Pria Louka performs at the master class with the distinguished guest artist Ena Bronstein Barton at the Princeton Day School.

Roshan Benefo (13) and Celena Chen (15) were selected for the advanced master class at the NJMTA annual convention. They performed for a distinguished guest of the convention – Eduardos Halim – on November 20, 2011. Celena and Roshan were two out of four students in the state selected for the master class. Roshan was the youngest participant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqTtxGU7zbI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0YMENLkktw

Celena Chen (15) – 3^rd Place Winner

Leonidas Tolias (17) – Honorable Mention

 

 

Chamber music student Karen Bao (violin) accepted to the International Heifetz Music Institute. Attended in summer 2011.

Roshan Benefo (12)

1^st place – Westminster Conservatory Scholarship Competition
Finalist and Honorable mention recipient – Steinway Competition
Princeton Day Middle School orchestra performed Scherzo in D minor – the piece that was composed and orchestrated by Roshan.

Leonidas Tolias (17)
Winner Grand Prix –Music-Fest Rising Talents Competition (piano solo) Carnegie Hall performance
Grand Prix – Music-Fest Rising Talents Competition (chamber ensemble with Jason Isbit, cello) Carnegie Hall performance

Dmitry Styrkas (16)
Grand Prix – Music-Fest Rising Talents competition. Carnegie Hall performance.

Sharon Pang (15)
Grand Prix – Music-Fest Rising Talents Competition

 

Piano Trio – Jonathan Taratuta-Titus (17) (piano), Karen Bao (16) (violin), Philip Chan (17) (cello) – perform for the members of the NASH Ensemble of London in a master class organized by Young Artists Program and Princeton University

 

 

 

 

 

Viola You (15) (violin) and Alexandra Scheer (15) (piano) perform for the members of the NASH Ensemble of London in the same master class.

  Jonathan Taratuta-Titus (17) – 1^st Place Winner

Eric Wang (12) – becomes the youngest finalist in the Westminster Conservatory Concerto Competition in 2010.

Piano Trio – Jonathan Taratuta-Titus (17) (piano), Karen Bao (16) (violin), Philip Chan (17) (cello) perform at the annual NJMTA conference chamber master class with Daniel Epstein and other faculty of the Mason Gross School for the Arts, Rutgers University on November 21.

  

  Jonathan Taratuta-Titus (17) – 1^st place winner , Princeton Festival Piano Competition, senior category.

Congratulations to the winners of the Music-Fest Competition and their memorable performances in the winners’ recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York and Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia!

Eric Alonzo
Roshan Benefo
Kamna Gupta
Sharon Pang
Dmitry Styrkas
Eric Wang
Kelby Williamson
Chamber Group: Haebin Chang (violin) and Alexandra Scheer (piano)
Piano Ensemble: Nikolai and Yuri Styrkas

 

   Piano ensemble Yuri and Nikolai Styrkas – Grand Prize winners perform at Curtis Institute of Music

 

                                            Dmitry Styrkas (15) performs at Carnegie Hall,Weill Recital Hall, New York