2010 COMPETITION RESULTS

SENIOR DIVISION WINNERS

Sun-A Park, First Prize; Senior Division Sun-A ParkFirst Prize

Sun-A Park has performed as a concert pianist throughout the United States and internationally in Korea, Japan, China and Italy. She has appeared as a soloist with orchestras including the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, American Academy of Conducting Orchestra at Aspen, Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra, Newark Symphony, Summit Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica del Festival di Chioggia and the New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra.

Park is the winner of the 2009 Cape Vincent International Chopin Competition, the Silver medalist at the Seattle International Competition, and she won third prize at the California International Young Artists Competition. She also won first prizes at the William Garrison–Franz Liszt Competition; the Pacific International Piano Competition in Vancouver, Canada; and the Kingsville International Competition, among others. She is the prizewinner of the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Corpus Christi International Competition for Piano and Strings, New York Piano Competition and New Jersey Young Artists Audition.

Born in 1988 in Pusan, Korea, Park began her piano lessons at the age of 4 under her mother's instruction. In 1997, she moved to the United States for further studies in music at the Juilliard School's Pre-College Division. She is currently studying under the tutelage of Yoheved Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio at the Juilliard School, where she is the recipient of the Susan Rose Piano Fellowship.

Yi-Yang Chen, Second Prize; Senior Division Yi-Yang ChenSecond Prize

Yi-Yang Chen, a 19-year-old native of Taipei, Taiwan, has been studying piano for 13 years. He is a sophomore at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, under the direction of Douglas Humpherys. Chen has won several piano competitions and performance activities, including second place in the Music Teachers National Association's National Solo Competition in his freshman year, and the Taiwan Chamber Music Competition and Yamaha National Piano Competition in Taiwan during his high school education. He was invited to perform at the Taiwan National Music University (Madeleine Alder Wing Theater). In his first year at Eastman, he was selected to be one of 19 young musicians to attend the Taos School of Music's Summer Chamber Music Program with three renowned string quartets—the Shanghai Quartet, the Borromeo String Quartet, and the Brentano String Quartet—and with additional coaching from Robert McDonald of Juilliard, Thomas Sauer of Mannes and Michael Tree of the Guarneri String Quartet.

Chen plans to participate in competitions as an enrichment of his experience, and to continue playing chamber music, as he enjoys working with other musicians. He loves swimming, viola and business courses.

Shih-Weh Huang, Third Prize; Senior Division Shih-Weh HuangThird Prize

Shih-Wei Huang, pianist, is a native of Taiwan, where, among other prizes, she was awarded Second Prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition of Taipei in 2002. The same year she also won the "Mauro Paulo Monopoli Prize" at the Fifth International Piano Competition in Italy. Huang has studied at the exclusive Curtis Institute of Music under Claude Frank and Eleanor Sokoloff and at the Yale School of Music under Claude Frank. Additional studies and master classes were with Ruth Slenczynska, Daming Zhu, Leon Fleisher, Gary Graffman, Seymour Lipkin, Richard Goode, Robert McDonald, Ignat Solzhenitsyn and Lang Lang.