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Schedule


2020-2021

July 14-July 15, 2020
Recording Session at St. Cecilia Music Center

July 20-July 25, 2020
GVSU Virtual Piano Camp
Camp Director

August 3-August 15, 2020
ESME String Virtual Camp
Piano Instructor

2019-2020

June 1- June 3, 2019
Recital and Masterclass at Xi'an Conservatory, China
Judge for the Qualifying Round for Osaka International Music Competition

June 25 - July 6, 2019
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp
Piano Instructor

July 12 - July 14, 2019
Elly Lim Music Festival, Indonesia

July 25, 2019
Chamber Music Concert, Busan, Korea

August 12 - August 15, 2019
String Leadership Camp at GVSU
Piano Instructor

October 14, 2019
Chamber Music Concert 
with Pablo Mahave-Veglia, cello and Ron Samuels, clarinet
GVSU

October 17, 2019
Solo Recital, Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo, MI

October 18, 2019
Presentation on "Ensemble Music" 
with student group "FOURtepiano"
Grand Rapids Musicians League
Aquinas College, Grand Rapids

October 26, 2019
20th/21st-Century Piano Festival at GVSU
Director

Novermber 2, 2019
String Leadership Day 
Chamber Music Concert 

November 4, 2019
Solo Recital, GVSU

November 13, 2019
Presentation: How to Use Recordings in Teaching? 
Kalamazoo Area Music Teachers' Association
Western Michigan University 

November 16, 2019
Hope College Concerto Competition
Adjudicator

December 4, 2019
Masterclass
Livonia Area Piano Teachers Forum

December 13, 2019
St. Cecilia Junior Music Club
With Soo-Yeon Kim, violinist​

December 27-30, 2019
Solo Recording Project, Lansing, MI

February 17, 2020
GVSU Faculty Showcase
Mozart Concerto K. 488
Park Church, Grand Rapids, MI

March 1, 2020
Free@3 Concert
First Reformed Church
Holland, MI

March 16, 2020
Solo Recital
7:30pm, Britton Recital Hall
University of Michigan
​Ann Arbor, MI

April 30-May 4
Recording Project, Lansing, MI
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2018-2019

July 12-13, 2018
Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck 
For tickets, click HERE. 

July 25-August 5, 2018
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp
For more information, click HERE. 

August 9, 2018
Whitehall, MI, 4:30pm
Concert with Marlen Vavrikova, oboe, and Victoria Olson, bassoon

August 11, 2018
Whitehall, MI, 4:30pm
Recital with Pablo Mahave-Veglia, pablo

August 13-15, 2018
String Leadership Camp at GVSU
Teaching and Performing
To register (open to advanced string players and pianists), visit HERE. 

September 7, 2018
GVSU, 7:30pm
Recital with Pablo Mahave-Veglia, cello

September 9, 2018
Free @3, Holland, MI
Recital with Pablo Mahave-Veglia, cello

September 16, 2018
GVSU, 7:30pm
Chamber Music with Mihai Craioveanu, violin, Alicia Eppinga, cello, and John Varineau, clarinet

September 20, 2018
Calvin College, 12:30pm
Chamber Music with Mihai Craioveanu, violin, Alicia Eppinga, cello, and John Varineau, clarinet

September 25, 2018
Muskegon, 12pm
Recital with Pablo Mahave-Veglia, cello

September 29, 2018
Heidelberg University, OH
Solo Recital and Masterclass

October 5, 2018
College of the Ozarks, MO
Almava Piano Trio concert

October 11, 2018
Calvin College
Chamber Music with Mihai Craioveanu, violin, Alicia Eppinga, cello, and John Varineau, clarinet

October 19, 2018
The Block, Muskegon, MI, 7:30pm
Raising Water Awareness through Science, Music, and Dance

October 20, 2018
Haas Center for Performing Arts, GVSU, 2pm
Raising Water Awareness through Science, Music, and Dance

