2015 Southeastern Piano Festival Guest Artists

Dr. Yoheved (Veda) Kaplinsky is currently the Chairperson of the Piano Department at the Juilliard School in New York as well as Professor of Piano at TCU. She began her musical career as a prizewinner in the J.S. Bach International Competition in Washington, D.C....

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BBC Russia named Alexander Kobrin the "Van Cliburn of today", putting him in the front row of musicians of his generation.
Internationally acclaimed pianist Alexander Kobrin was born in 1980 in Moscow, Russia. He began playing the piano at the age of 5...

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Blessed with “poetic and sensitive pianism” (Washington Post) and a “wondrous sense of color” (San Francisco Classical Voice), pianist Joyce Yang captivates audiences across the globe with her virtuosity, lyricism, and magnetic stage presence. At just 27, she has....

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In January 2013, 17 years old Italian pianist Leonardo Colafelice has been the first-prize winner of the Yamaha USASU International Piano Competition in Arizona receiving the prize from Martha Argerich hands and winning all other possible prizes too:...

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Special Guest Artists and Arthur Fraser Competition Judges:


Natalya Antonova made her debut with the Leningrad Philarmonic at the age of 16. As a soloist of two major concert managements, “State Concert” and “Soviet Union Concert”, she concertized in Russia, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Ukraine, Armenia, Byelorussia, and other countries like Germany, France, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, South Korea, etc....

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Heralded as a “technically impeccable and musically profound” pianist, Andrew Cooperstock performs widely as soloist and chamber musician and has appeared throughout six continents and in most of the fifty states...

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International audiences and critics have consistently recognized the fiery intensity, brilliance and contagious sensitivity in the pianism of Eduardo Delgado. His appearances have taken him to the major music capitals of four continents. ...

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Born in the capital of Latvia, Rīga, Ināra Zandmane started to play piano at the age of six. Ms. Zandmane holds BM and MM from Latvian Academy of Music, MM in piano performance from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and DMA in piano performance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City....

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Festival Featured Alumni:


Acclaimed as a pianist of "exceptional breadth" whose "spirited, flawless performance stemmed from the very depth of his soul" (Estes Park News), Canadian-born pianist Kevin Ahfat is an artist recognized for his deeply passionate and highly compelling performances,....

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At the age of 20, Dong Yeon Kim has established himself as one of the leading young artists of his generation. His daring musicality that "took the audience by storm with an incredibly virtuosic performance" (Columbia Free Times) has garnered first prizes in numerous competitions. ...

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20-year old pianist Rieko Tsuchida was born in Japan and began her piano studies at age three with Ankie Foell. In 1999 she entered the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division as a scholarship student of John McCarthy, ....

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