Heather Zhang

  • First Prize Winner of the 2011 Crescendo International Music Competition – resulting in a trip and solo performances in St. Petersburg, Russia – summer, 2011

  • Admitted as a scholarship student at the music department of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York (fall, 2011)

  • First Prize Winner of the 2010 Crescendo International Music Competition – resulting in performances at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall and in Montreal

  • Winner of the 2010 National Young Virtuosi Solo Recital Competition at the National League of Performing Arts, New Jersey

  • Second Prize Winner at the 2009 American Protege International Piano & Strings Competition – resulting in a performance at New York’s Merkin Hall

  • First Prize Winner of the Intermediate Solo Piano Category at the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Music Teachers Guild Competition in New Jersey

  • Third Prize Winner of the Senior Performance Category at the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Music Teachers Guild Competition in New Jersey

  • First Prize Winner at the 2009 New York City Piano Teachers Congress Competition

  • Selected to perform in a masterclass with Oxana Yablonskaya at New York’s Steinway Hall as a winner of the 2009 PTC Competition; Honorable Mention Recipient at the 2009 Steinway Society Scholarship Competition of New Jersey

  • Top Prize Winner at the 2009 National Young Musicians Showcase Competition held by the National League of Performing Arts – resulting in a performance at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall

  • Third Prize Winner at the 2009 New Jersey Music Teachers’ Association Competition

  • Winner of the 2009 Masterclass Audition held at the New Jersey Music Teachers’ Association Convention (Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D. 845)

  • Third Prize Winner at the 2008 Connecticut International Young Artist Competition

Nate Festinger