October 27, 2018
20th/21st-Century Piano Festival
GVSU

October 28, 2018
Skokie, IL
solo performance

November 19, 2018
SVS Recital Hall, GVSU
Solo Recital

December 14, 2018
University of Michigan Concerto Competition Judge

January 23, 2019
Arts at Noon
GVSU, 12pm
Recital with Pablo Mahave-Veglia, cello

February 3, 2019
Ohio University, Columbus, OH
Solo Reictal and Masterclass

February 8, 2019
Dance-Music Presentation with GVSU Students at St. Cecilia Junior Music Club 

February 13, 2019
Kalamazoo Area Music Teachers Association
"Brahms' Compositional Penmanship in His Third Piano Sonata"

February 16, 2019
Clinician at Gilmore's KeysFest 
To Register: www.thegilmore.org/keysfest/

March 17, 2019
Violin-Piano Recital with Megan Crawford at GVSU 
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March 25, 2019
The Metropolitan Detroit Musicians' League
"Brahms' Compositional Penmanship in His Third Piano Sonata"

March 25, 2019
Violin vs. Fiddle
Hope College, 7:30pm
Recital with Mihai Craioveanu and others

March 31, 2019
Fairmont Chamber Music Series
Fairmont, WV
Almava Piano Trio 

April 4, 2019
Michigan State University
Recital with Airi Yoshioka, violin

April 12, 2019
High School Piano Seminar-Chopin
To register: https://www.gvsu.edu/piano/2019-high-school-piano-seminar-chopin-56.htm

April 19, 2019
All-Drizga Concert with Grand Valley Winds
3pm, GVSU

April 23, 2019
House Concert in Muskegon

May 3, 2019
Kalamzoo Bach Festival
Recital with Arturo Ziraldo, viola, and Rhea Olivacce, voice

May 13, 2019
Sub-Merge: Raising Water Awareness through Science, Music, and Dance
Loosemore Auditorium, GVSU Pew Campus
3pm: Educational Workshop
7pm: Performance 


2017-2018

July 17-July 30, 2017
InterHarmony Music Festival, Italy
https://www.interharmony.com/Session2/index.html 

August 8-August 20, 2017
Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp
www.bluelake.org

October 9, 2017
Recording Session in NY
Compositions by Yui Kitamura

October 19, 2017
Recital with Gregory Maytan, violin
Grand Valley State University

October 28, 2017
20th/21st-Century Piano Festival 
Grand Valley State University

October 29, 2017
Chamber Music Concert
Grand Rapids Art Museum
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November 3, 2017
Recital
Loyola University 

November 4, 2017
Masterclass
Loyola University

November 7, 2017
Recital
GVSU

November 17, 2017
Trio with Airi Yoshioka, violin, and Si-Yan Li, cello
University of Maryland Baltimore County

January 10, 2017
Presentation 
Kalamazoo Area Music Teachers Association

January 13, 2018
Chamber Music Concert
Muskegon 

January 24, 2018
Recital
University of Ohio

January 25, 2018
Masterclass
University of Ohio

February 2, 2018
​Duet Concert
Music Clubs at St. Cecilia

February 11, 2018
Free at 3
Holland, MI

February 23, 2018
NPM Grand Rapids membership meeting
St. Sebastian Church, Byron Center, MI

February 25, 2018
Peabody Conservatory Prep Faculty Concert
Baltimore, MD

February 28, 2018
Four-hand Concert with Beth Nam
GVSU

March 7, 2018
Four-hand concert with Beth Nam
California

May 4, 2018
The Block, Muskegon, MI, 7:30pm
Chamber music performance with Arturo Ziraldo, Alicia Sawyers, Mark Portolese
For tickets, click HERE. 

May 21, 2018
Society for Freshwater Science Annual Conference, Detroit
Collaboration with Alan Steinman (scientist), Hannah Seidel (dancer), Jeremy Crosmer (cellist), and Hong-Yi Mo (violinist)
For more information, click HERE. 
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2016-2017

September 18, 2016
Montreal Conservatory, Canada
with Marie-Eve Poupart

September 26, 2016
Lecture-Performance
"Schubert's 1817 Sonatas"
The Metropolitan Detroit Musicians League, MI

October 2, 2016
House Concert
To attend, please leave a message on "Contact."

