Participants

Benjamin Bertin (Newnan, GA), Xinyue Chen (Wuhan, China), Christian Escoto (Alexandria, VA), Miku Fujihira (Kashiwa-shi, Chiba, Japan), Lan Lan Guo (Beijing, China), Esther Guy (Springfield, MO), Adrienne Johnson (Minneapolis, MN), Yoshio Hamano (Tokyo, Japan), Hannah Hua (Bethesda, MD), William Hume (Yorktown, VA), Yoojin Ko (Kyung-ki Do, South Korea), Youngjoo Ko (Kyung-ki Do, South Korea), Nanae Koizuka (Saitama, Japan), Mayu Kotari (Saitama, Japan), Anthony Lam (Cupertino, CA), Johanna Lam (Cupertino, CA), Brian Le (Silver Spring, MD), David Lindsay (Mount Airy, MD), Jaesaang Liu (Seoul, South Korea), Luxi Liu (Beijing, China), Ronald Liu, Jr. (Foster City, CA), Vivian Liu (Foster City, CA), Mana Mitsui (Saitama, Japan), Riku Mizumura (Saitama, Japan), Yuhki Mizutani (Tokyo, Japan), Peter Moll (Arlington, VA), Kaori Murase (Kanagawa, Japan), Rosanne Nahass (Belle Mead, NJ), Clare O’Callaghan (Washington, DC), Fernando Palomeque (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Sohee Park ( Sungnam, South Korea), Weisheng Ren (Wuhan, China), Hyun Sook Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Won Kyeong Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Sohyun Shin (Suwon, South Korea), Mai Shigemitsu (Tokyo, Japan), Mary Clare Spence (Dallas, TX), Philip Spence (Dallas, TX), Anna Stepanova (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Clinton Velman (Chicago, Il), Yinan Wu (Beijing, China), Joseph Xu (Fairfax, VA), Stephanie Xu (Fairfax, VA), Akane Yajima (Isesaki City, Gunma, Japan), Kazune Yajima (Isesaki City, Gunma, Japan), Miaoxuan Zhang (Wuhan, China), Ying Zhao (Alexandria, VA)

Faculty

Nikita Fitenko (Co-Director), Ivo Kaltchev (Co-Director), Chongxiao Liu (China), Anna Kijanowska (USA/Poland), Seok-rahn Kwon (South Korea), Edvinas Minkstimas (USA/Lithuania) Atsuko Okada (Japan)

 Concert Series

• Aaron Diehl, José Feghali, Alexander Kobrin, Ivo Kaltchev, Chongxiao Liu, Yoshio Hamano
• WIPF Selected Participants’ Concert at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage
• Prizewinners of the 27th International Young Artists Piano Competition
• Prizewinners from the private piano studios of Olga and David Kuperstein, and Jeong Eun Park Kang

 Masterclasses and Lecture Series

• Masterclasses by Leon Fleisher and José Feghali
• Lecture by Seymour Bernstein Pedaling – “The Soul of the Piano”
• Lecture by Atsuko Okada “Performing Scriabin’s Music: How to Achieve Scriabin’s Distinctive Sound?”