GOCAA International Music Competition: 2022 Winners' concert & 2023 award ceremony
Limited availability
- Wenting Yu, piano (guest artist)
- JingCi Liu, piano (guest artist)
Franz Liszt — Selected works
Johannes Brahms — Selected works
Antonín Dvořák — Selected works
Claude Debussy — Selected works
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Selected works
Dmitri Shostakovich — Selected works
Paul Harvey — Selected works
Daniel Hellbach — Selected works
Tan Dun — Selected works
Founded by Fangfang Pan, The Global Outstanding Chinese Artists Association aims to explore and promote international rising musicians. This concert is the closing event of the 10th GOCAA New York International Music Competition, featuring guest artists Wenting Yu and Jingci Liu along with 21 outstanding musicians selected from a group of the 2022 finalists. The event will close with an awards ceremony in recognition of the 2023 finalists.
Performers include:
Ziying Zhao, Kaden Zheng, David Lin, Derek Chen, Benjamin Tsai, Karla Zhou, Elysia Ji Huang, Wanyang (Yolanda) Zhou, Vanessa Feng, Jessica YanXi Wang, Carson Chhen, Travis Genpeng Li, Alexander Chan, Ada Zhang, James Wu, Winnie Zhang, John Zhang, Jarvis Zheng, Olivia Zheng, Eileen Liu, and Emily Shunyao Wang.
Guest Artists: Wenting Yu and Jingci Liu
Limited availability. Please contact CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800. Student and senior discount tickets are available at the box office.
About The Global Outstanding Chinese Artists Association
The GOCCA International Music Competition is an international competition hosted by the Global Outstanding Chinese Artists Association and A.C. ORANGE. Aiming to discover and promote young talent, the competition attracts talented young musicians from around the world to perform and compete. With highly qualified judges and a rigorous selection process, the competition makes a direct positive impact on the future of music study for young musicians.
https://www.gocaamusic.com/About Wenting Yu, piano (guest artist)
Mr. Yu is currently a candidate for his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, under the studio with Prof. Vladimir Valjarevic as a full-scholarship and doctoral teaching fellowship recipient. In May 2019, Mr. Yu graduated from Mannes School of Music of The New School with a full scholarship, where he obtained his Master of Music Degree under the tutelage of Prof. Pavlina Dokovska. Upon his graduation from Mannes, Mr. Yu was selected to be the 2019 recipient of the Steinway & Sons Award, given to an outstanding artist in the graduate program.
https://wentingyu.com/About JingCi Liu, piano (guest artist)
Pianist JingCi Liu, a native of Tianjin, China, is the winner of the Second Prize and the Special Award-Best Romantic Performance at the Spotlight International Piano competition. In 2020-2021, she received top prizes in the New York Classical International Music Competition, Medici International Music Competition, Global Outstanding Chinese Artist International Piano Competition, WPTA Finland International Piano Competition, and William Knabe International Piano Competition. She was awarded one of seven National Outstanding Artists Awards at the American Music Open Competition in California.
Ms. Liu was featured as a soloist and chamber musician at the 2020-2023 UConn Piano Day Master Class and Concert Series, curated by Dr. Angelina Gadeliya at the University of Connecticut. She is a GOCAA Artist and co-executive director of the Global Outstanding Chinese Artist Association Solo Recitals series. She presented a piano solo and duo concert at the opening concert of the 2022 GOCAA Artist Concert Tours and was highly appraised for her "compelling, sensitive, and energetic" playing by New York Concert Review. In 2020, Ms. Liu was selected as one of the eight promising featured pianists for the Conservatoire américain de Fontainebleau in France.
Ms. Liu has performed at prestigious venues in New York City as a featured pianist at the Mannes Sounds Festival, including the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, The Frick Collection, National Opera Center, the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in New York, the German Consulate General in New York, the Bohemian National Hall, the Metropolitan Club, and House of Redeemer in New York City.
Ms. Liu holds both a Professional Studies Diploma and a Master of Music Degree from the Mannes School of Music of The New School, where she was under the guidance of Pavlina Dokovska and Vladimir Valjarevic. Upon her graduation from Mannes, she received the Steinway Award from the Piano Department and Steinway & Sons New York, which is given to an outstanding pianist.
Ms. Liu is pursuing a DMA degree in piano performance at the University of Connecticut, studying with Dr. Angelina Gadeliya. Her first solo album features seven female composers through the last two centuries, which includes many important and rarely heard works from Marianna von Martinez, Cecile Chaminade, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Lili and Nadia Boulanger, and Caroline Shaw.
https://liujingcipiano.com/