October 3, 2016
Lecture-Performance 
"Schubert's 1817 Sonatas"
Holland Piano Teachers' Forum 
8pm, Howard Recital Hall
Hope College, Miller Center for Musical Arts
Holland, MI

November 10, 2016
7:30pm, SVS
Solo Recital
Grand Valley State University 

November 13, 2016
Solo Recital 
St. Mark's Church
Grand Rapids, MI
 
November 16, 2016
Arts at Noon with Grand Valley Winds
GVSU, MI

January 15, 2017
Free @ 3 Concert Series
First Reformed Church
630 State St. Holland, MI
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February 1, 2017
Almava Trio
Arts at Noon series
GVSU, MI

February 10, 2017
Schubert in 1817 
Piano Teachers' Forum of Grand Rapids
9:30am, Women's City Club of Grand Rapids

March 1, 2017
Recital with Conversations: Schubert in 1817
7:30pm, SVS Recital Hall
GVSU, MI

March 3, 2017
Adjudication: Stickley Piano Competition

March 16, 2017
Masterclass and Recital
Cedaville University, OH

March 19, 2017
Almava Trio
Grand Rapids Arts Museum
Grand Rapids, MI

March 27, 2017
Solo Recital 
Radford University, VA

March 28, 2017
Masterclass
Radford University, VA

May 6, 2017
Michigan Music Teachers' Association 
Student Achievement Testing Finals
Adjudicator 

May 7, 2017
Liebestraum
Grand Rapids Symphony benefit concert

2015-2016
September 21, 2015
Fall Arts Performance
Doppler trio 
with Christopher Kantner, flute, and Richard Britsch, horn

October 11, 2015
Michigan Music Teachers Association State Conference
Grand Rapids, MI
Solo Performance

October 31, 2015
20th/21st-Century Piano Music Festival
Sherman Van Solkema Recital Hall
Grand Valley State University, MI
For info, click here.

November 7, 2015
Adjudication 
Sonata-Sonatina Festival 
Piano Teachers' Forum of Grand Rapids
St. Cecilia Music Center
Grand Rapids, MI

November 9, 2015
7pm, East Tennessee State University
Masterclass

November 10, 2015
7:30pm, East Tennessee State University
Solo Recital

December 12, 2015
7:30pm, Louis Armstrong Theatre
Grand Valley State University, MI
Beethoven Concerto No. 4
For info, click here. 

January 30, 2016
7:30pm
Bergen Symphony
Mozart Concert No. 9, K. 271
Englewood, NJ

February 20-21, 2016
Adjudication
Michigan Music Association Competition
Radisson Hotel, Kalamazoo, MI

March 1, 2016
7:30pm, Cook-DeWitt Center, GVSU, MI
Violin-Piano Recital
with Megan Crawford, violin

March 3, 2016
2:30pm, Grand Rapids Community College
Masterclass

March 13, 2016
2pm, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
Violin-Piano Recital
with Megan Crawford, violin

March 22, 2016
7:30pm, Cook-DeWitt Center, GVSU, MI
Trout Quintet
with Megan Crawford, violin, Paul Swantek, viola, Pablo Mahave-Veglia, cello, and Michael Hovnanian, bass

April 10, 2016
Sundays at Central Concert Series
Towson, MD
Almava Trio

April 13, 2016
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series
Almava Trio

June 18, 2016
7pm, Camerata, South Korea
Piano Quartets by Brahms and Faure
www.camerata.kr

July 28-29, 2016
Chamber Music Festival of Saugatuck, MI

2014-2015

Sunday, April 19, 2015
3pm, Sherman Van Solkema Recital Hall
William Baum Endowment Series
Solo Recital
Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI
For more information, click here.

