2022 Classic Lyric Arts Festival Collaborative Piano Fellow: Novafeltria, Italy
2022 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Fellow â 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 HĂ€nsel 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 â 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 â one of five Collaborative Piano Fellows
Featured presenter at Music by Women Festival, Columbus, MS âSongs of Madeleine Dringâ
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 âFellowship of the Songâ
2025 Chicago Summer Opera: accepted
2025 Classic Lyric Arts
2024 Friends of Eastman Opera: Finalist
2024 Eastman Institute of Music Leadership Grant: Curating âA Yom Hashoah Remembrance Concert: Celebrating Jewish Culture through Classical Liturgical Music and Yiddish Art Songâ, featuring two world premieres by composers Samuel Adler and Michael Isaacson
2023 International Art Song Competition âDas Liedâ: 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 Schoenbergâs 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 â 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 âClairiĂšres dans le ciel – Lili Boulangerâ
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 â 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 â one of eight pianists accepted to Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program
2022 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program: Alternate
2022 Bowdoin International Festivalâs 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 â 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
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 Foundationâs 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 âFellowship of the Songâ
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 âFellowship of the Songâ: 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 â 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 â 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 â 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: âMa Sicong Piano Quintetâ with violinists Jin Hui and Wang Xiaomao, violist Zhuang Ran, and cellist Liu Man
2023 Zhejiang University: Lecture
2022 â 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
Xie Zheng
2024 Brevard Music Center Collaborative Piano Program
