Achievements

Maeve Berry

• 2024 Pittsburgh Opera: Resident Artist Pianist
• 2024 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Fellow – one of four pianists accepted
• 2024 Cincinnati Song Initiative “Fellowship of the Song”
• 2024 Penn State School of Music: Guest Artist in Residence (Vocal Coaching)
• 2024 Pittsburgh CLO: Bernstein’s West Side Story: Rehearsal Pianist
• 2023 Franz-Schubert-Institut, studying with Elly Ameling, Julius Drake, Helmut Deutsch, Wolfram Rieger, and Roger Vignoles
• 2023 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: 1st Prize Winner
• 2023 Winner of the 2023 Ann Clark Fehn Memorial Award
• 2023 Guest Lecturer and Coach Penn State University: Wolf Italienisches Liederbuch
• 2023 Music Academy of the West Vocal Piano Program: Alternate
• 2022 Source Song Festival: Margo Garrett and Warren Jones
• 2022 SongFest: Graham Johnson and Martin Katz
• 2022 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program – one of four pianists accepted
• 2022 MusikTheater Bavaria Opera Studio Collaborative Piano Program – one of five Collaborative Piano Fellows
• 2022 NATS Summer Intern Program (vocal coaching/collaborative piano): Alternate

Érico Freire Bezerra

• 2025 Full-time Collaborative Pianist Faculty: Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, Brazil
• 2025 Inducted to Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society
• 2024 Cincinnati Song Initiative “Fellowship of the Song”
• 2024 Finger Lakes Opera: Collaborative Pianist
• 2024 SUNY Geneseo: Artist-in-Residence
• 2024 Endless Mountain Music Festival: Collaborative Pianist
• 2024 Stagetime Grant: “Canciones de mi Tierra” Recital
• 2024 Eastman Inclusive Excellence Award
• 2023 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: 2nd Prize Winner
• 2023 SongFest: Full Fellowship Martin Katz and Roger Vignoles
• 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School: Collaborative Piano Program (Vocal Fellow)
• 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School New Horizons Fellowship
• 2023 Finger Lakes Opera: Music Staff
• 2023 SUNY Geneseo: Vocal coach/collaborative pianist
• 2022 MOSI: Music Director
• 2022 Classic Lyric Arts Festival Collaborative Piano Fellow: Novafeltria, Italy
• 2022 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Fellow – one of four pianists accepted

Huiping Cai

• 2025 Tanglewood Music Center: Collaborative Piano Fellow
• 2024 Tanglewood Music Center: Collaborative Piano Fellow

Andrew Chen

• 2025 Aspen Music Festival and School: Collaborative Piano Program (Vocal Fellow)
• 2023 Collaborative Piano Institute
• 2023 Eastern Music Festival: Collaborative Piano Fellow

Jenny Choo

• 2024 Houston Grand Opera: Studio Pianist
• 2024 Aspen Music Festival and School: Opera Coaching Fellow
• 2024 Sarasota Opera: Assistant Conductor
• 2024 Music Staff, Sarasota Opera Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, Luisa Miller
• 2023 Vocal Coach: Fletcher Opera Institute University of North Carolina School of the Arts
• 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School: Opera Coaching Fellow: Bel Canto by Jimmy Lopez and Nilo Cruz
• 2023 Anchorage Opera: American premier of the opera, Missing by Marie Clements and Brian Current: Anchorage Opera
• 2022 Finalist in the Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition in London
• 2022 Tomita Young Artist Collaborative Piano Fellowship Finger Lakes Opera
• 2022 SongFest: Graham Johnson and Martin Katz
• 2021 Eastman Excellence in Accompanying Award
• 2021 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: 2nd Prize Winner
• 2021 Music Staff, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Hänsel und Gretel

