Meet the Contestants
11th National Chopin Piano Competition
Raul Canosa
Age: 27
Hometown: Irving, TX
School/Teacher: SMU / Joaquín Achúcarro
Eddison Chen
Age: 15
Hometown: Overland Park, KS
School/Teacher: Blue Valley Northwest High School / Sean Chen
Alyssa Gabrilovich
Age: 19
Hometown: Tampa, FL / Villanova, PA
School/Teacher: West Chester University of Pennsylvania / Dr. Igor Resnianski
William Ge
Age: 17
Hometown: Chester Springs, PA
School/Teacher: Phillips Academy Andover and New England Conservatory Prep/
Jonathan Bass and Dang Thai Son
Paul Ji
Age: 20
Hometown: Chicago, IL and Paris, France
School/Teacher: Yale University/
Wei-Yi Yang and Jean-Bernard Pommier
Timothy Jones
Age: 27
Hometown: Austin, TX
School/Teacher: University of Texas at Austin /
Anton Nel
Andrew Hyungdo Kim
Age: 28
Hometown: New York, NY
School/Teacher: New England Conservatory of Music/
Dang Thai Son (recent past)
Antoni Kleczek
Age: 18
Hometown: Vienna, VA
School/Teacher: Levine School of Music/
Dr. Martin Labazevitch
Matthew Liu
Age: 17
Hometown: Lawrence, KS
School/Teacher: University of Kansas/
Jack Winerock and Scott Smith
Angeline Ma
Age: 22
Hometown: Berwyn, PA
School/Teacher: Northwestern University/ James Giles
Megumi Maekawa
Age: 19
Hometown: Tokyo, Japan and Boulder, CO
School/Teacher: Toho Gakuen College of Music/ Yukio Yokoyama
Oliver Moore
Age: 23
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
School/Teacher: San Francisco Conservatory of Music/
Garrick Ohlsson
Anthony Ratinov
Age: 27
Hometown: Potomac, MD
School/Teacher: The Juilliard School/
Robert McDonald
Lucas Sha
Age: 20
Hometown: Waltham, MA
School/Teacher: Brown University/
Saleem Abboud Ashkar
Lilit Karapetian Shougarian
Mikhail Voskresensky
Aleks Shameti
Age: 21
Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI
School/Teacher: University of Michigan, Earl V. Moore School of Music, Theatre & Dance/
Christopher Harding
Karina Tseng
Age: 22
Hometown: Redwood City, CA
School/Teacher: Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana/
Alexander Kobrin
Victoria Wong
Age: 27
Hometown: New York, NY
School/Teacher: Manhattan School of Music/
Horacio Gutiérrez
Emily Wu
Age: 21
Hometown: Rowland Heights, CA
School/Teacher: The Colburn School of Music/ Fabio Bidini
Natasha Wu
Age: 24
Hometown: Fountain Valley, CA
School/Teacher: New England Conservatory/
Dang Thai Son
Madison Yan
Age: 20
Hometown: Palm Beach Gardens, FL
School/Teacher: Frost School of Music, University of Miami
/Kevin Kenner
William Yang
Age: 23
Hometown: New York, NY
School/Teacher: Juilliard School/
Robert McDonald
Angie Zhang
Age: 28
Hometown: Princeton, NJ
School/Teacher: University of Michigan
The Juilliard School/
Logan Skelton
Yoheved Kaplinsky
Nathaniel Zhang
Age: 17
Hometown: Folsom, CA
School/Teacher: Curtis Institute of Music/
Michelle Cann
Sasha Starcevich