Yarilo Students Helping Students Benefit Concert 2014

On June 19th of 2014, six young musicians (including myself) performed at a fundraising concert, “Students Helping Students,” organized by the Yarilo Contemporary Music Society.

Lawrence Wang, Evgenia Momchilova, Sherry Li, Catherine Xu, Shirley Cha, Richard He and Anna Levy (Teacher)

In the spring of 2012, Yarilo Contemporary Music Society established a $2000.00 scholarship as part of its mandate: “present, educate, and give back to our community,” by helping students who wish to pursue advanced studies in music. Yarilo seeks to help out the young performers who are ready to make that commitment towards professionalism and excellence, by offering a substantial scholarship of $2000 towards advanced music studies of a young musician, through an open competition. For the past two years they succeeded in awarding four deserving students $1000 each to pursue their studies.

The performers were Richard He, Lawrence Wang, Sherry Li, Evgenia Momchilova, Catherine Xu, and myself. We presented the most entertaining, pleasing, public favorites by Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Gershwin, and Mendelssohn.

With my piano teacher Anna Levy after the concert

 

Here is a video of our concert (I'm playing at the beginning and the end of this piano)!

I played three dances from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite (duet) with Lawrence Wang, Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Sonata and Mendelssohn's Variations Sérieuses.

Links:

https://www.yarilomusic.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PPljI6DYZI