Building character. Fostering excellence.
2011-2012
Estelle Yan won First Place in the Joyce Cochran Piano Competition in April 2012.
Gaon Kim won Second Place in the Rochelle Kahan Piano Prodigy Competition, in April 2012.
Gaon Kim won the Third Prize and Kenneth Yu and Tomas Jonsson won Honorable Mention in the Texas State Piano Competition held in San Marcos, in February 2012.
Tomás Jonsson won the Silver Medal and was awarded the special award for Best Prelude at the 2011 International Chopin Youth Competition.
Kerrigan Quenemoen, Tomas Jonsson, Autumn Watt, Sanath Govindarajan, Mark Trautner, Ben Sato-Singh, and Gaon Kim performed in Jones Hall as part of the Society for the Performing Arts Performance Prelude Series, in October 2011.
Tomás Jonsson was named a Houston Young Artist for 2011-12.
The International Music Academy was chosen by Society for the Performing Arts to host a masterclass for their violin students with Itamar Zorman, the winner of Russia's famous Tchaikovsky Competition in March 2012.
The Society for the Performing Arts invited our school to provide opening music for Yuja Wang's piano concert on October 12th, and then again on November 11th. Eight of our students performed at Jones Hall!