Rebecca Golub

• 2025 American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria: Repetiteur
• 2025 Western Kentucky University Opera Theater: Musical Director, vocal coach, harpsichord Dido and Aeneas
• 2023 Appointed to the Potter College of Arts & Letters at Western Kentucky University: Collaborative Piano Faculty, Coordinator of Accompanying Services and Vocal Coach
• 2023 Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Opera Workshop; Professional vocal coach and collaborative pianist
• 2023 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Fellow – one of four pianists accepted
• 2022 Adjunct Professor in The College of Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology
• 2022 MusikTheater Bavaria Opera Studio Collaborative Piano Program – one of five Collaborative Piano Fellows
• Featured presenter at Music by Women Festival, Columbus, MS “Songs of Madeleine Dring”

Calvin Guse

• 2025 Brevard Music Center Summer Festival: Collaborative Piano Fellow
• 2025 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: Finalist

Derek Hamersly

• 2025 Brevard Music Center Collaborative Piano Program: alternate
• 2025 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: Finalist
• 2025 Friends of Eastman Opera Competition: Finalist
• 2024 Rocky Ridge Music Center
• 2024 Wisconsin Flute Festival Collegiate Competition: Accompanied 1st and 2nd Prize Winners

Hannah Harnest

• 2025 Winner of Eastman School of Music Lecture Recital Prize
• 2025 Cincinnati Song Initiative “Fellowship of the Song”
• 2025 Chicago Summer Opera: accepted
• 2025 Classic Lyric Arts
• 2024 Friends of Eastman Opera: Finalist
• 2024 Eastman Institute of Music Leadership Grant: Curating ‘A Yom Hashoah Remembrance Concert: Celebrating Jewish Culture through Classical Liturgical Music and Yiddish Art Song’, featuring two world premieres by composers Samuel Adler and Michael Isaacson
• 2023 International Art Song Competition ‘Das Lied’: 3rd Prize with Australian soprano, Alexandra Flood
• 2023 Ann C. Fehn Fellowship for an Eastman scholar-performer with interests in German language, literature, and culture
• 2023 NYU Steinhardt: Lecture Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire
• 2023 Seagle Festival: Professional music director, vocal coach and accompanist
• 2023 Classic Lyric Arts
• 2023 Miami Music Festival: Vocal Collaborative Piano Fellow
• 2022 Berlin Opera Academy

Xi Huang

• 2025 Tanglewood Music Center: Piano Fellow alternate
• 2024 Music Academy of the West: Lehrer Vocal Institute Piano Fellow Studio Artist
• 2024 SongFest: Vocal Pianist and Soprano
• 2023 Toronto Summer Music Festival Chamber Music Institute Fellow – one of two pianists accepted
• 2022 Bowdoin International Music Festival Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program Fellow

Chaeeun Lee

• 2025 Brevard Music Center Summer Festival: Collaborative Piano Fellow
• 2025 Chicago Summer Opera: Collaborative Piano Fellow
• 2025 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: 2nd Prize

Hyunmin (Gina) Lee

• 2025 Interlochen Arts Center Summer Session: Staff Collaborative Pianist (Instrumental)
• 2025 Source Song Festival
• 2025 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: 1st Prize Winner
• 2025 Winner of the Ann Clark Fehn Memorial Award
• 2025 Friends of Eastman Opera Competition: Finalist
• 2025 Music Academy of the West: Instrumental Collaborative Piano Fellowship: alternate
• 2025 Toronto Summer Music Festival Art of Song Program: alternate
• 2025 Claremont McKenna College: Lecture recital “Clairières dans le ciel – Lili Boulanger”
• 2024 ArtSong Lab
• 2024 Kneisel Lieder Competition: 3rd Prize Winner
• 2024 Aspen Instrumental Collaborative Piano Fellowship: Renewal invitation
• 2024 Banff Centre for Creativity and Arts: Collaborative Piano and Repetiteur Residency (Chamber Music and Opera Workshop)
• 2024 Canada Council for the Arts 2024 Explore and Create Grant
• 2023 Adjunct Professor in The College of Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology
• 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School – one of four Instrumental Collaborative Piano Fellows
• 2023 10th Coltman Chamber Music Competition (Austin, TX): Semi-finalist
• 2023 MTNA Chamber Music Competition (Reno, NV): National finalist
• 2022 SongFest: Graham Johnson and Martin Katz
• 2022 Aspen Music Festival and School – one of eight pianists accepted to Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program
• 2022 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program: Alternate
• 2022 Bowdoin International Festival’s Full Fellowship Collaborative Piano Program: Alternate

