Jury

American concert pianist and longtime chair of the piano department at the Juilliard School; prizewinner at the Queen Elisabeth and Busoni competitions.

Pianist born in Hokkaido, Japan; studied with Sascha Gorodnitzki at Juilliard, where she later taught for fourteen years, and serves as Vice-President of the Sascha Gorodnitzki Foundation.

Pianist praised by The New York Times as "one of our best"; First Prize winner at the Montreal International Musical Competition and Gold Medalist at the Busoni Competition.

Concert pianist recognized for her intelligence, integrity, and technical command; top-prize winner at the Queen Elisabeth, Leeds, Mozart, Beethoven, and Sydney competitions.

Juilliard graduate who studied with Adele Marcus and William Masselos; faculty at NYU Steinhardt and the Levine School of Music, and founder of the Puerto Rico International Piano Festival.

A leading interpreter of Schubert, Beethoven, and Mozart; teaches and coaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music and performs internationally.

Holds a BA and MA from the École Normale de Musique de Paris, where she studied with Yvonne Loriod; Professor Emerita at the Catholic University of Korea after more than thirty years on its faculty.

One of the foremost champions of contemporary piano music; Steinway Artist, professor at the Manhattan School of Music, and artist behind more than twenty recordings.

First Prize winner at the International Bach Competition (1975) and graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music; has served on the jury of the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition.

Graduate of the Academy of Music in Kraków and First Prize winner of Poland's Karol Szymanowski Competition; has taught at the Kraków academy since 1986.

Chair of the piano department at the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice; laureate of the 13th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition.

Holds a Master's degree in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano from the New England Conservatory and previously held a university faculty position in Korea.

Graduate of the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, where she has taught at the State Fryderyk Chopin Music School for more than twenty years.

Conductor of more than seventy orchestras worldwide; Artistic and General Director of the Zabrze Philharmonic since 1990.

Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Hong Kong.

Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Hong Kong.