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: 1^st Prize Winner
• Winner of the 2023 Ann Clark Fehn Memorial Award
• 2023 Music Academy of the West Vocal Piano Program: Alternate
• Source Song Festival 2022, studying with Margo Garrett and Warren Jones
• SongFest 2022 studying with Graham Johnson and Martin Katz
• 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
• 2022 NATS Summer Intern Program (vocal coaching/collaborative piano): Alternate

Érico Freire Bezerra

• 2023 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: 2nd Prize Winner
• Songfest 2023: Full Fellowship to study with Martin Katz and Roger Vignoles
• Collaborative Piano Program (Vocal Fellowship) at 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School
• New Horizons Fellowship: 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School
• Opera coaching staff at Finger Lakes Opera 2023
• Vocal coach/collaborative pianist at SUNY Geneseo
• MOSI 2022: Music Director
• 2022 Classic Lyric Arts Festival Collaborative Piano Fellow: Novafeltria, Italy
• One of four pianists accepted to the 2022 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program studying with Wolfram Rieger

Rebecca Golub

• 2023 Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival’s Opera Workshop; Fairbanks, Alaska: Professional vocal coach and collaborative pianist
• One of four pianists accepted to the 2023 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program
• 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

• 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

• 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School: Opera Coaching Fellow
• Engaged for the American premier of the opera, Missing by Marie Clements and Brian Current: Anchorage Opera (March 2023)
• Finalist in the 2022 Wigmore Hall/Bollinger International Song Competition in London
• 2022 Tomita Young Artist Collaborative Piano Fellowship with Finger Lakes Opera
• SongFest 2022 studying with Graham Johnson and Martin Katz
• 2^nd Prize Winner at the 2021 Kneisel German Lieder Competition
• Music Staff for Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra production of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel (December 2021)

Hyunmin (Gina) Lee

• One of four fellows accepted to Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program at the 2023 Aspen Music Festival and School
• 10^th Coltman Chamber Music Competition, 2023 (Austin, TX): Semi-finalist
• MTNA Chamber Music Competition, 2023 (Reno, NV): National finalist
• Songfest 2022 studying with Graham Johnson and Martin Katz
• One of eight pianists accepted to Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program at the 2022 Aspen Music Festival
• 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

Mizi Li

• One of four pianists accepted to the 2023 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program
• Songfest 2022 Collaborative Piano Program studying with Graham Johnson and Martin Katz

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

• 2023 Source Song Festival, studying with Margo Garrett and Warren Jones
• 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 Hartmut 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

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

Gregory Smith

• 2023 Kneisel German Lieder Competition: 3rd Prize Winner
• Songfest 2023: Full Fellowship to study with Martin Katz and Roger Vignoles
• One of four pianists accepted to the 2023 Toronto Summer Music Academy Art of Song Program
• 2023 Tanglewood Music Festival Vocal Piano Program: Alternate
• 2023 Music Academy of the West Collaborative Piano Program: Alternate
• 2^nd Prize Winner at the 2022 Kneisel German Lieder Competition
• SongFest 2022: Eva and Marc Stern Fellowship to study with Graham Johnson and Martin Katz
• Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program at the 2022 Aspen Music Festival
• Music Academy of the West Instrumental Collaborative Piano Program 2022: Alternate

Brock Tjosvold

• Appointed as Assistant Professor of Vocal Coaching: Eastman School of Music (Fall 2023)
• Winner of the 2021 Ann Clark Fehn Memorial Award
• 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