Samuel Leung

• 2025 New World Symphony: Orchestral Keyboard (Substitute List)
• 2025 Aspen Music Festival and School Collaborative Piano Program: Orchestral Keyboard Fellow
• 2025 Minnesota Public Radio Performance Today alongside PT Young Artist Victor Ni (Clarinet)
• 2024 Aspen Music Festival and School Collaborative Piano Program: Orchestral Keyboard Fellow
• 2024 Ghent International Clarinet Competition: Collaborative Pianist
• 2024 Bowdoin International Music Festival: Instrumental Collaborative Piano Fellow
• 2023 Bowdoin International Music Festival Instrumental Collaborative Piano Fellow
• 2022 Collaborative Piano Institute

Mizi Li

• 2025 Source Song Festival: alternate
• 2025 Friends of Eastman Opera Competition: Finalist
• 2024 SongFest: The John Harbison American Song Prize Winner
• 2024 Wintergreen Music LEAD cooperative program: One of two collaborative pianists
• 2024 Art Song Lab
• 2024 Source Song Festival
• 2024 Texas Chamber Music Institute
• 2023 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Fellow – one of four pianists accepted
• 2022 SongFest Collaborative Piano Program: Graham Johnson and Martin Katz

Ava Linvog

• 2025 Music Academy of the West: Lehrer Vocal Institute Collaborative Piano Fellow
• 2024 Arizona Opera: Young Artist
• 2024 Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Center: Music Staff
• 2024 Opera Omaha: Music Staff Don Giovanni
• 2024 New York Dramatic Voices Winter Intensive: Music Staff
• 2024 Performance in Awakening Art Song Recital, sponsored by City Lyric Opera
• 2024 Opera Omaha: Rehearsal Music Staff La Traviata
• 2023 North Carolina Opera: Rehearsal Music Staff La Traviata
• 2023 Regina Opera: Rehearsal Music Staff Rigoletto
• 2023 Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Festival: Music Staff La Traviata, Into the Woods
• 2023 Sarasota Apprentice Artist Program: Chorus Apprentice Music Staff Madama Butterfly Don Giovanni, Ernani, Thérèse
• 2022 Trentino Music Festival: Music Staff Die Zauberflöte
• 2022 SongFest: Studies with Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, and Alan Smith

Cynthia Liu

• 2025 McGill University and Université de Montréal: Piano-Vocal Arts Residency (one of four pianists accepted)
• 2025 Music Academy of the West (Vocal Piano Program) alternate
• 2025 Friends of Eastman Opera Competition: 1st Prize
• 2024 SongFest: The Graham Johnson Art Song Prize XXI Winner
• 2024 University of Rochester: Chamber Music Class Coach
• 2024 Toronto Summer Music Academy: Chamber Music Program Alternate
• 2023 Source Song Festival: Margo Garrett and Warren Jones
• 2022 Aspen Music Festival and School: Vocal Collaborative Piano Program
• 2022 SongFest Collaborative Piano Program: Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, and Alan Smith
• 2021 SongStudio at Carnegie Hall: Renée Fleming and Hartmut Höll

Jeongmin Oak

• 2025 McGill University and Université de Montréal: Piano-Vocal Arts Residency (one of four pianists accepted)
• 2025 Aspen Music Festival and School: Collaborative Piano Fellow (Instrumental and Vocal Collaboration)
• 2025 Friends of Eastman Opera Competition: Finalist
• 2024 Music Academy of the West: Vocal Piano Program
• 2024 Aspen Music Festival and School: Collaborative Piano Fellow (Vocal and Opera Coaching Program)
• 2024 WQXR Radio: Gerda Lissner Foundation Greene Space Series

