Gilmore Young Artist Award
Exceptional American pianists age 21 and younger who demonstrate the talent and drive to become career concert pianists are eligible for this award. More »
Current Gilmore Young Artists
2008
Adam Golka
Twenty-year-old Adam Golka, a first generation American, was born of Polish parents in Houston, Texas. He began studying both the piano and the violin at the age of four.... He gave his first recital at the age of nine and first performance of a concerto with orchestra at ten...
Naomi Kudo
Newly-named 2008 Gilmore Young Artist Naomi Kudo was born in Washington D.C. to Japanese-Korean parents. Now twenty, Kudo began studying piano at the age of four in Chicago. Her formal studies include instruction by Emilio del Rosario at the Music Institute of Chicago, and with Kum-Sing Lee of the Vancouver Music Academy...
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Past Artists
2006
Natasha Paremski
Though just 18, Paremski has appeared around the world, made two CDs with the Moscow Philharmonic and debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic when she was only 15. On Feb. 29, 2004, she made her Carnegie Hall debut (with the New York Youth Symphony).
2006
Yuja Wang
For the past three years, Yuja has attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia as a student of Gary Graffman. In March 2004, she was selected as one of four participants in Leon Fleisher’s Carnegie Hall master classes on the late Schubert sonatas.
2004
Christopher Falzone
Christopher Falzone, has received critical acclaim and numerous national and international awards for his piano performances and compositions. In 2004, he received the Gilmore Young Artist Award...
2004
Elizabeth Schumann
Elizabeth Schumann was born in Virginia but lived in Taiwan for two years.
Upon returning to the US, the Schumanns bought a secondhand upright piano. Just a three-year-old toddler at the time, her parents thought she was too young to be taught...
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