17-YEAR-OLD FIREBRAND WINS EASTMAN’S 2005 YOUNG ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION
ROCHESTER, NY — After a week of fierce competition in three rounds of judged performances, first prize in the Eastman School of Music’s Eighth Annual Young Artists International Piano Competition was awarded to 17-year old Song-Yuan Tang from Shenyang, China. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle music critic John Pitcher called Tang a “firebrand” who consistently “stole…