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Alvin Zhu has performed Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Gershwin, and Rachmaninoff concertos with orchestras around the world, appearing at Alice Tully Hall, Steinway Hall, Sydney Opera House, Beijing Concert Hall, Palais du Congress,  Fletcher Hall and the Amphitheater in Chautauqua, Sprague Hall at Yale University, and Joan and Irving Harris Hall at Aspen. He has recorded for NPR’s “From the Top” as a featured Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist, Pittsburgh’s WQED radio, and Steinway’s Spirio player-piano catalog. He holds several prizes in international and national competitions. As juror, he was on the panel of the 2018 Franz Liszt International Youth Piano Competition (China Division) held in Changsha.

He is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and has researched the musical contributions of his paternal grandfather Gong-Yi Zhu, a master piano pedagogue whose influence in China is still widely felt today. He has been a guest lecturer at the United States Embassy in Beijing, The Juilliard School, and Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.

In the Fall of 2019, he will join the inaugural faculty roster at the Tianjin Juilliard School, Juilliard’s first branch campus.

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Versatile in styles ranging from Baroque to Contemporary and Jazz, Yoshiko Arahata maintains an active performance and teaching career in the US, Asia and Europe. Top prize winner of international competitions including Bradshaw and Buono and Los Angeles Liszt, her recent highlights include performances at Amalfi Coast International Festival (Italy) and Ritos Project (Greece); concerto with Ossia New Music; Garth Newel Chamber Music Center; and performance with renowned violinist Charles Castleman. Dedicated to artistic growth, Arahata frequently premieres works by living composers and collaborates with dancers. She presented at 2019 International Society for Improvised Music conference and serves on the committee for the National Conference of Keyboard Pedagogy. Arahata studied piano performance at Northwestern University (M.M.) and Eastman School of Music (B.M., D.M.A.), where she received the Excellence in Teaching Assistant Award. Her primary teachers include Barry Snyder, Alan Chow and Enrico Elisi, with whom she served as his teaching assistant. Currently, Arahata is an adjunct lecturer/instructor at SUNY Geneseo, Nazareth College, University of Rochester and Eastman Community Music School and a faculty at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.