Kasey Shao

Country – United States
Age – 16

Kasey Shao began piano at six and made her orchestral debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nezet Seguin at the Kimmel Center when she was 12 years old. A student of Professor Ran Dank, she has thirteen first-place finishes in junior competitions across the United States and made her Carnegie/Weill Recital Hall debut in 2013. She is a 2019 Chopin Foundation Scholarship recipient and a 2019-2020 National YoungArts winner.  Kasey also received the Feltsman Scholarship in 2019. Kasey was the winner of the 2018 Louisville Orchestra Young Arts Competition, the Steinway Piano Competition, and the ETSU International Piano Competition. She won the National second prize and best Chopin, and was the Midwestern Division and Ohio State winner of the 2018 MTNA Junior Competition. She won Best Solo prize and was the second prize recipient at the Arthur Fraser International Piano Competition (South Carolina) in 2017. Kasey was the National Finalist/East Central Division and New Jersey state winner of the 2016 MTNA Junior Competition. This past summer, Kasey was invited to Dallas for the Van Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition. She recently performed with the Louisville and Blue Ash/Montgomery Orchestras. She has appeared in a 6ABC News special, on Cincinnati’s local 12 news, in a Cincy/Lifestyle Special and the Cleveland Classical music magazine.

Kasey attends Walnut Hills High School in Cincinnati, where she is the founder of the Music Club, a member of the Model United Nations Club, the Science Olympiad team captain, and in the National French Honor Society and the Student Congress. She also plays celeste in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

REPERTOIRE

ROUND I     Monday 3:10 pm

Bach – French Suite No. 6 in E major, BWV 817
Chopin – Nocturne No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 55
Liszt – Valse de l’opéra de Faust (after Gounod), S. 407

ROUND II     Wednesday 2:25 pm

Beethoven – Sonata in D major, Op. 10, No. 3
Bolcom – Nine Bagatelles

ROUND III

Tchaikovsky    Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 2