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Yuan Sheng
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 Yuan Sheng has gained international recognition as a concert pianist through his extensive performances in Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Malaysia, Morocco, Philippines, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and United States. He is a laureate of Marsala, Erice, Jaen, Beijing and Havana international piano competitions. Harris Goldsmith of New York Concert Review proclaims that" Mr. Sheng … is an artist of the highest quality……" (New York Concert Review, Summer 2004), after hearing Mr. Sheng's New York Debut recital in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in April, 2004 as the winner of the Artist International’s Rubinstein Memorial Award. The author of Reflections from the Keyboard David Dubal states that: “…Just listen to him, you will be charmed and touched!”
Yuan Sheng has performed as soloist with the Tenerife Symphony and the Gran Canaria Philharmonic in Spain, the Oradea State Philharmonic of Romania, the Central Philharmonic and the China Philharmonic in China, and the National Orchestra of Cuba. He has collaborated with conductors such as Sixten Ehrling, Delun Li, and David Gilbert. As a chamber musician, he has participated in the Seoul Spring Festival for Chamber Music , and has performed in duo-recitals with violinists Aaron Rosand, Arnold Steinhardt and Rachel Barton Pine. He has been seen and heard on WQXR, NPR stations in the US, CCTV and Beijing Music Radio in China, as well as national TV and radio stations in Cuba, France, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Poland, and Spain.
Mr. Sheng' articles has been published by leading music magazines in China. His recent series of sixteen articles Together We Love Bach have been published by the Piano Artistry. As a recipient of the National Young College Teachers’ Fund from Huoyindong Educational Foundation, Ms. Sheng will compile and write a method book of teaching Bach’s keyboard music as well as record four CDs of keyboard music of Bach in the coming years. His upcoming events will include a 5-recital-series of All-Bach-Program at the Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall from July 2009 to July 2010.
Mr. Sheng has given lectures and master classes in the U. S., Canada, China, Croatia, Germany, South Korea and the Philippines. He is currently on the Piano faculty of the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China.
Born to a family of musicians in Beijing, Yuan Sheng began his music studies with his mother at age five, continuing them later at the Central Conservatory with Professors Qifang Li, Huili Li, and Guangren Zhou. From 1991 to 1997 Yuan Sheng was a scholarship student of Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he completed his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees. His interest in the music of Bach inspired him to study intensively with Rosalyn Tureck.
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Clara Jung-Yang Shin
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 Pianist Clara Jung-Yang Shin is winning acclaim for the exquisite sensitivity and vibrant energy of her playing. She was the Grand Prix winner of the Rachmaninoff Competition in Italy, the Silver Medalist of the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati and the winner of the Texas Young Artist Competition, Hemphill-Wells Sorantin Young Artist Competition, and the Ruth Burr Award Competition.
As a soloist, Ms. Shin performed at the Arnoff Center, Banff Center, Daejeon Arts Center, Etheridge Center, Thomas Center, Ed Landreth Auditorium, Salle Cortot, Seoul Arts Center, Villa Betramka, Youngsan Art Hall in North America, Europe, and Asia.
Recently, she was selected as the ‘Young Virtuoso’ with the DaeJeon Philharmonic Orchestra, and her performance of Franz Liszt’s Totentanz with the Antalya State Symphony Orchestra in the concert commemorating the 50th anniversary since the establishment of the diplomatic relationship between Korea and Turkey was reviewed as the ‘Performance of the Month’ in the Korean edition of the International Piano Magazine.
Ms. Shin received the Bachelor of Music from Korean National University of Arts, Master of Music at the University of Florida, and Doctor of Musical Arts at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University.
She is currently serving as piano faculty at Seoul Arts Center Music Academy and lecturer at Korean National University of Arts.
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