Sir Stephen Andrew Gill Hough is a British-born classical pianist, composer and writer. He became an Australian citizen in 2005 and thus has dual nationality.
Dong-Hyek Lim is a South Korean classical pianist. Lim has previously studied with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hanover and received the Samsung Culture Scholarship and the Ezoe Scholarship. He currently studies with Emanuel Ax at the Juilliard School.
Yeol Eum Son is a world renowned South Korean classical pianist. She is an interpreter of the Classical era of composers, especially Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, as well as such later composers as Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. Over the past fifteen years, Son has achieved global acclaim for her performances of Mozart’s piano concertos.
Lawrence Foster is an American conductor of Romanian ancestry.
Gabriela Montero is a Venezuelan pianist, known in particular for her real-time improvisation of complex musical pieces on themes suggested by her audience and other sources, as well as for performances of standard classical repertoire.
Emanuel "Manny"Ax is a Grammy-winning American classical pianist. He is known for his chamber music collaborations with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and violinists Isaac Stern and Young Uck Kim, as well as his piano recitals and performances with major orchestras in the world.
Mari Kodama is a classical pianist who has performed in Europe, North America and Japan.
Nelly Akopian-Tamarina is a Russian pianist.
Sa Chen is a Chinese pianist. She won first prize in the 1994 China International Piano Competition, fourth place in the XIV International Chopin Piano Competition in 2000, fourth place in the Leeds International Piano Competition and was third in the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.
Nareh Arghamanyan is an Armenian pianist. She won 2008 Montreal International Musical Competition.
Ran Dank is an American-Israeli classical pianist, who currently lives in New York and teaches at the Eastman School of Music.
Yulianna Andreevna Avdeeva is a Russian concert classical pianist who has performed and recorded internationally.
Alexander Lonquich is a German classical pianist and conductor.
Sophie Pacini is a German-Italian pianist.
Ching-Yun "Charlotte" Hu is a Taiwanese-born American classical pianist. She won the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition and the 2012 Golden Melody Award for Best Classical Album. She founded Yun-Hsiang International Music Festival in Taipei.
Olga Scheps is a German pianist, who currently resides in Cologne, Germany.
Francesco Piemontesi is a Swiss pianist.
Hai-Kyung Suh is a South Korean classical pianist living in New York. She is known for her rich, round tone, and singing voice-like phrasing, characteristics of the Romantic style of piano playing that was predominant in the Golden Age of pianism.
Margarita Höhenrieder is a German classical pianist and a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. She has performed internationally and recorded, with a focus on chamber music. She premiered compositions which Harald Genzmer dedicated to her.
Eva Gevorgyan is a Russian-Armenian pianist and composer.
