Master Class With Pianist
Leon Fleisher

Bethany Wang enters San Francisco Conservatory of Music this Fall as a student of Dr. Sharon Mann. During her four years at San Ramon Valley High School she studied with Dr. Jed Galant. She has won awards in many competitions, including the Menuhin-Dowling Piano Competition, the Ross McKee Piano Competition, and the American Beethoven Society Young Pianist Competition. In 2004 she was selected to perform on the Steinway Society Young Artist Concert. Bethany performed Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the California Youth Symphony as winner of their concerto competition in 2005. In January of this year she placed first in the Fremont Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. 

Yung-Yee Chen is a Junior, with a double major in History and Music, at Stanford University, where she studies piano with Professor Thomas Schultz.  She recently won first place in the 2006 statewide Music Teachers Association of California Piano Solo Competition for college students. During high school she was a member of the Young Artist Guild of MTAC, winning the AMRON Foundation and the Samuel Rodetsky Awards - awards given to one selected YAG member each year based on piano performance and written essays.  Her many awards include state-wide CAPMT Bartok and Contemporary Competition, the East Bay Music Festival, the American Beethoven Society Young Pianist  Competition, San Francisco Young Pianists’ Competition, and the Junior Bach Festival.

Kenric Tam, a junior at Gunn High School in Palo Alto, studies piano with John McCarthy in the Preparatory Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In August he placed second in the Eastman International Piano Competition for students ages 16–18. He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as first-prize winner of the 2006 Bronislaw Kaper Awards, and with the Richardson Symphony in Texas, as first- prize winner of the 2005 Lennox International Young Artist Competition.  Kenric was the only pre-college winner of the 2006 Corpus Christi International Competition, and was one of only two pre-college students invited to perform at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference at Anaheim in November 2005.  Kenric has won first place in four Bay Area symphony concerto competitions and has won awards in many solo competitions held in California, including a grand piano he received as winner of the 2005 Palatino Solo Piano Competition.  He attended the Warsaw Piano Institute in Poland on full scholarship in the summer of 2005.