Achievements

Accompanying Studio Achievements

Maeve Berry

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 studying with Wolfram Rieger – one of four Song Fellows
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

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 Opera coaching staff at Finger Lakes Opera
Vocal coach/collaborative pianist at SUNY Geneseo
2022 MOSI: Music Director
2022 Classic Lyric Arts Festival Collaborative Piano Fellow: Novafeltria, Italy
2022 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program Wolfram Rieger – one of four Song Fellows

Rebecca Golub

2024 Appointed to the Potter College of Arts & Letters at Western Kentucky University Departmental Collaborative Pianist/Instructor.
2023 Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Opera Workshop; Professional vocal coach and collaborative pianist
2023 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program – one of four Song Fellows
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”

Hannah Harnest

2023 International Art Song Competition ‘Das Lied’: 3^rd Prize with Australian soprano, Alexandra Flood
2023 Ann C. Fehn Fellowship for an Eastman scholar-performer with interests in German language, literature, and culture
NYU Steinhardt: invited by the Piano Studies Program to give a lecture on Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire
2023 Seagle Festival: Professional music director, vocal coach and accompanist
2023 Classic Lyric Arts: Collaborative Piano Fellow
2023 Miami Music Festival: Vocal Collaborative Piano Fellow
Berlin Opera Academy 2022

Xi Huang

2023 Toronto Summer Music Festival Chamber Music Institute Fellow
2022 Bowdoin International Music Festival Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program Fellow

Jenny Choo-Kirby

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 Engaged for the 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 2^nd Prize Winner
2021 Music Staff, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Hänsel und Gretel

Hyunmin (Gina) Lee

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

2023 Bowdoin International Music Festival Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program Fellow
2022 Collaborative Piano Institute

Mizi Li

Ava Linvog

2024 Opera Omaha Rehearsal pianist/vocal coach La Traviata
2023 North Carolina Opera Rehearsal pianist/vocal coach La Traviata
2023 Regina Opera Rehearsal pianist/vocal coach Rigoletto
2023 Janiec Opera Company at Brevard Music Festival; Brevard, NC Rehearsal pianist,/vocal coach La Traviata, Into the Woods
2023 Sarasota Apprentice Artist Program; Sarasota, FL Chorus rehearsal pianist/vocal coach/performance pianist Madama Butterfly Don Giovanni, Ernani, Thérèse
2022 Trentino Music Festival; Fiera di Primiero, Rehearsal/orchestra pianist/vocal coach Die Zauberflöte
2022 Songfest 2022 Graham Johnson, Martin Katz, and Alan Smith

Cynthia Liu

2023 Source Song Festival, Margo Garrett and Warren Jones
2022 Aspen Music Festival and School – one of eight pianists accepted to 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 – one of ten pianists

John Robertson

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

William Shi

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: studying with Emanuel Ax, Stephen Drury, Jacob Greenberg, Andreas Haefliger and Marc-Andre Hamelin
2023 Tanglewood Music Festival Vocal Collaborative Piano Program Fellow: studying with Javier Arrebola and Margo Garrett
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

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 Program – 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

2023 Appointed as Assistant Professor of Vocal Coaching: Eastman School of Music
2021 Winner of the 2021 Ann Clark Fehn Memorial Award
2021 Appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor: Vocal Coaching & Accompanying at The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam
2021 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: 1^st Prize Winner