News & Information

8/1/2010
The New York Piano Academy will resume classes on Monday, September 13, 2010 (start of the Fall Semester). For the complete schedule of the Academic Year 2010-2011 please click on Calendar.
Piano Player
We would like to congratulate several of our students for their outstanding accomplishments during the 2009-10 season:
Katelyn Tran (16 years old) for winning the Grand Prize at the 2010 Young Artists Bravura Competition - resulting in a performance of Sergei Prokofiev's 3rd Piano Concerto with the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra on May 23, 2010, as well as the Grand Prize at the 2010 Crescendo International Music Competition - resulting in solo performances at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall and in Montreal, Canada. Katelyn has also won the 2009 Masterclass Audition held at the New Jersey Music Teachers' Association Convention, and the 2010 National Young Virtuosi Solo Recital Competition at the National League of Performing Arts in New Jersey.
Heather Zhang (16 years old) for winning First Prize at the 2010 Crescendo International Music Competition - resulting in solo performances at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall and in Montreal, Canada, as well as winning the 2009 Masterclass Audition held at the New Jersey Music Teachers' Association Convention, and the 2010 National Young Virtuosi Solo Recital Competition at the National League of Performing Arts in New Jersey.
Yonatan Rozin (11 years old) for winning First Prize at both the Junior Performance Category and the Solo Junior Category of the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Music Teachers Guild (MAMTG) Competition in New Jersey.
Orion Yedidia (12 years old) for winning First Prize at the Solo Junior B Category of the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Music Teachers Guild Competition (MAMTG) in New Jersey.
Alex Yedidia (9 years old) for winning First Prize at the Solo Elementary B Category of the 2010 Mid-Atlantic Music Teachers Guild Competition (MAMTG) in New Jersey.
Composer/Pianist Tempei Nakamura (NYPA laureate) for his second CD release on EMI Classics - last fall, 2009.