Participants

Miki Aoki (Japan), Alexander Beresovsky (MD, USA), Ilya Bunyakin (MD, USA), Alexander Cap (NJ, USA), Xing Chen (DL, USA), Junko Chikai (Japan), Richard Choung (MD, USA), Larissa Gordeuk (VA, USA), Yoshio Hamano (Japan), Edwina Hunter (MD, USA), Kelly Hwu (VA, USA), Mariko Ieki (Japan), Misaki Iida (Japan), Annie Jeng (MD, USA), Haikeem Johnson (MD, USA), Lois Jones (MD, USA), Mihono Kawamata (Japan), Eunbi Kim (Washington D.C., USA), Yuko Kobayashi (Japan), Yuko Konada (Japan), Esther Lee (Virginia, USA), Asuka Matsumoto (Japan), Tomoko Matsushita (Japan), Connor Mautner (FL, USA), Bao-Anh Nguyen (FL, USA), Clara Nguyen (FL, USA), Tu-Anh Nguyen (FL, USA), Natsuki Nonogaki (Japan), Miki Okuda (Japan), Hiromi Ono (Japan), Noi Otomasu (Japan), Valeriya Polunina (Russia), Kama Rasmussen (GA, USA), Sandra Segal (MD, USA), Shiori Sugaya (Japan), Aya Uesugi (Japan), Miku Uesugi (Japan), Zhao Wang (NY, USA), Jing Yang (Germany), Haruko Yoshida (Japan), Seho Young (MA, USA), Cheng Zhi (OH, USA).

Faculty

Nelita True, Joseph Banowetz, Charles Timbrell, Yasumi Taki, Ivo Kaltchev, Jose Ramos Santana, Viktor Shklyar, Li-Ly Chang, Nikita Fitenko.

 Concert Series

• Milen Petroff and Ivo Kaltchev Piano Duo
• Joseph Banowetz, Anderson & Roe Concert Piano Duo
• Alessio Bax
• WIPF Selected Participants’ Concert at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage

 Lecture Series

• David Dubal “Three Hundred Years of Piano”
• James Litzelman Workshop for Piano Teachers: “Preparing Students to Play Romantic Period Repertoire”
• Yasumi Taki “Japanese System of Music Education”
• Joseph Banowetz “Stylistic Awareness and Problems in Piano Pedaling”
• Charles Timbrell “French Pianists On and Off the Record, 1809-2009”
• Robert Sherman “The Business of Music”