Born in New York, Arthur Greene studied at Juilliard with Martin Canin. Mr. Greene won Gold Medals at both the 1978 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition and the William Kapell International Piano Competition, and is a top laureate at the Busoni International Competition. The Washington Post wrote "For 99 out of every 100 contestants in a competition, playing the Brahms B-flat would be a mistake. It is an enormous...

Han Zhong En, male, born 5 March, 1955. Music Aesthete, Music Critic.Earn doctorate from Central Conservatory of Music. Director of Department of Musicology of Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Professor. Commissioner of Theory Committee of Chinese Musicians Association (CMA). President of Chinese Music Aesthetics Society(CMAS).

Born in 1963, Yang Yandi is now Vice President of Shanghai Conservatory of Music and a professor of musicology, and is also Chairman of the Society of Western Music in China. He got his bachelor’s degree in music in 1983, his master’s degree in musicology in 1986, and Ph. D degree in musicology in 1994. He pursued further education in the UK (1987-1988), USA (ACC fellowship, 1993-1994), and Germany (DAAD fellowship, 2002).

Zhou Keng，Artistic Director & President of the International Piano Festival, Vice Chairman of the Jury Zhou Keng, Artistic Director, Piano Educator A pianist, educator and music activist, Zhou Keng is currently Artistic Director of the International Piano Festival, Deputy Dean of the Piano Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. He also was a judge of the 48th Jaen international Piano Competition in Spain,...

Zhao Xiaosheng, composer, pianist and musicologist, professor of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, President of SCM’s middle and primary school, guest professor of Columbia University, Missouri (1984). Concert pianist toured throughout China and in many cities in the US, founder of the “Tai Chi” composing system and “movement of music note block” theoretic system, and a prolific composer in his own right.

Alexander Ghindin was the youngest prize winner at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1994, and he won the 2nd Prize at the Queen Elizabeth Competition in 1999, and the First Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition. He regularly collaborates with the world's most prominent conductors, e.g., V. Fedosseyev, D. Kitaenko, V. Ashkenazy, V. Spivakov, P. Jarvi, A. Gilbert, and L. Slatkin.

Alexei Lubimov is the currently the dean of the keyboard department of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Following his studies with Heinrich Neuhaus, established a passion for baroque music and also 20th century composers such as Schonberg, Webern, Stockhausen, Boulez, Schnittke, and Peart. He has played with such important conductors as Ashkenazy, Jearvi, Kondrashin, and with famous soloists such as D.Oistrakh.

Oxana Yablonskaya is a piano professor at the Julliard School in New York, and she has collaborated with such conductors as R. Barshai, H. Blomstedt, S. Comissiona, L.Foster, D.Kitaenko, Kirill Kondrashin, She has given master classes throughout the world, and also serves on the jury of many international piano competitions, e.g., Leeds in England, Franz Liszt in the Netherlands, and Prokofiev in St.Petersburg.

Anton Kuerti was born in Austria, grew up in the U.S., and has lived in Canada for the last 35 years. His teachers included A.Loesser, M. Horszowski and R.Serkin. He performed the Grieg Concerto with Arthur Fiedler at 11 and won the Leventritt Award. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras. His vast repertoire includes some 50 concertos, including one he composed himself.

Hung-Kuan Chen has won prizes and awards in the Chopin, Gèza Anda, Montreal and Queen Elisabeth competitions, and the Gold Medal in the Rubinstein and the Busoni Competitions, and receiving an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1991. He joined the faculty of Boston University in 1984 and the New England Conservatory in 1993. In 1999 he moved to Canada, and was "Distinguished Artist in Residence" at the Mount Royal Conservatory.