Millersville University Keyboard Division

11/07/2025

Tonight!

11/07/2025

10/30/2025

Please join us to this incredible young pianist’s performance at 7:30 PM next Friday, November 7 at the Trust Performing Arts Center!

01/16/2024

Please join us for the Celebrate Piano & Chamber Music at Winter Center at Millersville University between 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM on Saturday, January 20, 2024.

A highlight of the event will be the presence of the distinguished Prof. Eugene Albulescu, a world-renowned pianist, conductor, multimedia artist, composer, and educator. Winner of the "Grand Prix du Disque Liszt" and an artist of international stature, Prof. Albulescu's contributions to the world of classical music are nothing short of legendary.

02/14/2022

Congratulations to all our prizewinners in the Millersville International Piano Competition 2022! Thank you to all the young pianists who participated!

ELEMENTARY CATEGORY:

1st Prize: Alexander Max Liu
2nd Prize: Jialin Qian
3rd Prize: Xinchen Duan and Yinuo Cao
Honorable Mention: Zhiting Yang, Liangqi Chen, Howl Maciuca, Daniel Liu, Samuel Liu, and Yunnan Zhang

JUNIOR CATEGORY:

1st Prize: Anh Nguyen
2nd Prize: Zihao Nan
3rd Prize: Rosabelle Shi
Honorable Mention: Allen Vee, Yuma Kano, and Kaiyi Zhu

SENIOR CATEGORY:

1st Prize: Jeslyn Zhu Cai
2nd Prize: Bingchen Guo
3rd Prize: Daniel Ma
Honorable Mention: Jialing Song, Jedidiah Yang, and Marissa Liu

YOUNG ARTIST CATEGORY:

1st Prize: Maria Narodytska and Dongwon Shin
2nd Prize: Hyeseon Jin and Yifei Yin
3rd Prize: Ching Yi Lin and You Wu
Honorable Mention: Chanwoo Lee, Hans Chen, Meiru Chen, Chungho Lee, and Gregory Hartmann

02/13/2022

Here is our schedule for today! All times are EST.

Message me for the zoom link!

8:30 – 9:30 AM Master class #3 by Dr. Xun Pan

10 – 11:00 AM Workshop for Chinese Students by Dr. Xun Pan and Dr. Amy E. Gustafson

1:30 – 3:00 PM Master Class #4 by Dr. Amy E. Gustafson

3:30 – 4:30 Q and A for Students by Dr. Xun Pan and Dr. Amy E. Gustafson

4:30 - 5:30 PM Winners' Announcement Live on Zoom

*5:30 PM Winners’ Recital
*Notice the time change

02/03/2022

We have had over 60 applications to our competition!

Here is a schedule for our weekend events. All events will be livestreamed via Zoom. Zoom information will be sent to registered teachers and competitors by February 10, 2022.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2022
10:00 – 11:00 AM Workshop for Registered Teachers by Dr. Amy E. Gustafson "How Mental and Physical Health plays a large role in the studio"
11:30 – 1:00 PM Master Class #1 by Dr. Amy E. Gustafson
1:30 – 3:00 PM Master Class #2 by Dr. Xun Pan
3:30 – 4:30 PM Q and A for Registered Teachers by Dr. Xun Pan and Dr. Amy E. Gustafson
7:30 PM Guest Artist Recital, followed by Q and A

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2022
8:30 – 9:30 AM Special Workshop for Chinese Students by Dr. Xun Pan and Dr. Amy E. Gustafson
9:30 – 11:00 AM Master Class #3 by Dr. Xun Pan
1:30 – 3:00 PM Master Class #4 by Dr. Amy E. Gustafson
3:30 – 4:30 Q and A for Students by Dr. Xun Pan and Dr. Amy E. Gustafson
4:30 - 5:30 PM Winners' Announcement
6:30 PM Winners’ Recital

01/18/2022

It's not too late for your students to apply to the Millersville Piano Competition! The deadline has been extended to FEBRUARY 1, 2022.

ALSO, because everything will be online this year, we have WAIVED the teacher registration fee for the teacher workshops! Registering for the teacher workshops is FREE!

For more information, click the link below:

https://www.millersville.edu/music/events/performances-and-contests/mu-keyboard-division-contest.php

01/15/2022

Looking forward to our annual piano competition which will take place February 12 - 13, 2022. The competition will be virtual again, due to covid restrictions. Application deadline has been extended to FEBRUARY 1, 2022!

https://www.millersville.edu/music/events/performances-and-contests/mu-keyboard-division-contest.php

Our guest artist is Pavel Gintov, pictured below!

03/27/2021

I am happy to introduce our first prize winner in the Young Artist Division, Ailun Zheng.

Pianist Ailun Zheng studied at the Shanghai Conservatory with Zhe Tang, Interlochen Arts Academy with Thomas Lymenstull, Eastman School of Music with Nelita True, and is currently a student of Alexander Kobrin. In Shanghai, Ailun won many awards including first prize of the 4th Chinese Music International Competition
in Japan and first prize in the 71st Steinway International Youth Piano Competition East China division. At Interlochen, she won the IAA Concerto Competition twice in 2015 and 2016, and performed with Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra. In 2014 she was the MTNA Senior Piano Competition winner for Michigan. She participated in the Gilmore Keyboard Festival in May 2016 and played for Llŷr Williams. That summer, she also participated in the Art of Piano, and she won the finalist award of the 8th New York International Piano Competition. Ailun studied with Boris Slutsky and Yong Hi Moon at the Bowdoin Music Festival, and she has participated in the Shanghai International Piano Festival & Institute. In 2013, Ailun participated in the Perugia Music Festival and performed with the Ashdod Symphony Orchestra. After studying at
Eastman, she went to the Amalfi Coast Piano Festival in 2018, and Valencia International Performance Academy with Professor Kobrin in the summer of 2019. She has performed in
master classes for Dang Thaisong, Fu Ts'ong, Eduardus Halim, Douglas Humphreys, Barry Snyder, Robert McDonald, Boris Slutsky, and others.

Here is Ms. Zheng plays the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 22.

https://youtu.be/F8NNdgU

03/16/2021

We are pleased to introduce our first prize winner in the Senior Category, Mario Bobotsov, from Bulgaria.

Here is his performance of the Rachmaninov Sonata, Op.36, No. 2, I movement:

https://youtu.be/8IFZ3Q7wx1Y

Mario Bobotsov was born on in Sofia, Bulgaria, and he is a student at the National School of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria in the class of Prof. Milka Miteva, where he started his piano education at the age of six.

A winner in many international piano competitions, Mario Bobotsov is a multiple winner of memorial scholarship “Lydia Kuteva” granted by Prof. Pavlina Dokovska (USA) to students of the National School of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria (years 2012-2019).

Mario Bobotsov has completed master classes in piano with Prof. Pascal Nemirovski, Prof. Arie Vardi, Prof, Jury Bogdanov, Prof. Giuliano Mazzoccante, Prof. Milena Mollova, Prof. Ivo Kalchev, to name a few.