Classical Piano with Max M.

Most recently, I was sponsored by Mr. Josef Frohlich of the Fresh Leaf Charitable Foundation as one of eight pianists worldwide to attend the prestigious Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland, summer of 2018. I was the sole American and Juilliard pianist to receive the honor, and was featured in spotlight performances broadcasted on major platforms like MediciTV, Idagio Streaming, and DakApp Studios. Since 2019, I've been a core member of the Artemisia Foundation in New York, the result of a joint effort between the Yale School of Music and The Juilliard School. I serve as a Gifted Young Mentor offering private and master classes to the Artemisia Akademie's students at venues within the Juilliard School (Paul Hall, Morse Hall) and Yale University (Sprague Hall, Woolsey Hall), as a Director of Artemisia's 21st Century, Jazz, and Performance Program, and as a Yale Fellow that handles public relations, media and social media tasks for the Foundation. I hope to further my experience as a leader in musical society in New York, beyond the performance realm. I am a graduate of The Juilliard School in New York City where I earned a BM in Piano Performance, and studied with the Susan W. Rose Chair of Piano Department, Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky and legendary concert pianist, Hung-Kuan Chen; my history with the institution dates back to Juilliard Pre-College, where I graduated as a Juilliard Merit Scholarship recipient. In addition to my formal musical education in classical piano, I'm also a graduate of the Lakeside School in Seattle, a highly selective, college preparatory institute offering a rigorous academic program; notable alumni include Bill Gates, Paul Allen and the McCaw brothers. I am well-versed and fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese. I am well accustomed to working with young children, adolescents and teenagers along with the elderly in retirement homes, and hope to nurture and instill in each of my students a genuine, individualized passion for music, along with imparting to each student all the knowledge I've attained in 19 years of musical experience off and on stage, playing at the highest caliber of competition in the world's most acclaimed venues and studying with some of the world's most sought after pedagogues. Furthermore, my goal is to accelerate the learning curve and to bestow all I know as quickly as possible, not wasting time on useless irrelevancies. I've taught many years privately in the greater Seattle area, as a private teacher at the Aspen Music Festival and as a private teacher serving the NYC area since 2015. My students have won regional and international competitions for young people, have performed at prestigious venues such as Benaroya Hall, Alice Tully @ Lincoln Center, the Kauffman Center, Foundation LV in Paris, and Carnegie Hall, and have been admitted to Pre-College institutions at Juilliard and Manhattan School of Music.