The 2018 Piano Duo Festival was held on Saturday, January 20th at Greene Music. I am sincerely thankful to the judges, all the volunteers, teachers and students who came and did an excellent job at the festival. 12 teams participated and 10 teams competed. All the teams were well-prepared and performed wonderfully. The judges’ final results are below:
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Piano Duo Festival Final Results
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Category I: Ages 5 – 9
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1st place
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Anya Davis & Kailey Phillips
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2nd place
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Katelyn Duong & Allison Duong
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Category II: Ages 10 – 12
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1st place (tie)
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Ashley Arner & Sophia Guan
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1st place (tie)
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Ruei-Chi Lai & Davina Zhu
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3rd place
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Wei-Shi Lai & Peiran Liang
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Category III: Ages 13 – 15
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1st place
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Emily Suh & Lauren Suh
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2nd place
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Stephen Zhu & Hsiang-Kuang Zhuang
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Category IV: Ages 16 – high school
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1st place
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Tori Tinsley & Sophia Lam
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Category V: College |
1st place |
Isabelle Chen & Daniel Chen |
Playing piano duets is an effective way to improve the student’s musicianship, as the students learn to work with other musicians on various aspects of ensemble performance. This would be beneficial for their solo playing as well. Thank you again to the studios of Eunice Ahn, Carol Ong-Chen, Yulia Atoyan, Anna Vasilyeva, Irina Bessonova, Yun-Yin Wu, Tracy Lovley and Dan Yu. Thank you to judges Dr. Marina Sakach and Mr. Steve Baker. Thanks for the wonderful help from Yuko Maruyama.