John Robertson

• 2022 NATS Summer Intern Program (vocal coaching/collaborative piano) one of four pianists accepted
• 2021 The University of Alabama: Appointed to the Voice and Opera Faculty as Vocal Coach and Music Director for the UA Opera Theater

William Shi

• 2025 University of Colorado Boulder: Appointed Collaborative Piano Faculty
• 2025 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: 3rd Prize Winner
• 2024 Tanglewood Music Center: Re-invited for Inaugural Combined Piano Program
• 2024 Szymanowski International Violin Competition: Collaborative Pianist
• 2023 Recipient of the Australian Music Foundation’s inaugural Richard Bonynge Award
• 2023 Featured on Performance Today alongside 2023 PT Young Artist Jory Lane (violin)
• 2023 Tanglewood Music Festival Instrumental Piano Program Fellow
• 2023 Tanglewood Music Festival Vocal Collaborative Piano Program Fellow
• Only Tanglewood Fellow accepted to dual concentration in instrumental and vocal collaborative piano
• 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School Collaborative Piano Program (Vocal Fellowship)
• 2022 Aspen Music Festival and School Collaborative Piano Program (Instrumental Collaboration)
• 2022 Music Academy of the West Collaborative Piano Program (Instrumental Collaboration)
• 2022 Guy Parsons Award from the Australian Music Foundation
• 2021 Only American-based Australian to be awarded an Australian Music
• Adjunct Faculty/Collaborative Pianist at Nazareth University

Gregory Smith

• 2025 Aspen Music Festival and School: Collaborative Piano Fellow (Opera Coaching)
• 2025 Cincinnati Song Initiative “Fellowship of the Song”
• 2025 Plowman Chamber Music Competition: Special Recognition Award – Vantage Trio
• 2025 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition: Quarterfinals – Vantage Trio
• 2024 Aspen Music Festival and School: Collaborative Piano Fellow (Opera Coaching)
• 2024 Music Academy of the West Vocal Piano Program: Alternate
• 2024 Cincinnati Song Initiative “Fellowship of the Song”: Alternate
• 2023 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: 3rd Prize Winner
• 2023 Songfest: Full Fellowship to study with Martin Katz and Roger Vignoles
• 2023 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Fellow – one of four pianists accepted
• 2023 Tanglewood Music Festival Vocal Piano Program: Alternate
• 2023 Music Academy of the West Collaborative Piano Program: Alternate
• 2022 Kneisel German Lieder Competition – 2nd Prize Winner
• 2022 SongFest: Eva and Marc Stern Fellowship to study with Graham Johnson and Martin Katz
• 2022 Aspen Music Festival and School Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program
• 2022 Music Academy of the West Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program: Alternate

Brock Tjosvold

• 2025 Finger Lakes Opera: Appointed Head of Music
• 2024 Finger Lakes Opera: Vocal Coach
• 2023 Eastman School of Music: Appointed Assistant Professor of Vocal Coaching
• 2022-23 National Opera Association Production Competition: 1st Prize – Crane Opera Ensemble (Conductor)
• 2021 The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam: Appointed Visiting Assistant Professor of Vocal Coaching and Accompanying
• 2021 Winner of the 2021 Ann Clark Fehn Memorial Award
• 2021 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: 1st Prize Winner

Yucong (Zoe) Wang

• 2024 Professional CD Recording: “Ma Sicong Piano Quintet” with violinists Jin Hui and Wang Xiaomao, violist Zhuang Ran, and cellist Liu Man
• 2023 Zhejiang University: Lecture
• 2022 – 2024 Recitals at Beijing Zhongshan Music Hall, Shenzhen Jingshan Theater, Foshan Grand Theater, Hangzhou Grand Theater, Henan Arts Center, and Tsinghua University
• 2022 China Conservatory of Music: Awarded Individual Advancement Honor by the Department of Strings, Wind, and Percussion Instruments
• 2022 Professional CD Recording: Romantic Longing with Born Lau (viola)
• 2020 China Conservatory of Music: Appointed Collaborative Piano Faculty in the Department of Strings, Winds, and Percussion