Past YPS Artists

In 1980, Evelyn Miller, pianist, devoted teacher, and visionary, realized her dream to establish a concert series for young (under 35) international artists – the YOUNG PIANIST SERIES. Since its beginning, more than 110 concert pianists from all over the world have performed on this unique series.

1980 – David Northington, Gary Steigerwalt, Cynthia Meechem

1981 – Ana-Maria Vera, James Barbagallo, Enrique Graf

1982 – Robert McDonald, Laura Murray, Boris Slutsky

1983 – Merai Guneymanm, Alvin/Alan Chow (duets), Michael Lewin

1984 – Diana Kaeso, James Barbagallo (return), Alexander Kuzmin, Janine Fialkowska (benefit)

1985 – Fei-Ping Hsu, Fredrick Moyer, Angela Chang

1986 – Stephen Drury, Jeffrey Biegel, Paul Mailet

1987 – Nina Kennedy, Arthur Greene, Jeffrey Biegel (return)

1988 – Diane Hidy, Eduardus Halim, David Wehr

1989 – Alan Chow (return), David Korevaar, William Wolfram

1990 – Emily White, Haesun Paik, Kevin Kenner

1991 – Christopher Taylor, Jose Carlos Cocarelli, Edith Chen

1992 – Anthony Padilla, Jennifer Hayghe, Ilya Itin

1993 – Hie-Yon Choi, Anthony Hewitt, Daniel Shapiro

1994 – Hie-Yon Choi (return), Angela Hewitt, Andrew Russo

1995 – Seung-Un Ha, Mark Anderson, Andrew Park

1996 – Dimitrij Teterin, Mikhall Yanovitsky, Inna Faliks

1997 – Esther Budiardjo, Jeni Kim, Rachel Franklin

1998 – Christopher Harding, Petronel Malan, Jonathan Biss

1999 – Lori Sims, Christopher Falzone, Andrey Ponochevny

2000 – Marina Lomazov, Alex McDonald, Antonio Pompa-Baldi

2001 – Marina Lomazov (return), Sergiy Komirenko, Cuong Van

2002 – Edisher Savitski, Roberto Plano, Pallavi Mahidhara

2003 – Konstantin Soukhovetski, Cedric Pescia, Deondra and Desirae Brown

2004 – Desirae and Deondra Brown (return), Chu-Fang Huang, Soyeon Lee, Alexander Lue

2005 – Inna Faliks (return), Ning An, Andrew Le

2006 – Katherine Chi, Spencer Myer, Di Wu, The 5 Browns (benefit)

2007 – Soyeon Lee (return), Joe Liccardo, Stephen Beus (snowed out)

2008 – Spencer Myer (return), Stephen Beus (return), Sara Daneshpour

2009 – Sara Daneshpour (return), Konstantin Soukhovetski (return), Elizabeth Schumann

2010 – Alexander Ghindin, Chetan Tierra, Di Wu (return)

2011 – Dmitri Levkovich, Spencer Myer (return), Roberto Plano (return)

2012 – Eric Zuber, Evgheny Brakhman, Spencer Myer (return)

2013 – Steven Lin, Vivian Choi, Jin Uk Kim

2014 – Tanya Gabrielian, Yekwon Sunwoo, Jiayan Sun

2015 – Ching-Yun Hu, Steven Lin (return), Shen Lu

2016 – Josh Wright, Mayuki Miyashita, Jiayan Sun (return)

2017 – Chang-Yong Shin, Jie Yuan, Tristan Teo

2018 – Shijun Wang, Peng Cao, Igor Lipinski

2019 – Elliot Wuu, László Váradi, Ray Ushikubo

2020 – Alvin Zhu, Alexey Trushechkin, Tianxu An

2021 – No concerts due to pandemic

2022 – No concerts due to pandemic

2023 – Hanbo Ma, Katherine Benson