Tuesday, March 24, 2015
8pm, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
MuSE (Multicultural Sonic Evolution)
Solo Recital
For tickets, click here

Wednesday and Friday March 4 and 6, 2015
1:30-2:45pm, SDS Room, Mattin Center
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Lecutre-Recital: Liszt's Dante Sonata
Guest Artist for "Meet the Music"

Thursday, February 26 - Friday, February 27
Solo Recital and Masterclass
College of the Ozarks, Missouri

Saturday, February 14, 2015
7:30pm
Bergen Symphony Orchestra
Beethoven Concerto No. 4

Wednesday, January 14, 2015
12:15pm, Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series
Solo Recital
www.imfchicago.org
Live Broadcast - WFMT

Friday, December 5, 2014
Judge, Chamber Music Juries
Walnut Hill School for the Arts, Natick, MA

Sunday, November 9, 2014
Judge, New England Conservatory Preparatory School Concerto Competition, MA

Tuesday, October 28, 2014
12pm, The Church of the Epiphany, DC
Tuesday Concert Series (www.epiphanydc.org/tuesdayconcertseries)
Trio Works with Almava Trio (www.almavatrio.com)

Wednesday, October 8, 2014
12:30pm, The Church of the Holy Trinity, DC
Brown Bag Concert Series
Solo Recital

September 28, 2014
Washington Heights Musical Society (www.washingtonheightsmusicalsociety.com)
Trio Works with Almava Trio (www.almavatrio.com)

September 21, 2014
3pm, Rogers Memorial Library
Southhampton, NY
Trio Works with Almava Trio (www.almavatrio.com)

2013-2014

Tuesday, June 10, 2014
7:30pm, Zijingang Theater, Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China
Solo Recital
Works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Unsuk Chin

Sunday, June 1, 2014
Judge, Annual Performance Competition at Bloomingdale School of Music
New York

Saturday, April 19, 2014
Hope for Africa Concert
6pm, The DiMenna Center (450 W. 37th St. NY)

Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Marie-Ève Poupart, violin recital
6pm, Maison de la musique, Sorel-Tracy, Quebec, Canada

Friday, April 11, 2014
Remy Taghavi, bassoon recital
8pm, Morse Hall, The Juilliard School

Sunday, March 30, 2014
Vox Novus/New York Women Composers Collaboration
1pm, Jan Hus Presbyterian Church (351 East 74th St. NY)

Sunday, March 23, 2014
3pm, Our Lady Of Good Counsel Church, NY (230 E 90th St, New York, NY 10128)
Musica Bella Orchestra of New York Chamber Music Series (www.musicabella.com)
Trio Works by Haydn, Schumann, and Ravel 
Almava Trio (www.almavatrio.com)

Friday, March 7, 2014
7:30pm, Philippine Consulate (556 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10036)
with Midori Samson, Bassoon

Sunday, November 1, 2013
5pm, TBA
Duo Concert with Soo Yeon Kim, violin

Thursday, October 10, 2013
7pm, Klavierhaus Recital Hall, NY
Solo Recital
Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Rochberg, and Schubert

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
7:15pm, Peabody Institute, MD
Road Scholar Recital
Solo Works by Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Schubert

2012-2013

Friday, May 31, 2013
8pm, Milbank Chapel, Columbia University, NY
Campus Mission Church Summer Mission Fundraising Concert
Solo Work by Schumann

Saturday, April 27, 2013
5pm, St. John Lutheran Church, NY
Musica Bella Chamber Music Concert Series
Tr'imbue (with Stani Dimitrova, Violin and Emily Brausa, Cello)
Trio Works by Haydn, Hersant, and Ravel

Wednesday, March 20, 2013
8pm, Morse Hall, The Juilliard School, NY
Recital
Solo Works by Bach, Beethoven,
Schumann, Ravel, and Rochberg

Monday, March 11, 2013
7:15pm, Peabody Institute, MD
Road Scholar Recital
Solo works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and Rochberg

