna Wang, Quennie Nguyen, Jaelon Diloy-Mendoza, Hyun Yoon, Kelly Chen, Katie Shen, Michael Duan, Jaden Zhang
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DIVISION A (ages 9 and under)
GOLD:
Emily Qi, Stephanie Cheng, Eunrae Kim
SILVER:
Nicholas Grote, Vivian Jiang, Enzo Zhao
BRONZE:
Dana Wang, David Gatien, Naomi Elsing, Lisa Gao, Leonardo Zhou, Skyla Yu, Moxi Zhu, Christina Zhuang , Eli Antony
DIVISION B (ages 10 and 11)
GOLD:
Ethan Xie, Ray Zhang, William Wang
SILVER:
Earnest Wheelwright, Chloe Song, Haolin Cong
BRONZE:
Anna Melomed, Elaina Mergler, Christina Hahn, Ella Sumanaseni, Liam Krol, Jeffrey Zhao
DIVISION C (ages 12 and 13)
GOLD:
Daniella Tsang, Young Park, Eashan Vagish
SILVER:
Lynnsean Young, Stefan Chita, Jerry Li
BRONZE:
Dora-Ziyan Chen, Daniel Jung, Benjamin Yu, Alan Ying
Daniel Zhang, Jeenah Gwak, Alison Tan
DIVISION D (ages 14 and 15)
GOLD:
Jaden Zhang, Ethan Tan, Claire Ku
SILVER:
Edward Zhang, Nile Camai, Jonathan Shu
BRONZE:
Scott Fisher, Jr., Claire Kim, Christina Stepin, Jesse Morris, Zeke Taton, Steve Silverberg, Sherri Xu, Claire Jung
DIVISION E(ages 16 to 18)
GOLD:
Owen Wang, Janet Phang, Shichu Liu
SILVER:
Deanna Han, Lily Bai, Megan Lu
BRONZE:
Connor Zhang, Kathering Kuang, Ivan Tarasenkov, Jonathon Lin, Dajeong Yoon, Sonya Ribner, Michael Duan
DIVISION F (ages 19 and up)
GOLD:
Luke Raffanti
SILVER:
Yimo Zhang, Cicy Li
DIVISION G, CONCERTO
GOLD:
Edward Zhang
SILVER:
Deanna Han
DIVISION A
GOLD:
Michelle Cao, Roxy Jones, Yuna Yamagami
SILVER:
Emily Qi, Nicholas Grote, Chiara Rogers, Kaitlyn Gia Lee, Eunrae Kim, David Gatien
DIVISION B
GOLD:
Stephan Chita, Elsie Lu, Izabella Tu
SILVER:
Raymond Zhang, Alison Tan, Sarah Zong, Sarah Yang, Ella Sumanaseni, Earnest Wheelwright, Ivory Wang, Olivia Qi
DIVISION C
GOLD:
Adrian King, Young Park, Eashan Vagish
SILVER:
Sanjay Akam, Sandy Huang, Nicole Yang, Jesse Morris, Daniella Tsang, Benjamin Yu, Daniel Chen
DIVISION D
GOLD:
Emily Park, Janet Phang, Megan Lu
SILVER:
Andrea Liao, Allyson Lee, Emily Pan, Christopher Marley, Steve Silverberg, Connor Zhang, Kelly Chen
DIVISION E
GOLD:
Caleb Ren, Shichu Liu, Kyran Park Adams
SILVER:
Annie Yang, Jonathon Lin, Christopher Huang, Robert Yee, Bryan Zhao
DIVISION G CONCERTO
GOLD:
Stephen Binondo
SILVER:
Steve Silverberg
DIVISION A
GOLD:
Andrew Gu, Constantina Tsang, David Gatien
SILVER:
Catherine Xie, Rachael Kim, Isabelle Yuan, Lucas Tang, Arthur Gong, Harrison Li
DIVISION B
GOLD:
Daniel Jung, Mia Chen, Eashan Vagish
SILVER:
Young Park, Nicole Yang, Dora Ziyan Chen, Izabella Tu
DIVISION C
GOLD:
Sandy Huang, Steve Silverberg, Edward Zhang
SILVER:
Jesse Morris, Ellen Li, Quennie Nguyen, Terri Ji, Nile Camai, Alex Zhang
DIVISION D
GOLD:
Jonathan Staley, Elise Winkler, Kevin Yip
SILVER:
Millicent McFall, Andrew Ma, Solomon Kim, Emily Pan, Deanna Han,
DIVISION E
GOLD:
Michelle Zheng, Alex Camai, William Huang
SILVER:
Max Randall, Tate Cohan, Vanessa Ma, Peter Preston, Alexander Lu
DIVISION F
GOLD:
Soomi Sung
SILVER:
Jaesung Kim
DIVISION G CONCERTO
GOLD:
Edward Zhang
SILVER:
Stephen Binondo
The Piano Capitol of the World
Chopin in the Time of Cholera and COVID
Recognition
What Motivated Chopin
An Educated Guess
A Personal Challenge
Emotional Music
The Long Suffering
Of Hands and Heart
Why Do We Have a Chopin Festival
A Fateful Journey
Chopin's Pianos
What's Not to Like About Chopin's Music
To Compete or Not Compete
Dr. Steven Lagerberg is retired as a practicing physician from Kaiser Permanente and is the founder of the NW Council of the Chopin Foundation. Steven is the author of: Chopin's Heart: The Quest to Identify the Mysterious Illness of the World's Most Beloved Composer and Essays on Chopin.
Copyright 2020-21. Steven Lagerberg. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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