The Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is best known for its Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, the second largest piano competition in the United States. [1] The Foundation also hosts regular piano competitions, concerts, and festivals on a four-year cycle. [2]
While the Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation also is best known for its Competition, the Foundation also hosts Festivals and a Concert Series to showcase professional pianists in a noncompetitive setting. Past Concert Series and Festival pianists include Armen Babakhanian, Stephen Beus, Reginald Robinson, Simon Tedeschi, Massimiliano Frani, and Ted Rosenthal.
The Foundation’s education outreach program Music-in-Our-Schools program exposes elementary school children to the music of visiting professional pianists. The program reaches 25,000 Utah students annually and has visited over 250,000 children since its beginning in 1999. In 2008, the Foundation was awarded a Best in State award for Excellence in Education for their Music-in-Our-Schools program. [3]
Gina Bachauer, was a Greek classical pianist who toured extensively in the United States and Europe. She is most well known for playing Romantic piano concertos. She played hundreds of concerts for the Allied troops in the Middle East during World War II while she lived in Egypt. During her career she was called the "queen of pianists." The Gina Bachauer International Piano Foundation was named in honor of her contributions to the musical world.
Lev Vinocour is a pianist from Russia.
Kevin Kenner is an American concert pianist.
The Van Cliburn Foundation presents the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the Cliburn Amateur Piano Competition, the Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival, Musical Awakenings education programs, and Cliburn Concerts.
Frank Lévy is a Swiss-American classical pianist and piano teacher.
Aristo Sham is a pianist born in Hong Kong. He has won numerous prizes and awards in Hong Kong and overseas, and has performed in several countries. He has been featured in the Channel 4 programme, The World's Greatest Musical Prodigies.
Ran Dank is an Israeli classical pianist, who currently lives in New York, NY, USA.
The Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition is based in Salt Lake City, Utah and is the second largest piano competition in the United States.
The PianoForte Foundation (PFF) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that presents classical and jazz piano concerts in Chicago, Illinois. Established in 2005 by piano dealer Thomas Zoells, PianoForte Foundation presents over 60 concerts each year in downtown Chicago and the surrounding suburbs.
Arthur Greene is an American pianist and educator.
Vassily Primakov is a Russian concert pianist and recording artist known for his interpretations of Chopin.
Steven Lewis Graff is a pianist and teacher of music in New York City.
Massimiliano Frani is an Italian pianist, composer and music pedagogue. He is the founder of the project MET – Music Education Therapy and director of the Armoniæ Centro Internazionale di Musica e Cultura. He currently works as a musical art teacher at Elevations RTC, a residential treatment center in Syracuse, Utah, and lives in the state.
Ory Shihor is an Israeli-American pianist, pedagogue, and co-founder of the Los Angeles based Ory Shihor Institute.
Sean Botkin is an American pianist and music professor.
Violetta Egorova is a Russian concert pianist.
Zhang Zuo, also known by the name Zee Zee, is a Chinese pianist, who has won first prize awards at the 1st International Piano Competition in China, the Gina Bachauer International Artists Piano Competition in the United States, the Krainev International Piano Competition in Ukraine, and the Juilliard School's 32nd annual William Petschek Piano Recital Award.
Luiza Borac is a Romanian classical pianist.
Paul Cannon Pollei was an American pianist and member of the piano faculty at Brigham Young University (BYU). He was an international ambassador for piano music, as well as a frequent lecturer and teacher. Pollei wrote about piano pedagogy and instruction for various professional journals in the United States and authored two books on the subject.
Steven Lin is a Taiwanese American classical pianist. Described by the New York Times for playing that is “...immaculately voiced and enhanced by admirable subtleties of shading and dynamics.” Lin has been awarded in several international piano competitions including the top prize winner of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in 2014, 3rd prize at the 2012 William Kapell International Competition, the 1st prize at the 2012 Juilliard School’s Gina Bachauer Piano Scholarship Competition and International Tang Dynasty Piano Competition in New York in 2008. He performed with such orchestras as Kansas City Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, Western Australian Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Costa Rica National Symphony, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and Baltimore Symphony. He has given solo recitals in such venues as Carnegie Hall, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Gasteig in Munich, Louvre in Paris, National concert hall of Dublin, National Theater and Concert Hall, Taipei, Shanghai Concert Hall, and Hamarikyu Hall in Tokyo.
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