Monday, March 4, 2013
Staff Accompanist for Juilliard Entrance Bassoon Auditions

Sunday, March 3, 2013
5pm, Roerich Museum
Leora Chamber Orchestra concert series (www.leorachamberorchestra.com)
Chamber Works with Stanichika Dimitrova, violin, Zsaz Rutkowski, cello, and Jessica Sibelman, clarinet

Tuesday, December 18, 2012
6pm, Morse Hall, The Juilliard School, NY
Lecture Recital: “Discovering the Mature Schubert: B Major Sonata, D. 575”
Doctor of Musical Arts Degree Lecture Performance

Saturday, December 1, 2012
8:30pm, Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, NY
Doctor of Musical Arts Degree Recital  #3
Works by Bach, Beethoven,  Schubert, Chopin, Goldman (www.tedgoldman.com), and Temkin (www.danieltemkincomposer.com)

Sunday, November 4, 2012
3pm, Griswold Hall, Peabody Institute, MD
Peabody Preparatory School Faculty Concert (http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/baltimore) – as a guest artist
Work by Beethoven
Trio with Andrea Picard Boecker, Violin and Alicia Ward, Cello

2011-2012

Sunday, July 8 – Saturday, August 5, 2012
Ecloes d’Art Americaines de Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau, France

    Friday, July 20, 2012
    Chapelle de la Trinité du château de Fontainebleau
    Work by Debussy

    Thursday, July 26, 2012
    Salle des colonnes du château de Fontainebleau
    Work by Franck
    Duo with Anastasia Agapova, violin

    Friday, August 3, 2012
    Salle des colonnes du château de Fontainebleau
    Work by Daniel Temkin (www.danieltemkincomposer.com), world premiere
 
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
8pm, Morse Hall, The Juilliard School
Works by Fasch and Dutillieux
Duo with Robert Cornelison, bassoon

Friday, April 6, 2012
8pm, Morse Hall, The Juilliard School
Work by Schnittke
Duo with Colin Stokes, cello (www.colinstokes.com)
 
Sunday, April 15, 2012
3pm, St. Thomas Aquinas Church, NY 
Musica Bella Orchestra of New York Chamber Music Series (www.musicabella.com)
Solo and Chamber works by Liszt, Brahms, and Kirchner
Tr’imbue (Stanichika Dimitrova, violin, Emily Brausa, cello, Sookkyung Cho, piano)

Sunday, March 25, 2012
3pm, St. Thomas Aquinas Church, NY
Musica Bella Orchestra of New York Chamber Music Series (www.musicabella.com)
Work by Dvorak
Quintet with Stanichika Dimitrova and Adda Kridler, violins, Mai Nguyen, viola, and Emily Brausa, Cello

Monday, February 27, 2012
8pm, Jay Sharp Theater, The Juilliard School, NY
Student Composers’ Concert
The Juilliard Orchestra, Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor
Premieres of orchestral works by Cwik, Ippolito, Miller, and Lee

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
6pm, Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, NY
Works by Ravel and Britten 
Duo with Merideth Hite, oboe (www.meridethhite.com)
 
2010-2011
 
Monday, July 4, 2011
1:30pm, Ewha Womans University, Korea
College Music Society International Conference (www.music.org)
Lecture Recital: “Understanding Editorial Issues – Schubert Sonata D. 959, II. Andantino”
 
Friday, May 27, 2011
George Washington University, Benjamin T. Rome Hall, Washington, DC
Washington International Competition (www.fmmc.org)
Semi-finalist

Friday, April 22, 2011
6pm, Paul Hall, The Juilliard School, NY
Doctor of Musical Arts Degree Recital #2 
Works by C. P. E. Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt and Wei-Chieh Lin 

Sunday, February 13, 2011
3pm, Central Presbyterian Church, MD
Sundays at Central Concert Series (www.centralpc.org/events/concert_series)
Works by Mozart, Franck, Kreisler, and Sarasate
Duo with Andréa Picard, violin

Tuesday, January 18, 2011
6pm, Morse Hall, The Juilliard School, NY
Liszt Festival, sponsored by Literature and Materials Department at Juilliard
Work by Liszt

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