Studio News

Maeve Berry

• Accepted to Source Song Festival 2022, studying with Margo Garrett and Warren Jones
• Accepted to SongFest 2022 Collaborative Piano Program studying with Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, and Alan Smith
• One of four pianists accepted to 2022 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program studying with Wolfram Rieger
• One of five pianists offered a full fellowship to 2022 MusikTheater Bavaria Opera Studio Collaborative Piano Program
• Alternate for the 2022 NATS Summer Intern Program (vocal coaching/collaborative piano)

Érico Freire Bezerra

• Engaged as opera coaching staff at MOSI 2022
• Accepted into Collaborative Piano Program (Vocal Fellowship) at 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School
• 2022 Classic Lyric Arts Festival Collaborative Piano Fellow: Novafeltria, Italy
• One of four pianists accepted to 2022 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program studying with Wolfram Rieger

Jenny Choo-Kirby

• Finalist in the 2022 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition in London
• Engaged for the American premier of the opera, Missing by Marie Clements and Brian Current, to be staged by Anchorage Opera in March 2023
• 2^nd Prize winner at the 2021 Kneisel German Lieder Competition
• Engaged as music staff for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra production of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel (December 2021)
• Recipient of the 2022 Tomita Young Artist Collaborative Piano Fellowship with Finger Lakes Opera
• Accepted to SongFest 2022 Collaborative Piano Program studying with Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, and Alan Smith

Rebecca Golub

• Appointed as an adjunct professor in The College of Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology
• One of five pianists offered a full fellowship to MusikTheater Bavaria Opera Studio Collaborative Piano Program
• Featured presenter at Music by Women Festival, Columbus, MS “Songs of Madeleine Dring”.

Hannah Harnest

• Accepted to the Berlin Opera Academy 2022

Xi Huang

• One of five pianists accepted to 2022 Bowdoin International Festival’s Full Fellowship Collaborative Piano Program

Hyunmin (Gina) Lee

• Accepted to Songfest 2022 Collaborative Piano Program studying with Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, and Alan Smith
• One of eight pianists accepted to Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program at the 2022 Aspen Music Festival
• Alternate for 2022 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program
• Alternate for 2022 Bowdoin International Festival’s Full Fellowship Collaborative Piano Program

Mizi Li

• Accepted to Songfest 2022 Collaborative Piano Program studying with Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, and Alan Smith

Ava Linvog

• Accepted to Songfest 2022 Collaborative Piano Program studying with Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, and Alan Smith
• Recipient of Opera Studio Piano Fellowship at 2022 Trentino Music Festival, Italy

Cynthia Liu

• One of eight pianists accepted to Vocal Collaborative Piano Program at the 2022 Aspen Music Festival
• One of ten pianists accepted to 2021 SongStudio at Carnegie Hall studying with Renée Fleming and Harmut Höll
• Accepted to Songfest 2022 Collaborative Piano Program studying with Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, and Alan Smith

John Robertson

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

William Shi

• Recipient of the 2022 Guy Parsons Award from the Australian Music Foundation
• Accepted into Collaborative Piano Program (Vocal Fellowship) at the 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School
• Accepted into Collaborative Piano Program (Vocal Fellowship) at the 2023 Tanglewood Music Festival
• Accepted into Collaborative Piano Program (Instrumental Collaboration) at the 2022 Aspen Music Festival
• Accepted into Collaborative Piano Program (Instrumental Collaboration) at the 2022 Music Academy of the West 
• Only American-based Australian to be awarded an Australian Music Foundation Award for 2021
• Adjunct Faculty/Collaborative Pianist at Nazareth College

Gregory Smith

• Eva and Marc Stern Fellowship at SongFest 2022 Collaborative Piano Program studying with Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, and Alan Smith
• Accepted to Instrumental Collaborative Piano program at the 2022 Aspen Music Festival
• Alternate for Music Academy of the West Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program 2022

Brock Tjosvold

• Appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor: Vocal Coaching & Accompanying at The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam (Fall 2021)
• 1^st Prize winner at the 2021 Kneisel German Lieder Competition